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72 who understanding they were Jobs friends and his children, hee treated them justly & forthwith sent them with a gaurd backe to Marlborough to bee conveyed to Boston, But when the poore creatures came to Marlborough, they being -quartered there on night or two by the constable order, until an oppertunity served to send then on to Boston. There came som people of the towne (especially women) to their quarter, some of whome Did so abuse threaten & taunt at those poore ch[ris]tians. And ^they being therby pas into great feares that in the night the ministers wife & his eldest son a lad of 12 years old, and another woman a widow (that had carfully kept & norished Jobs children) with her Daughter being power of them in all escaped away into the woods, the ministers wife left a sucking infant behind her, with her husband of about three month old, while affliction, was a very sore tryall to the poore man, his wife & eldest son gon & the poore infant no Breast to norish it (I heard a prudent gentleman one Capt Brattle of Boston, who was there at Marlborh Marlborough for he heard the peoples taunts & threats to them) say that hee was ashamed to see & heare what he did of that kind & if hee had been an Indian & so abused hee should have runne away as they did. not Long after this poore minister Joseph Tuckapawillin & his aged father Naaos a man of about 80 years old both good ch[ris]tians with three or fower four children of the minister's & Jobs 3 children were all sent to Boston, where they were kept a night or two & then sent to deare Iland, where God provided a nurse (among the indians) to preserve the life of the sucking infant, and about two months after his wife was recovered & brought in by Tom Dublet one of our messengers to the enimy but his eldest son befor mentioned died after he went away, from Marlborow with his mother