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74 also censure mee & say I am a hypocrite, In this Distrese I have no whether to Looke but up to God in Heaven to helpe mee, now my dearre wife & eldest sonne are (through the English threatenings) runne away & I feare will perrish in the woods, for want of food, also my aged - mother is lost, all this doth greatly agravate my greife, But yet I desire to Looke up to God in cht Christ Jesus, in whom alone is my helpe. Being asked by Capt Page whether had not assisted the enimy in the warrs when he was among them hee Answ I never did joyn with them against the English, Indeed they often solicited mee, But I utterly denied & refused it. I thought within my selfe it is better to die than to fight against the church of Christ. I questioned him many things, of the conditon & numbers of the enimy, he Answered that hee Judged they were about a thousand men, but said hee the greatest part as I conceived are for pease & not to hold on the warr & sd hee shortly they will bee in great straits for food, when the ground nuts are gon..
Now wee come in order to declare some thing: - concerning the six Indians that went with major Savage to find out the enimy at Menumese. There wanted not some who in their letters from the army accused Job of false dealing & that hee had informed the enimy of our Armies commg against them, But neither the Genral (major Savage) nor mr Nowel the minister of the Army Intimated any such matter, in their Letters to the Councill, but rather wrote the Contrary & because I was not present with them to observ the actings of those indians, I shall content