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80 to move further about the redmption of mrs - Rowlandson & her freinds, which the enimy inclined onto, those two Indians ^were sent a second a third & fourth time and some English with them & at last prevailed so farre that mrs Rowlandson & some others were redeemed & brought home about the election time following This treaty about the captives, and the consequences thereof, had no small influence into the abatemnt of the enimies violence & our troubles, & had a tendency to divide them, and breake their union & consequently their strength for philip & som others of the enimies Cheefe men, were utterly against treating with the English or surrendering, the captives But som other of their principall sachems, that were more inclinable to a reconsiliation with the English thought that their complyance with English about surrendering the captives (especialy being well paid for their redemption) would molify the English mens minds, in order to a peace This contest about the treaty caused them to fall out & divide, philip And most of the Narraganset Indians seperated from the Inland indians & went downe in to their owne country, And the Inland indians staid about Wachuset Mountaine, which was a means under God to weaken & destroy them, as might be shewd & is in part declared already in the history of the warre word crossed out published. This was another peece of service don by some of the praying = indians at least they broke the ice & made way for it by their first adventuring to treat with the enimy whilst the matter of the Redemption of the captives was in agitation the assaults of the enimy were frequent & violent. For the body of them quartered within 20 miles of the English frontiers of Lancaster Groton & crossed out