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Church ftill waiting upon them, and at every opportunity 

 intreating thofe Gentlemen in the behalf of the poor 

 People of Cafco, informing them the neceffity of taking 

 care of them either by fending them relief early in the 

 Spring, or fuffer them to draw off, otherwife they would 

 certainly be deftroyed, &c. There anfwer was, They 

 could do nothing till Sir Edmund was gone. Waiting 

 there three weeks upon great expences, he concluded to 

 draw up fome of the circumftances of Cafco and Places 

 Adjacent, and to leave it upon the Council-Board, before 

 the Governour & Council; having got it done, obtained 

 liberty to go up where the Governour and Council was 

 fitting, he inform'd their Honours, that he had waited till 

 his Patience was wore out; fo had drawn up the matter to 

 leave upon the Board before them: which is as follows. 



To the Honoured Governour and Council of the 

 Maffachufetts. 



Gentlemen, 



WHereas by vertue of Yours with Plymouths defres 

 and Commands, I went Eaftward in the lafl Expe- 

 dition againfl the Common Indian Enemy, where Providence 



others, he was fent away to England." make it clear, that, fo far as he was in- 



Barry \_Hift. Mafs. i : 508] fays, " By formed, as late as the 6th Feb., i6|f 



the firft opportunity the prifoners were there was no immediate probability 



fent to England in the ihip 'Mehitabel,' that the lhip would fail; as, had he 



Gilbert Baut, matter," and places in feen fuch a probability, having waited 



the margin the date of " Feb. 9, i6|#." three weeks, he would have been likely 



The date of Church's communication to have waited at leaft a very few days 



to the Governor and Council feems to longer in hope to fecure his end. 

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