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prov'd) to fupply the Indians our bloudy Enemies ; and 

 therefore he could make no other Terms of Peace with 

 them than that; if they the French at Menis, Signeclo and 

 Canada, would keep at home with their bloudy Salvages, 

 and not commit any Hoftilities upon any of our Frontiers, 

 we would return home & leave them; for that we lived a 

 great diftance off, and had not come near them to hurt 

 them now had not the blood of our poor Friends and 

 Brethren in all the Frontiers of our Province cryed for 

 Vengeance; efpecially that late unheard of Barbarity 

 committed upon the Town of Deerfield; which wrought fo 

 generally on the hearts of our People, that our Forces 

 came out with that Unanimity of Spirit, both among the 

 Englifli and our Salvages, that we had not, nor needed a 

 Prefs'd Man among them. The Colonel alfo telling them, 

 That if ever hereafter any of our Frontiers Eaft or Weft 

 were Molefted by them, as formerly, that he would (if 

 God fpared his Life,) and they might depend upon it, 

 Return upon them with a thoufand of his Salvages, if he 

 wanted them, all Volunteers, with our Whale-boats, and 

 would purfue them to the laft Extremity. The Colonels 

 warm difcourfe with them [118] wrought fuch a confterna- 

 tion in them, which they difcovered by their Panick fears 

 and trembling, their hearts feniibly beating, and riling up 

 as it were ready to choke them; confeffed they were all 

 his Prifoners, and beg'd of him, for JESUS fake, to Save 

 their Lives, and the Lives of their poor Families; with 

 fuch melting Terms as wrought relentings in the Colonels 

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