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[22] Mr. Church asked him where AwaJJwnks was? he told<br />
him in a Swamp about three Miles <strong>of</strong>f. 172<br />
Mr. Church again<br />
asked him, What it was he wanted that he hollowed and<br />
called him a-fhore? he anfwered, That he took him for<br />
Church as foon as he heard his Voice in the Canoo, and<br />
that he was very glad to fee him alive, and he believed<br />
his Miftrifs would be as glad to fee him, and fpeak with<br />
him; he told him further, That he believed fhe was not<br />
fond <strong>of</strong> maintaining a <strong>War</strong> with the EngliJJi\ and that fhe<br />
had left Philip, and did not intend to return to him any<br />
more; he was mighty earneft with Mr. Church to tarry<br />
there while he would run and call her: but he told him<br />
no; for he did not know but the Indians would come<br />
down and kill him before he could get back again; he<br />
said, if Mount-hope or Pocajjfet Indians could catch him,<br />
he believed they would knock him on the head: But all<br />
Sogkonate Indians knew him very well, and he believed<br />
would none <strong>of</strong> them hurt him. In Ihort, Mr. Church re-<br />
futed then to tarry, but promifed that he would come over<br />
again, and fpeak with AwaJJwnks, and fome other Indians<br />
that he had a mind to talk with.<br />
Accordingly he appointed him to notifie AwaJJwnks, her<br />
172 This was Tornfe Swamp (fo called Saconet Point to Tiverton, to the road<br />
in the Proprietors' Records) on an up- from the Town farm to the Commons,<br />
land mound in which, the favorite head- <strong>The</strong> houfe <strong>of</strong> Mr. Gray Wilbor is prob-<br />
quarters <strong>of</strong> this Squaw-fachem feem to ably now the neareft dwelling to the<br />
have been. It is that fwamp through lite <strong>of</strong> this lair <strong>of</strong> Awaihonks. I am<br />
which what is called the "fwamp road" told that an old Indian burying-ground<br />
paffes, in cr<strong>of</strong>iing from the road from is ftill traceable in that vicinity.<br />
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