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 EPISTLE DEDICATORY For the Honorable Robert Boyle, Esq., Governor of the Right Honorable Corporation for Gospelizing the Indians in New England. Right Honorable : A few years since I presumed to transmit to your honors a few historical collections concerning the Indians in New England, especially the Christian or Praying Indians, which script (as things then stood) was a true account of that matter. And were I to write it again (as things were then circumstanced), I could not add or diminish from the substance of it.* But since the war began between the barbarous heathen and the English, the state of affairs is much altered with respect to the poor Chris- tian Indians, who are much weakened or diminished, especially in the colony of Massachusetts in New England. A true, impartial narrative whereof, and of their doings and sufferings and present condition, I have endeavoured to collect, and here humbly to offer
 * Now contained in 1 Vol. 1st Ser. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.