King Philip's War: the Connecticut valley, the Colony of Connecticut, Long Island and New Paltz

Working notes for the research thread, read in the archive.org full texts (Bodge 1906 among them). Page images checked: Bodge pp. 82, 83, 84, 239, 240. Tiers: [D] documented, [C] compiled, [I] inferred, [T] tradition. PRCC = Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut; MBR = Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay; DRCHNY = Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York; OBTR = Oyster Bay Town Records.

1. Summary

New (not yet in the archive)

1. Richard Mather (1653), later of Lyme, rode in the Narragansett campaign: "Richard Mather Juniour" is on the "List of Capt. Prentice's Troopers" (Mass. Arch. 68:73) and was credited £04 10 00 under Prentice on 24 Mar 1675/6; the troop "On the 19th took part in the battle at the fort" (Bodge pp. 82-83, images checked). [D]; identification [I] probable.
2. Samuel Porter of Hadley "taken care of most of the wounded souldjers at Hadley ... laying out of his oune money," owed "neere two hundred pounds"; paid £25 on 16 Sept 1676 (MBR 5:116-117) [D, proven].
3. Samuel Bissell fined 40s on 27 Mar 1676 for evading the impressment of his horse (PRCC 2:423) [D]. His brothers John Jr. and Nathaniel were Windsor troopers "on war account" (Stiles 1:221); a six-man garrison was ordered "at Nath: Bissell's," where old John Bissell lived (PRCC 2:410, 21 Feb 1675/6).
4. Japhet Chapin was Springfield's constable for 1676 (Burt 2:126) and on 2 May 1677 he and John Hitchcock were to bring in "the account ... of our expences at ye fals fight" (Burt 2:131) [D].
5. Hitchcocks and Burts: Luke Hitchcock (1655-1727), father of Ebenezer (1694), was at the Falls (1736 roll); his brother John, husband of Hannah Chapin, was wounded there and had lost his house in the burning of Springfield. Ebenezer's mother was Sarah Burt, widow of Benjamin Dorchester; her father Jonathan Burt wrote the town book's only account of the burning (Burt 1:130-134, 2:539-540).
6. Rev. Moses Noyes is no. 180 on the Voluntown roll of "English Volunteers in the late Narragansett War" and drew Cedar Swamp lot 32 (Bodge pp. 443-445) [D transcript]; how he served is not recorded. His cousin Rev. Nicholas Noyes went as chaplain when Moses's brother James "could not attend" (PRCC 2:387-388) and was at the Swamp Fight.
7. Lt. Reinold Marvin was Lyme's deputy in Oct 1675 and May 1676 and signed Lyme's soldiers' pay bills (PRCC 2:265, 274, 386) [D]. Nothing says how he died on 4 Aug 1676.
8. Oyster Bay: Andros's council (14 Sept 1675) heard that "many of ye Inhabitants there being Quakers & refusing to beare arms" could not keep watch, and ordered fines (DRCHNY 14:697); the "backward" were ordered to finish the town fort (19 Oct 1675, p. 704). Nicholas Wright was an overseer that year (OBTR 1:225). Long Island's Indians were disarmed and their canoes kept off the Sound until 28 May 1676.
9. Joseph Whiting part-owned the Westfield grist mill where Springfield ground its corn after 5 Oct 1675 [C], and in 1676 married the daughter of Secretary John Allyn of Connecticut's Council of War.

Corrections

• Reinold Marvin: Andros was at Saybrook in July 1675, not 1676 (PRCC 2:334; DRCHNY 14:692-693); the error is Marvin 1904, p. 40.
• Richard Raymond: Joshua Raymond's Swamp Fight wound rests on Beers 1905 ("supposedly"); the records show him as the army's commissary at New London, trading to Barbados on 7 Apr 1676 (PRCC 2:384, 405-406, 428). He died 24 Apr 1676. Possible only.
• James Eno: Stiles dates the survivors' petition 1705 (2:242) but May 1735 (1:225); James died
  1714. Keep possible until Conn. Archives, Colonial Wars I, is seen.
• Ebenezer Hitchcock: mother Sarah Burt, widow Dorchester; both names are right.
• Richard Cheever: on Turner's lists of 22 and 29 Feb 1675/6 but not on the 7 Apr garrison list or the Falls roll: with Turner at Northampton on 14 Mar 1676 [I probable], home with Drinker in April [I].
• John Bowne: "Mr. Philips' Service" is his Boston job of "23d Jany 1649," not the war; he joined Hannah in London on 13 Jan 1676/7, not "in 1676" (Field p. 113).

Best crossings

• Great Swamp Fight, 19 Dec 1675: Richard Mather (Prentice's troop), Ralph Ellinwood (Gardner's), William Dodge Jr. (Curwin's troopers on the same list), Samuel Tyler, chaplain Nicholas Noyes; in January Rev. John Wise, Mather's future brother-in-law, went out with Treat (PRCC 2:399-400).
• Capt. Joseph Sill marched with Pynchon to burning Springfield (5 Oct 1675), garrisoned it while Deacon Chapin lay dying, went out with Capt. John Holbrook's company (27 Apr 1676), and married the widow Sarah (Clark) Marvin in 1677/8; his son Zachariah married Richard Mather's daughter.
• The Falls, 19 May 1676: Japhet Chapin, John and James Munn, Luke and John Hitchcock and Thomas Stebbins (husband of Abigail Munn) under Turner, whose company Cheever had served in that spring.
• Northampton, 14 Mar 1676: Turner's company (Cheever) held the town where the Sheldons lived.

2. People

Springfield and the Massachusetts valley towns

john-pynchon-1625, Maj. John Pynchon. Archive: magistrate; brick house used as a fort (Dwight).

• Commander of the Massachusetts forces in Hampshire, Aug-Oct 1675: Council order of 24 Sept 1675 sends men "unto the order of Maior John Pincheon Commander in Cheefe in the County of Hampshire" (Mass. Arch. 67:265, Bodge p. 143) [D, proven]. Major of the Hampshire regiment and captain of the Hampshire troop (Bodge p. 475) [C].
• 26 Sept 1675 his farm house and barns on the west side burned; 29/30 Sept he wrote "We have no Indian friends here to help us" (Bodge p. 144) [D transcript].
• 4-5 Oct 1675: called his soldiers from Springfield to Hadley under the commissioners' orders; warned in the night (by Toto of Windsor, see Events) he marched back with "Capt Apleton and Capt Sill, with a company of 190 Soulders" (Mosely to Gov. Leverett, Hatfield 5 Oct 1675, Bodge p. 68) [D]. To Rev. John Russell, 5 Oct: "we came to a Lamentable & woefull sight. The Towne in flames ... my grist Mill, & corne Mill, Burnt downe ... I believe 40 familys are utterly destitute" (Burt 1:131-132) [D]. To Gov. Leverett, 8 Oct: "about 30 dwelling houses burnt down and 24 or 25 barns ... all these towns ought to be garrisoned" (Burt 1:132-134) [D]. The Council relieved him at his own request "considering ... your present dispensation of Divine Providence towards your family in your absence" (4 Oct 1675, Mass. Arch. 67:280; Bodge p. 146) [D]. Mr. Glover's library was carried to "Mr. Pynchon's house for safety" and Lt. Cooper's horse stopped "in front of Major Pynchon's house" (Burt 1:129-130) [C].
• Moderator of Springfield's town meetings, 1 Feb 1675/6 and 5 Feb 1677/8 (Burt 2:126, 135) [D]; pledged "5 rod of Stuff" to fortify the new meeting-house, Feb 1677/8 (Burt 2:136) [D].
• Spring 1677: Connecticut's council sent "the Hono'ble Major John Pynchon and Mr. James Richards" to Albany to treat with the Mohawks through Andros (PRCC 2:493, 496) [D]; Massachusetts allowed his charges of £128 and £30 for himself (MBR 5:139, 1677) [D]. In Oct 1677 he wrote to Albany about the twenty captives taken from Hatfield and Deerfield (MBR 5:167-168, letter of 22 Oct 1677) [D].
• Crossings: with Capt. Joseph Sill (5 Oct 1675); his brother-in-law Samuel Wyllys sat on Connecticut's Council of War at nearly every meeting (PRCC 2, Journal, e.g. 385) [D].

amy-wyllys-1624. Nothing found for her in the war. Her brother Samuel Wyllys (above); "Mr. Willys his farme" on the east side of the river at Hartford was one of the garrisons ordered 21 Feb 1675/6 (PRCC 2:410) [D].

mary-pynchon-1650 (Mary Whiting). Nothing found. The Council's letter of 4 Oct 1675 answers Pynchon's of 29 Sept and speaks of a "dispensation ... towards your family in your absence" (above); it may be the burning of his west-side farm on 26 Sept. Nothing shows it was Mary's death. [?] Open question.

joseph-whiting-1640. Archive: cornet of the Hampshire troop 1672; back to Hartford 1675 or 1676.

• "HAMPSHIRE TROOP. John Pynchon, Capt. William Allis, Lieut. Joseph Whiting, Cornet" (Bodge p. 475, militia "some years previous to and during Philip's War") [C].
• One of the purchasers in Alquat's deed of 30 June 1669, "Indian Sachem of Waranoake and pochasuck," for Westfield (Westfield 250th, 1919, p. ~54) [D transcript]; he "had opened the first store, selling out his holdings in 1677 to John Moseley of Windsor" (same, p. 55) [C].
• "the mills owned by three Dewey brothers, Thomas, Josiah and Jedadiah, and Joseph Whiting, on Two-Mile brook ... completed in 1672"; after Springfield's mill burned on 5 Oct 1675 "the people of Springfield resorted to Westfield to have their corn ground" (Stiles 1919, p. 12) [C, probable]. Rev. Edward Taylor: Westfield's "soil was moistened by the blood of three Springfield men, young Goodman Dumbleton, who came to our mill" (same, p. 12) [D quoted].
• 1676 marriage to Anne Allyn: her father Capt. John Allyn was Secretary and a member of the Council of War; the Hadley letters on the Falls Fight were addressed "for the Worshipful John Allyn, Esq. Secretary" (Judd pp. 162, 166) [D]. The move to Hartford in 1675-6 is consistent with Westfield's exposure but no record says why [I, possible].

samuel-chapin-1598, Deacon. Archive: died 11 Nov 1675 after the burning.

• On the warning of 4 Oct 1675 the townsmen "took refuge in the three fortified houses. Among the numbers were some of the older men of the community, including Deacon Samuel Chapin, Rev. Pelatiah Glover, Jonathan Burt, Lieut. Thomas Cooper, Thomas Miller" (Burt 1:129) [C, probable].
• He died at Springfield on 11 Nov 1675 (Japhet's record) while Capt. Sill's company garrisoned the town (Appleton to the Council, 12 Oct 1675: "stationing Capt. Sill and his company there," Bodge p. 147; 39 of Sill's men left there for the winter on 20 Nov, p. 268) [D/C]. No source ties his death to the war.
• His son-in-law John Hitchcock (m. Hannah Chapin 27 Sept 1666) lost his house: "Mr. Glovers & John Hitchcocks & Goodman Stewarts, burnt downe with Barnes, corne & all they had" (Pynchon to Russell, Burt 1:131) [D].

cicely-penny-1601. Widow from 11 Nov 1675; nothing further found.

japhet-chapin-1642. Archive: "engaged in the battle with the Indians at Turners Falls in 1676."

• 1736 committee list of "Soldiers y' were in y' falls fight ... under Capt. Turner": "Chapin, Japhett, Springfield"; claimant "Thomas Chapin, Springfield, son Japheth Chapin" (Mass. Arch. 114:610; Bodge pp. 250-252; Sheldon, Deerfield 1:159) [D, proven].
• Chosen constable of Springfield "for the yeare ensueing" at the town meeting of 1 Feb 1675/6 (Burt 2:126-127) [D, proven]: the town's officer for rates and warrants through the war year.
• 2 May 1677: "the account with reference to our expences at ye fals fight be brought in to & taken Care of by Japhet Chapin and John Hitchcock," for the deputy to carry to the General Court (Burt 2:131) [D].
• 5 Feb 1677/8 chosen selectman; pledged "1 rodd of stuffe" to the meeting-house fortification (Burt 2:135-136) [D].

abilenah-cooley-1642. Nothing found. (Ensign Benjamin Cooley of Springfield, ensign of the town company, Bodge p. 475, is not shown to be her kin.)

nathaniel-munn-1661. Archive: brothers John and James at Turner's Falls.

• Confirmed: "Mun, James, Alive: Colchester" and "Mun, John, Deerfield"; claimants "James Mun, Colchester, James Mun" (in person, aged about 80) and "Benj" Mun, Dearfield, son John Mun" (Bodge pp. 251, 253) [D, proven]. Judd: James Munn was one of four Hampshire veterans still living in 1736 (p. 165) [C].
• His sister Abigail (b. 1650) married Thomas Stebbins Jr.; "Stebins, Thomas, Springfield" and "Stebins, Sam', Springfield" are on the Falls roll; their mother married Lt. Thomas Stebbins on 14 Dec 1676 (Burt 2:611-612) [D roll; I which Thomas, probable the son].
• His father Benjamin Munn died in November 1675 (Savage; Burt 2:612 prints "1655," a misprint) [C]; cause not stated.
• His mother was Abigail Burt, sister of Jonathan Burt (below) [C].

samuel-porter-d1689 (Hadley).

• MBR 5:116-117, 16 Sept 1676 (quoted in Summary) [D, proven]; Judd p. 185 [C].
• His brother "Mr. John Porter" of Windsor is on the Windsor troopers "in actual service" list (Stiles 1:221; Bodge p. 468) [D transcript; I which John Porter, probable].
• Hadley under attack 12 June 1676 (Events).

hannah-stanley-d1708. Bore Experience Porter at Hadley on 5 Aug 1676 (Judd, genealogies p. 112) [C]. Her brother Nathaniel Stanley was ensign of the Hartford train band 1673-5 (Bodge p. 468) and her sister Sarah's husband John Wadsworth of Farmington sat on Connecticut's Council of War (PRCC 2:378, 385) [D].

isaac-sheldon-1629 and mary-woodford-d1684 (Northampton). Nothing names them in the war. They lived in Northampton through the attack of 14 March 1676 (Events). Their house is not among the five burned (Holton, Alvord, Alexander, Allen, Clesson: Trumbull 1:310-312); no Sheldon is on the Falls roll. Their son Joseph (b. 1668) was aged 8.

joseph-sheldon-1668. A Northampton soldier in King William's War, 1688-98 (Trumbull 1:575) [C]; nothing for 1675-8.

mary-sheldon-d1760. Born in the late 1690s; nothing for the war. Her husband's father Luke Hitchcock and his uncle John Hitchcock were at the Falls (below).

Not in the archive, but ancestors or near kin found in the war (for new files):

• Capt. Luke Hitchcock (1655-1727), father of Ebenezer (1694): "Hitchcock, Luke, Springfield" on the Falls roll; claimant "Luke Hitchcock, Springf, son Luke Hitchcock" (Bodge pp. 250, 253) [D]; "In 1676 he was in the fight with the Indians at Turner's Falls" (Hitchcock 1894 p. 407) [C]. Married 14 Feb 1676/7 Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Burt, widow of Benjamin Dorchester (d. 24 May 1676) (p. 408) [C]. Identity: his father Luke died 1659, so he is the only Luke at Springfield in 1676 [I, proven].
• John Hitchcock (d. 1712), Luke's brother, husband of Hannah Chapin: on the Falls roll; "In 1676, May 19, he was wounded in the fight at Turner's Falls, one arm shot through and the other broken. Major Pynchon solicited the Governor to give Ensign John Hitchcock a lieutenant's commission for gallant conduct" (Hitchcock 1894 p. 208) [C]. Selectman 1676 (Burt 2:126).
• Jonathan Burt (d. 1715), Ebenezer Hitchcock's grandfather: took refuge 4-5 Oct 1675 (Burt 1:129); set the losses at "twenty-nine houses and barns" and "entered a brief account in the third volume of the town records, which now occupies a fly leaf of that book ... the only account that has been preserved in Springfield" (Burt 1:130-131; facsimile in Burt vol. 1) [D, facsimile]. Selectman 1676.

Windsor and Hartford

john-bissell-1591. Archive: "their house was fortified and garrisoned" (Stiles).

• Stiles 2:71: in 1662/3 he gave the homestead and ferry to his son John "and rem. with his son Nathaniel to the east side, below the mouth of the Scantic ... Thirteen years later (King Philip's War) the Bissells had neighbors and their house was fortified and garrisoned, as was Thos. Burnham's at Podunk" [C]. The primary order: Council, Hartford, 21 Feb 1675/6, "that there be garrisons kept at Nath: Bissell's, Tho: Burnham's, Mr. John Crowe's, and at Nabuck, and Mr. Willys his farme; provided, in every garrison there be six men at least, and that the garrisons be well fortified, and that noe place but such doe remayn inhabited on the east side" (PRCC 2:410) [D, proven]. He was about 85; his will (25 Sept 1673, inventory 22 Oct 1677) names sons John, Thomas, Samuel and Nathaniel (Manwaring 1:194) [D abstract].
• His son John Bissell Jr. married Isabel Mason, daughter of Major John Mason; her brother Capt. John Mason commanded the Fifth Company at the Swamp Fight and "was there so severely wounded that he died next year" (Bodge p. 465) [C]. John Jr. was confirmed Quartermaster of the Hartford County troop in May 1677 (PRCC 2:311) [D].

samuel-bissell-fl1658. Archive: nothing on the war.

• 27 March 1676, Council at Hartford: "There being complaynt made that Saml Bissell, after his horss was prest by the Constable of Windsor, did deceiue him of him, and let him be turned out of his yarde before his face, and did not take care to haue him returned againe, which was owned by the said Bissell, for his offence therein is adjudged to pay a fine of forty shillings to the pub: Treasurie of the County of Hartford" (PRCC 2:423) [D, proven]. The council was then raising horse for the expedition to Norwich and, the same day, recalling it because Simsbury had been burned.
• Not on the Windsor troopers list, which has his brothers: "in an old Book of rates we find the following names of Windsor troopers who were in actual service, and received 6s. 8d. each, 'on war account.' John Bissell, Jr., Nath'l Bissell, Capt. Daniel Clark, Edward Chapman ... Capt. Sam. Marshall ... Mr. John Porter ..." (Stiles 1:221; Bodge p. 468, whose version heads it "Capt. John Bissell") [D transcript, undated]. Edward Chapman and Capt. Marshall on that list were killed at the Swamp Fight (Stiles 1:225, 2:147) [C].

abigail-holcomb-1638, abigail-bissell-1661. Nothing found beyond the household (garrison orders above).

james-eno-1651. Archive: "probably the J. who was one of 11 petitioners, 1705, for a grant of land for services in the Swamp Fight" (Stiles 2:242).

• Stiles 1:225 gives the same petition differently: "In the State Archives (War Docs, fol. i.), is a petition dated May, 1735, signed by eleven persons, who believe themselves to be the sole survivors of the Swamp Fight, praying for a grant of land for their services. We find among them the names of Josiah Gillet and James Enos, probably of Windsor" [C]. James Eno (1651) died 16 July 1714. If 1735 is right, the signer was not he (his son James was born 1679). A search of PRCC 4 (1689-1706) and 7 (1726-35) found no action on such a petition. Confidence: possible. No other record of his service found; he is not on the Windsor troopers list or the Voluntown roll.

james-eno-d1682 and elizabeth-holcombe-d1679. Nothing found for the war.

Windsor and the war [D/C]: Windsor sent "not far from 125, mostly dragoons" in all (Stiles 1:221); fifteen dragoons and five troopers to New London in July 1675, fourteen dragoons to Pynchon in August (same); Capt. Samuel Marshall of Windsor commanded the Second Connecticut Company at the Swamp and was killed (Bodge p. 183, 191). Toto, "a friendly Indian at Windsor ... domesticated in the family of Mr. Henry Wolcott, Jr.," gave the warning that saved part of Springfield (Stiles 1:223).

Lyme, New London and Saybrook

reinold-marvin-1631, Lt. Reinold Marvin.

• Deputy for Lyme at the General Court of 14 Oct 1675 ("For Lyme; Lt Renold Maruin," PRCC 2:265) and at the Court of Election, May 1676 ("Lyme; L't Rein: Maruin, Mr. Wm. Measure," PRCC 2:274) [D, proven].
• Council of War, 25 Nov 1675, raising the Narragansett army: "two men in each and euery towne are to pass and signe euery one's payment that is due from the Treasurie ... for Lyme, Mr. Griswould, Lt Marvin; for New London, Mr. Witherell, Mr. Josh: Raymond" (PRCC 2:386) [D, proven].
• Lyme's share of the Narragansett levy: "forty at New London, Stoneington and Lyme" (PRCC 2:385); a Lyme man, the son of widow Abigail Lay, "having been impressed in the country service, was wounded at the swamp fight" and lay at Rhode Island (petition, PRCC 2:276 note) [D].
• Death, 4 Aug 1676: no source gives a cause; nothing found ties it to the war. (Spring 1676 brought "a general visitation by sickness" in Connecticut and Hadley, Russell to Allyn, 15 May 1676, Judd p. 161; context only.)
• Correction: Andros's attempt on Saybrook fort was in July 1675: council to Capt. Thomas Bull, Hartford, 8 July 1675, on "two sloopes arriued from New Yorke, in which sloopes are som forces com w' Major Andross" (PRCC 2:334); Andros's own letters are dated "Seabrooke, July the 9th 1675" and "July 10th 1675" (DRCHNY 14:692-693) [D]. Marvin 1904 p. 40 has "July, 1676 ... only three weeks before his death": wrong year.
• After his death the company could not agree on a lieutenant; on 10 May 1677 the Court named Mathew Griswold "to supply the place of a Leivtenant at Lime" (PRCC 2:317) [D].
• 24 Aug 1676, three weeks after his death: the council ordered 48 surrendered Indians "with their retinue of old men, women and children" to be dispersed to "Saybrooke, Lime, Kenilworth and Guilford," whose people were to "giue entertainment to them ... because of the advantage of gayning reliefe from the sea, by fish, oysters, clams," until the October Court settled them "in service or otherwise" (PRCC 2:474-475) [D]. The Native side at Lyme's door; not shown to touch the Marvin household.

sarah-clark-1644 (Sarah Marvin, Sarah Sill). Widowed 4 Aug 1676; married Capt. Joseph Sill 12 Feb 1677/8. Capt. Joseph Sill's war (all Bodge pp. 266-275 unless noted) [D transcripts, C narrative]: lieutenant to Capt. Richard Beers, Aug 1675; left at Hadley in command of the rest of the company when Beers was killed (4 Sept 1675); went with Pynchon and Appleton to Springfield on 5 Oct 1675 (Mosely's letter, p. 68); on 12 Oct Appleton stationed "Capt. Sill and his company" at Springfield (p. 147); 2 Nov 1675 commissioned to lead about sixty men of Charlestown, Watertown and Cambridge to Hassanamesit with Natick guides (James Quannapohit and Eleazer Pegin), recovering the captive boy Christopher Muchin (pp. 267-268); 20 Nov, 39 of his men left in garrison at Springfield under Lt. Niles (p. 268); with the army in Narragansett after the Swamp Fight (p. 184); brought off the people of Groton with sixty carts, and soon after 17 April 1676, in garrison at Groton, "two of them were slain by one single shot made by the Captain's own Hands" (Hubbard, quoted p. 269); 27 April 1676, "three [companies] of foot under Capts. Sill, Cutler and Holbrook" (p. 270); at Hadley with Henchman from 14 June 1676 (p. 270); Dover, 6 Sept 1676, with Hathorne at the seizure of the Indians gathered at Major Waldron's (p. 271); discharged by the Court 17 Oct 1676 for having "carried himself offencively" ("Colony Records, vol. vi. p. 126," as Bodge p. 271 cites it). In 1685 he petitioned for land "that so a little part of what he hath seen with his eyes and trod with his feet, in your service, may be committed into his hands" (Mass. Arch. 70:148; pp. 274-275); his Narragansett No. 2 right went to his son-in-law John Hall (p. 419). Living at Lyme by 7 Nov 1681 (p. 272).

moses-noyes-1643, Rev. Moses Noyes. Archive: "Cedar Swamp lots awarded for Indian War service (Naragansett Vols.)" (Noyes 1904).

• Voluntown proprietors' records: "ENROLLMENT LIST. A list of the Names of the English Volunteers in the late Narraganset War": no. 180 "Rev. Moses Noise"; and "LIST OF VOLUNTEERS WHO DREW 'CEDAR SWAMP' LOTS": no. 32 "Rev. Moses Noyes" (Bodge pp. 442-445; Connecticut grant 1696, confirmed Oct 1700, list made 1 July 1701) [D transcript, proven that he was a grantee]. The grant was for "English volunteers"; impressed men were shut out (Bodge p. 442). His brother Rev. James Noyes is no. 50 and Cedar Swamp lot 90.
• How he served is not recorded; Sibley (2:50-52) says nothing of war service. [?] He may have gone with one of the 1676 volunteer expeditions from New London County (Denison, Avery) as minister; not proven.
• Kin in the war: brother Rev. James Noyes of Stonington, appointed "minister to our army" 28 Nov 1675 but "could not attend" (PRCC 2:387-388); with the volunteers who took Canonchet in April 1676, "Mr. Noyes ... advised to despatch him there" and "was an eyewitness of the manner of the execution" (Sibley 2:46-47, quoting Hubbard) [C]. First cousin Rev. Nicholas Noyes (famous-kin nicholas-noyes): "Mr. Nicholas Noyse to goe forth with our army" (Council, 11 Dec 1675, PRCC 2:388) [D]; Bodge lists him as chaplain of the Connecticut regiment (p. 183); "He accompanied the Connecticut troops under Major Treat, and was at the Swamp-Fight"; Oct 1681 granted 200 acres "for his good service in the warr" (Sibley 2:239) [C, probable]. He moved to Salem in 1683.
• 1678: preached at the election of a lieutenant to succeed Marvin (Marvin 1904 p. 40; Sibley 2:50).

ruth-pickett-1654. Nothing found. She married Moses Noyes about 1677.

ruth-brewster-1631. Nothing found for her. Her husband Charles Hill, recorder of New London, was its deputy in Oct 1675 ("Mr. Charles Hill, abs.," PRCC 2:265) [D]. Caulkins gives her death as 30 April 1677 (p. 308); the archive has 1 May 1677 (Brewster genealogy). After her death Hill married Rachel Mason, sister of the Capt. John Mason mortally wounded at the Swamp (Caulkins p. 308; Bodge p. 465).

richard-mather-1653. Archive: farmer of Dorchester, at Lyme 1687; nothing on the war.

• "List of Capt. Prentice's Troopers. (Mass. Arch., vol. 68, p. 73.) On the back of this list is written, 'Capt. Prentise's 73 Troopers.' ... Troopers belonging to Captin Davis. William Kent, John Ruggles, Sampson Chester, William Towers, [John Miner erased], Henry Eliot, John Person (Pason), Richard Mather Juniour, Martin Sanders, Crosby of Braintree (Joseph), Joseph Penniman, Samuel Haidne (Haiden), Ebenezer Haidne (Haiden), John Riplee, Samuel Whitney. 14." (Bodge p. 83) [D transcript; image checked].
• Credits under Capt. Thomas Prentice, "March 24th 1675-6 Richard Mather. 04 10 00" (Bodge p. 82) [D].
• Prentice "was appointed to command a troop of horse in the Narraganset campaign, joined the army at Dedham plain, and marched with it ... to Wickford ... On the 19th took part in the battle at the fort" (Bodge p. 82) [C]. In late January a party of the troop took two Indians whose news sent Treat's army north of Providence (Palmes to the Council, 26 Jan 1675/6, PRCC 2:400) [D].
• Identification [I, probable]: Capt. Davis's troopers on the list include Braintree and Dorchester men (Crosby of Braintree, the Haidens, John Payson); "Junior" sets him apart from his grandfather Rev. Richard Mather (d. 1669); no other Richard Mather is known in the Bay in 1675. Not on the Narragansett grantee lists (no claim by his heirs found).
• His wife's brother Rev. John Wise (famous-kin rev-john-wise), then preaching at Branford, was appointed "to goe forth minister to our army" in January 1676 (PRCC 2:399) and marched from New London with Treat on 26 Jan 1675/6, "accompanyed with Mr. Fitch, Mr. Buckley & Mr. Wise" (PRCC 2:400; Sibley 2:429) [D]. Wise preached at Hatfield in 1677-8 (Sibley 2:429).

richard-raymond-d1692 (Saybrook). Nothing for him personally. His son Joshua Raymond of New London:

• Cornet of the New London County troop under Capt. Edward Palmes (PRCC 2:186, 1672) [D].
• Named with Witherell to sign New London's soldiers' pay bills, 25 Nov 1675 (PRCC 2:386) [D].
• Commissary: in Nov 1675 the wheat, powder, bullets and cheese at New London were to be "deliuered to Mr. Josh: Raymond of New London, whoe is ordered forthwith to take care that the corne be baked into bread" (PRCC 2:384); 3 Feb 1675/6 more wheat and flesh "to be deliuered to Mr. Joshua Raymond for the use of our army"; 7 Feb, provisions "into the hands of Mr. Joshua Raymond for to be preserued for the Country's use," and thanks sent in the same letter "to Vnceas, Owanecoe, Mawmawho and Robbin for their good seruice" (PRCC 2:405-406) [D]. Caulkins: "Mr. Wetherell was the active magistrate, Joshua Raymond the commissary" (p. 184) [C].
• 7 April 1676: "Mr. Daniel Witherly, Mr. Joshua Raymond, are permitted to send forth the Good Ketch, the New London ... for the Barbadoes" (PRCC 2:428) [D].
• Died 24 April 1676 (Raymond 1886; Raymond 1969 p. 18) [C]. The wound: Beers, Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County (1905): "He died ... 1676, supposedly from the effects of a wound received in the Great Swamp fight" and elsewhere "His death, which [occurred] April 24, 1676, was due to the effects of a [wound] received in the great swamp fight"; the same book makes him "commissary of troops in the Pequot war" [C, late, no source]. Not on the Voluntown roll (his son Joshua could have claimed). Assessment: possible; commissary at New London through the campaign is documented.
• "Mrs. Raymond," his widow, accounted for the colony's law-book money in 1677 (PRCC 2:311) [D].

john-raymond-d1694 (Norwalk) and mary-betts-d1695. Nothing found. Norwalk's soldiers' grants of 12 Jan 1676/7 and after (Hall pp. 62-65) name John Roach, Daniel Benedict, Thomas Gregory, Thomas Hyatt, Joseph Platt, Jonathan Abbot, Samuel Keeler, John Crampton, James Jupp, John Belding and Jonathan Stevenson, not John Raymond. James Betts (Mary's brother [?]) was granted five acres in 1698 "as he sent out a man into the warres, and was at charge and expense of money on account of hireing" (Hall p. 64) [D; kinship unverified].

• Namesake: the John Raymond (Rayment) who "claimed to have been the first soldier to enter the fort" (Bodge p. 187 note) was of Beverly, in a Massachusetts company: Unrelated to the Norwalk family.

Stratford, Norwalk, Milford, Wallingford

samuel-fairchild-1640, mary-wheeler-1655, moses-wheeler-d1698, john-whitney-d1720. Nothing found. Searched: PRCC 2 (deputies, council journal, index), Orcutt 1886 vol. 1 chapter on the war (pp. 195-200), Hall's Norwalk records. Stratford's quota of dragoons in 1673 was 33 (Orcutt 1:197); Fairfield County sent 72 men for Narragansett (Orcutt 1:199) under Capt. Nathaniel Seeley, killed at the fort. No rolls survive. Moses Wheeler's Stratford ferry lay on the road the Fairfield County troops took east, but no record of service or charges was found.

Long Island (Flushing, Oyster Bay, Matinecock)

john-bowne-1627. Archive asked what "Philips' Service" is.

• It is the first entry of his journal, written at Boston: "Monday 23d Jany 1649 — I entered into Mr. Philips' Service, for which Service I am to have five Shillings for every week, one half in money and one half in wine to myself or whom I shall assign, and also my diet and washing and lodging for so long as I shall please to stay with him, I being free at every week's end, if I will" (Yarnall 1908, Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia 2:45) [D quoted, proven]. A correspondent added that he "wished to perfect himself in some work, and thus took the position with Mr. Philips ... they were not servants" (same bulletin) [C]. Nothing to do with King Philip; the war began 25 years later.
• In the war years: Hannah sailed from New York "on the 24th of 3d month, 1675" (24 May 1675) "on a religious visit; her husband remaining at home; but he joined her in London on the 13th of 11th month, 1676" (13 Jan 1676/7) (Field p. 113) [C]. So he was at Flushing through the whole war. Nothing names him in the war records searched (DRCHNY 14, Andros council 1675-6). Flushing's estate valuation of 1675 survives (Field p. 73 cites it for Anthony Field) and was not seen.

thomas-bowne-1595. Made his will in 1675 (Field p. 115); nothing on the war.

nicholas-wright-1609. Overseer of Oyster Bay for 1675: "May ye 3th A Towne Meeting held, Nathanyell Coles is Chosen Const: for this prsent yeare 1675 Oversers Nich: Wright, Tho: Townesend; Josias Latting, Matthias Harvy" (OBTR 1:225) [D, proven]. The town that summer ordered brush cut on the commons (5 July 1675) and on 16 Aug 1675 "yt A Towne house bee built, wth what Expedish, it can bee" (OBTR 1:226) [D]. Andros's orders to "the Constable & Overseers of Oyster bay" therefore reached him in office [I, probable]:

• 14 Sept 1675: "Upon the Complaint of Capt. Thomas Townsend of Oyster bay, That many of ye Inhabitants there being Quakers & refusing to beare arms, they are disabled from keeping so strong a watch as is required ... It is Ordered, That all persons Whatsoever who are directed in ye law to serve upon Watches or Trainings, be strictly Enjoyned to obserue & obey it. Otherwise ye Constable & Overseers ... are strictly required to Levy The fines vpon the Estates of all persons that shall make defaults" (DRCHNY 14:697) [D].
• 19 Oct 1675: "severall of the Inhabitants of Oyster bay, notwithstanding the late Orders & Proclamations are still very backward in making up their ffortifications," all to finish "the said Worke already begunn," except such "Auncient persons as have principally contributed to the building of the House taken in within the said ffortification," at the discretion of the constable and overseers (DRCHNY 14:704) [D]. The "House" is presumably the town house voted 16 Aug 1675 [I].
• Capt. Thomas Townsend of 1675 is not identified with the archive's Thomas Townsend (of Concord, Pa.); no link claimed.

ann-wright-fl1674, rebecca-wright-fl1662, william-frost-d1719. Nothing names them. William Frost, not a Friend, held the Matinecock farm from Dec 1674 and was liable to the watch [I].

Matinecock Friends: matthew-prior-fl1638, mary-prior-d1700, john-prior-1651, elizabeth-prior-1656, john-feke-1639, james-cock-d1699, sarah-cock-d1715. Not named in any war record found. The Oyster Bay order of 14 Sept 1675 was aimed at the town's Quakers, and meetings were held in the houses of James Cock, Matthew Prior and John Feke (Cock genealogy p. 10) [I, probable that the order bore on these households]. On 21 Oct 1675, in a list of lands "Claimed by the Indians as not Paid for" laid before Andros's council (Tackapousha's claims against Hempstead), is "A necke kalled Matinecoch on the Sound at the Eastward of Muchito Cove" (DRCHNY 14:705) [D]; the families' Killingworth/Matinecock purchases of 1667-69 lay east of Musketa Cove, but whether this is the same land is not shown [I, possible]. The Matinecock released "all their remaining Matinecock land" to James Cock, John Underhill and John Feke in 1684/5 (Cock genealogy pp. 10-11, as the archive has it).

elizabeth-feake-1633, hannah-feake-1637, elizabeth-bowne-1658. Nothing found for the war. (Hannah was in England from 1675.)

Long Island and the war, for context [D, DRCHNY 14]: 24 July 1675, the towns to keep a constables' watch and "to take Care, that ye Indyans now disarmed bee not any wise Injured" (p. 692); 15 Sept 1675, guns restored to the Long Island Indians "by reason of their good Comport," except East Hampton and Shelter Island, "who having paid Contribution to those of Narrogansett," and every town to "fortify some particular place ... to secure their Wives & Children" (p. 697); 5 Oct 1675, the Montauk sachem's letter: "4 of our stoutest men have been this tyme of warre with the English Captains & fought under them" (p. 699); 28 May 1676: "wee have upon Acct of our Neighbors Warre, disarmed all our Indyans upon Long Island, & prohibited all canoes from goeing in the Sound ... you may ... redeliver all Armes" (p. 705). Andros's council held (10 Sept 1675) "That wee ought not to breake wt our Indyans upon Acct of ye warre betweene our Neighbors & their Indyans" (p. 696).

New Paltz

chretien-deyo-d1687, pierre-deyo-fl1677. "He probably came with Abraham Hasbrouck in 1675"; "Christian Deyo and his family came to the new world in 1675 with Abraham Hasbrouck, who in November of that year became his son-in-law" (Hasbrouck 1958, pp. 1-2) [C]. LeFevre: "Abraham Hasbrouck sailed from Amsterdam in 1675 and landed at Boston. Shortly after he joined his brother in Kingston" (p. 10) [C]. If the Deyos came with him, they landed at Boston in the first months of the war [I, possible]. Pierre's son Abraham was born at Hurley in Oct 1676. Nothing else touches them; the New Paltz purchase from the Esopus (15 Sept 1677) and Andros's patent came after the war in New England had ended.

hugo-freer-fl1677. Arrived about 1677 (LeFevre p. 10). Nothing.

Searched, nothing found: amy-wyllys-1624 (beyond kin), mary-pynchon-1650, cicely-penny-1601, abilenah-cooley-1642, isaac-sheldon-1629, mary-woodford-d1684, joseph-sheldon-1668 (for 1675-8), mary-sheldon-d1760, abigail-holcomb-1638, abigail-bissell-1661, james-eno-d1682, elizabeth-holcombe-d1679, ruth-pickett-1654, ruth-brewster-1631, richard-raymond-d1692 (himself), john-raymond-d1694, mary-betts-d1695, samuel-fairchild-1640, mary-wheeler-1655, moses-wheeler-d1698, john-whitney-d1720, thomas-bowne-1595, elizabeth-bowne-1658, john-feke-1639, elizabeth-feake-1633, hannah-feake-1637, william-frost-d1719, ann-wright-fl1674, rebecca-wright-fl1662, james-cock-d1699, sarah-cock-d1715, matthew-prior-fl1638, john-prior-1651, mary-prior-d1700, elizabeth-prior-1656, hugo-freer-fl1677.

3. Events

Andros at Saybrook, 8-12 July 1675. On news of the war Governor Andros of New York came with two armed sloops to Saybrook, claiming the Duke of York's bounds to the Connecticut River. Connecticut's council ordered Capt. Thomas Bull to forbid any landing (letter of 8 July 1675, PRCC 2:334); Andros landed on the 12th but was not let read his commission (Marvin 1904 p. 40, after Trumbull) [C]. Andros wrote from "Seabrooke, July the 9th 1675" that he found "no occasion heer upon the Indyan Acco'" [OCR "beer"] (DRCHNY 14:692-693). Family: the Lyme train-band's lieutenant was Reinold Marvin; that Lyme's band was there is the Marvin genealogy's supposition only [I, possible].

Burning of Springfield, 5 Oct 1675. The Springfield (Agawam) people, long Pynchon's trading partners, took in warriors at their fort on Long Hill; their hostages at Hartford had escaped. Toto, a Native man living with Henry Wolcott Jr. at Windsor, warned of the plan the night before (Stiles 1:223; Burt 1:129). Pynchon had taken the soldiers to Hadley; the townsmen went into three fortified houses. Lt. Thomas Cooper and Thomas Miller were shot riding out toward the fort, Pentecost Matthews killed, Edmund Pringridays and Nathaniel Browne mortally wounded; "about 30 dwelling houses burnt down and 24 or 25 barns, my corn mill, saw mill" (Pynchon, 8 Oct); Burt's count "twenty-nine houses and barns"; Appleton thirty-three houses and twenty-five barns (Burt 1:129-134; Bodge pp. 144-145). The captured Springfield woman put the attackers at 270; Russell thought "not above 100 Indians, of whom their own were the chief" (Bodge p. 145). Family: Deacon Samuel Chapin and Jonathan Burt in the fortified houses; John Hitchcock's house burned; Pynchon and Capt. Joseph Sill came in with 190 men; Japhet Chapin's household at Chicopee across the river [I].

Westfield, 27 Oct 1675. First assault on Westfield; three Springfield men killed, among them "young Goodman Dumbleton, who came to our mill" (Rev. Edward Taylor, in Stiles 1919 p. 12; Judd's count "at Westfield, October 27, 3," as Burt 1:134 gives it). Family: Joseph Whiting part-owner of the Westfield mill [C].

The Great Swamp Fight, 19 Dec 1675. The united army (Massachusetts 465 foot and 73 troopers at Dedham, Plymouth 158, Connecticut 315 with 150 Mohegan and Pequot allies; Bodge p. 184) marched from Wickford through snow to the Narragansett fort in the swamp (South Kingstown). Connecticut's five companies under Major Robert Treat (captains Gallop, Marshall, Seeley, Watts, Mason; chaplain Nicholas Noyes, surgeon Gershom Bulkeley; Bodge p. 183) came in last and entered under the heaviest fire: "Of her 300 men, 80 were killed and wounded; (about 40 were killed or died of their wounds;) three of her five captains, Seely, Marshall and Gallop, were killed ... and a fourth, Capt. Mason, was mortally wounded" (PRCC 2:391 note). The Connecticut council told Andros in January that "about 70 of the English, besides the wounded, and about 600 of the Indians, men, women & children, as is said, are slaine" (PRCC 2:398); Hubbard counted 71 Connecticut killed and wounded, Trumbull 70 (Bodge p. 191). The wigwams, sheltering the old, women and children, were fired (Bodge p. 187). Family: Richard Mather in Prentice's troop [D/I probable]; chaplain Nicholas Noyes (cousin); Joshua Raymond provisioning at New London [D]; Lyme's and Windsor's men in the Connecticut companies (Abigail Lay's son wounded; Capt. Marshall, Edward Chapman of Windsor killed). Other clusters: Ralph Ellinwood (Gardner), Samuel Tyler, William Dodge Jr. (Prentice's troop).

Treat's January march, 26 Jan - early Feb 1676. Connecticut's recruited army left New London on 26 Jan 1675/6 with Fitch, Bulkeley and Wise as ministers, joining the pursuit after a "party of Capt. Prentis troope" had taken two Indians and killed nine (Palmes, PRCC 2:400). The army returned by 5 Feb (PRCC 2:405). Family: Richard Mather (Prentice's troop) and Rev. John Wise, his future brother-in-law [I, probable both in the field together].

Northampton, 14 March 1676. Turner's Massachusetts company (about 70-80 men) and Treat's two Connecticut companies, arrived the evening before, were in the town when warriors broke through the palisade at the lower end of Pleasant Street before dawn. Killed: Robert Bartlett, Thomas Holton, Mary Earle (12), and two of Turner's soldiers, James Macrenell "kild at Hampton March 14th" and Increase Whetstone; five houses and five barns burned (Bodge pp. 235-236, 240; Trumbull 1:307-312). Russell found "about a dozen of the enemy slain"; Menowniet said one killed, four wounded (Trumbull 1:310). Family: Isaac Sheldon's household in the town; Richard Cheever in Turner's company [I, probable]. Namesake: this Robert Bartlett is not Robert Bartlett of Plymouth (died there, will of 19 Sept 1676).

Simsbury burned, 26 March 1676; Windsor's garrisons. Simsbury's people, Windsor folk, had already withdrawn to Windsor; on 21 Feb 1675/6 the council ordered east-side families into garrisons including Nathaniel Bissell's at Scantic (PRCC 2:410). On 27 March the council recalled the party bound for Norwich on news that Indians "on Sabboth night burned great part of Simsbury," and the same day fined Samuel Bissell for hiding his pressed horse (PRCC 2:423).

The Falls Fight (Peskeompskut, Turner's Falls), 19 May 1676. About 150-160 mounted men of Springfield, Westfield, Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield and eastern garrison soldiers under Capt. William Turner, Capt. Samuel Holyoke and Ensign John Lyman rode from Hatfield on the night of 18 May and fell on the sleeping fishing camp at the head of the falls at daybreak: "our soldiers came and put their guns into their wigwams ... and did make a great and notable slaughter among them"; many were shot in the river or carried over the falls (Mather and Hubbard, in Judd p. 163). On the way back the column broke under counter-attack; Turner was shot crossing the Green River; "Thirty-eight of the English were slain, and all but one after they left the falls" (Judd p. 164); Sheldon lists 41 killed, 3 wounded (Deerfield 1:160). Native losses: Bardwell counted "above an hundred"; Judd thought 130-180 "old and young" perished; Menowniet testified at Hartford that "40 Norwottucks ... and Quabaugs, and 10 Narragansets" fighting men were slain (Judd pp. 166-167); the camp "contained men, women and children ... the slaughter was indiscriminate" (Judd p. 167). Family: Japhet Chapin, John and James Munn, Luke Hitchcock, John Hitchcock (wounded), Thomas and Samuel Stebbins [D roll]. Springfield's expenses for the fight were reckoned by Japhet Chapin and John Hitchcock in May 1677 (Burt 2:131).

Hadley, 12 June 1676. The Connecticut army under Major John Talcott, with "near upon two hundred Indians" (Mohegans under Owaneco), had just come in; a large force attacked the north end of the fortified town, fired a barn and was driven off by a "great gun" (Mather, in Judd pp. 170-171). Two of three soldiers caught outside were killed. Capt. Henchman's Massachusetts companies (Sill's among them) arrived on the 14th; the joint force scouted up to the falls on 16-18 June (Judd p. 171; Bodge p. 270). Family: Samuel Porter's care of "most of the wounded souldjers at Hadley" (MBR 5:116-117); Experience Porter born 5 Aug 1676.

Surrenderers dispersed, 24 Aug 1676. About 65 fighting men with families, forty of them Wabaquassets, came in to Mohegan and were left under Uncas; 48 more who came in after the May deadline were sent with "their retinue of old men, women and children" to Saybrook, Lyme, Killingworth and Guilford "in service or otherwise" (PRCC 2:474-475). Family: Lyme, three weeks after Marvin's death.

Long Island, July 1675 - May 1676. See Long Island under People (DRCHNY 14:692-705; OBTR 1:225-226).

Albany, April 1677. Pynchon and James Richards treated with the Mohawks at Albany with Andros's help (PRCC 2:493, 496), the beginning of the covenant with the Mohawks; Massachusetts paid his charges (MBR 5:139).

The Mohegan and Pequot allies, 1675-6. Connecticut fought with Uncas's Mohegans and the Pequots (under Robin Cassasinamon and others) beside its companies: 150 of them at the Swamp in two scouting companies attached to Gallop's and Mason's (Bodge p. 183). The council let "Owanecoe," Uncas's son, "dispose of" the "captiues of the Phillipeans" he had taken "by sale or otherwayes as he shall find most advantagious to himselfe" (25 Nov 1675, PRCC 2:385), sent him after the escaped hostage Sebawcatt (29 Oct 1675, p. 379), and on 7 Feb 1675/6, in the letter that put the army's stores in Joshua Raymond's hands, returned "thankes to Vnceas, Owanecoe, Mawmawho and Robbin for their good seruice in the last expedition" (p. 406). About two hundred went up to Hadley with Talcott in June 1676 (Judd p. 171). Joshua Raymond had been one of three New London men who in 1668 advanced the payment to Uncas that settled the town bounds, and his farm lay in the "Mohegan fields" on the Norwich road (Caulkins pp. 425-426; Raymond 1886 p. 5) [C]. Lyme's Native neighbours were Niantics; on 26 Nov 1675 the council answered "Mr. Ely, in behalfe of Joshua [Attawanhood, a son of Uncas], and ... Mr. Griswould [of Lyme] in behalfe of the Nianticutt Indians," appointing them "to be prepared to assist against the enemie" (PRCC 2:386) [D].

4. Crossings

1. Same battle, the Great Swamp Fight (19 Dec 1675). Richard Mather (1653), trooper in Capt. Prentice's troop [D list; I identification probable]; William Dodge Jr. of Beverly, probably a son of William Dodge [I], in the same troop ("Troopers belonging to Capt. Curwin ... William Dodge (Jr,)," credited "William Dodg. 04 16 00" on 24 June 1676; Bodge pp. 82-83) [D; see Essex_and_the_East.md]; Ralph Ellinwood (Gardner's company) and Samuel Tyler (pressed at Rowley) per the archive; Rev. Nicholas Noyes, cousin of Moses Noyes, chaplain of the Connecticut regiment [D/C]. Possibly James Eno (petition, date unresolved). Also on Prentice's credit list: "Samuel Payson" (29 Feb 1675/6) and "John Pason" among Davis's troopers (Bodge pp. 82-83): check against Giles Payson and Elizabeth Payson (massbay).
2. Same army, January 1676. Richard Mather (Prentice's troop) and Rev. John Wise, brother of his future wife Katherine Wise and son of Joseph Wise, chaplain with Treat's Connecticut army from 26 Jan 1675/6 (PRCC 2:399-400; Sibley 2:429) [D; I that they met].
3. Same day, same town: Springfield, 5 Oct 1675. Maj. John Pynchon and Capt. Joseph Sill (later husband of Sarah (Clark) Marvin) marched in together (Mosely, Bodge p. 68) [D]; Deacon Samuel Chapin and Jonathan Burt in the fortified houses [C]; John Hitchcock's house burned [D].
4. Same garrison, Springfield, Oct-Nov 1675. Sill's company stationed in Springfield from 12 Oct, 39 of his men there for the winter from 20 Nov (Bodge pp. 147, 268); Deacon Chapin died there 11 Nov [D/C].
5. Same expedition, April-June 1676. Capt. Joseph Sill and Capt. John Holbrook (John Holbrook) commanded two of the three foot companies raised 27 April 1676 to range toward Hassanamesit (Bodge p. 270; Hubbard) [C, probable]. Bodge says "the same forces" were called out again on 30 May and reached Hadley 14 June; whether Holbrook's company went is not shown (his men were credited 24 June 1676, Bodge p. 281) [possible]. If so, both captains were at Hadley while Samuel Porter was caring for the wounded.
6. Same fight, the Falls (19 May 1676). Japhet Chapin; John and James Munn (brothers of Nathaniel Munn); Thomas Stebbins (husband of their sister Abigail Munn) and Samuel Stebbins; Luke Hitchcock (father of Ebenezer Hitchcock) and John Hitchcock (husband of Japhet's sister Hannah) [D roll]. Two lines of the family that later joined in the Chapins (Munn and Hitchcock-Sheldon-Pynchon) rode together.
7. Same company, different months: Capt. William Turner's. Richard Cheever (Feb-Apr 1676; at Northampton 14 March) [D lists; I presence], Japhet Chapin and the rest at the Falls under Turner (19 May) [D]. No evidence they met.
8. Same town under attack: Northampton, 14 March 1676. Turner's company (Cheever) and the Sheldon household (Isaac, Mary Woodford, Joseph aged 8) [I, probable].
9. Same council and pay lists, Connecticut. Lt. Reinold Marvin (Lyme) and Joshua Raymond (New London), named in the same order of 25 Nov 1675 to sign the soldiers' pay bills (PRCC 2:386) [D]; both sat with or answered to the Council of War on which Samuel Wyllys (brother of Amy Wyllys Pynchon), John Allyn (father-in-law of Joseph Whiting from 1676) and John Wadsworth (brother-in-law of Hannah (Stanley) Porter) sat [D].
10. Widow remarries a fellow officer's comrade. Sarah (Clark) Marvin, widow of Lyme's lieutenant, married Capt. Joseph Sill, who had served beside Pynchon (Oct 1675) and Holbrook (Apr 1676); their son Zachariah Sill married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Mather, the Narragansett trooper (archive, Mather file) [C].
11. Kin across the Swamp. John Bissell Jr. (Samuel Bissell's brother) and Charles Hill (Ruth Brewster's widower, m. 1678) both married sisters of Capt. John Mason, mortally wounded at the Swamp Fight (Bodge p. 465; Caulkins p. 308) [C].
12. Mill and grain. Joseph Whiting's Westfield mill ground Springfield's corn after 5 Oct 1675, while Japhet Chapin's and Deacon Chapin's town had lost Pynchon's mills [C/I].

5. Sources

Existing archive source ids in brackets; NEW = no file yet.

Primary records and printed transcripts

• The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, from 1665 to 1678; with the Journal of the Council of War, 1675 to 1678, ed. J. Hammond Trumbull (Hartford, 1852). archive.org bwb_P9-CDP-545 (https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-CDP-545). Pp. 186, 246, 265, 274, 276, 311, 317, 334, 383-388, 391, 398-400, 405-406, 410-411, 423, 428, 474-475, 493, 496. Printed transcript. [records-colony-connecticut covers vols. 1-2 under publicrecordsofc03conn; add this item or extend that file.]
• Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, vol. 4 (1689-1706), publicrecordsofc4168conn, and vol. 7 (1726-1735), bwb_P9-CDP-548: searched for the Swamp Fight petition, nothing found. NEW.
• Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. 5 (1674-1686), ed. Shurtleff (1854). recordsofgoverno05mass. Pp. 116-117 (Samuel Porter), 139 (Pynchon's Mohawk charges), 167-168 (letter to Albany, 22 Oct 1677). Printed transcript. NEW (or merge with court-records-massachusetts-bay).
• Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, vol. 14 (1883), ed. Fernow. documentsrelativ14brod. Pp. 692-699, 704-707. Printed transcript. [records-drchny-14-1883]
• Oyster Bay Town Records, vol. 1 (1916). oysterbaytownrec01coxj. Pp. 225-226. [record-oyster-bay-town-records]
• The First Century of the History of Springfield: the Official Records from 1636 to 1736, ed. Henry M. Burt, 2 vols. (1898-99). firstcenturyofhi011898spri (vol. 1, pp. 129-134, with facsimile of Jonathan Burt's account), firstcenturyofhi021899spri (vol. 2, pp. 116-117, 126-127, 131, 135-136, 539-540, 611-613). Town records transcribed, plus compiled history. NEW.
• Edwin Hall, The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk (1847). ancienthistorica00hall_0. Pp. 61-66. [book-hall-1847-norwalk-records]
• Charles J. Hoadly / Charles W. Manwaring, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, vol. 1 (1904). digestofearlycon01manw. P. 194 (John Bissell will). Abstract. NEW.
• Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 3rd ed. (1906). soldiersinkingph1906bodg. Pp. 68, 82-84, 143-147, 183-184, 187, 191, 235-240, 250-254, 266-275, 280-281, 419, 441-446, 465, 467-468, 475. Transcripts of Mass. Archives 67-70, 114 and of Hull's journal, plus narrative. [book-bodge-1906-soldiers-king-philips-war]
• Charles Yarnall, "John Bowne of Flushing," Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia 2 (1908): 45 (journal entry, Jan 1649). bulletinoffriendv1v3frie. [article-yarnall-1908-john-bowne]

Compiled histories and genealogies

• Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley (1905 ed.). historyofhadleyi00judd. Pp. 160-167, 170-171, 185; genealogies pp. 111-112 (Porter), Stanley entry. [book-judd-1905-history-hadley]
• George Sheldon, A History of Deerfield, vol. 1 (1895). historyofdeerfie01shel. Pp. 158-160 (Falls roll). NEW.
• James Russell Trumbull, History of Northampton, vol. 1 (1898). historyofnortham00trum. Pp. 307-312, 376-379, 574-575. NEW.
• Henry R. Stiles, History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, vol. 1 (1891) historygenealogi11stil pp. 221-227; vol. 2 (1892) historygenealogi02stil pp. 71, 147, 242. [book-stiles-1891-ancient-windsor]
• Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin (1904). cu31924012053629. Pp. 38-40, 300-301. [book-marvin-1904-reinold-and-matthew-marvin]
• John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, vol. 2 (1881). biographicalsket02sibluoft. Pp. 45-52 (James and Moses Noyes), 239-240 (Nicholas Noyes), 428-429 (John Wise). NEW.
• Frances Manwaring Caulkins, History of New London (1895 ed.). historynewlondo00grisgoog. Pp. 182-184, 292-293, 308, 425-426. NEW.
• Samuel Raymond, Genealogies of the Raymond Families (1886), p. 5. genealogiesofray00raym. [book-raymond-1886-raymond-families]
• Samuel E. Raymond, Raymond Genealogy, vol. 1 part 1 (1969), p. 18. rg-vol-1-drr-part-1. [book-raymond-1969-raymond-genealogy]
• Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Connecticut (Beers, 1905), Raymond sketches. genealogicalbiog00unse. NEW (late compiled; source of the wound claim).
• Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford, vol. 1 (1886). historyofoldtown01orcu. Pp. 195-200. [book-orcutt-1886-history-stratford uses ahistoryoldtown00orcugoog, the other volume]
• The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family (1894). genealogyofhitch00hitc. Pp. 208, 214-215, 407-409. [book-hitchcock-1894-hitchcock-family]
• Chester D. Stiles, comp., A History of the Town of Westfield (1919). historyoftownofw00stil. P. 12. NEW.
• History of the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Westfield (1919). historyofcelebra00gran. Pp. 54-55. NEW.
• Osgood Field, The Fields of Sowerby ... and of Flushing (1895). fieldsofsowerbyn00fiel. Pp. 73, 113. [book-field-1895-fields-of-sowerby]
• Ralph LeFevre, History of New Paltz (1909). historyofnewpalt00lefe. Pp. 10-11. [book-lefevre-1909-history-new-paltz]
• Kenneth E. Hasbrouck and Ruth P. Heidgerd, The Deyo (Deyoe) Family (1958). deyodeyoefamilyb00hasb. Pp. 1-2. [book-hasbrouck-1958-deyo-family]
• History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914), p. 10. [book-cock-genealogy-1914]
• Sidney Perley, History of Salem, vol. 2 (1926), p. 233: checked; it does not carry the Joshua Raymond wound claim. historyofsalemma02perl.
• William Hubbard, History of the Indian Wars, ed. Drake (1865), vol. 1 (Sill at Groton). In archive.org historyofindianw01hubb.

6. To fetch later

• Connecticut State Library, Connecticut Archives, Colonial Wars, ser. 1, vol. 1 ("War Docs, fol. i"): the petition of eleven Swamp Fight survivors (Stiles: 1705 or May 1735) naming "Josiah Gillet and James Enos"; and War I. Doc. 70 (Abigail Lay's petition). Settles the James Eno question.
• Lyme Town Meeting Book I and New London County probate (Connecticut State Library): Lt. Reinold Marvin's estate, 1676, for any note of the cause of death; Lyme's soldiers in 1675-6.
• Joshua Raymond's estate, New London probate, 1676, for the wound claim; and the New London town accounts for the commissary's bread and provisions.
• Massachusetts Archives vol. 68, p. 73 (Prentice's troopers; image) and Hull's journal, credit of 24 March 1675/6 (Richard Mather) to confirm the reading; Mass. Arch. vol. 114 p. 610 (Falls roll); vol. 68 pp. 158, 212 (Turner's lists).
• Hampshire County Court records, 1676-7 (Pynchon court record, ed. Smith, Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts, 1961, not seen) for Springfield constable Japhet Chapin's warrants and the Falls Fight account.
• The Pynchon Papers, ed. Carl Bridenbaugh (Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1982-5), vol. 1, letters of 1675-7; not reached online. Would show the family affliction of Oct 1675 and the Falls Fight aftermath, and any mention of Whiting, Chapin or Hitchcock.
• Westfield town records and Edward Taylor's church record for the Whiting-Dewey mill in 1675-6.
• Flushing estate valuation of 1675 (O'Callaghan, Documentary History of New York vol. 2) and the Oyster Bay 1675 rate list, for the Bownes, Wrights, Priors, Fekes, Cocks and Frost; and Andros's council minutes for any fines on Oyster Bay Quakers after 14 Sept 1675.
• Voluntown Proprietors' Records (or Larned, History of Windham County, vol. 1) for any note of how Moses Noyes qualified as a volunteer.
• Hitchcock genealogy's source for John Hitchcock's wound and Pynchon's request for his commission (probably Mass. Archives vol. 69).

7. Pictures

• Facsimile of Jonathan Burt's account of the burning of Springfield, from the town book, in Burt, First Century of Springfield vol. 1 (1898), near p. 133 ("On the preceding page is Jonathan Burt's account," p. 134): https://archive.org/details/firstcenturyofhi011898spri/page/133/mode/1up
• Bodge 1906: "Map, including Line of March of Colonial Forces" (facing p. 184), "Map showing Location of Great Swamp Fight" (facing p. 186), "Memorial of Great Swamp Fight" (facing p. 190): https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/184/mode/1up
• Bodge p. 83, the printed list of Prentice's troopers with "Richard Mather Juniour": https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/83/mode/1up ; p. 239, Turner's Medfield list with "Richard Cheevers": https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/239/mode/1up
• Stiles, Ancient Windsor vol. 2 (1892): James Eno's 1663 delft barber's bowl (pictured in the Eno family), https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi02stil
• Bowne House, Flushing (plate facing p. 283, Cock genealogy 1914): https://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00cock