King Philip's War, 1675-1678: the family's register

Every ancestor and near relative found in the war's records, by grandparent's line, with their part in it, the evidence and how sure it is. Compiled 12 Oct 2026 from the five regional notes in this folder, which keep the quotations and the reasoning; the argument is What part did the family play in King Philip's War, 1675-1678?.

Tiers: [D] documented (a record or a printed transcript of one), [C] compiled, [I] inferred, [T] tradition. "Sure" is the confidence that the person did what is said, not that they are an ancestor: how each descent stands is on the people pages, and the five branches that rest on a possible link are listed at the end. Abbreviations: Bodge = Soldiers in King Philip's War (1906); PCR = Plymouth Colony Records; MBR = Massachusetts Bay Records; PRCC = Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut; PTR = Records of the Town of Plymouth; EQC = Essex Quarterly Courts; HCC = Freeman, History of Cape Cod.

How it was done

The archive's people files gave 230 ancestors alive in 1675-76 and about 370 people in all. Their files, the research notes and the existing sources were read first; then the printed records, region by region: Bodge's transcripts of the Massachusetts Archives (vols. 67-70, 112, 114) and of Treasurer John Hull's journal of credits; the colony records of Plymouth (vols. 5, 6, 8, 10), Massachusetts (vol. 5) and Connecticut (vol. 2 and the Council of War journal); the New York council minutes; the town records of Plymouth, Dorchester, Springfield, Rehoboth and Roxbury; the contemporary narratives (Mather, Hubbard, Church, Gookin, Easton, Rowlandson, Wheeler); and the town histories and genealogies. Page images were checked wherever a list's columns or a date mattered. A credit in Hull's journal is the day the wages were posted, not the day of service.

The register

Frances Holbrook's father's side

Holbrook, Pierce, Chittenden and Buck (Weymouth and Scituate)

Person	Who	Part in the war	Evidence	Sure
John Holbrook	Ancestor	Lieutenant of the Weymouth company; captain of one of three foot companies sent toward Hassanamesit, 27 Apr-10 May 1676, "neither Drume nor Collors"; 82 men from seven towns; in 1678 named to help sell the "concquest lands"; held "my Indian Servant Anthony" (will 1699)	Mass. Arch. 68:239, 69:12 (Bodge pp. 270, 280-281) [D]; Hubbard 1:224-226 [D]; MBR 5:204 [D]	Proven
Thomas Holbrook	Ancestor	About 86, at Weymouth when seven or eight houses and barns were burned, 25 Feb 1675/6; died c. 1677	Mather; Hubbard 1:178 [D] (the raid); his presence [I]	Probable
Thomas Holbrook of Braintree	Thomas Holbrook or his eldest son	Capt. Isaac Johnson's company, Dedham, 10 Dec 1675 (the Narragansett expedition); "Thomas Holbrook, alive," Narragansett No. 5, 1733	Bodge pp. 162, 433, 447 [D]	Proven that a Thomas of Braintree served; which one is open: "alive" in 1733 rules out the father (d. 1697), but Savage has the son dying in Dec 1728
William Holbrook	Brother of Capt. John	Held a Mendon house lot when the town was abandoned (1675); among those who returned	Metcalf pp. 76-77 [C]	Probable
Michael Pierce	Ancestor	Captain at Scituate; commissioned 29 Feb 1675/6 for the expedition with "20 or 30 of the southeren Indians"; will 15 Jan 1675/6; killed near Pawtucket 26 Mar 1676	PCR 5:187, 5:203 [D]; Newman's letter (Bodge p. 359) [D]; Mather [D]	Proven
Abigail Pierce	Ancestor	Her father killed; her legacy held back while his estate was proved (PCR 5:203)	[D]/[I]	Proven
Isaac Chittenden	Ancestor	Colony committee on the war's charges (4 Oct 1675); press master for the Narragansett levy (6 Dec 1675); Scituate's council of war (29 Feb 1675/6); clothing committee; not killed on 20 May 1676, but alive on 29 July and dead by 1 Nov 1676	PCR 5:175, 183, 186, 211, 225-226 [D]; Deane pp. 120-121 [C]	Proven
Benjamin Chittenden	Son of Isaac	Killed with Pierce, 26 Mar 1676	Newman's letter (Bodge p. 359) [D]	Proven; that he was Isaac's son, probable
Isaac Buck	Ancestor	Lieutenant of Scituate; "Lieut. Buck had mustered all the men below," 20 May 1676; press master spring 1676; first on Scituate's list of soldiers to have land, £10 (21 July 1676)	Deane pp. 121, 127 [C]; PCR 5:206 [D]	Proven
Stephen Chittenden, Mehitable Buck	Ancestors	Lost a brother (Benjamin); married 1679	[D]	Proven
John Holbrook	Ancestor	Pierce's son-in-law at Scituate; no service found	Searched	—

Mayo, Howes, Freeman, Ellis, Nye (Cape Cod)

Person	Who	Part	Evidence	Sure
Jeremiah Howes	Ancestor	Yarmouth's town council of war (29 Feb 1675/6); constable June 1676; rated £7 14s for the war (29 Apr 1676)	PCR 5:186 [D]; HCC 2:195 [C]	Proven
Capt. Thomas Howes	Brother of Jeremiah	Led Yarmouth's third and fifth expeditions; a Narragansett soldier deposed in 1742 that he served "under Capt. Thomas Howes"	HCC 2:193n [C]; Bodge p. 441 [D]	Probable
Mary Howes	Ancestor	"Mrs. Prence," rated at Yarmouth, 1676	HCC 2:195 [C]	Probable
John Mayo	Ancestor	"Mr. Mayo" lost a horse on the Mount Hope march, 24 June 1675, and was rated in 1676; died at Yarmouth, May 1676	HCC 2:193n, 195, 358-359 [C]	Probable
John Mayo	Ancestor	No service found. The John Mayo credited under Moseley (20 Dec 1675) was a Massachusetts man, not he	Bodge p. 72 [D]; [I]	Namesake, probable
John Freeman	Ancestor	Captain of a Cape company at Taunton, summer 1675; colony committee on war charges; Eastham's council of war; distributed the Irish charity; a Narragansett grantee, No. 7	HCC 2:366-367n [C]; PCR 5:175, 186, 222, 263-264, 8:145 [D]; Bodge p. 440 [D]	Proven (the grantee, probable)
John Ellis	Ancestor	Lieutenant at Sandwich; called the town meeting of 28 Feb 1675/6 that let families into the garrison; agent to hire men; owed the colony for "three guns, & ten pound of powder"	HCC 2:68, 70 [C]; PCR 8:145 [D]	Proven
Benjamin Nye, Katherine Tupper	Ancestors	Lost their son Benjamin with Pierce; Benjamin Sr. one of Sandwich's agents paying its war balance to Barnstable, 2 Feb 1676/7	PCR 5:233 [D]	Proven
Benjamin Nye	Son of the above	Killed with Pierce, 26 Mar 1676: "Sandwich, 5 Slain. Benjamin Nye ..."	Newman's letter (Bodge pp. 359-360) [D]	Proven; filiation probable
Edmund Freeman Jr.	Brother of Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis	Sandwich's council of war (29 Feb 1675/6)	PCR 5:186 [D]	Proven
Thomas Tupper	Brother of Katherine (Tupper) Nye	Probably on Sandwich's council of war (1675) and committee for the war's charges (1677)	HCC 2:68, 71 [C]	Probable
Mordecai Ellis	Son of Lt. John	Surveyor at Plymouth, 4 May 1676	PTR 1:147 [D]	Proven
Thomas Mulford	Ancestor (Mayo side)	Narragansett grantee, No. 7 (Eastham), 1733: a soldier of the war	Bodge p. 440 [D]	Probable

Warren, Bartlett, Harlow, Howland, Rider, Bassett (Plymouth and Yarmouth)

Person	Who	Part	Evidence	Sure
William Harlow	Ancestor	Sergeant; Plymouth's town council (7 Jan 1675/6); rater and war accountant 1676-77; by tradition built his house of the fort's timbers	PTR 1:145-151 [D]; Davis [T]	Proven (the house, tradition)
Joseph Warren	Brother of Mary (Warren) Bartlett	Plymouth's council of war (29 Feb 1675/6); clothing committee; distributed the Irish charity	PCR 5:186, 222 [D]; PTR 1:145-146 [D]	Proven
Joseph Bartlett	Son of Robert and Mary	Clothing committee; juror, March 1676/7, in the trial that sent two Native men out of the country	PTR 1:146 [D]; PCR 5:224 [D]	Proven
Isaac Howland	Ancestor	Middleborough garrison (1675, by Weston's story); led a party for Benjamin Church, Aug 1676, on terms of half the prisoners	Church (1825) pp. 74, 90-91 [D]; Weston [C]	Proven (Church)
Samuel Rider	Ancestor	Yarmouth's rater for the war, 29 Apr 1676; his son Benjamin went to Mount Hope	HCC 2:193-194 [C]	Probable
Samuel Rider, Samuel Harlow, Eleazer Churchill	Ancestors	On a Plymouth town list of May-June 1676 (purpose not stated)	PTR 1:148-149 [D]	Presence only
Nathaniel Bassett	Ancestor	Rated at Yarmouth, 1676; constable there in 1675	HCC 2:194 [C]	Probable
Elizabeth Tilley	Ancestor	Family accounts have her fleeing Swansea; no record places her there before 1686	[T]	Possible

Low, Varney, Proctor, Cogswell, Lord, Emerson, Lamb, Wise, Foster (Ipswich, Roxbury, Dorchester)

Person	Who	Part	Evidence	Sure
Thomas Low	Ancestor	"Jonathan Low on the Right of Thomas Low," Narragansett No. 1, 1733; which Thomas served is open	Buxton proprietors' records; Bodge p. 415 [D]	Possible-probable
Joseph Safford	Husband of Sarah Low, daughter of Thomas Low	Trooper in Capt. Paige's troop, Mount Hope, credited 3 Sept 1675	Bodge p. 86 [D]	Probable
Joseph Proctor	Brother of Abigail Proctor	Same troop; later under Henchman	Bodge pp. 58, 86 [D]	Probable
William Cogswell	Ancestor	No war role; Felt's "John Cogswell ... a prisoner among the Indians" was a debtor in prison	MBR 5:126 [D]	Disproven (the captivity)
Elizabeth Emerson	Ancestor	Her brother Rev. Joseph Emerson, Mendon's minister, fled in 1675	Metcalf p. 46 [C]	Probable
Dorothy Harbottle	Ancestor	Her second husband Thomas Hawley killed near Sudbury, 21 Apr 1676, in Edward Cowell's party; her son Abiel Lamb a corporal under Henchman and in Johnson's company; her son Joshua under Brattle	Roxbury VR 2:547; Bodge pp. 55, 162, 226, 265 [D]	Proven
Joseph Wise	Ancestor	Sons Jeremiah (under Henchman, Nov 1675) and Rev. John (chaplain with Treat, Jan 1676)	Bodge p. 55 [D]; PRCC 2:399-400 [D]; Sibley 2:428-429 [C]	Proven (John); probable (Jeremiah)
Hopestill Foster	Ancestor	Philip's correspondent (1670, 1672); met him at Wading River, 12 July 1670; captain of Dorchester; deputy at the war Courts of May 1675 and May 1676; Mendon committee; died Oct 1676	Pierce pp. 494-495 [D transcript]; Dorchester records pp. 179-180 [D]; MBR 5:40, 42-43, 77 [D]	Proven
Hopestill Foster	Ancestor	Made ensign of Capt. Thomas Clarke's Boston company, May 1676	MBR 5:127 [D]	Proven
Elisha Foster	Son of Capt. Hopestill	Brattle's troop and Capt. Jacob's company, credited 24 Aug 1676	Bodge pp. 264, 285 [D]	Probable
John Foster	Son of Capt. Hopestill	Printed Mather's Brief History (1676) and Hubbard's Narrative (1677) with the woodcut map	Evans 220, 231 [D]	Proven
John and Samuel Payson	Probably kin of Elizabeth Payson	Prentice's troop, Narragansett	Bodge pp. 82-83 [D]	Kinship possible
Mary Green	Ancestor	Her son Samuel Kneeland was clerk of the Narragansett grantees, 1733	Heywood pp. 45-51; Bodge p. 434 [D]	Proven

Tyler, Read, Ide, Peck, Stanwood, Riggs, Millett (Mendon, Rowley, Rehoboth, Gloucester)

Person	Who	Part	Evidence	Sure
Samuel Tyler	Ancestor	Impressed at Rowley, 29 Nov 1675; Maj. Appleton's own company at the Swamp; credited 24 Mar 1675/6; entered by error among the slain; no wound recorded; his son claimed his right, No. 3	Gage pp. 181-182; Bodge pp. 155-157, 422 [D]	Proven
Job Tyler	Ancestor	Mendon householder; fled after the attack of 14 July 1675; his son-in-law killed there	Brigham 1:12-13 [C]; Metcalf [C]	Probable
Mary Tyler	Daughter of Job	Her husband Richard Post killed at Mendon, 14 July 1675	Brigham 1:23-24; Drake's note to Hubbard 1:86 [C]	Probable
Hopestill Tyler	Son of Job	Took his family back to Roxbury from Mendon, 1675-76	Brigham 1:26; Roxbury VR [D]	Probable
John Read	Ancestor	Rated at Rehoboth, £13 18s 11d; his son John killed with Pierce; Rehoboth burned 28 Mar 1676	Bliss pp. 95, 117-118 [C]; PCR 5:200 [D]	Proven
Daniel Read	Ancestor	Lost his brother John; brothers Thomas and Israel under Maj. Bradford, 1676; married Hannah Peck in the first year of peace	Bliss pp. 95, 117 [C]; Rehoboth VR p. 900 [D]	Probable (the brothers' service)
Nicholas Ide	Ancestor	Sons John (Narragansett expedition; died Dec 1676) and Nicholas (under Bradford); his wife Martha buried 3 Nov 1676; administered his son-in-law Samuel Fuller's estate	Bliss p. 117 [C]; Bodge p. 427 [D]; Rehoboth VR p. 900 [D]; PCR 5:234 [D]	Proven
Joseph Peck	Ancestor	Rated at Rehoboth, £2 10s; in 1661 viewed the damage to the Wampanoag corn	Bliss pp. 52, 117-118 [C]	Probable
John Stanwood	Ancestor	Lancaster garrison (paid off 25 Jan 1675/6); Capt. Brocklebank's company (credited 24 July 1676); soldier's lot at Kettle Cove, 1679/80; his brothers Philip and Samuel served too	Bodge pp. 207, 310, 355, 370 [D]; Babson pp. 206-207 [C]	Proven
Lydia Messer	Ancestor	Her family fled the Sheepscot in August 1676	Hubbard 2:157-165 [D]; Cushman pp. 60-66 [C]; her depositions [D]	Probable
Thomas Riggs	Ancestor	Gloucester's town clerk, keeper of the book with the soldiers' lots	Bolton p. 30 [I]	Probable
Thomas Millett	Ancestor	Brookfield's preacher from 1674; died intestate before 28 Sept 1675, place unknown; nothing puts him in the siege	EQC 6:73, 204 [D]; Temple p. 67 [C]	Proven (the date)

Frances Holbrook's mother's side

Person	Who	Part	Evidence	Sure
Walter Woodworth, Joseph Woodworth, Sarah Stockbridge	Ancestors	Land allowed "Charlse Stockbridge, for Benjamine Woodworth," July 1676; Benjamin, Walter's son, probably not killed (a juror in 1677; a grantee at Lebanon, 1733); the Stockbridge mill garrison held on 20 May 1676	PCR 5:206, 227 [D]; Bodge p. 428 [D]; Deane pp. 126-127 [C]	Probable (that Benjamin lived)
John Bissell	Ancestor	Garrison ordered at his son Nathaniel's house, where he lived, 21 Feb 1675/6	PRCC 2:410 [D]	Proven
Samuel Bissell	Ancestor	Fined 40s for hiding his pressed horse, 27 Mar 1676	PRCC 2:423 [D]	Proven
James Eno	Ancestor	Perhaps one of eleven Swamp Fight survivors petitioning for land, dated 1705 or 1735	Stiles 1:225, 2:242 [C]	Possible
Richard Raymond	Ancestor	His son Joshua the army's commissary at New London, 1675-76; Joshua's death in April 1676 "supposedly" from a Swamp Fight wound	PRCC 2:384, 386, 405-406 [D]; Beers 1905 [C]	Proven (commissary); possible (wound)
Nicholas Wright	Ancestor	Overseer of Oyster Bay, 1675, when Andros's council ordered the Quakers fined for refusing the watch	OBTR 1:225; DRCHNY 14:697, 704 [D]	Proven (office)
The Oyster Bay Friends (Prior, Feke, Cock, Frost, Bowne)	Ancestors	Not named in any war record; the order of 14 Sept 1675 was aimed at the town's Quakers	[I]	Possible

Dick Ellingwood's side

Person	Who	Part	Evidence	Sure
Ralph Ellinwood	Ancestor	Served in the war: "Ralph Elinwood ... (Alive) (By himself)," Narragansett No. 3; the Narragansett campaign probable; Capt. Gardner's company and the fort, from Stone's list only	Bodge p. 423 [D]; Stone pp. 28-29 [C]	Service proven; campaign probable; the fight possible-probable
John Ellinwood	Brother of Ralph	"Imprest & sent to ye Eastward"; wounded at Wells under Capt. Frost and Lt. Swett, probably spring 1677; pensioned 1700/1; a Narragansett right "John Elinwood ... Andrew Dodge"	Acts and Resolves 7:270-271, 657 [D]; Bodge p. 423 [D]	Proven (the wound); possible (Narragansett)
Eleanor Lynn	Ancestor	Her next husband William Bath on Gardner's Beverly muster	Bodge p. 167 [D]	Proven
Thomas Woodbury, Hannah Dodge	Ancestors	His brother Peter and her brother Josiah killed at Bloody Brook, 18 Sept 1675; her brother Capt. William Dodge in Prentice's troop at the Swamp, and Hubbard's "one W. Dodge of Salem," 21 Jan 1676	Bodge pp. 82-83, 136-138 [D]; Hubbard 1:163 [D]	Proven (the dead); probable (William)
Humphrey Woodbury, Elizabeth Hunter	Ancestors	Their son Peter killed at Bloody Brook; remembered in her will	Bodge pp. 136-138 [D]; her will [D]	Proven
William Dodge	Ancestor	Sons Josiah (killed at Bloody Brook) and William (Prentice's troop)	As above	Probable
Robert Rand	Ancestor	Capt. Brocklebank's recruits for the Narragansett army and the Hungry March, Jan-Feb 1676 (five weeks' credit); his son claimed his right, No. 3	Bodge pp. 200-207, 422 [D]	Probable
Tabitha Ivory	Ancestor	Her first cousin John Burrill in the same company as Rand	Bodge p. 207 [D]	Probable
Richard Cheever	Ancestor	Capt. Turner's company from Boston to Medfield (22 Feb 1676), probably at Northampton (14 Mar); home in April; not at the Falls	Bodge pp. 239-241, 248 [D]	Proven (company); probable (Northampton)
John Wheeler	Ancestor	Impressed at Concord for Davenport's company; credited 24 Mar 1675/6; his son drew a lot "For his father John," No. 6	Bodge pp. 170-172, 435 [D]	Probable
Thomas Rowlandson, Dorothy Portland	Ancestors	Their son Thomas, 19, killed in the Rowlandson garrison, Lancaster, 10 Feb 1675/6	Nourse; Bodge p. 353 [D/C]	Proven
Martha Rowlandson	Ancestor	Her brother killed; her aunt by marriage taken captive	As above	Proven
Nicholas Snow, Constance Hopkins	Ancestors	Their grandson John Walker killed with Pierce; their son Mark on Eastham's council of war and the jury of March 1676/7	Newman's list; HCC 2:367n; PCR 5:186, 224 [D/C]	Proven (Mark); probable (Walker's descent)
Daniel Cole, John Cole, Ruth Snow	Ancestors	Timothy Cole (John's brother) and a Daniel Cole Narragansett grantees, No. 7	Bodge p. 439 [D]	Probable (Timothy); which Daniel, open
William Nickerson	Ancestor	A "Wm. Nickerson" in Yarmouth's fourth expedition, probably his son	HCC 2:193n [C]	Possible

Patricia Hatten's side

Person	Who	Part	Evidence	Sure
Humphrey Atherton	Ancestor	Died before the war; his company's Narragansett mortgage of 1660 a cause of it, in a contemporary's view	PCR 10:449 [D]; Potter [C]; Easton [D]	Proven (the mortgage)
Elizabeth Atherton	Ancestor	Her brothers: Consider (drafted for Holbrook's company, did not appear), Jonathan (under Henchman and Brattle), Rev. Hope (chaplain at the Falls)	Bodge pp. 58, 122, 250-252, 264, 281 [D]; Sibley 2:194 [C]	Probable (kinship)
Timothy Mather	Ancestor	Dorchester's rater for the war rates, chosen Dec 1675 and Dec 1676	Dorchester records pp. 209-213 [D]	Proven
Richard Mather	Ancestor	"Richard Mather Juniour" in Prentice's troop; credited 24 Mar 1675/6; the troop fought at the fort	Bodge pp. 82-83 [D]	Proven record; identity probable
Katherine Wise, Joseph Wise	Ancestors	Her brothers Jeremiah and Rev. John Wise (above)
Reinold Marvin	Ancestor	Lieutenant at Lyme; deputy Oct 1675 and May 1676; signed Lyme's soldiers' pay bills; died 4 Aug 1676 (cause unknown)	PRCC 2:265, 274, 386 [D]	Proven
Sarah Clark	Ancestor	Widow of Reinold Marvin; married Capt. Joseph Sill, 12 Feb 1677/8 (Sill's war: Beers's lieutenant, Springfield, Hassanamesit, Lancaster, Groton, the April 1676 expedition with Holbrook, Dover; discharged Oct 1676)	Savage 4:96-97; Bodge pp. 266-275; MBR 5:73, 126 [D/C]	Proven
Moses Noyes	Ancestor	No. 180 on the Voluntown roll of Connecticut's "English Volunteers"; Cedar Swamp lot 32; how he served not recorded. His cousin Rev. Nicholas Noyes chaplain at the Swamp; his brother Rev. James at Canonchet's capture	Bodge pp. 183, 442-445 [D]; PRCC 2:387-388 [D]; Noyes 1904 [C]	Proven (grantee)
Sarah Brown	Ancestor	Mother of James and Moses Noyes	As above
John Pynchon	Ancestor	Major; commander-in-chief in Hampshire, Aug-Oct 1675; his mills burned at Springfield, 5 Oct; envoy to the Mohawks, 1677	Bodge pp. 68, 143-146 [D]; Burt 1:131-134 [D]; PRCC 2:493 [D]	Proven
Samuel Chapin	Ancestor	In the fortified houses at the burning of Springfield; died 11 Nov 1675 while Sill's company garrisoned it	Burt 1:129 [C]; Bodge pp. 147, 268 [D]	Probable
Japhet Chapin	Ancestor	At the Falls Fight, 19 May 1676; Springfield's constable for 1676; with John Hitchcock kept the town's account of "our expences at ye fals fight"	Bodge pp. 250-252 [D]; Burt 2:126, 131 [D]	Proven
Nathaniel Munn	Ancestor	His brothers John and James at the Falls; his sister's husband Thomas Stebbins too	Bodge pp. 251, 253 [D]	Proven
Luke Hitchcock	Ancestor	At the Falls Fight; his brother John, Hannah Chapin's husband, wounded there and his house burned at Springfield	Bodge pp. 250, 253 [D]; Hitchcock 1894 pp. 208, 407 [C]	Proven
Sarah Burt	Ancestor	Her father Jonathan Burt wrote the town book's account of the burning of Springfield	Burt 1:130-131 [D]	Proven
Joseph Whiting	Ancestor	Cornet of the Hampshire troop; part-owner of the Westfield mill that ground Springfield's corn after 5 Oct 1675; married the daughter of Connecticut's Secretary in 1676	Bodge p. 475 [C]; Stiles 1919 p. 12 [C]	Probable
Isaac Sheldon	Ancestor	In Northampton when it was attacked, 14 Mar 1676	Trumbull 1:307-312 [C]; [I]	Probable
Samuel Porter	Ancestor	"Taken care of most of the wounded souldjers at Hadley," owed nearly £200, paid £25	MBR 5:116-117 [D]	Proven
James Converse	Ancestor	Ensign of Woburn; with Capt. Carter and Lt. Johnson made Woburn's Narragansett impressment	Bodge pp. 172, 474 [D]; Sewall p. 113 [C]	Probable (which James)
Hannah Carter	Ancestor	Her father Capt. John Carter commanded Woburn's company	Bodge p. 474 [C]	Proven

Where their paths crossed

Set out in the thread ("Where their paths crossed"); the evidence for each is in the regional notes' "Crossings" sections.

Corrections made to the pages (12 Oct 2026)

• Isaac Chittenden was not killed on 20 May 1676 (Deane); alive 29 July, dead by 1 Nov 1676.
• Benjamin Woodworth probably not killed in the war (Deane; the Woodworth genealogy); the Small world tabs "One war, every branch" and "Scituate, 1676" corrected.
• Benjamin Nye Jr.'s death with Pierce is documented (Newman's letter), not only compiled.
• Ralph and John Ellinwood in Gardner's company at the fort: Stone's list, not a roll; Ralph's campaign probable, John's Narragansett service possible.
• Samuel Tyler was not wounded; the "slain" entry is a clerk's error.
• John Stanwood's 25 January 1675/6 is a pay date, not a day in garrison.
• The Weymouth raid was 25 Feb 1675/6 (Mather, Hubbard), not 12 Feb and March (Nash).
• Capt. John Holbrook's rank in the colony records was lieutenant until about 1680; the conquest-lands order is 7 Oct 1678, for a meeting in March 1678/9; Vinton's June muster "from Old Norfolk" is not his.
• Thomas Millett died intestate before 28 Sept 1675.
• Richard Cheever was not at the Falls Fight; his credit is Bodge p. 248.
• Rev. John Wise went out as chaplain in January 1675/6, not December 1675.
• Andros at Saybrook was July 1675, not 1676 (Marvin 1904).
• Joshua Raymond's Swamp Fight wound is possible only.
• John Bowne's "Mr. Philips' Service" (1649) has nothing to do with the war.
• John Cogswell Jr. was a debtor in prison in 1676, not a captive (Felt).
• The Sandwich receipt of 2 Feb 1676/7 was Barnstable's, for Sandwich's share of the war balance.
• The John Mayo credited under Moseley was a Massachusetts namesake, not the Eastham man.
• Timothy Mather was Dorchester's rater in 1675-76, not a selectman (Wikipedia).
• Abiel Lamb, father of Harbottle Lamb, was probably Dorothy Harbottle's own son.

Questions for a ruling

None new. One lead was checked and closed: the "Saml. Kneeland, gr. son" who claimed Samuel Pollard's Narragansett right in 1733 (Bodge p. 431), which Massachusetts_Bay.md raised as a possible sign that Mary Kneeland was a Pollard, was the printer's cousin Samuel (b. 26 Apr 1697), eldest son of Solomon Kneeland and Mary Pollard, Pollard's "heir-at-law" (Kneeland 1897, p. 67). Noted under item 9 of the Low list in Questions to decide.

Open questions

Moved here from the thread on 12 Oct 2026, when its case was retold as a story.

• Who served from the family whose names are not in Hull's journal. The Treasurer's later journal, covering pay after 23 September 1676, is lost (Bodge p. 275): John Ellinwood's Wells service, the summer service of Holbrook's and Sill's men, and Plymouth's own soldiers (paid by Plymouth, whose treasury accounts list debts, not men) are not in it.
• Ralph Ellinwood's company, and whether he was at the fort. Stone's list (1843, pp. 28-29) is Gardner's Beverly muster with the Beverly grantees of the 1730s added in the grant list's order; neither brother is on the muster or in the pay credits (Bodge pp. 165-167, 370). A Beverly impressment return of November-December 1675, or his own claim of the 1730s with its proof (Massachusetts Archives vol. 72), would settle it.
• Which Thomas Low served (the deacon or his son), which Thomas Holbrook of Braintree (the 1733 list's "alive" fits neither the father, d. 1697, nor the son as Savage dates him, d. 1728), and which Daniel Cole.
• Who Anthony was, Holbrook's servant: a term running to about 1711 is longer than any child captive of 1676 was bound for, so he was more probably bound after the war. The inventory of 1699 may say what he was valued at, and the Suffolk court records how he was bound.
• Whose houses burned at Weymouth on 25 February 1676 (the 1923 History of Weymouth may have it). Nash's 12 February and March dates have no support in the contemporary accounts.
• How Lt. Reinold Marvin and Isaac Chittenden died in 1676, Marvin on 4 August, Chittenden between 29 July and 1 November.
• Whether Holbrook's company went out again in June 1676, to Hadley with Sill's. Vinton's "thirty men from Old Norfolk" is another officer's letter.
• Whether Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland fled Swansea, as family accounts say; no record places her there before 1686.
• How James Eno's petition is dated (1705, or 1735, after his death).
• How Rev. Moses Noyes served to qualify as a Narragansett volunteer.

Notes moved from the people pages (12 Oct 2026)

When the people pages were retold as stories, the reasoning below came out of their prose and had no other home in the notes.

• John Holbrook (1618), his servant Anthony: a child taken in 1676 would have been free by about 1700, so a term running to about 1711 fits a boy bound in the 1680s-90s, or a man held under a court sentence, better than a captive of the war. "Phisical" in his will means medicinal. The spring, Kingman's neck and the street of his Boston house are not yet placed.
• James Converse (1645): the editor of Lincoln's Narratives (1913, p. 227) names the Wells captain "James Converse of Woburn"; the Browne-Chapin notes give only Wikipedia and Kith and Kin for that.
• Walter Woodworth: Deane lists a Mehitable, born 1662, among the children of Walter Jr. (b. 1645), which can't be right; the Woodworth Records put her with Walter Sr. The indictment's "her parents" suggests Walter and his wife were both living in March 1677. Deane dates his freedom to 1640, against 2 March 1641.
• Martha Ide: the "Mary, wife of Nicholas" buried 9 Sept 1690 (Rehoboth VR p. 840) fits Nicholas Jr.'s wife, Mary Ormsby.
• Lydia (Messer) Stanwood: the ages in her depositions (75, about 80, 79, about 82) put her birth at about 1657-63.
• John Foster (1648) and the map: Jameson thought Hubbard drew the map and Foster cut the White Hills issue; it is still debated (Lincoln, pp. v-vi). The page says Foster "probably" cut it.
• Richard Cheever: Hassam called the family Bible's account "an amusing mixture of fact and fancy", and its brother "Daniell" wrong, while the Canterbury birth, the uncle and the voyage fit the records.
• Benjamin Nye (1620): no file is made for his son Ebenezer, said to have married Sarah Gibbs, because the claim has no source.
• Elizabeth (Payson) Foster: the trooper Samuel Payson was very probably her brother, since the only other Samuel Payson, Edward's son, was born in 1662 (Savage 3:373).
• Isaac Howland: the 1937 Howland Quarterly calls him Church's lieutenant in August 1676, but Church calls him "Mr. Isaac Howland" and names his brother Jabez as lieutenant.
• John Ellis: the Freeman-Ellis anecdotes file dates the witness warrant "early 1645"; the printed record (PCR 2:76-77) has 20 Aug 1644.
• Joseph Peck: Mollie prints his ship as the Diligence; the page follows the records' Diligent.
• Hannah (Carter) Converse: Savage and Kith and Kin give her death as 10 Aug 1691, which is her mother-in-law Ann (Long) Converse's; the Woburn deaths have no entry for Hannah that year.
• Thomas Riggs: Babson placed his house at "Goose Cove", later corrected to Little River.
• Nicholas Ide: Savage thought John "prob. youngest ch."; he was born in 1652, the third child on record.
• James Eno: Stiles dates the survivors' petition to 1705 in one volume and to May 1735, after James's death, in the other; the date decides whether he was one of the eleven.
• John Tyler: this file cites Brigham 1:33 for the John Tyler quote; his page has 1:32.

Records to fetch

Gathered in the thread's "Next" and in each regional note's "To fetch later"; the chief ones are also in research/gedcom/ancestry-lookups.md.

The branches that rest on a possible link

Branch	The weak link
Foster, Payson, Kneeland, Green (Low side)	John Foster (b. 1722) as a son of Samuel Foster
Riggs, Stanwood, Messer, Millett, Allen (Tyler side)	Ann Riggs as the mother of Sally Ginn
Chapin, Pynchon, Munn, Hitchcock, Burt, Sheldon, Whiting, Porter, Carter, Converse (Hatten side)	Henrietta (Browne) Hatten as the daughter of Ella Persis Chapin
Mather, Atherton, Marvin, Noyes, Wise, Clark (Hatten side)	Ralph A. Hatten as the son of Thomas J. Hatten
Raymond (Frances's mother's side)	Ann Raymond as Jonathan Fairchild's mother

Pictures

Collected into the Gallery (17): foster-map-new-england-1677, hubbard-narrative-title-1677, mather-brief-history-title-1676, massachusetts-bay-seal-foster-1676, rowlandson-soveraignty-title-1682, rowlandson-narrative-woodcut-1773, revere-philip-king-of-mount-hope-1772, revere-benjamin-church-1772, foster-richard-mather-woodcut, gravestone-john-foster-1681, harlow-old-fort-house-1929, pynchon-old-fort-springfield, scituate-block-house-site-1906, place-of-philips-death-1906, great-swamp-fight-monument, nine-mens-misery, bloody-brook-monument. Four came in at Wikimedia's reduced sizes (the three monument photographs and the Mather woodcut); the originals can replace them under the same file names (then node scripts/gallery/thumbs.mjs --force).

Found but not collected, for a later session:

Subject	Where	Why not yet
Hubbard's Narrative (1677), colour title spread	David Rumsey Map Collection, https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~255608~5519835	Rumsey's NC licence and © line; the leaves may be facsimile. The microfilm was used
Foster's map, Boston Public Library copy	Leventhal Map Center, call no. G3720 1677.F77 (https://collections.leventhalmap.org)	The JCB copy was used; the BPL's state not checked
Church, Entertaining Passages (Boston, 1716), title page	Copies at the JCB, AAS and MHS; no free scan found	The 1772 title page is on the Internet Archive (entertaininghist00chur_2) as a stand-in
Revere's Col. Benjamin Church, separate impressions	Yale University Art Gallery (Commons, 472 px); Met 24.90.642	Small, or not Open Access; the JCB book copy was used
The Stockbridge grist mill, Greenbush, Scituate	Historic New England, https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:bz60dq51s ; Commons (640 px)	Rights not evaluated; too small. A pre-1929 postcard would do
Mary Rowlandson, the 1770 Coverly woodcut	Library Company of Philadelphia (Commons, 318 px)	Too small
Rowlandson, A True History (London, 1682), title page	Internet Archive truehistoryofcap00rowl	Public domain; one Rowlandson title page was enough
Scene of the Sudbury fight; the river bank at Turner's Falls; the Narragansett swamp; the site of the Rowlandson garrison, Lancaster	Ellis and Morris, King Philip's War (1906), Internet Archive kingphilipswar01elli	Public domain plates, ready to collect (Turner's Falls for the Chapins and Munns; Lancaster for the Rowlandsons)
The Old Fort, Springfield, as drawn in 1827	Inset on the 1826-27 town map; Commons, "The Old Fort, Springfield, Massachusetts (1827).jpg"	The only view drawn while the house stood; fetch from a full scan of the map
William Pynchon's portrait (1657)	Frontispiece of Morris (1876), Internet Archive earlyhis163675morr	Not a war picture; William Pynchon has no portrait yet
The Harlow house, c. 1895-1905	Historic New England, https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:nv936d02s	Rights not evaluated
Increase Mather's portraits (1680, 1688)	Wikimedia Commons; Massachusetts Historical Society	Not checked
Library of Congress (Rowlandson 1773, Church 1716)	loc.gov	The site refused requests during this session