King Philip's War: Massachusetts Bay (south and west of Boston) and the Nipmuc country

Working notes for the research thread: Weymouth, Hingham, Braintree, Dorchester, Roxbury, Boston, Woburn, Concord, Sudbury, Medfield, Mendon, Marlborough, Brookfield, Lancaster. Compiled 12 Oct 2026 from the archive.org texts in section 5. Page images were checked for every list whose OCR columns were ambiguous (Bodge pp. 82, 162, 172, 207, 226, 231, 239, 264, 285, 355, 435-436, 473-474).

Tiers: [D] documented, [C] compiled, [I] inferred, [T] tradition. "Bodge" = G. M. Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 3rd ed. 1906 (soldiersinkingph1906bodg; page link https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/N/mode/1up, N = printed page). "MBR 5" = Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay vol. 5 (recordsofgoverno05mass). Bodge's credits are from Treasurer-at-War John Hull's journal; a credit date is a settling day, not a service date.

1. Summary

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1. Richard Mather (1653) rode at the Great Swamp. "Richard Mather Juniour" is in Capt. William Davis's quota of Capt. Thomas Prentice's troop for the Narragansett expedition (Bodge p. 83, Mass. Arch. 68:73), credited £4 10s on 24 Mar 1675/6 (p. 82). In the same troop: John and Samuel Payson of Roxbury.
2. Thomas Holbrook of Braintree (grandson of the immigrant) was in Capt. Isaac Johnson's company at Dedham, 10 Dec 1675 (Bodge p. 162), the company whose captain fell at the fort; credited 24 Oct 1676; "Thomas Holbrook, alive" in the Narragansett No. 5 grant of 1733 (pp. 447, 433). Probably the eldest son of Thomas (c.1624-1697), not the father as Savage has it.
3. Capt. Hopestill Foster: Dorchester's captain (Bodge p. 473), its deputy at the war Courts of May 1675 and May 1676 (MBR 5:42-43, 77), on the Court's standing committee for Mendon from May 1675 (MBR 5:40) and on the Wrentham committee until his death (5:148). His son Sgt. Hopestill was made ensign of Capt. Thomas Clarke's Boston company in May 1676 (5:127); his son Elisha rode in Brattle's troop (credited 24 Aug 1676, Bodge p. 264) and served under Capt. John Jacob (p. 285), and married Sarah Payson in 1678.
4. Timothy Mather was Dorchester's rater (war-rate assessor) chosen Dec 1675 and Dec 1676 (RC 4:210, 213).
5. The Athertons: Consider Atherton was drafted into Capt. John Holbrook's company and did not appear (Bodge p. 281); Jonathan was credited under Brattle; Rev. Hope Atherton was chaplain at the Falls Fight (Sibley 2:194). All three were Elizabeth (Atherton) Mather's brothers.
6. Dorothy Harbottle: Thomas Hawley Sr. was killed 21 Apr 1676 in Edward Cowell's party ambushed near Sudbury; Cowell buried him (deposition, Bodge p. 226), evidence later used against Capt. Tom (Wuttasacomponom), hanged 22 June 1676. Hawley's 1733 claimant: "Edward Dorr, son-in-law" (p. 432). Her sons Joshua Lamb and (probably) Abiel Lamb served (pp. 55, 162, 265).
7. Jeremiah Wise, son of Joseph Wise, served under Capt. Henchman in Nov 1675 (Bodge p. 55).
8. Woburn 1675: Capt. John Carter (Hannah Carter's father), Lt. William Johnson, Ensign James Converse (probably Sr.) (Bodge p. 474); their names head Woburn's Narragansett impressment return (p. 172).
9. John Wheeler (1643) of Concord: impressed for Davenport's company, credited 24 Mar 1675/6; in 1735 "Ebenezer Wheeler ... For his father John" drew lot 69 at Narragansett No. 6 (Bodge pp. 170-172, 435).
10. Mendon, 14 July 1675: Richard Post, Job Tyler's son-in-law, is named as killed (Drake; Brigham) [C].
11. Capt. Joseph Sill: Lt. under Beers (Aug 1675), captain at Hassanamesit (Nov 1675), Lancaster (Feb 1676), Groton (Apr), Holbrook's sister company (27 Apr), Dover seizure (6 Sept); discharged for conduct, 17 Oct 1676 (MBR 5:126); married Sarah (Clark) Marvin at Lyme 12 Feb 1677/8 (Savage 4:96-97).
12. Lead on Mary (Green) Kneeland: in 1733 "Samuel Polard — Saml. Kneeland, gr. son" claimed a Narragansett share (Bodge p. 431); Samuel Pollard of Boston had a daughter Mary b. 22 Nov 1673 (Boston RC 9). If the claimant was the printer, his mother was Mary Pollard, not Green [I, possible]. [Checked afterwards: explained by Kneeland 1897, p. 67; the claimant was the printer's cousin. See below.]

Corrections

• Weymouth: "seven Houses and Barns" burned on the night of 25 Feb 1675/6 (Mather, Hubbard), not March; Nash's "Feb. 12" raid has no contemporary support.
• Holbrook was "Lieut." on the 1675 roster and still "Leift" on 7 Oct 1678 when named for the March 1678/9 conquest-lands meeting at Plymouth (MBR 5:204). Vinton's "thirty men from Old Norfolk, June 22" is not his.
• Thomas Millett died intestate before 28 Sept 1675 (EQC 6:73, 204); nothing places him in the siege.
• Richard Cheever was not at the Falls Fight (not in Turner's lists after 7 April); his credit is p. 248.
• John Stanwood's Lancaster credit is 25 Jan 1675/6; nothing places him there on 10 Feb.
• Rev. John Wise went out with Treat on 26 Jan 1675/6, not in December 1675 (Sibley 2:429).
• Abiel Lamb (father of "Harbottle") was probably Dorothy's own posthumous son (b. 1646), not stepson Abel.

Crossings: Holbrook and Sill, sister companies (Apr 1676), Sill later the Mathers' in-law at Lyme; Elisha Foster's troop and Consider Atherton's draft in the same expedition; Mather, the Paysons, Thomas Holbrook and Abiel Lamb in the Swamp campaign; Medfield 21-22 Feb (Jacob, Turner, Cheever); Sudbury 21 Apr (Hawley; Stanwood's and Rand's captain Brocklebank); Ephraim Roper, sole escapee of the Rowlandson garrison, in Turner's company with Cheever; John Foster printing the war.

2. People

Weymouth, Braintree, Hingham

john-holbrook-1618, Capt. John Holbrook (Weymouth)

• Archive has: April 1676 company, Concord muster 29 Apr, "neither Drume nor Collors", 82 men from seven towns, conquest lands 1678 (MBR 5:204), Indian servant Anthony (will 1699), Vinton's "thirty men in June".
• Rank. Bodge's roster of the Suffolk Regiment "about the time of the opening of Philip's War": "Weymouth. — John Holbrook, Lieut." (Bodge p. 473) [C, compiled from colony records; probable]. MBR 5:35 (May 1675): "Left John Holbrooke" on the committee for the new plantation sought by Nathaniel Bosworth of Hull [D]. MBR 5:204 (session of 2 Oct 1678, entry of 7 Oct): "a comittee of the seuerall colonjes met at Plymouth March next to assist in the sale of the concquest lands, the Court judgeth it meete to appoint and order Capt Daniel Fisher, Mr Thomas Weld, & Leift Jn° Holbrooke to attend the same" (https://archive.org/details/recordsofgoverno05mass/page/204/mode/1up) [D, proven]. "Capt Jn° Holbrooke" as Weymouth deputy from 1680 (5:266, 300, 309) [D]. So his captaincy of 1676 was a field commission; his militia rank stayed lieutenant until c. 1679-80 [I, probable]. Correct the archive's date: the order is 7 Oct 1678, for a meeting in March 1678/9.
• The April expedition (Hubbard, Narrative, 1677, orig. pp. 84-86; Drake ed. 1865, 1:224-226, https://archive.org/details/historyofindianw01hubb/page/224/mode/1up): "the Foot under the Command of Capt. Sill, Capt. Cutler, Capt. Holbrook; the Horse under the Command of Capt. Brattle, Capt. Prentice, Capt. Henchman, Commanders in Chief ... were sent out April 27, 1676, to range the Woods towards Hassanamesit. Upon May 6, they met with a considerable Party of the Enemy: they were first discovered by the Natick Scouts pursuing a Bear ... our Horsemen ... killed and took of the Enemy about sixteen ... it was confessed by the Enemy, that they lost twenty". After this "our Men returned to their Quarters at Medfield"; then, with "an epidemical Cold", they were released "May the tenth" [D, contemporary narrative; proven]. Drake's note: "The Capt. Holbrook was perhaps John of Weymouth" — Bodge's printing of Holbrook's own letter and certificate (Mass. Arch. 68:239, 69:12; Bodge pp. 280-281) settles it.
• Holbrook's certificate (Bodge p. 281) lists the absentees: "From Dorchester non-appearance. Consider Atherton, Henry Wedarton [Withington], Ebezar Clape. From Waymouth, Zachary Gorney. From Hingham, Jn° Feres & Arthur Sherman" [D]. Consider Atherton was a son of Maj.-Gen. Humphrey Atherton, so a brother of Elizabeth (Atherton) Mather [C, Atherton family; probable].
• Weymouth's draft for his company: Capt. William Torrey's undated petition for the Weymouth militia committee (Mass. Arch. 68:233, printed by Nash p. 39 n.) protests "a warrant from the honorable Major for the impressing of six able men" — "we have ten men out already ... four killed by the enemy, already ... Just at this instant saw appearing of fire and smoke about the Town". Holbrook's certificate draws exactly "6 men from Weymouth", and 68:233 falls just before his letter of 29 April (68:239): very probably the same draft [I, probable].
• Later service. Bodge (p. 270) has "the same forces" called out again on 30 May and joining the Connecticut army at Hadley on 14 June [C]. Hubbard names only Henchman and Sill for the June march. Men were still being credited "under Capt. John Holbrooke" on 24 Aug and 23 Sept 1676 (Bodge pp. 281-282), and he himself £16 1s 3d — consistent with a second term of service in the summer [I, possible]. Not proven.
• Vinton (1858, p. 331): "He arrived at Concord, June 22, 1676, with a company of thirty men from Old Norfolk, a county then embracing the territory north of the Merrimack" [C]. Old Norfolk men cannot be Holbrook's Suffolk company (Boston to Hingham); Vinton has attached another officer's letter to him [I, probable]. Open question in Questions to decide item 8: the documented muster is 29 Apr 1676.
• One "John Ellenworth" was credited under Holbrook on 24 Aug 1676 (Bodge p. 281). Possibly John Ellinwood of Salem/Beverly (b. 1659); a name match only — see Essex_and_the_East.md [?].
• Anthony: no record of his origin found. Context only: in Sept 1676 Sill and Hathorne seized about 200 Indians at Dover who were sent to Boston and many sold (Bodge p. 271); no link to Anthony is known.
• Searched: Mather, Hubbard, MBR 5, Nash, Bodge for any part in Weymouth's own defence: nothing names him; the town's petitions are all Capt. William Torrey's.

thomas-holbrook-1589, Thomas Holbrook (the immigrant)

• Nothing found placing him in the war. Savage (2:443) says he was "of Dorchester 1652, last at Medfield
  1668. There he d. I think, early in 1677" [C]. His will and inventory call him "of Weymouth"; the Thomas Holbrook of the Medfield/Sherborn district is a different man ("Thomas Holbrooke, Edward West, selectmen" of Sherborn, MBR 5:443, 1679) [I, probable]. So there is no ground for putting him at Medfield on 21 Feb
  1669. He was about 86; Weymouth's houses were burned on 25 Feb 1675/6 (see Events). Open question.

thomas-holbrook-1624, Thomas Holbrook of Braintree, and his son Thomas

• Capt. Isaac Johnson's company, "made at Dedham December 10th, 1675" (Mass. Arch. 67:293), Braintree: "Ebenezer Owen, Sam. Basse, Wm Sable, Tho: Holbrook, Rich Thayer, Martin Saunders, Francis Nash, Increase Niles, Henry Bartlet, Tho: Copeland, James Atkins, Jonathan Pitcher" (Bodge p. 162; page image checked: he is not under "wanting") [D]. Johnson's company "took part in the memorable march and attack on the fort ... the brave captain was among the first to fall while gallantly leading his men across the fallen tree-trunks at the entrance" (Bodge p. 161) [C].
• Later credits, Braintree, 24 Oct 1676: "Thomas Holbrook 02 08 00" (Bodge p. 447) [D].
• Narragansett No. 5 (Souhegan East, Bedford NH), Braintree grantees, 1733: "Thomas Holbrook, alive" (Bodge p. 433) [D].
• Savage (2:443) on Thomas of Braintree (d. 22 July 1697): "He serv. in Johnson's comp. Dec. 1675." [C]. But the soldier was alive in 1733, so it was his eldest son Thomas, who "m. 1666, Deborah Damon, d. of John of Scituate, and sec. w. Mary, d. of Thomas White of Braintree" (Savage, same page) [I, probable]. The son is not in the archive; he is a grandson of the immigrant and first cousin of John Holbrook (1650).
• Uriah Clarke, the Braintree Thomas's son-in-law (his will), married "Holbrooks daughter" by Capt. Torrey's commission, July 1674 (MBR 5:17) [D]; not war.

john-holbrook-1650, John Holbrook (Scituate): searched Bodge (all Holbrook entries), MBR 5, Deane's Scituate lists via the archive's notes: no service found. His father-in-law Capt. Michael Pierce was killed 26 Mar 1676 (archive). samuel-holbrook-1654: nothing in Bodge; freeman 1681 (MBR 5:540) [D]. william-holbrook-1620: Metcalf (Annals of Mendon, p. 9) says allotments had been made to no new grantee "at the breaking out of King Philip's war, except to William Holbrook, who did not remove to the town until 1669" — so he had a Mendon house lot when Mendon was abandoned in 1675 [C]; his move to Scituate fits the flight, but no record says so [I, possible].

Holbrook in-laws (context, from Holbrook's will and Weymouth lists): John Whitmarsh of Weymouth in Johnson's company (Bodge p. 162) — Simon Whitmarsh was Holbrook's son-in-law, relationship of John not known; John Luddon of Weymouth among the ten Weymouth men "upon the country service at those Towns upon Connecticut river" (Torrey's petition, 28 Mar 1676, Mass. Arch. 68:179, Nash p. 38) and at Hadley under Turner (Bodge p. 240) — Eunice Holbrook married Benjamin Ludden [I, possible kin].

elizabeth-stream-1624, jane-powyes-1600, eunice, experience, lois, ichabod, hannah, sarah, elizabeth (1631, 1654), jane, anne Holbrook: searched; nothing.

elizabeth-barnes-1644, anna-barnes-d1691 (Hingham): the Hingham history's war chapter (vol. 1 pt. 1, pp. 230-247) names the houses burned 20 Apr 1676 (James Whiton, Nathaniel Chubbuck and others) and John Jacob Jr. killed 19 Apr; no Barnes among them [searched; nothing]. hannah-barnes-fl1694: nothing.

john-mills-fl1615, mary-mills-1616: nothing found. (Hull's diary: "April 20 [1675]. A man found dead near Brantrey", a Virginian — before the war.)

Dorchester

hopestill-foster-1620, Capt. Hopestill Foster

• Archive has: letters with Philip 1670/1672, died 14 Oct 1676, will 19 July 1676.
• Captain of Dorchester in 1675: Suffolk Regiment roster, "Hopestill Foster. [Capt.] / John Capen. [Lieut.] / Richard Hall. [Ensign]" (Bodge p. 473, page image checked) [C, from colony records; proven with MBR].
• Deputy for Dorchester: "Capt Hopstil Foster, Left Jn° Capen" at the Court of Elections, May 1674 (MBR 5:1), Oct 1674 (5:14), May 1675 (5:42-43), and "Capt Hopestil Foster, Left Jn° Capen, Dorchest." at the Court of May 1676 (5:77, https://archive.org/details/recordsofgoverno05mass/page/77/mode/1up) [D, proven]. He sat in the session that raised the spring 1676 forces and settled the Christian Indians (5:84-86).
• Mendon: May 1675, "In ans. to the minister, Joseph Emerson, with the selectmen of Mendon, the Court judgeth it meete to order & impower Mr Edward Tyng, Mr Joseph Dudley, Mr Wm Parkes, & Captaine Foster, the former comittee, to be a standing comittee of that place" (MBR 5:40) [D, proven]. Mendon was attacked on 14 July 1675; Job Tyler was an inhabitant (crossing).
• Wrentham: 1677, "orders Ensigne Thomas Fuller to be of the comittee, in the roome of the late Capt Foster, to vejw, & make return" on the petition of the inhabitants of Wrentham (MBR 5:148) — a town abandoned in the war [D].
• Commissions: May 1675 committee with Leverett, Bradstreet, Prentice and Hutchinson on the Roxbury bounds (5:38) [D]; not war.
• Dorchester town meeting of Dec 1674 chose for selectmen (for 1675) "Mr Stoughton, Capt. Foster, Liftnt Capen, William Sumner, Ensigne Hale" (Dorchester town records, Boston Record Commissioners vol. 4, p. 204) [D]; Roberts: "In 1675 he was elected, but declined" (AHAC 1:121) [C].
• Philip's letters (archive, from Pierce pp. 494-495): the 1670 meeting "about land at pole plaine and within our township" at Capt. Hudson's farm at Wading River; Dorchester had earlier treated with "Josiah Sachem" on Indian demands "respecting any of Dorchester Land" (12 (4) 1665, RC 4:126) [D] — the Massachusett sachem Josiah Wompatuck, context for the Native claims Foster dealt with. Capt. William Hudson was captain of the 4th Boston company in 1675 (Bodge p. 473); Holbrook had been named his lieutenant in
• Death: "Captain Hopestill Foster Died Oct. 15. 76" (Dorchester deaths, RC 21:29) [D]; the archive's gravestone has 14 Oct.

hopestill-foster-1645, Ensign Hopestill Foster (Boston)

• MBR 5:127 (Court of May 1676): "In ans. to the motion of Capt Thomas Clarke, Ensigne Pen Townsend is appointed leiut, & Sarjt Hopestill Foster to be ensigne to sajd Capt Tho Clarks company" (https://archive.org/details/recordsofgoverno05mass/page/127/mode/1up) [D, proven: he was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1675, Roberts 1:223]. Clarke's was the 3rd Boston company (Bodge p. 473). Its impressments for Wadsworth's march of 18-19 Apr 1676 are described in Bodge p. 222 n. (men "hid away"; two "would rather be hanged, drawne and quartered than goe") [D].
• Boston fire of 27 Nov 1676 ("consumed about fifty dwelling-houses and the North Meeting-house", Hull's diary, p. 242); on 28 Dec 1676 he was appointed to the committee "to guard the town against a conflagration" (Roberts) [C]. No field credit for him in Bodge (searched).

john-foster-1648, John Foster (printer)

• Printed Increase Mather, A Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New-England (1676): "BOSTON, Printed and Sold by John Foster over against the Sign of the Dove. 1676" (https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofvv00math_1) [D]. Printed Hubbard's Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians (Boston, 1677), licensed 29 Mar 1677, with the woodcut "Map of New-England" (Drake's preface, Hubbard 1865, 1:viii) [D]. The Court's licensers of the press from 1674 included "Mr Increase Mather, of Boston" (MBR 5:4) [D]. After his death (9 Sept 1681, RC 21:30) the Court gave Samuel Sewall "the printing press in Boston, late vnder the improovement of Mr John Foster, deceased" (MBR 5:323) [D]. He was the famous-kin john-foster. No military record (searched).

elisha-foster-fl1676, Elisha Foster

• Credited under Capt. Thomas Brattle, 24 Aug 1676, £1 4s 8d (Bodge p. 264, page image checked) and under Capt. John Jacob of Hingham, 24 Aug 1676, 10s 2d (Bodge p. 285) [D]. Brattle's troop was one of the three troops sent out with Holbrook's foot on 27 Apr 1676; Jacob commanded Johnson's old company (Hingham history 1:232).
• Identity: Elisha, son of Capt. Hopestill (named in his will, 1676), "Elisha Foster & Sarah Payson were Married by the Worshipfull Joseph Dudley Esq. April 10. 78" and "Elisha Foster Died Oct. 16. 82" (Dorchester records, RC 21:24, 30); "Sarah ye Widdow of Elisha ffoster" admitted to the Dorchester church 3 (6) 1684 (Dorchester church records). No other Elisha Foster is known in the Bay towns then [I, probable]. Sarah Payson was probably "Sarah, d. Giles, bp. 16:5m: 1648" (Roxbury VR 1:269) [I, probable], sister of Elizabeth (Payson) Foster: two Foster brothers married two Payson sisters.
• Suggest a fuller page: born c. 1650s (not found), d. 16 Oct 1682.

comfort-foster-fl1676: b. 28 (7) 1658 (RC 21, Dorchester births). standfast-foster-fl1676: b. 13 (9) 1660. james-foster-fl1676: married Mary Capen 22 Sept 1671 (RC 21); a daughter Mary d. 29 Oct 1675. None of the three is in Bodge or MBR 5 (searched). mary-bate-1618, patience-, thankful-, mary-foster -fl1676: nothing.

timothy-mather-1628, Timothy Mather

• Dorchester, 19 (5) 1675: "Ther was a duble Contry Rate made ... being for the expences for the warr against the Indians" (RC 4:209). Town meeting 13 (10) 1675: selectmen Capen, Clap, Blake, Withington, Preston; "for Raters William Pond Mr Mather Roger Billeng" (RC 4:210). 4 (10) 1676: "for Raters Mr Timothy Mather Srgnt Pond, Srgnt Wiswell" (RC 4:213); 18 (7) 1676 he set out the country way (RC 4:212) (https://archive.org/details/fourthreportofre04bost) [D, proven]. Correction: the Wikipedia statement (archive) that he was selectman in 1675-76 is not supported by these elections; he was rater.
• His wife's brothers: see Consider, Jonathan and Hope Atherton below.

richard-mather-1653, Richard Mather

• Prentice's troop for the Narragansett campaign (Mass. Arch. 68:73; "Capt. Prentise's 73 Troopers"): "Troopers belonging to Captin Davis. William Kent, John Ruggles, Sampson Chester, William Towers, ... Henry Eliot, John Person (Pason), Richard Mather Juniour, Martin Sanders, Crosby of Braintree (Joseph), Joseph Penniman, Samuel Haiden, Ebenezer Haiden, John Riplee, Samuel Whitney" (Bodge p. 83). Credits under Capt. Prentice, 24 Mar 1675/6: "Richard Mather 04 10 00", with Samuel Payson and John Pason, each £4 10s (Bodge p. 82, page image checked, https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/82/mode/1up) [D].
• Identity: the only Richard Mather in the colonies in 1675 was Timothy's son (b. 22 Dec 1653), named for his grandfather Rev. Richard (d. 1669), which explains "Juniour" [I, probable]. The Davis troopers were Suffolk (Roxbury, Dorchester, Braintree) men.
• What the troop did: joined the army at Dedham Plain; 16 Dec rode to Pettaquamscut and brought news of Bull's garrison destroyed; "On the 19th took part in the battle at the fort"; 27 Dec raided Pomham's country; 21 Jan fight (two captured, nine killed); the army returned to Boston early Feb (Bodge p. 82) [C].
• Later: Elizabeth his daughter married Zechariah Sill, son of Capt. Joseph Sill (Savage 4:97).

elizabeth-atherton-d1678 / humphrey-atherton-d1661 (Atherton brothers)

• Consider Atherton: "From Dorchester non-appearance. Consider Atherton" (Holbrook's certificate, Apr 1676, Bodge p. 281) [D]; credited 15s under Major Simon Willard in the autumn of 1675 (list of 19 Oct-30 Nov 1675, Bodge p. 122) [D].
• Jonathan Atherton: credited £4 under Capt. Daniel Henchman (Bodge p. 58) and under Capt. Thomas Brattle, 19 Oct 1675, £1 10s (Bodge p. 264); in a "quaint letter" he complained Henchman wrongfully accused him (Bodge p. 56) [D].
• Rev. Hope Atherton of Hadley: "Atherton was chaplain in the expedition which, under Captain William Turner, of Boston, marched from Hatfield 17 May, 1676 ... In the hurry and confusion of the retreat, Atherton was separated from the troops" (Sibley 2:194, https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket02sibluoft) [C]; "Atherton, Hope, Hatfield" on the 1736 list of Falls Fight soldiers and "Joseph Atherton, Deerfield, only son of Hope Atherton" (Bodge pp. 250, 252) [D]. See Connecticut_and_Long_Island.md.
• That these are Humphrey Atherton's sons, and so Elizabeth's brothers: Humphrey's children "included Jonathan, Increase, Rev. Hope Atherton of Hadley, Consider and Watching" (archive, from Wikipedia) [C, probable].
• Atherton Company / Narragansett mortgage of 1660 as a cause of the war: not researched beyond the archive's Wikipedia citation; Bodge (pp. 21-25) treats the 1640s Atherton expedition and Philip's land sales, not the mortgage. See Context_and_Native_Side.md.

mary-millett-1639, john-millett-1635, thomas-millett-1633: see Thomas Millett below; "Thomas Millett" (probably the son) signed an Essex petition with Thomas Riggs in 1681 (MBR 5:336); "John Millett was sworn constable of Gloster" (EQC 6) — not war.

john-greenaway-fl1650, mary-greenaway-1606: Mary Millett, "the relict", administered Thomas's estate, Sept 1675 (EQC 6:73) [D] — she was alive and back in Essex County.

Roxbury and Boston

dorothy-harbottle-fl1640, Dorothy (Harbottle) Lamb Hawley; her husband Thomas Hawley

• Roxbury deaths: "HAWLEY, Thomas, sr., under the command of Capt. Sam[ue]ll Wadsworth, slain by the Indians at Sudbury, Apr. 21, 1676" (Roxbury VR 2:547, https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofroroxb_0) [D].
• Bodge p. 231 (page image checked): from the Roxbury records, "Thomas Hawley Sr" among those "slain att Sudbury under command of Capt. Samll Wadsworth upon 21 Aprill 1676"; and "Three of Cowell's men, that were killed, are in the Roxbury list above" [C].
• Edward Cowell's deposition (Bodge pp. 225-226): "I being upon the Counteries Searvis in Aprill last and haveing under my Conduct Eighteen men; Upon our Returning from Mallberough to Boston; and About three Milles From Sudbeury Wee ware surprised with divers Hundred of Indians; Wheere of this Indian Tom was one ... at which tyme fower of my Company was killed and one Wounded ... upon Capt. Wadsworths Ingadgine with the Indian I wentt Backe and Beuryed the fower men which were killed whereof (Lt.?) Thomas Haw[le]y, and Hopkinsies son both of Roxbeury ... Sworn to before the Council 19 June 1676" (https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/226/mode/1up) [D, proven]. So Hawley was a mounted man of Cowell's convoy party, killed in the opening of the Sudbury fight, not on Wadsworth's hill [I, probable; the Roxbury entry ties him to Wadsworth's command generally]. Gookin (Archaeologia Americana 2:511-512) also has Cowell's men "cut off" coming from "Quabage fort".
• Native side: "this Indian Tom" is Capt. Tom, alias Wuttasacomponom, ruler of the praying Indians of Hassanamesit, "a prudent, and I believe, a pious man" (Gookin, AA 2:476); "taken 9th June, and after lying in prison in Boston until the 22d following, was hanged" (editor's note, ibid.). The Christian Indian soldiers Andrew Pittimee, James Quannapohit, Job, John Magus and James Speen petitioned for his life; the Council answered that he "was actually present and an actor in the devastation of some of our plantations" (AA 2:528) [D]. Cowell's deposition, sworn three days before the hanging, was part of that evidence [I, probable].
• Narragansett No. 5, Roxbury grantees, 1733: "Thomas Hawley — Edward Dorr, son-in-law" (Bodge p. 432) [D]; Savage 2:385: "Eliz. m. Edward Dorr; and Dorothy m. John Booth" [C]. The grant implies the committee counted him a Narragansett soldier (Dec 1675); no muster list found [I, possible].
• Marriage: Savage reads 2 Feb 1651/2 ("2 Feb. foll." after Emma's death 29 Nov 1651) — answers the archive's open question in favour of 1651/2 [C].
• Her sons. Roxbury births (VR 1:208-209): "Josuah, s. Thomas, Nov. 27, 1642"; "Abiell, s. Thomas, Aug. 15, 1646" — born after Thomas Lamb's burial (28 Mar 1646), so Dorothy's posthumous son; distinct from "Abel, 4th s. Thomas, abt. 8 m: 1633"; "Harbottle, s. Abiel, bp. 28: 12m: 1674-5" [D]. Correction: the Abiel who named a son Harbottle was very probably Dorothy's own son, Caleb's full brother [I, probable].
  • Abiel Lamb: Capt. Henchman's letter of 10 Nov 1675 on the fight at Hassanamesit on the 9th "mentions that his corporal, Abiell Lamb, outran himself in the attack" (Bodge p. 55); credited 30 Nov 1675; in Capt. Isaac Johnson's company at Dedham, 10 Dec 1675, Roxbury (p. 162); credited £4 10s (p. 277); Narragansett No. 4 (Greenwich), Oxford: "Abiell Lamb — Abiell, son" (p. 426) [D].
  • Joshua Lamb: credited under Capt. Thomas Brattle (Bodge p. 265) and in the Roxbury town credits, £2 2s 10d (p. 369) [D].
• caleb-lamb-1641: searched; no record of service. mary-wise-1650: nothing direct.

joseph-wise-1617, mary-tompson-1619: their sons

• Jeremiah Wise ("Jeremyah, s. Joseph, bp. July 6, 1646", Roxbury VR 1) was credited £1 0s 6d on 30 Nov 1675 under Capt. Daniel Henchman (Bodge p. 55), the November expedition to Hassanamesit and Packachoog in which Abiel Lamb was corporal [D; identity I, probable — the only Jeremiah Wise of the Bay].
• john-wise-1652, Rev. John Wise: identity proven by Sibley ("baptized 15 August, 1652, was the son of ... Joseph Wise, of Roxbury"). "He declined a settlement in the ministry at Branford, Connecticut, where he was preaching when the Governor and Council of that Colony appointed him 'to goe forth minister ... wth the sea side forces to New London, there to meet wth Major Treate'; with whom, Gershom Bulkley ... and others, he marched from New London, 26 January, 1675-6, against the Narraganset Indians, returning in a few days" (Sibley 2:428-429) [C]. Major Palmer, New London, 26 Jan 1675/6: "Majr Treat's departure this day, with all his forces, who is accompanied with Mr Fitch, Mr Buckley & Mr. Wise" (Bodge p. 202); "Rev. John Wise, of Branford" among the officers of the new Connecticut companies (p. 184) [D]. Correction to Famous kin in the Holbrook-Low Colonial Tree and rev-john-wise: chaplain in January 1675/6, after the Swamp Fight, with Treat's reinforcement (the "Hungry March" phase), not in December 1675. He later preached at Hatfield (1677-8).
• katherine-wise-1658: her husband Richard Mather served (above).

giles-payson-1611, elizabeth-dowell-fl1637, elizabeth-payson-1645

• The Payson troopers: John Pason/Paison and Samuel Payson in Davis's quota of Prentice's troop, each credited £4 10s on 24 Mar 1675/6 (Bodge pp. 82-83); John also under Brattle (Dec 1675, Aug 1676) and Samuel under Brattle (Dec 1675) (p. 264); Samuel credited p. 81; "John Payson — John, son" in Narragansett No. 5, Roxbury (p. 432) [D]. John was "s. Edward, June 11, 1643" (Roxbury VR 1:270) — son of Edward Payson, who came with Giles from Nazeing in 1635 [C; kinship to Giles possible, not researched].
• Elizabeth Payson's husband was Ensign Hopestill Foster; her probable sister Sarah married Elisha Foster (above). Nothing for Giles or Elizabeth Dowell themselves.

richard-cheever-1660, Richard Cheever (Boston)

• Turner's company: "his own official lists, the first taken at Medfield on February 22d (the next day after the partial destruction of that town), and he reports this list of the company, 'as they came out of Boston,' showing February 21st as the most probable date of his marching" (Bodge p. 234). "A List of Capt. William Turner's men as they came from Boston and taken at Medfield 1675-6": "Richard Cheevers" is in the main list, not among "them Cleared at Marlborough" (Bodge p. 239, page image checked) [D, proven]. The company marched from Marlborough 29 Feb, from Quabaug 4 March, to Northampton (attacked 14 March).
• Turner's note (Mass. Arch. 68:158, Bodge p. 240): "The Rest continued under my Command till ye 7th of Aprill att which time 4 were left in Hadly by order of ye Councell and part of the Companie marched under the conduct off Lieut. Drinker with Maj. Savage, some by order staying with me." Cheever is not on "A Liste off Souldjers undr the Command off Capt. Willm Turner ffro. the 7th of Aprill 1676" (Hadley, Hampton, Hatfield, Springfield; Mass. Arch. 68:212, Bodge pp. 240-241), which Bodge calls the organization of Turner's force "until the Falls Fight, May 19, 1676"; nor on the 1735-36 list of Falls Fight soldiers and heirs (pp. 249-252) [D]. Conclusion: he came home in April with Drinker and Savage; not at the Falls Fight [I, probable].
• Credit: "Richard Cheever 03 12 10", under Turner, 24 June 1676 (Bodge p. 248; the archive cites p.
  244. [D]. Hassam's second credit of 24 Aug 1676 is not in Bodge (searched every Cheever entry).
• Crossing: Ephraim Roper of Lancaster, the one man to escape the Rowlandson garrison on 10 Feb (wife and daughter killed), is in the same Medfield list, and went on to the Falls Fight ("Roper, Ephr.", Bodge p.
  251. [D].

abigail-milam-1660, joseph-briscoe-1658 (aged 17): searched Bodge; nothing.

john-kneeland-1632: nothing ("Edward Neland" in Bodge pp. 155, 283, 370 is another man). His grandson Samuel Kneeland was clerk to the grantees of Narragansett No. 5 in 1733 ("A true copy, Attest Saml. Kneeland. Cle: to the grantees", Bodge p. 434) [D].

mary-green-fl1692, Mary (Green?) Kneeland — a new lead on her parentage

• Narragansett No. 5, Boston grantees, 1733: "Samuel Polard — Saml. Kneeland, gr. son" (Bodge p. 431, https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/431/mode/1up) [D]. Samuel Pollard was a trooper under Capt. Prentice in the Mount Hope campaign, credited 27 Aug 1675 (Bodge p. 81) [D]. Boston births: "Mary of Samuel & Mary Pollard born Nov. 22" 1673 (Boston RC 9, year 1673) [D]; Savage 3:449: Samuel Pollard of Boston "by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 22 Nov. 1673, and nothing more is seen" [C].
• [Checked 12 Oct 2026, after these notes were written: Kneeland 1897, p. 67, makes the Samuel Kneeland born 26 Apr 1697 the eldest son of Solomon Kneeland and Mary Pollard, who "received, in 1735, a grant of land in Narragansett Township, as an heir-at-law of his grandfather, Capt. Samuel Pollard." The lead below is explained: the claimant was the printer's cousin.]
• Two Samuel Kneelands were born at Boston in 1697: "Samuel of John & Mary Kneeland born Jan. 31" 1696[/7] (the printer) and "Samuel of Samuel & Mary Kneeland born Apr. 26" 1697 (RC 9) [D]. If the 1733 claimant and clerk was the printer, his mother Mary was Mary Pollard (b. 1673), not Mary Green [I, possible]. The Green parentage rests only on Kneeland 1897 [C]. [Checked afterwards: the claimant was the printer's cousin (Kneeland 1897, p. 67); no ruling needed.] A Boston marriage record for John Kneeland and Mary (c. 1691) would settle it (not found in RC 9).
• Capt. Joseph Sill's daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Green Jr. on 18 Nov 1685 (Savage 4:97; Bodge p.
  266. [C]: if Mary were Samuel Green Jr.'s daughter (Kneeland 1897) she would be Sill's granddaughter, but a daughter of that 1685 marriage could not be a mother by 1692 [I] — the archive's doubt stands.
• James Printer (context only, the link to Samuel Green stays possible): Hubbard: "Amongst Sundry that came in, there was one named James the Printer ... a notorious Apostate, that had learned so much of the English, as not only to read and write, but had attained likewise some Skill in Printing ... (had he not like a false Villain ran away from his Master before his Time was out)" — he came in under the Massachusetts declaration of mercy (summer 1676) (Hubbard 1865, 1:249) [D, hostile contemporary]. Drake (1:172 n.) suggests the note left at Medfield on 21 Feb 1676 "may have been the Work of James-the-Printer" [C, conjecture].

Woburn and Concord

james-converse-1620, Lt. James Converse, and james-converse-1645, Maj. James Converse

• Middlesex Regiment roster c. 1675 (page image checked): "WOBURN. John Carter. [Capt.] William Johnson. [Lieut.] James Converse. [Ensign]" (Bodge p. 474) [C, from colony records].
• Woburn's impressment return for Capt. Nathaniel Davenport's company (returns dated 25 Nov-3 Dec 1675, Mass. Arch. 68:67-100; Bodge p. 171): "From Woburn. John Carter, William Johnson, James Convars, John Cutler, William Peirce, John Baker, Zachariah Snow, John Polly, John Preist, John Berbeane, John Shilden, Thomas Hale, John Bolen, Caleb Simons, Peter Bateman, Jerimiah Hood 16" (Bodge p. 172) [D]. Sewall's History of Woburn (1868), from the same papers, counts "thirteen soldiers ... impressed from Woburn" and omits the first three names (p. 113) [C], i.e. he read Carter, Johnson and Converse as the officers making the return. None of the three is credited under Davenport (p. 170) [D]. Reading: the town's three officers carried out the impressment [I, probable]. Davenport's company lost three Woburn men wounded at the fort (Caleb Simonds, John Baker, Zachary Snow, p. 171).
• Which James? Sewall: "James Convers, Senr., familiarly distinguished in the Town Records as Ensign or Lieutenant Convers" (p. 175); his imagined meeting-house scene of c. 1680 seats "Ensign James Convers ... and Josiah Convers, a brother of the ensign" (p. 93); and the selectmen's list (p. 579) has "Serg. James Convers, 1672", "Ens. James Convers, 1680, 82, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8" and "Serg. James Convers, 1684, 86" — two men in the same years [C]. So the Ensign of 1675-1689 (deputy 1679-89, MBR 5:260-514; "Ensigne James Conuers" on a committee for a wounded soldier of Charlestown, 5:511) was probably James Sr., and the Major was the Sergeant, "Lieutenant (afterwards Major) Convers" by 1688 (Sewall p. 165) [I, probable]. This contradicts the archive's Wikipedia line that the Major was deputy from 1679; Sewall's representative list (p. 584) gives "Lt. James Convers, 1691, 92" for the Major.
• "Serjant Converse" was one of the committee (with Lt. Hinchman, Lt. Danforth, Ensign Fletcher, Lt. Osgood) for settling the Nashobah and Natick Indians removed from the harbour islands at Pawtucket, May 1676 (MBR 5:86) [D]; probably James Jr. [I, possible].
• No credit in Bodge for either James (searched "Convers", "Converse"). Woburn's war: April 10, 1676, Indians killed the wife and two children of Samuel Richardson (Sewall pp. 119-120) [C].

hannah-carter-1651, Hannah (Carter) Converse: her father Capt. John Carter commanded the Woburn company in 1675 (Bodge p. 474) and his name heads the impressment return (p. 172) [D/I].

anna-long-1622: nothing.

john-wheeler-1643, John Wheeler (Concord)

• Impressed: "From Concord. Joseph Busse, Abraham Temple, Samuel How, John Wood, Joseph Wheeler, Thomas Browne, John Wheeler, Timothy Rice, George Hayward, Stephen Farre, John Taylor 11" (Bodge p. 172) [D].
• Credited under Capt. Nathaniel Davenport and Capt. (Edward) Ting, 24 Mar 1675/6: "John Wheeler 02 14 00" (Bodge p. 170) [D] — the usual pay for the Narragansett campaign. Davenport was killed at the fort; Ting commanded after.
• Narragansett No. 6 (Templeton), lots drawn 24 June 1735: "69. Ebenezer Wheeler . . For his father John" (Bodge p. 435, page image checked, https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/435/mode/1up) [D]. Grantees were living in Concord and Billerica (p. 434). John and Sarah (Larkin) Wheeler had twins Ebenezer and Thankful in 1682 (Wheeler genealogy, no. 107) [C]. So the Concord soldier was very probably this John [I, probable]. Another lot: "25. John Wheeler . . For his brother Joseph" (p. 436) — a different John (alive 1735). Joseph Wheeler, also impressed from Concord, was credited 24 July 1676 (p. 170).
• Kin: the Wheeler genealogy (1914, no. 100) holds that his father George Wheeler was a brother of Lt. Timothy Wheeler (Concord's lieutenant in 1675, Bodge p. 474) and of Capt. Thomas Wheeler of Wheeler's Surprise at Brookfield (2 Aug 1675) — "circumstantial evidence ... of the highest order" [C, possible]; Bodge (p. 102) calls the Concord Wheelers "a difficult problem". If so, John was nephew of the captain and first cousin of the son, Thomas Wheeler, who carried his father out of the ambush. Josiah Wheeler, one of the Concord volunteers killed at Sudbury (Bodge p. 231), and Joseph and Richard Wheeler, killed at Lancaster (pp. 352-353), are of unproven relation.
• sarah-larkin-1647: nothing.

henry-wheeler-fl1667 (Salisbury): a different family (John Wheeler of Salisbury and Newbury); no tie to the Concord Wheelers found. See Essex_and_the_East.md.

Mendon, Brookfield, Lancaster

job-tyler-1619, Job Tyler, and his family

• Mendon, May 1675: the Court's standing committee for Mendon included Capt. Hopestill Foster (MBR 5:40).
• The attack, 14 July 1675: Hubbard: "some Indians, wishing well to Philips Design, had made an Assault upon some of the Inhabitants, as they were at their Labour in the Field, killing five or six of them ... within a little Time after they forsook the Place, abandoning their Houses to the Fury of the Enemy" (Hubbard 1865, 1:86-87, https://archive.org/details/historyofindianw01hubb/page/86/mode/1up) [D]. Drake's note: "It is said five or six Persons were killed, in the Attack on Mendon, but we have the Name of only one of them, namely Richard Post. He lived on the Road from Mendon towards Sherburne ... bears the Name of Post's Lane" [C]. Brigham (Tyler Genealogy 1:23-24): Mary Tyler (Job's daughter, b. c. 1644) "married (1), November 18, 1662, Richard Post, of Woburn ... killed in Mendon, Mass., July 14, 1675, by the Indians" [C]. Metcalf (Annals of Mendon, 1880, pp. 62-63, 75) knew only "the wife and child of Matthias Puffer" (Puffer's petition: "My wife was slaine by the Indians and my eldest son") and guessed John Gurney [C/D]. So Post's death is compiled only [C, probable]; mary-tyler-1644's page could take it with that label.
• Flight: "In 1675 when the inhabitants fled from the Indian raid he [Hopestill Tyler] went to his old home in Roxbury" (Brigham 1:31-32); Roxbury: "TILER, Matthew, s. Hop., bp. 9: 2m: 1676" and "John, s. Hope, Feb. 19, 1677" (Roxbury VR 1) [D]. Job "may have returned there" (Brigham) [C]. John Tyler (1653) "must have fled ... to Rowley Village" (Brigham 1:32) [C, conjecture]; Samuel was impressed at Rowley on 29 Nov 1675 (Bodge pp. 156-157; the archive has it). Mendon was burned in the winter of 1675/6 (Cotton Mather, via Metcalf) and resettled from c. 1677; town government only from 3 Jan 1680.
• samuel-tyler-1655: no new record beyond the archive's (Rowley impressment; credit 24 Mar 1675/6; Ebenezer's claim). His Mendon place belongs to the 1680s-90s.
• hopestill-tyler-1646: see above (Roxbury refuge, 1676). moses-tyler-1642: nothing in the war.

thomas-millett-1605, Thomas Millett (Brookfield)

• Temple (History of North Brookfield, 1887, p. 67): "There is evidence that he succeeded Mr. Younglove as minister at Brookfield in 1674 ... He received a grant of a home-lot of 20 acres, and 10 acres of meadow ... was with his wife living in Brookfield June 3, 1675 ... He died early in 1676" [C].
• Ipswich Quarterly Court, 28 Sept 1675: "Thomas Millet dying intestate, court granted administration of the estate to Mary Millet, the relict" (EQC 6:73); repeated at Ipswich, 26 Sept 1676 (EQC 6:204) (https://archive.org/details/recordsfilesofqu06esse) [D, proven]. Correction: dead before 28 Sept 1675, and intestate (the West Brookfield site's "will presented 26 Sept 1675" is wrong in kind).
• Was he in the siege (2-4 Aug 1675)? No record names him among the garrison or the dead; Wheeler's narrative names the Brookfield dead of the ambush (Sgt. John Ayres, Sgt. William Prichard, Corporal Richard Coy) and James Hovey "killed by the Indians Aug. 2, 1675" (Temple p. 67). The administration in Essex, not Hampshire, suggests his widow was back at Gloucester by September [I, possible]. Death place stays open.

Lancaster: thomas-rowlandson-d1682 (his son Thomas), john-stanwood-1653

• The Rowlandson garrison, 10 Feb 1675/6: "KILLED IN THE ASSAULT ... Thomas Rowlandson, aged 19" (Nourse's list, Bodge p. 353) [D, from Nourse]; "Ephraim Roper escaped during the assault" — "of thirty-seven persons ... none escaped either present death or a bitter captivity, save only one" (Bodge pp. 353-354, quoting Mary Rowlandson) [D]. The archive already has the nephew (Nourse p. 104).
• John Stanwood: "CREDITED AT LANCASTER GARRISON ... January 25, 1675-6. John Roberts 03 01 08, Stephen Fish 03 00 00, Nathaniel Hadlock 03 01 08, John Fitch 03 01 08, John Stanwood 03 01 08, Zacharia Eyres 03 01 08, Stephen Parker 03 01 08" (Bodge p. 355, page image checked) [D]. Six men at the same sum were a detachment paid off together; John Fitch was also of Gloucester (Gloucester town credits, p. 370). Later credits at the garrison (29 Feb 1675/6) are other men (Nichols, Marble, Young, Nash). Nothing places Stanwood at Lancaster on 10 Feb; his term had probably ended [I, probable]. Then credited under Capt. Samuel Brocklebank, 24 July 1676, £1 2s, with Philip Stanwood £3 8s 6d (p. 207, image checked) [D]. Brocklebank's company held Marlborough, and he was killed at Sudbury on 21 Apr 1676.
• Capt. Joseph Sill's company was at Lancaster after the attack: "on request of Capt Scyll, that the comittee for the warr doe forthwith send twenty pounds of tobacco & three gallons of rumme for the supply of the company that now resides at Lancaster" (MBR 5:73, Court of 21 Feb 1675/6) [D].
• Hull and the Stanwood marriage: Hull was "8th. John Hull" captain of a Boston company in 1675 (Bodge p. 473), Treasurer-at-War 1675-78, chosen Assistant May 1680 (MBR 5:265). "On December 9, 1680, John Stainwood was married to Lydia Butler, in Boston, by 'Capten John Hull'" (Bolton p. 32) [C] — as an Assistant he could marry; the officiant was very probably the Treasurer [I, probable].

sarah-clark-1644, Sarah (Clark) Marvin Sill, and Capt. Joseph Sill

• Marriage confirmed: Savage (4:96-97): Joseph Sill "On the close of it, rem. to Lyme, there m. 12 Feb. 1677 or 8, Sarah, d. of George Clark, wid. of Reynold Marvin, and had Joseph, b. 6 Jan. 1678 or 9; and Zechariah, 1 Jan. 1682 ... d. 6 Aug. 1696, in 60th yr." Bodge (p. 266) repeats it from Savage [C, proven with Marvin 1904]. Zechariah Sill "m. Eliz. d. of Richard Mather of the same [Lyme]" (Savage 4:97) — the daughter of richard-mather-1653 and katherine-wise-1658.
• War record (Bodge ch. XIX, pp. 266-275; Hubbard index):
  • Lieutenant under Capt. Richard Beers, Aug-Oct 1675: relief of Brookfield, 5 Aug; probably at Sugar-Loaf Hill, 25 Aug; left at Hadley with the rest of the company when Beers was killed near Northfield, 4 Sept; on 4 Oct the Council ordered "Lieut. Scill be dismissed home to his family" (pp. 266-267) [C].
  • Captain, 2 Nov 1675: Gookin's orders to take sixty men of Charlestown, Watertown and Cambridge, with Natick guides, to Hassanamesit and join Capt. Henchman "to surprise, sease kill and destroy the enimy" (Mass. Arch. 68:40, pp. 267-268); MBR 5:69 (12 Nov 1675) orders "Capt Scyll ... forthwith march to Hassanemesit" under Henchman [D]. At Hassanamesit 6 Nov his Natick scouts (James Quannapohit, Eleazer Pegin) recovered the captured boy Christopher Muchin (p. 268, from Gookin).
  • Winter: garrisons and supply trains under Major Willard; with the army after the Swamp Fight; Lancaster company (Feb 1676, MBR 5:73); convoy from Marlborough to Brookfield (Council, 21 Mar 1675/6, Mass. Arch. 68:170); brought off the inhabitants of Groton; "April 17. Capt. Sill being appointed to keep Garrison at Groton ... two of them were slain by one single shot made by the Captain's own Hands" (Hubbard, Bodge p.
    269. [D/C].
  • 27 Apr 1676: one of the three foot companies, with Cutler and Holbrook (Hubbard 1:224-225) [D].
  • June 1676: Henchman's letter: "I drew out a commanded Party under the Conduct of Capt. Sill, viz. sixteen Files of English, all my Troop, and the Indians ... ordered towards Watchuset, and so to Nashaway and the Waishakem Ponds" (Hubbard 1:238) [D].
  • Eastward, Sept 1676: with Capt. Hathorne at Dover on 6 Sept, when about four hundred Indians at Major Waldron's were surrounded and some two hundred seized "while Wannalancet and his Pennacooks, Ossipees and Pequakets were allowed to depart" (Bodge p. 271) [C]. MBR 5:126, 17 Oct 1676: "Capt Joseph Scyll ... of late he hath carrjed himself offencively in that place, this Court doeth therefore order, that the sajd Scyll be forthwith dischardged from that imploy" [D]. Hubbard has him still marching to Ossipee in Nov 1676.
  • Petition, 19 Nov 1685 (Mass. Arch. 70:148; Bodge pp. 274-275; MBR 5:506): he had served "for length of time and number of expeditions ... with most if not any"; magistrates offered 200 acres; deputies referred him to the eight-mile Nipmuc grant "for the Accommodating such as were souldiers in the Late Warr" [D].
• Holbrook crossing: Holbrook and Sill commanded sister companies, 27 Apr-10 May 1676 [D]; the archive's Sarah Clark (Hatten side) thus married the fellow captain of the Holbrook side's Capt. John Holbrook.

Searched and found nothing: elizabeth-stream-1624, jane-powyes-1600, eunice-, experience-, lois-, ichabod-, hannah-holbrook-1648, sarah-holbrook-1646, elizabeth-holbrook-1631, elizabeth-holbrook-1654, jane-holbrook-1637, anne-holbrook-1629, samuel-holbrook-1654 (war), john-holbrook-1650 (war), elizabeth-barnes-1644, hannah-barnes-fl1694, anna-barnes-d1691, john-mills-fl1615, mary-mills-1616, mary-bate-1618, comfort-, james-, standfast-, patience-, thankful-, mary-foster-fl1676, mary-millett-1639, mary-tompson-1619, mary-wise-1650, katherine-wise-1658, caleb-lamb-1641, elizabeth-dowell-fl1637, giles-payson-1611, elizabeth-payson-1645, abigail-milam-1660, joseph-briscoe-1658, john-kneeland-1632, john-greenaway-fl1650, anna-long-1622, sarah-larkin-1647, henry-wheeler-fl1667, moses-tyler-1642, john-tyler-1653.

3. Events

Mendon, 14 July 1675. The first blow inside Massachusetts: Nipmuc men killed "five or six" townspeople at work in their fields (Hubbard 1:86-87; Hutchinson "four or five"). Capt. Isaac Johnson was sent on the 15th and Capt. Prentice's troop joined him about the 21st (Bodge p. 161). The town was abandoned in the autumn and "deserted Mendham was, this winter, laid in ashes" (Cotton Mather, via Metcalf p. 62). Family: the town was under the Court's standing committee with Capt. Hopestill Foster (MBR 5:40); Job Tyler's family lived there and fled (Hopestill to Roxbury); Richard Post, Job's son-in-law, is named as killed [C]; William Holbrook held a Mendon lot.

Brookfield, 2-4 Aug 1675. Capt. Edward Hutchinson and Capt. Thomas Wheeler of Concord, with Wheeler's troop and three Christian Indian guides, were ambushed near Meminimisset on 2 Aug; "eight men outright" killed and five wounded, Hutchinson mortally (Bodge p. 30); the town was burned and the people besieged in Ayres's garrison until Major Willard came on the evening of 4 Aug. Family: Thomas Millett had been the town's preacher (Temple p. 67); he was dead by 28 Sept, place unknown. Capt. Wheeler was probably John Wheeler's uncle [C]. Joseph Sill, lieutenant under Capt. Beers, marched to its relief on 5 Aug (Bodge p. 266).

Hassanamesit and Packachoog, Nov 1675. Henchman (from Mendon) and Sill (from Cambridge) sought the Nipmucs who had carried off the Christian Indians of Hassanamesit, Magunkog and Chobonokonomum; fight at Hassanamesit 9 Nov, Lt. Philip Curtis killed; Corporal Abiel Lamb "outran himself" (Bodge p. 55); Jeremiah Wise and Abiel Lamb credited 30 Nov. Family: Sill (Sarah Clark's later husband); Abiel Lamb (Dorothy Harbottle's son); Jeremiah Wise (Joseph Wise's son).

The Narragansett campaign and the Great Swamp Fight, 8 Dec 1675-early Feb 1676. Massachusetts raised six foot companies and Prentice's troop, mustered at Dedham Plain on 9-10 Dec; the fort was stormed on 19 Dec; Captains Johnson and Davenport fell at the entrance; "six brave captains fell ... eighty men were killed or mortally wounded" (Trumbull, quoted by Sewall p. 118) [C]. Family: Richard Mather, John and Samuel Payson in Prentice's troop; Thomas Holbrook (Braintree) and Abiel Lamb in Johnson's company; John Wheeler (Concord) in Davenport's; Woburn's officers (Carter, Johnson, Converse) made the town's impressment; Thomas Hawley counted a grantee; Rev. John Wise went out with Treat's reinforcement on 26 Jan.

Lancaster, 10 Feb 1675/6. The attack the Christian Indian spies Job Kattenanit and James Quannapohit had foretold ("a party of four hundred Indians were already on the way to destroy Lancaster", Bodge p. 352) burned the town; Wadsworth saved Stevens's garrison; the Rowlandson garrison was burned and of 37 inside only Ephraim Roper escaped; Mary Rowlandson and her children were carried off (Bodge pp. 352-354). Family: Thomas Rowlandson (19) killed; John Stanwood had served in the garrison earlier (credited 25 Jan); Sill's company held the town later in February; Ephraim Roper joined Turner's company with Richard Cheever.

Medfield, 21 Feb 1675/6. Attacked at dawn although Capt. John Jacob's foot company (about eighty, the late Johnson's men) and Lt./Capt. Edward Oakes's twenty troopers were billeted there; "Thirty-two houses, besides barns, two mills, and other buildings, were burned"; seventeen or eighteen killed or mortally wounded (Tilden, History of Medfield, pp. 85-88; Hubbard 1:169-172). Hull: "21st. Medefeild in part burned" (diary p. 241). A note left at the bridge warned: "the Indians lose nothing but their life. You must lose your fair houses and cattle" (Hubbard 1:172 n., perhaps by James Printer). Capt. William Turner's company reached the town on 22 Feb ("taken at Medfield", Bodge p. 239). Family: Richard Cheever with Turner; Elisha Foster later credited under Jacob; the April 1676 forces (Holbrook) quartered at Medfield in May.

Weymouth, 25 Feb and 19 Apr 1676. "This night the Indians fired seven Houses and Barns in Weymouth" (Mather, Brief History, under 25 Feb); Hubbard: "seven or eight Houses and Barns" (1:178). "April 19. The Indians killed a man at Weymouth, and another at Hingham" (Mather) — Sgt. Thomas Pratt at Weymouth, John Jacob Jr. at Hingham (Nash p. 39; Hingham hist. 1:232). Capt. William Torrey's petitions for the militia committee (28 Mar, Mass. Arch. 68:179; and late April, 68:233: "four killed by the enemy, already") (Nash pp. 38-40). Whose houses burned is not recorded in any source reached (Drake: "there was not much to be said except in giving the Names of the Owners and their Losses", 1:178 n.). Family: Capt. John Holbrook's town; his father Thomas, about 86, still living there; Holbrook's company drew six Weymouth men in April.

Sudbury, 21 Apr 1676. Some 1,000-1,500 Indians attacked the town; Haynes's garrison held; Capt. Samuel Wadsworth (with about seventy) and Capt. Samuel Brocklebank were drawn into an ambush and killed with most of their men ("above fifty of ours were slain", Mather; "about fifty", Hull's letter of 29 Apr); twelve Concord volunteers were cut down in the meadow; Edward Cowell's eighteen troopers lost four; Capt. John Cutler of Charlestown narrowly escaped (Bodge pp. 222-231). Family: Thomas Hawley Sr., Dorothy Harbottle's husband, killed in Cowell's party; Brocklebank was John Stanwood's and Robert Rand's captain.

The April-May expedition toward Hassanamesit, 27 Apr-10 May 1676. Foot under Sill, Cutler and Holbrook; horse under Brattle, Prentice and Henchman (commander); fight of 6 May (about sixteen enemy killed or taken, the enemy owned twenty); quarters at Medfield; released 10 May for the "epidemical Cold" (Hubbard 1:224-226). Family: Capt. John Holbrook; Elisha Foster probably (Brattle's troop); Consider Atherton drafted and absent.

Falls Fight, 19 May 1676. Turner's garrison soldiers surprised the fishing camps at Peskeompskut; Turner killed in the retreat. Family: Rev. Hope Atherton, chaplain (Elizabeth Atherton's brother); Richard Cheever not there; Ephraim Roper there.

Weshakim Ponds, 7 June 1676. Henchman's forces, on the way to Brookfield and Hadley, killed seven and took twenty-nine, mostly women and children (Bodge p. 270; Hubbard 1:237 n.). Sill led a scout toward Wachusett later in June.

Dover, 6 Sept 1676. Sill and Hathorne seized some two hundred Indians gathered at Major Waldron's (Bodge p. 271); many were sold out of the country. Context for the Native captives of the war (Anthony).

The Court and the conquest lands, 1678-79. 7 Oct 1678: Lt. John Holbrook named with Fisher and Weld to attend the United Colonies' meeting at Plymouth in March 1678/9 on the sale of the conquered lands (MBR 5:204). Native land (Mount Hope and the Pokanoket country) sold to pay the war's costs.

4. Crossings

1. Holbrook and Sill, sister companies (27 Apr-10 May 1676). "The Foot under the Command of Capt. Sill, Capt. Cutler, Capt. Holbrook" (Hubbard 1:224-225; Bodge p. 270) [D]. Sill married Sarah (Clark) Marvin, widow of Lt. Reinold Marvin of Lyme, on 12 Feb 1677/8 (Savage 4:96) — so the Holbrook line's captain and the Hatten line's step-ancestor commanded side by side. At Lyme Sill's son Zechariah married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Mather and Katherine Wise (Savage 4:97).
2. The same expedition: Holbrook, Elisha Foster, Consider Atherton. Brattle's troop rode with Holbrook's foot; Elisha Foster was credited under Brattle on 24 Aug 1676 (Bodge p. 264) [D; date of his service I, probable]. Consider Atherton, Elizabeth (Atherton) Mather's brother, was one of Holbrook's Dorchester draft who failed to appear (Bodge p. 281) [D].
3. The Great Swamp campaign. Richard Mather (Mather-Atherton line, Hatten side) and the Payson cousins of Elizabeth (Payson) Foster (Low side) rode in Prentice's troop; Thomas Holbrook of Braintree (Holbrook kin) and Abiel Lamb (Dorothy Harbottle's son, Low side) marched in Capt. Isaac Johnson's company; John Wheeler of Concord (Ellingwood side) in Davenport's; Samuel Tyler (Tyler side) impressed at Rowley; all in the army that stormed the fort on 19 Dec 1675 (Bodge pp. 82-83, 162, 170-172, 156-157) [D; individual presence at the fort I, probable]. Hopestill Humphrey and Jonas Humphrey (kin of Susanna Humphrey, wife of Nicholas White of Taunton) are in the same Johnson's company list (p. 162) [D; kinship C, possible].
4. Mendon. Capt. Hopestill Foster sat on the Court's standing committee for Mendon from May 1675 (MBR 5:40); Job Tyler was a Mendon householder whose son-in-law Richard Post is said to have been killed there on 14 July 1675 [D / C].
5. Medfield, 21-22 Feb 1676. Capt. John Jacob's company (the late Isaac Johnson's, in which Thomas Holbrook and Abiel Lamb had marched) was in the town when it burned; Turner's company with Richard Cheever arrived on the 22nd; Elisha Foster was later credited under Jacob (Bodge pp. 234, 239, 285; Hingham hist. 1:232) [D].
6. Lancaster and Turner's company. Ephraim Roper, sole escapee of the Rowlandson garrison where Thomas Rowlandson (Martha Rowlandson's brother, Ellingwood side) was killed on 10 Feb, is on the same list "taken at Medfield" on 22 Feb as Richard Cheever (Ellingwood side) (Bodge pp. 239, 353) [D].
7. Sudbury, 21 Apr 1676. Thomas Hawley (husband of Dorothy Harbottle, Low side) was killed in Cowell's party; on the same day Capt. Samuel Brocklebank, the captain under whom John Stanwood (Tyler side) and Robert Rand (Ellingwood side) were credited, was killed with Wadsworth (Bodge pp. 207, 226, 231) [D].
8. Woburn's officers. Capt. John Carter (father of Hannah Carter) and Ensign James Converse (probably James Sr., father of the Major) made Woburn's Narragansett impressment together; Hannah had married the ensign's son in 1668/9 (Bodge pp. 172, 474; Sewall) [D/I].
9. Two Foster brothers, two Payson sisters. Ensign Hopestill Foster married Elizabeth Payson (1666/7); Elisha Foster married Sarah Payson (1678), probably Giles's daughter (RC 21:24; Roxbury VR) [D/I].
10. The Atherton circle. Lt. James Trowbridge of Cambridge (1675 roster, Bodge p. 474) was Humphrey Atherton's son-in-law, so Timothy Mather's brother-in-law [C]; Hope Atherton at the Falls Fight; the Atherton brothers credited under Willard, Henchman and Brattle.
11. Printers. John Foster (Capt. Hopestill's son) printed Mather's Brief History (1676) and Hubbard's Narrative and map (1677); Samuel Kneeland, grandson of John Kneeland, was clerk to the Narragansett No. 5 grantees in 1733, the township in which Thomas Holbrook of Braintree and Thomas Hawley's heirs drew (Bodge pp. 432-434) [D].
12. Hull. Capt. John Hull, the Treasurer-at-War whose journal is the source of every credit above, married John Stanwood and Lydia at Boston on 9 Dec 1680 (Bolton p. 32) [C].

5. Sources

Existing archive source files are given as sources/<id>; "NEW" means no file yet.

Primary and printed transcripts

• George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 3rd ed. (Boston, 1906), archive.org soldiersinkingph1906bodg. Pp. 2, 21-25, 30, 55-58, 80-83, 102-115, 121-122, 156-157, 159-163, 169-172, 176-177, 184, 202, 207, 221-252, 263-285, 352-355, 369-374, 412-436, 447-448, 472-474. Printed transcripts of Mass. Archives vols. 67-70 and Treasurer John Hull's journal, with Bodge's commentary (secondary). Exists: Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War (1906) (add the pages above).
• Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, vol. 5 (1674-1686), ed. N. B. Shurtleff (Boston, 1854), recordsofgoverno05mass. Pp. 1, 4, 14, 17, 35, 38, 40, 42-43, 69, 73, 77, 84-86, 126, 127, 148, 204, 208, 217, 260-266, 275, 300-309, 323, 336, 443, 445, 452, 498-514, 536-543. Printed transcript. Exists: Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (add vol. 5 pages).
• William Hubbard, A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England (Boston: John Foster, 1677), as The History of the Indian Wars in New England, ed. Samuel G. Drake, 2 vols. (Roxbury, 1865), historyofindianw01hubb, historyofindianw02hubb_0. Vol. 1 pp. viii, 86-87, 169-172, 178-179, 209, 224-227, 237-238, 249; vol. 2 index. Contemporary narrative with editor's notes. NEW.
• Increase Mather, A Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New-England (Boston: John Foster, 1676), briefhistoryofvv00math_1 (facsimile). Title page; entries of 23 and 25 Feb, 19-21 Apr 1676. Contemporary narrative. NEW.
• Daniel Gookin, "An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England" (1677), with documents, Archaeologia Americana (Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society) vol. 2 (Cambridge, 1836), archaeologiaamer02amer, pp. 476-477, 511-512, 528. Contemporary account. NEW.
• The Diaries of John Hull, Mint-master and Treasurer of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society vol. 3 (Boston, 1857), diariesofjohnhul00hull, pp. 240-242 (and Hull's letter of April 1676 in note). Primary. NEW.
• Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol. 6 (1675-1678) (Salem, 1917), recordsfilesofqu06esse, pp. 73, 204. Printed transcript. Exists: Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts (add vol. 6).
• Boston Record Commissioners, Fourth Report: Dorchester Town Records (Boston, 1880, 2nd ed. 1883), fourthreportofre04bost, pp. 126, 204, 209-213. Printed transcript. NEW (or fold into Dorchester Town Records (Boston Record Commissioners, Report vol. 21)).
• Boston Record Commissioners vol. 21, Dorchester Births, Marriages and Deaths to the End of 1825 (1891), reportofrecordco21bost, pp. 24, 29-30 (and the Foster births of 1658, 1660). Exists: Dorchester Town Records (Boston Record Commissioners, Report vol. 21).
• Records of the First Church at Dorchester, 1636-1734 (Boston, 1891), recordsoffirstch00firs (Sarah, widow of Elisha Foster, 1684). Exists: Records of the First Church at Dorchester, in New England, 1636-1734 (1891).
• Boston Record Commissioners vol. 9, Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths 1630-1699 (1883), reportofrecordco09bost (Pollard 1673; Kneeland 1692-1697). Exists: Boston Record Commissioners, Reports (births, marriages and town records).
• Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to 1849, vol. 1 (births) vitalrecordsofro0001vari pp. 208-209, 269-270 and Tiler/Wise entries; vol. 2 vitalrecordsofroroxb_0 p. 547 (Hawley). Exists: Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849.

Secondary

• James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (1860-62), vol. 2 (genealogicaldic02savarich) pp. 384-385 (Hawley), 441-443 (Holbrook); vol. 3 (genealogicaldic03savarich) p. 449 (Pollard); vol. 4 (genealogicaldic04savarich) pp. 96-97 (Sill). Exists: Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England.
• John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, vol. 2 (1881), biographicalsket02sibluoft, pp. 194 (Hope Atherton), 428-429 (John Wise). NEW.
• Samuel Sewall, The History of Woburn (Boston, 1868), historyofwoburnm00sewa, pp. 93, 113-120, 165-166, 175-178, 579, 584. NEW.
• William S. Tilden, History of the Town of Medfield (1887), historyoftownofm00tild, pp. 81-88. NEW.
• J. H. Temple, History of North Brookfield (1887), historyofnorthbr00temp, pp. 59-69. NEW.
• John G. Metcalf, Annals of the Town of Mendon (1880), annalsoftownofme00metc, pp. 8-9, 62-63, 75-76,
  96. Exists: John G. Metcalf, Annals of the Town of Mendon, from 1659 to 1880 (1880).
• Gilbert Nash, Historical Sketch of the Town of Weymouth (1885), historicalsketch00nash, pp. 37-41. Exists: Gilbert Nash, Historical Sketch of the Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts (1885).
• History of the Town of Hingham (1893), vol. 1 pt. 1, historyoftownofh11hing, pp. 230-247. Exists: History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts.
• Albert Gallatin Wheeler, The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family (1914), genealogicalency00whee, pp. 17-19 (no. 100, George Wheeler). Exists: Albert Gallatin Wheeler, The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America (1914).
• W. I. Tyler Brigham, The Tyler Genealogy (1912), vol. 1, cu31924092510894, pp. 6, 23-24, 31-33. Exists: Brigham, The Tyler Genealogy (1912), 2 vols..
• Ethel Stanwood Bolton, A History of the Stanwood Family (1899), historyofstanwoo00bolt, pp. 31-32. Exists: Bolton, A History of the Stanwood Family in America (1899).
• John Adams Vinton, The Vinton Memorial (1858), vintonmemorialc00vintgoog, pp. 330-332. Exists: John Adams Vinton, The Vinton Memorial (Boston, 1858).
• Oliver Ayer Roberts, History of the ... Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, vol. 1 (1895), historyofmilitar01robe, pp. 121, 223. Exists: Roberts, History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, now called The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888, vol. 1 (1895).
• F. C. Pierce, Foster Genealogy (1899), fostergenealogy01pier, pp. 487-488. Exists: Pierce, Foster Genealogy (1899).
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register vol. 7 (1853), newenglandhistor007wate, p. 221 ("Wadsworth Monument", on the date of the Sudbury fight). NEW (minor).

6. To fetch later

• Massachusetts Archives (Mass. State Archives, Boston; the "Massachusetts Archives Collection", vols. 67-70 Military; on FamilySearch film): 68:239 and 69:12 (Holbrook's letter and certificate, to read in the original); 68:233 (Weymouth petition about impressing six men — confirm the date and that it is the Holbrook draft); 68:179 (Weymouth petition of 28 Mar 1676); 68:73 and 68:100 (Prentice's troopers; confirm "Richard Mather Juniour"); 67:293 (Johnson's company list, "Tho: Holbrook"); 68:67-100 (Woburn and Concord impressment returns: who signed the Woburn return); 68:158, 68:212 (Turner's lists, Cheever); Cowell's deposition of 19 June 1676 (volume not given by Bodge; Gookin's documents); 70:148 (Sill's petition); vol. 112 p. 208 (Puffer's petition, Mendon); any Weymouth losses list for 25 Feb 1675/6.
• Hull's Journal and Ledger (NEHGS, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections): Richard Cheever's second credit (24 Aug 1676, Hassam); credits after 23 Sept 1676 for Holbrook's and Sill's men ("a later Journal, now lost", Bodge p. 275).
• History of Weymouth, Massachusetts (Weymouth Historical Society, 1923, 4 vols.): not found on archive.org (searched by title and date); try HathiTrust (full view likely) for the 1676 losses and Capt. Holbrook.
• Narragansett township proprietors' records: No. 5 (Bedford NH) original list of 1733 with claimants' proofs, to see what service was proved for Thomas Holbrook and Thomas Hawley; No. 6 (Templeton proprietors' book, 1735) for Ebenezer Wheeler's proof "for his father John".
• Suffolk Probate: Thomas Hawley (1676) estate; Elisha Foster (1682); Thomas Holbrook of Braintree (will 25 July 1695, Suff. Prob.) for the identity of the son Thomas. Hampshire/Essex: Thomas Millett administration papers (Essex Probate, Ipswich court 28 Sept 1675) — inventory may give place of death.
• Boston marriages c. 1690-91: John Kneeland and Mary (Green or Pollard?); Samuel Kneeland and Mary. Samuel Pollard's probate (Suffolk) naming a daughter Mary Kneeland would settle the new Pollard lead.
• Plymouth/United Colonies: the March 1678/9 meeting at Plymouth on the sale of the conquest lands (PCR 6 and vol. 10, Acts of the Commissioners) — whether Holbrook attended.
• Woburn town records (MS, vol. II): whether the 1675 ensign was James Sr. or Jr.
• Brigham's source for Richard Post's death, and Drake's for "Post's Lane": Mendon or Woburn probate of Richard Post (1675-76).
• Gookin, Doings and Sufferings — the full trial papers of Capt. Tom (Mass. Archives 30) to confirm that Cowell's deposition was used against him.

7. Pictures

• Hubbard's woodcut "A Map of New-England" (Boston: John Foster, 1677), the first map cut in the colonies, attributed to John Foster: public domain; copies on Wikimedia Commons (search "John Foster map New England 1677"; exact file not checked) and a facsimile in Hubbard 1865 vol. 1 (archive.org historyofindianw01hubb, folding plate).
• Title page of Increase Mather, A Brief History of the Warr (Boston: John Foster, 1676): https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofvv00math_1 (first leaves).
• Bodge p. 162, Capt. Isaac Johnson's company list with "Tho: Holbrook" and "Abiel Lamb": https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/soldiersinkingph1906bodg$188/full/full/0/default.jpg
• Bodge p. 239, Capt. Turner's list "taken at Medfield" with "Richard Cheevers" and "Ephraim Roper": https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/soldiersinkingph1906bodg$273/full/full/0/default.jpg
• Bodge pp. 280-281, Holbrook's letter and certificate: https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/280/mode/1up
• Bodge p. 82, Prentice's credits with "Richard Mather": https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/soldiersinkingph1906bodg$104/full/full/0/default.jpg
• Bodge pp. 473-474, the 1675 militia rosters (Foster, Holbrook, Carter, Converse, Hull): https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/soldiersinkingph1906bodg$507/full/full/0/default.jpg and $508.
• Redemption Rock, Princeton, Mass. (Rowlandson's ransom, 2 May 1676), inscription quoted in Bodge p. 355; photographs on Wikimedia Commons (category "Redemption Rock").
• Capt. Hopestill Foster's gravestone, Dorchester North Burying Ground (Dorchester Atheneum, no. 23770, already cited in the archive).