King Philip's War: Plymouth Colony and the Rhode Island border

Compiled 12 Oct 2026 from archive.org texts (OCR read against page images where a reading mattered). Abbreviations: PCR = Records of the Colony of New Plymouth (vol 5 = Court Orders 1668-78, in recordsofcolonyo0506newp; vol 8 = Treasury Accounts, in recordsofcolonyo0708newp); PTR = Records of the Town of Plymouth vol 1 (recordsoftownofp01plym); HCC = Freeman, History of Cape Cod vol 2 (historyofcapecodfree_0); Bodge = Soldiers in King Philip's War, 3rd ed. 1906 (soldiersinkingph1906bodg). Page links: PCR 5 page p is viewer leaf n(p+13), Bodge p is n(p+33), Deane p is n(p+7), Bliss p is n(p+11), PTR 1 p is n(p+21) (checked against each item's page map). Tiers: [D] documented, [C] compiled, [I] inferred, [T] tradition.

1. Summary

New findings

1. Isaac Chittenden was not killed on 20 May 1676. He headed a Scituate coroner's jury "impannelled ... the 29th of July, 1676, by Mr Nathaniel Tilden, the constable of Scittuate" (PCR 5:225-226); Tilden was sworn constable in June 1676 (5:195), and his son Isaac was 13. He died between 29 July and 1 Nov 1676 (administration, 5:211). Deane's "slain ... 20th May, 1676" (p. 128) is disproven. War offices [D]: colony committee for the war's charges, 4 Oct 1675 (5:175); press master (5:183; Deane p. 121); Scituate's council of war, 29 Feb 1675/6 (5:186); clothing committee (Deane p. 120).
2. Benjamin Woodworth was probably not killed: juror with Joseph Woodworth at the court of 6 Mar 1676/7 (PCR 5:227), and "LEABANON. Benjamin Woodworth." among the No. 4 grantees of 1733 (Bodge p. 428). The 1676 land credit went to "Charlse Stockbridge, for Benjamine Woodworth" (PCR 5:206).
3. Benjamin Nye's death is documented: Rev. Noah Newman's letter of 27 Mar 1676, "Sandwich, 5 Slain. Benjamin Nye, ..." (Deane p. 123; Bodge p. 360) [D].
4. The Sandwich receipt of 2 Feb 1676/7 was Barnstable's, "in the behalfe of the towne of Barnstable" (PCR 5:233), paying the £73.16 Sandwich owed it on the war accounts (HCC 2:71) [D].
5. Rehoboth Reads: John Read Jr. (b. 1640), brother of Daniel, "slain on the 26th of March, 1676" (Bliss p. 95; Bodge p. 464); his widow "Mistris Rachel Read" administered (PCR 5:200); Thomas and Israel Read served "under Major Bradford" (Bliss p. 117) [D; kinship C, Reed 1861].
6. Rehoboth Ides: John Ide in the Narragansett expedition (Bliss p. 117), his No. 4 right claimed by "Timothy, brother" (Bodge p. 427) [D]; Nicholas Ide under Bradford; John buried mid-Dec 1676, Martha 3 Nov 1676, amid some twenty Rehoboth burials Aug-Dec 1676; Samuel Fuller, Mary Ide's husband, buried 15 Aug 1676, Nicholas Ide Sr. administering (PCR 5:234, 237).
7. Rehoboth's war rate: Bliss's "catalogue" of advances (pp. 117-118) totals £484 5s 5d against the colony's rate of £485 5s 4d (PCR 5:207): Joseph Peck £2 10s, Thomas Read £8 14s 4d, John Reade sen. £13 18s 11d, "Wid. Rachael Read, with the loss of a gun" £4 3s [D, page image].
8. Capt. John Freeman of Eastham had a company at Taunton in June-July 1675 (his letter, HCC 2:366-367; "billetting Captaine Freemen and his men and theire horses," PCR 5:263); sat on the colony war-charges committee and Eastham's council; distributed the Irish charity; owed £1 "for a gun" (PCR 8:145). "John Freeman," Eastham grantee of No. 7 (Bodge p. 440) [I, probable].
9. One order, 29 Feb 1675/6, put six family men on town councils of war (PCR 5:186): Joseph Warren (Plymouth), Isaac Chittenden (Scituate), Edmund Freeman Jr. (Sandwich), Jeremiah Howes (Yarmouth), John Freeman and Mark Snow (Eastham).
10. Plymouth town (PTR 1:145-151) [D]: 7 Jan 1675/6 council of war with Joseph Warren and "Serjeant harlow"; Joseph Bartlett on the committee to clothe the soldiers; Harlow and Warren raters and war accountants 1676-77; Mordecai Ellis surveyor, 4 May 1676.
11. Yarmouth (HCC 2:193-195): Capt. Thomas Howes led the third and fifth expeditions; the war rate of 29 Apr 1676 charges Jeremiah Howes £7 14s, "Mrs. Prence" (Mary Howes Prence), "Mr. Mayo" (probably Rev. John Mayo) and Nathaniel Bassett; "Mr. Mayo" lost a horse on the Mount Hope march.
12. Eastham kin: Timothy Cole, John Cole's brother, a No. 7 soldier-grantee (Bodge p. 439) [probable]; John Walker, slain with Pierce, a grandson of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins (HCC 2:367n) [C].
13. Captives: no family buyer is named. Family men sat on the bodies that sold them (112 people, PCR 5:173; 57 "come in to Sandwich," 5:174) and on the jury of March 1676/7 whose verdict sent Timothy Jacked alias Canjuncke and Nassamaquat "out of the country" (Bartlett, Mark Snow, 5:224). Isaac Howland led a party for Church in Aug 1676, on terms giving the English half the prisoners.
14. Elizabeth Howland at Swansea in 1675: unproven; no record places her there before 1686 [T].

Corrections: Chittenden's death; Woodworth "killed"; Nye's death basis; the Sandwich receipt; the John Mayo credited under Moseley (Dec 1675) is not the Eastham man [I].

Best crossings: the town councils of 29 Feb 1675/6; the colony war-charges committee (Chittenden, Capt. Freeman, 4 Oct 1675); Scituate's land list of 21 July 1676 (Lt. Isaac Buck, his son-in-law Joseph Garrett, Charles Stockbridge for Benjamin Woodworth); the jury of March 1676/7 (Joseph Bartlett, Mark Snow, John Howland Jr.); Pierce's company (Benjamin Chittenden, Benjamin Nye, John Walker, probably John Read Jr.); Rehoboth's 1676 (Reads, Ides, Pecks, Fuller).

2. People

Scituate

isaac-chittenden-1625, Isaac Chittenden (direct ancestor)

• Archive had: council of war 1671 (PCR 5:64); war-charges committee 4 Oct 1675; press master (5:183); died by 1 Nov 1676; Deane's 20 May 1676 death flagged as doubtful against the jury of 29 July 1676.
• General Court at Plymouth, 4 Oct 1675: "Generall Cudworth, Mr Constant Sonthworth, Capt Freeman, Mr Laythorp, and Mr Chettenden were appointed to be a comittee in the behalfe of the country, to take an accoumpt of the charges arising by this p[re]sent warr" (PCR 5:175, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n188/mode/1up) [D, proven].
• Council of war at Marshfield, 6 Dec 1675 (the Narragansett levy): "Major Cudworth, Cornett Robert Studson, and Isacke Chettenden presse masters, for the pressing of able and fitt men att Scittuate" (PCR 5:183, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n196/mode/1up) [D, proven].
• Town council of war, 29 Feb 1675/6: "Scittuate: Cornett Robert Studson, Isacke Chettenden, Edward Jenkens"; the councils, with the commission officers, "shall haue power to order all watches and wardings and garrisons" (PCR 5:186, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n199/mode/1up) [D, proven]. New to the archive.
• Scituate committee "to procure clothing, &c. for the soldiers, viz. Gen. Cudworth, Cornet Stetson, Isaac Chittenden, Joseph White" (1675; Deane p. 120, https://archive.org/details/historyofscituat00deane/page/n127/mode/1up) [C, citing town records, probable]. Spring 1676: "twenty-five men were ordered to be pressed from Scituate ... Gen. Cudworth, Lieut. Buck and Isaac Chittenden were appointed press-masters" (Deane p. 121, n128) [C, probable].
• Alive 29 July 1676: "Wee, whose names are vnderwritten, being impannelled on a jury the 29th of July, 1676, by Mr Nathaniel Tilden, the constable of Scittuate, to view the corpes of Joseph Ellis, of Scittuate" (drowned in the harbour); first signer "ISACKE CHETTENDEN" (PCR 5:225-226, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n238/mode/1up). "Mr Nathaniel Tilden" is among the constables sworn for Scituate at the June 1676 court (PCR 5:195, n208), which fixes the year. Administration "on the estate of Isacke Chettenden, deceased" to Martha and Israel Chittenden, court of 1 Nov 1676, Cudworth and Cornet Stetson to help settle it (PCR 5:211, n224) [D, proven].
• Correction: Deane p. 128 ("slain at Scituate on the memorable 20th May, 1676") and p. 232 ("He fell in repulsing the Indians from the Town 1676") cannot stand for 20 May; death between 29 July and 1 Nov 1676, cause unknown [D/I; 20 May: disproven]. (The Joseph Ellis drowned at Scituate is not shown to be of the Sandwich Ellis family; nothing found links them.)
• Open: the original jury paper and Deane's "authentic records"; whether he died of wounds, sickness or otherwise.

Benjamin Chittenden (killed 26 Mar 1676; on Isaac's page, no file of his own)

• "From Scituate, 15 Slain. Capt. Pierce, Samuel Russell, Benjamin Chittenden, ..." (Newman's letter, Bodge p. 359, https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/n392/mode/1up; Deane p. 122-123) [D, proven]. Deane's genealogy calls him "Benjamin, son of Isaac, sen." and says he "fell with Capt. Pierce ... and left no family" (p. 232, n239); Thomas Chittenden's will (1669) left a legacy "to Benjamin, son of Isaac" (Deane p. 232) [C, probable as son of isaac-chittenden-1625; Deane's "Isaac, sen." / "Isaac, jr." split is confused].

stephen-chittenden-1654, Stephen Chittenden and martha-vinall-fl1646, Martha (Vinall) Chittenden

• Martha was co-administrator of Isaac's estate, 1 Nov 1676 (PCR 5:211) [D, proven]. No record of Stephen's service found; his brother Benjamin was killed with Pierce (above).

isaac-buck-d1695, Lt. Isaac Buck (direct ancestor)

• Archive had: lieutenant 1669; mustered "all the men below" on 20 May 1676 (Deane p. 127).
• New: land for service. "The names of such souldiers of Scittuat whoe desired to be satisfyed in lands for such seruice as they pformed for the country ... Imp[rimis], Leifte Isake Bucke, 10:00:00 ... Cor[poral?] John Bucke, 08:09:05 ... Joseph Garrett, 05:09:07 ... Charlse Stockbridge, for Benjamine Woodworth, 07:09:00" (PCR 5:206, council of war 21 July 1676, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n219/mode/1up) [D, proven]. Deane reprints it from the town's attested copy as "The persons to have land as allowed by the Court," with "Cornet John Buck" and "Plymouth, July 22d, 1676. Nathaniel Morton, Secretary" (pp. 129-130, n136-137); Bodge reprints it (p. 464, n497). His was the largest credit after Richard Dwelley's.
• Press master spring 1676 with Cudworth and Chittenden (Deane p. 121) [C, probable]; Scituate's committee "to take account of all the service of the soldiers in all their goings out, and report to the Governor, viz. Gen. Cudworth, Lieut. Buck and John Cushing" (Deane p. 121) [C, probable].
• Crossing: Joseph Garrett, on the same list, was his son-in-law (co-administrator, 1695, per the archive); Stephen Chittenden, the other son-in-law, was Isaac Chittenden's son.
• Open: "Cor John Bucke" in PCR reads Corporal or Cornet [?]; Deane has Cornet.

mehitable-buck-fl1679, Mehitable Buck: nothing for the war beyond her father and her future husband's family (married Stephen Chittenden 1679).

michael-pierce-d1676, Capt. Michael Pierce (direct ancestor) and abigail-pierce-fl1671

• Archive had: killed 26 Mar 1676; will; Newman's list; Hubbard and News from New-England.
• New: the council of war, 29 Feb 1675/6, ordered the pressed men of the southern towns "to be att Plymouth on Weddensday, the eight of this instant, in order vnto a further march, and with them 20 or 30 of the southeren Indians ... to goe forth vnder the comaund of Captaine Michael Peirse and Leiftenant Samuell Fuller" (PCR 5:187, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n200/mode/1up) [D, proven]: the commission for the expedition that ended at Pawtucket, with its Native soldiers.
• Court of 22 July 1676: "the last will and testament of Captaine Michaell Peirse, of Scittuate, lately slayne on the countryes service, bearing date the 15th of January, 1675," presented; executor Benjamin Peirse to hold back a quarter of each legacy until the estate proved clear (PCR 5:203, n216) [D, proven]; Mr John Jacob of Hingham made guardian of "John Peirse, the son of Capt Peirse, deceased" (PCR 5:213, n226) [D]. Abigail (Pierce) Holbrook's legacy was among those held back [I].

walter-woodworth-fl1635, joseph-woodworth-fl1669, sarah-stockbridge-1645; Benjamin Woodworth

• Archive had: Walter's eldest son Benjamin "killed in King Philip's War"; land assigned for his service to Charles Stockbridge (Sarah's half-brother), who kept the mill garrison.
• PCR 5:206 (above): "Charlse Stockbridge, for Benjamine Woodworth, 07:09:00" [D]. The wording is "for," the form used of an agent or assignee; it does not say Benjamin was dead [I].
• Jury verdict on "one Robbinson" killed by a falling tree near Edward Wanton's land, Scituate, entered at the court of 6 Mar 1676/7; jurors include "JOSEPH WOODWORTH" and "BENJAMINE WOODWORTH" (PCR 5:227, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n240/mode/1up, page image checked) [D, proven that a Benjamin Woodworth was alive in Scituate after the war].
• Narragansett No. 4, list of 1733: "LEABANON. Benjamin Woodworth." with no claimant (Bodge p. 428, https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/n461/mode/1up) [D]; a Benjamin Woodworth died at Lebanon, Conn., in 1728 (compiled) [C].
• Correction: "killed in King Philip's War" (Deane; Woodworth 1898) is doubtful; probably he served (Narragansett or later), lived, and removed to Lebanon [I, probable]. Namesake check: no second Benjamin Woodworth of Scituate is known in these years.
• Sarah (Stockbridge) Woodworth: her half-brother's garrison house at the mill was the main garrison attacked on 20 May 1676: "The garrison house of Stockbridge was pallisadoed on three sides, the fourth being defended by the mill pond ... Here the Indians fought several hours" (Deane pp. 126-127, n133-134) [C, probable].

john-stockbridge-d1657: died before the war; nothing.

william-holbrook-1620, William Holbrook (Mendon, then Scituate)

• Mendon: "Dea. William Holbrook" selectman 1 Jan 1673 (Metcalf p. 56); among lot-owners "at the breaking out of the war" and among "those who returned after the war" (Metcalf, Annals of Mendon, pp. 76-77, https://archive.org/details/annalsoftownofme00metc/page/n93/mode/1up) [C, probable]. Mendon was attacked on 14 July 1675 and abandoned (Massachusetts_Bay.md). Namesake: his son William (1657/8-1714) could be the returner [?].
• Crossing: Job Tyler and Hope Tyler were Mendon lot-owners and returners with him (Metcalf pp. 76-77).

john-holbrook-1650: nothing found beyond his father-in-law's death (archive agrees).

walter-dean-fl1637, Walter Dean (Taunton)

• Taunton selectman at the June 1676 court: "Taunton celect: Richard Williams, Walter Dean, Leift Macye, Willam Harvey, Samuell Smith" (PCR 5:195, n208) [D, proven]; the archive notes he moved property for protection during the war.
• Fines list of 1675/6: "The constables of Taunton for pressing Joseph Deane, a man vnfitt to goe forth on seruice, 04:00:00" (PCR 5:190, n203) [D]. Joseph Dean is probably Walter's son [C/I, possible].

Plymouth, Duxbury, Marshfield, Middleborough

No muster roll of Plymouth's own companies (Bradford's, Church's or Cudworth's) is printed in PCR, PTR, Davis or Bodge; the town book records the levies, not the names pressed. So for the Harlow/Churchill/Rider/Bartlett/Delano men the evidence is offices, rates and lists, not service.

william-harlow-1625, Sgt. William Harlow (direct ancestor)

• Town meeting of 7 Jan 1675/6, on two warrants "to presse eleven able sufficient men to goe forth as souldiers against the Indians" and to make a rate of £11: the town "made Choise of a Councell for the Towne to advice and order the affaires of the Towne Respecting the p[re]mises ... Capt Willam Bradford Joseph Warren Mr Thomas Cushman Willam Crow Leiftenant Morton Willam Clarke Serjeant harlow" (PTR 1:145, https://archive.org/details/recordsoftownofp01plym/page/n166/mode/1up) [D, proven]. New.
• 4 May 1676, grand juryman; 13 June 1676, rater; 19 Aug 1676, with William Crow and Joseph Warren "to take the accoumpt of each manes estate ... for defraying of the publicke Charges of the Collonie," and rater; 15 June 1677, on the committee "to take an accoumpt of what is due from severall p[er]sons Relateing to the warr since the last expedition under Major Bradford" (PTR 1:147, 150-151, n168, n171-172) [D, proven].
• "Serjeant Willam harlow" heads the Harlows in an unheaded list of some 80 Plymouth men entered at leaf [125] of the town book between the meetings of 4 May and 13 June 1676 (PTR 1:148-149, n169-170; page image checked); its purpose is not stated (perhaps the rate list for the soldiers' pay voted 4 May) [D for presence, I for purpose, possible].
• The archive's grant of "the timbers of the fort" after the war (Davis) fits the fort ordered on Fort Hill, 19 Feb 1675/6: "an hundred foot square the pallasadoes to be 10 foot and one halfe longe ... every man is to doe three foot of the said ffence" (PTR 1:146-147) [D]. Every male of sixteen and up in the family worked on it [I].

samuel-harlow-1653, Samuel Harlow: "Samuell harlow" on the same list (PTR 1:149) [D, presence only]. No service record found.

eleazer-churchill-1652, Eleazer Churchill: "Eliezer Churchill" and his brother "Joseph Churchill" on the same list (PTR 1:149) [D, presence only]. No service found. john-churchill-1657, mary-churchill-d1715: nothing found.

joseph-warren-1627, Joseph Warren (collateral; brother of Mary (Warren) Bartlett)

• Plymouth town council and rater, 7 Jan 1675/6; on the committee "to make and provide Clothing in the behalfe of the Towne for the souldiers now to Goe forth ... Mr Gray Joseph Warren Jabez howland Willam Clarke Joseph Bartlett" (PTR 1:145-146, n166-167) [D, proven].
• Colony order of 29 Feb 1675/6, Plymouth's town council of war: "Nathaniel Morton, Joseph Warren, Joseph Howland" (PCR 5:186, n199) [D, proven].
• 13 June 1676, with William Crow and Jabez Howland, "to present to the Court in the townes behalfe what charges is due to them from the Country" (PTR 1:150) [D].
• Irish charity, March 1676/7: Plymouth's £8 to be distributed by "Leift. Morton, Joseph Warren, Willam Crow" (PCR 5:222, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n235/mode/1up) [D, proven].

joseph-bartlett-fl1673, Joseph Bartlett

• Soldiers' clothing committee, 7 Jan 1675/6 (PTR 1:146) [D]; on the list of PTR 1:148 [D].
• Administration of his father's estate: "vnto Mary Bartlett & Joseph Bartlett to adminnester on the estate of Robert Bartlett, deceased" (court of 6 Mar 1676/7, PCR 5:220, n233) [D, proven]. Earlier, "Libertie of adminnestration is graunted vnto Joseph Bartlett" on the estate of Jonathan Fallowell, deceased (Nov 1676, PCR 5:213), probably his wife's kin (she was a Fallowell) [D; cause of death not stated].
• Juror, 6 Mar 1676/7, when "three Indians, named Timothy Jacked, allies Canjuncke, and Nassamaquat, and Pompacanshe, were indited for murdering John Knowles, John Tisdall, Senir, and Samuell Attkins"; the jury, "Mr Thomas Huckens, John Wadsworth, John Howland, Abraham Jackson, Benajah Pratt, John Blacke, Marke Snow, Joseph Bartlett, Samuell Jenings, Arther Howland, Samuell West, Seth Pope," found the first two "very suspisious of the murder" and nothing against Pompacanshe; the court sentenced "the two former ... to be sent out of the country speedily, and the other likewise, as hee is prisoner taken in warr" (PCR 5:224, n237) [D, proven]. (Knowles and Atkins were the Eastham men slain at Taunton in 1675, HCC 2:366.)
• March 1677/8: "Experience Michell, Edward Michell, and Joseph Bartlett are allowed and appointed ... to be gaurdians to the children of Jacob Michell, deceased" (PCR 5:252, n265) [D]. Jacob Mitchell and his wife were killed by Indians at Dartmouth in 1675: Davis, Ancient Landmarks, on the Carver-house lot "granted by the town in 1667 to Jacob Mitchell ... moved to Dartmouth, and was killed by the Indians in King Philip's war, in 1675" (page not in the OCR; https://archive.org/details/ancientlandmarks1899davi?q=%22Jacob+Mitchell%22) [C]; Drake's note to Hubbard (1865, 1:254), citing PCR 5:204-205, that John Num "owned also that he was of that Company that murdered Jacob Mitchell and his Wife, and John Pope, at Dartmouth" [D, probable].

robert-bartlett-1603 and mary-warren-1610: Robert died in 1676 (cause not found); Mary and Joseph administered (PCR 5:220) [D]. sarah-bartlett-fl1656: nothing found.

samuel-rider-1630, Samuel Rider Jr. (Plymouth): "Samuell Ryder" on the PTR 1:148 list [D presence; identity I, probable: the Plymouth cooper]. samuel-rider-1657, john-rider-1664: nothing found (John was 11).

samuel-rider-fl1662, Samuel Rider Sr. (Yarmouth)

• Yarmouth war rate "made this year, April 29 [1676], by Messrs. Edmund Hawes, Samuel Rider, and James Matthews, 'towards the charge of the late war'" (HCC 2:194, https://archive.org/details/historyofcapecodfree_0/page/n215/mode/1up) [C quoting town record, probable]. The rate charges Samuel, Joseph, Zachary and John Rider, sons named in his will (archive), so the rater is probably the elder Samuel [I, probable].
• "Benj. Ryder," whom his will names as a son, marched to Mount Hope on 24 June 1675 and was in the third and fourth Yarmouth expeditions; "Horses lost: ... Benj. Ryder" (HCC 2:193n) [C quoting the town's list; kinship I, probable]. Benjamin is not in the archive.

philip-delano-1603, rebecca-delano-1657, mary-pontus-fl1645, hannah-pontus-1624: nothing found for the war (Philip was 72; his Pequot War service of 1637 is in Bodge p. 457 as "Philip Delanoy").

isaac-howland-fl1681, Isaac Howland (Middleborough; direct ancestor)

• Archive had: Weston's marksman story (June 1675) and Church's swamp action.
• Church (Drake ed. 1825), early Aug 1676: Philip's people "left their kettles boiling, and meat roasting upon their wooden spits; and ran into a swamp ... Captain Church pursuing, sent Mr. Isaac Howland with a party on one side of the swamp, while himself with the rest, ran on the other side ... Captain Church and Mr. Howland soon met at the further end of the swamp" (pp. 90-91, https://archive.org/details/khistkingphilips00churrich/page/n96/mode/1up) [D (printed narrative), proven]. Terms of Church's service from late July 1676: "that the country should find them ammunition and provision, and half the prisoners and arms they took. The Captain and his English soldiers to have the other half of the prisoners and arms, and the Indian soldiers the loose plunder" (p. 74, n79) [D]. So Isaac Howland's party shared in the prisoners' value [I, probable]; no record names what he received.
• Irish charity, March 1676/7: "Middle Kerrey [Middleborough], 04:10:00 ... Francis Combe, Isacke Howard" to distribute it (PCR 5:222, n235) [D]. "Howard" is probably a misreading or miswriting of Howland: no Isaac Howard is known at Middleborough, and Isaac Howland was its leading man [I, probable; reading [?]].
• Kin: his brother Jabez Howland was on Plymouth's clothing committee with Warren and Bartlett (PTR 1:146) and Church's lieutenant; a "John Howland" sat on the March 1676/7 jury with Joseph Bartlett (PCR 5:224): John Howland Jr. of Barnstable, Isaac's brother, is the likeliest [I, possible; Arthur Howland on the same jury is of the Marshfield family].

elizabeth-vaughan-fl1681: nothing found for the war.

elizabeth-tilley-fl1620, Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland

• Question: did she flee Swansea? No record places her at Swansea before her will of 17 Dec 1686. The Pilgrim John Howland Society says she had to leave her daughter Lydia Browne's home there; Wikipedia's John Howland says she had moved in with her son Jabez (Plymouth) and that the Rocky Nook farm "burned down in 1675 during King Philip's War" (citing Beaudry, Documentary Archaeology, p. 86) [C/T]. These accounts are not compatible as they stand. Verdict: unproven [possible].
• Swansea's share of the Irish charity (£21) was to be distributed by "Mr Browne, John Butterworth" (PCR 5:222) [D]; Mr. James Browne was her son-in-law [I, probable].

ursula-macomber-fl1670, ursula-macomber-fl1673: nothing for the Marshfield Macombers. A "John Maccomber" of Taunton is a No. 4 soldier-grantee, claimed by "Thomas, son" (Bodge p. 427) [D]: John Macomber Jr. of Taunton, of a different branch (Stackpole p. 10 has the "three brothers" tradition only) [C/T]. Not kin by any record.

Sandwich

benjamin-nye-d1676, Benjamin Nye (collateral; son of Benjamin and Katherine (Tupper) Nye)

• Archive had: killed at Pierce's Fight; "The 1907 Nye genealogy is the only source" (basis compiled, possible).
• Rev. Noah Newman to Rev. John Cotton, Rehoboth, 27 Mar 1676: "Sandwich, 5 Slain. Benjamin Nye, Daniel Bessey, Caleb Blake, John Gibbs, Stephen Wing" (Bodge pp. 359-360, https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/n393/mode/1up; Deane pp. 122-123, n129-130, from the letter then in private hands; the Rehoboth Vital Record prints the same list from "Colonial Records," p. 919) [D, proven that a Benjamin Nye of Sandwich died]. Nye 1907: "Benjamin, killed by the Indians at the battle of Rehoboth" [C].
• Namesake check: the only other Benjamin Nye of Sandwich is the father, alive to 1704; so the slain man is the son [I, probable]. Correction: death basis documented, confidence proven; filiation compiled, probable.

benjamin-nye-1620, Benjamin Nye, and katherine-tupper-1620 (direct ancestors)

• Lost their son Benjamin with Pierce (above).
• Receipt of 2 Feb 1676/7: "Receiued of Benjamine Nye and Steuen Skiffe, agents for the towne of Sandwich, and on theire accompt, the sume of fifty pounds, and is in full of what is owing from this towne vnto ours vpon ballence of accompt ordered by the councell of the collonie of New Plymouth. Wee say, receiued, this second of February, 1676, in the behalfe of the towne of Barnstable. ... THOMAS HINCKLEY, THOMAS HUCKENS, BARNABAS LAYTHORPE" (PCR 5:233, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n246/mode/1up) [D, proven]. Sandwich's town record: the council of war "having determined that Sandwich pay the town of Barnstable £73.16 'to balance the account of charges that have arisen by the late wars,'" paid "out of the great rate of £279.1" (HCC 2:71, https://archive.org/details/historyofcapecodfree_0/page/n84/mode/1up) [C quoting town record]. Correction to the archive's "the colony gave its receipt ... settling Sandwich's King Philip's War account": the receipt is Barnstable's, for Sandwich's share of the inter-town balance; Benjamin Nye was one of Sandwich's two agents.

john-ellis-d1677, Lt. John Ellis (direct ancestor) and elizabeth-freeman-1624

• Archive had: the town meeting of 28 Feb 1675/6 "called ... by Lt. John Ellis and Benj. Hammond the constable" (HCC 2:68).
• 1676: the town, having chosen officers for the council of war, "yet judging ... that the object will not be sufficiently answered unless men be hired to keep constantly out upon service, [voted] that Lt. John Ellis, Thos. Tobey Sr., and Stephen Skiff be empowered as agents to hire for the town as many men as shall be necessary" (HCC 2:70, n83) [C quoting town record, probable]. New.
• Colony treasury, debts due to the colony c. 1675/6: "By Leift Ellice, three guns, & ten pound of powder, and 12 pound of bulletts, 03:15:00," next to "By Capt Freeman, for a gun, 01:00:00" (PCR 8:145, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0708newp/page/n158/mode/1up) [D; "Leift Ellice" = John Ellis of Sandwich, I, probable: the only Lt. Ellis in the colony then].

matthias-ellis-1657, mercy-ellis-fl1680 (Nye): no service found for Matthias (18-19 in 1675-76). Mercy (Nye) Ellis lost her brother Benjamin with Pierce [C/D, probable].

mordecai-ellis-1651, Mordecai Ellis: Plymouth town meeting of 4 May 1676, "The Surveyors Steven Bryant Isacke Cushman Ephraim Tilson Mordica Ellis" (PTR 1:147, n168) [D]; the only Mordecai Ellis in the colony [I, probable], so he was living at Plymouth that spring. No service found.

edmund-freeman-1596 and edmund-freeman-1620 (Edmund Freeman Jr.)

• Edmund Jr. on Sandwich's town council of war: "Sandwich: Mr Richard Bourne, Mr Edmond Freeman, Junir, Thomas Tobey, Senir" (PCR 5:186) [D, proven]. Nothing for Edmund Sr. (about 79).

thomas-tupper-1578, anne-tupper-1586, thomas-tupper-1638

• Sandwich, 1675: "Thos. Tupper, Hy. Dillingham, Stephen Skiff, and Joshua Borgis be of the Council of War from this time" (HCC 2:68, n81) [C quoting town record]. Which Thomas is not stated [?]; the elder was about 97 and died 28 Mar 1676 ("He d. Mar. 28, æ. upwards of 98 yrs. His wife d. this same yr. æ. 90," HCC 2:71n), so the son is likelier [I, possible].
• 30 June 1677: "Rd. Bourne, Thos. Tupper, and Stephen Skiff were app. 'to take account of what ought justly to be satisfied for in reference to the war that hath already been'" (HCC 2:71) [C; the son, I, probable, the father being dead].
• Native side: the Tuppers' Indian mission (archive). On 2 Sept 1675 the colony's council of war condemned 57 Indians "lately come in to Sandwich in a submissiue way" to "ppetuall servitude" and ordered the Treasurer to sell them (PCR 5:174, n187) [D]. No family member is named in it.

Yarmouth, Eastham and Monomoy

jeremiah-howes-1637, Jeremiah Howes (direct ancestor), sarah-prence-1647

• Archive had: Yarmouth town council of war Feb 1675/6; constable June 1676.
• PCR 5:186 confirms the council: "Yarmouth: Mr Edmond Hawes, John Miller, Jeremiah Howes" [D].
• War rate of 29 Apr 1676: "Jerh. Howes, 7.14" (HCC 2:195, n216) [C quoting town record, probable; columns jumbled in the OCR, read with care].
• Sarah (Prence) Howes was a sister of Mercy (Prence) Freeman, wife of Capt. John Freeman [archive kinship], so the Yarmouth and Eastham councils held two brothers-in-law [I].

thomas-howes-fl1676, Capt. Thomas Howes (collateral, brother of Jeremiah)

• "Third Expedition, one month's service: Capt. Thomas Howes, Sergt. Sam. Hall, ..."; "Fifth Expedition: Capt. Howes and 21 men" (Yarmouth town list, HCC 2:193n, n214) [C quoting record, probable].
• Yarmouth selectmen at the June 1676 court: "Mr Edmond Hawes, Capt Howes, Ensigne Thacher" (PCR 5:195) [D]. Will 15 Jan 1675/6 (archive), made between expeditions [I]. "Mr. Thomas Howes d. in Nov. [1676]. He is often mentioned in the records with the prefix of Capt. He was son of the grantee Howes" (HCC 2:194n) [C, probable].
• Ebenezer Goodspeed of Barnstable, deposition 1742: "a soldier in the Narragansett wars so-called, under Capt. Thomas Howes" (Bodge p. 441, n474) [D (deposition), proven that Howes commanded].

mary-howes-fl1676, Mary (Howes) Prence: the Yarmouth war rate charges "Mrs. Prence, 1. 3. 4" (HCC 2:195) [C]. Her son Thomas's will provides for "my Mother Prence" (archive), so "Mrs. Prence" in Yarmouth in 1676 is probably the governor's widow [I, probable].

john-mayo-1597, Rev. John Mayo (direct ancestor)

• "On the 5th mo. 1673, Mr. Mayo removed his person and goods to reside with his daughter in Barnstable, where, and at Yarmouth since, he hath led a private life ... The — day of May 1676, he departed this life at Yarmouth" (Increase Mather's record of the Second Church, quoted HCC 2:358-359, https://archive.org/details/historyofcapecodfree_0/page/358/mode/1up) [D-in-C, probable].
• "Horses lost [on the Mount Hope march of 24 June 1675]: Mr. Thornton, Benj. Ryder, Jona. Smith, Paul Sears, Jno. Crowell, Mr. Mayo, ..." (HCC 2:193n); rate of 29 Apr 1676: "Mr. Mayo, 2. 4. 3" (HCC 2:195) [C]. "Mr." and residence fit the aged minister, the only Mayo then of Yarmouth [I, probable].

john-mayo-1627, John Mayo (Eastham) and daniel-mayo-1664

• Archive had: "A John Mayo under Moseley in King Philip's War (credited 20 Dec 1675)."
• The credit is in the Massachusetts treasurer's journal (Bodge p. 72, n105) [D]; Moseley's company was a Massachusetts company raised about Boston. An Eastham man of Plymouth Colony would be paid by Plymouth, so this John Mayo is probably the Roxbury/Boston namesake [I, probable]: drop it from the Eastham John Mayo's page. No Plymouth service found for him; Daniel was 11.

john-freeman-1627, Capt. John Freeman (Eastham)

• Lieutenant of the colony's troop from 1659, disbanded "by a general order June 1, 1675" (Bodge p. 457, n490) [C].
• Letter to Gov. Winslow: "Taunton, 3 d., 4 mo., 1675. This morning three of our men are slain close by one of our courts of guard, (two of them, Samuel Atkins and John Knowles, of Eastham); houses are burned in our sight; our men are picked off at every bush. ... Eastham has, I think, not twenty good arms in it" (HCC 2:366-367n, n395-396) [D-in-C, probable]. The date as printed (3 June, Old Style fourth month) is before the outbreak and is doubtful [?]; July 1675 fits the events.
• Court of 5 June 1678: Taunton to make a rate for "billetting Captaine Freemen and his men and theire horses ... and likewise to pay for beefe which was disposed off when Cap[t] Freeman was att youer towne ... for the releiffe of some of youer poor, whoe were in extreamyty" (PCR 5:263-264, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n276/mode/1up) [D, proven].
• Colony committee on war charges, 4 Oct 1675 (PCR 5:175); Eastham town council, 29 Feb 1675/6 (5:186); Irish charity distributor for Eastham, "Captaine Freeman" (5:222); "By Capt Freeman, for a gun, 01:00:00" (PCR 8:145) [D, proven].
• Narragansett No. 7, Eastham, 1733: "John Freeman ... 34" (Bodge p. 440, n473) [D]. The Eastham list also carries John Knowles and Samuel Atkins (killed at Taunton) and John Walker (killed with Pierce), so it is not confined to the Swamp Fight; the captain is the likeliest John Freeman [I, probable; his son John Jr., b. 1651, possible].

nicholas-snow-d1676, Nicholas Snow and constance-hopkins-d1677 (direct ancestors)

• Administration "vnto Constant Snow, and Marke Snow, and John Snow" (court of 6 Mar 1676/7, PCR 5:220) [D].
• Their son Mark Snow: Eastham town council of war, 29 Feb 1675/6 (PCR 5:186); Eastham selectman June 1676 (5:195); juror on the trial of March 1676/7 (5:224) [D, proven].
• Their grandson: "Mr. William Walker came over 1635 ... and was here m. to Sarah Snow Jan. 25, 1654-5. They had John Nov. 24, 1655, killed by Indians 1676" (HCC 2:367n, n396) [C]; "Eastham, 4 slain, Joseph Nessefield, John Walker, John M[...]" in Newman's list of Pierce's dead (Rehoboth VR transcript; Bodge p. 360) [D]; "Jno. Walker ... 53" among Eastham's No. 7 grantees (Bodge p. 440) [D]. Sarah Snow as a daughter of Nicholas and Constance is from the Mayflower compilations, not checked here [C, probable].

ruth-snow-d1717, john-cole-1644, daniel-cole-1614

• Narragansett No. 7, Eastham: "*Timothy Cole for his father Timothy ... 41" and "*Jona. Grew for his father-in-law, Daniel Cole ... 59" (Bodge p. 439, https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/n472/mode/1up, page image checked) [D]. Timothy Cole, b. 15 Sept 1646, son of Daniel and brother of John, is the only Timothy Cole of Eastham [I, probable]. Which Daniel Cole served is uncertain [?]: Daniel Sr. was 61 in 1675, and a "Daniell Cole, Junir" owed an old fine in the treasury account (PCR 8:145).
• Ruth (Snow) Cole's brother Mark sat on Eastham's council (above).

thomas-mulford-1640, Thomas Mulford (Eastham)

• Narragansett No. 7, Eastham: "Thos. Mulford ... 90" (Bodge p. 440) [D]; constable of Eastham chosen June 1677 ("Eas[tham] Thomas Mulford," PCR 5:231) [D]. The only Thomas Mulford of Eastham of age [I, probable]: a soldier of the war, new to the archive.

nathaniel-bassett-1628 and dorcas-joyce-1640 (Yarmouth)

• War rate of 29 Apr 1676: "Nathl. Bassett, 2. 9. 6"; "Hosea Joyce" also rated (HCC 2:194-195) [C]. Nathaniel was constable of Yarmouth in 1675 (archive), the officer who served the press warrants [I].

william-nickerson-1604, joseph-nickerson-1647, ruhamah-jones-1650, anne-busby-1608, john-nickerson-fl1709

• "Fourth Expedition, nine men, with Capt.: Hy. Gold, Jno. Taylor, Wm. Gage, Hy. Gage, Wm. Nickerson, James Maker, ..." (Yarmouth list, HCC 2:193n) [C]. William Sr. was about 71; his son William Jr. is likelier [I, possible]; neither is proven. "Nich. Nickerson" (a son) is on the Yarmouth rate (HCC 2:194). "Teague Jones, 2. 4" on the same rate is Ruhamah's father as the Nickerson history has it [C]. Nothing found for Joseph or John Nickerson.

Rehoboth, Swansea, Taunton, Norton

Rehoboth's two lists (Bliss, History of Rehoboth, 1836, p. 117, https://archive.org/details/historyofrehobot00blis/page/n128/mode/1up; reprinted Bodge p. 463, n496, "confirmed by comparison with Narraganset No. 4"): "Those engaged in the Narraganset expedition, were, John Fitch, Jonathan Wilmarth, Jasiel Perry, Thomas Kendrick, Jonathan Sabin, John Carpenter, John Redeway, John Martin, John Hall, John Miller, Jun., John Ide, Joseph Doggett, Sampson Mason, Jun." and "Those who served under Major Bradford, were, Preserved Abell, ... Nicholas Ide, Noah Mason, Samuel Sabin, Thomas Read, Israel Read, George Robinson, Nathaniel Wilmarth" [C printing a lost town list; D-grade for the No. 4 cross-check; probable].

nicholas-ide-d1690, Nicholas Ide (direct ancestor), martha-ide-d1676, timothy-ide-1660

• "Nicholas Ide" served under Major Bradford (June-Aug 1676) (Bliss p. 117) [C, probable]. Namesake: Nicholas Sr. was in his fifties; his son Nicholas (b. Nov 1654) is likelier [I, probable].
• Burials (Rehoboth town record, transcribed in Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, p. 900, https://archive.org/details/cu31924028816714/page/n944/mode/1up): "IYDE John, the middle of December, 1676"; "IYDE The wife of Nicholas Iyde buried the third of November, 1676" [D, proven]. The same page has some twenty Rehoboth burials between late May and December 1676 (Sahen, Pecke, Fuller, Hunt, Perry, Mason, Fitch, Redway, Wilmoth, Ensign Henry Smith, Titus, ...); no cause is given, and none is said to be slain. A sickness in the burned-out town is possible [I, possible].
• Narragansett No. 4, Rehoboth, 1733: "John Ide ... Timothy, brother" (Bodge p. 427, https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/n460/mode/1up) [D, proven]: Timothy claimed his dead brother's soldier right, so the family drew land at Amoskeag (now Goffstown, N.H.) for John's service [I, probable].
• Administration on "the estate of Samuell Fuller, of Rehoboth, deceased" to Robert Fuller and "Nicholas Iyde, Senir" (and Mary Fuller) (courts of 7 June and 3 July 1677, PCR 5:234, 237, n247, n250) [D]. Samuel Fuller, husband of Mary Ide (married 1673, archive), was buried "the 15th of August, 1676" (Rehoboth VR p. 900) [D].
• Rehoboth burned: "March the 28th, 1676, two days after Pierce's Fight, a party of the Indians, crossing the river, laid the town in ashes, burning forty houses and thirty barns" (Bliss p. 95, n106) [C].

john-read-1598, John Read and daniel-read-1655, Daniel Read (direct ancestors)

• John Read Jr., b. Braintree 29 Aug 1640, Daniel's brother: "In the town record of deaths and burials, the names of four individuals are recorded, as 'slain on the 26th of March, 1676,' viz: John Reed, Jr. John Fitch, Jr. Benjamin Buckland, and John Miller, Jr." (Bliss p. 95; Bodge p. 464); "READ John, Jr., buried in Aprill, 1676" (Rehoboth VR p. 900) [D, proven]. Bliss infers he died with Pierce's main body, Bodge that he may have been one of the nine at "Nine Men's Misery" [I, possible either way].
• Administration "on the estate of Mr John Read, deceased" to Mr Daniel Smith and Thomas Read "together with Mistris Rachel Read, widdow" (June 1676, PCR 5:200, n213) [D, proven]. Reed 1861: "The elder John was killed by the Indians, March 21 [sic], 1776 [sic], at Pierce's Fight. He had been quite a prominent man, and was distinguished by the appellation of 'Mr.'" (p. 222, https://archive.org/details/historyofreedfam1861reed/page/n237/mode/1up) [C].
• Thomas Read (b. 1641) and Israel Read (b. 1657), brothers, under Major Bradford (Bliss p. 117) [C, probable]; of Thomas: "He was in King Philip's War, and his house was made a depository for arms" (Reed 1861 p. 223) [C]; Thomas's infant son John was buried 4 Dec 1676 (Rehoboth VR p. 900) [D].
• War rate of Rehoboth (Bliss pp. 117-118, read from the page images; total £484 5s 5d, the colony's rate on Rehoboth of 22 July 1676 being "Rehoboth, 485:05:04," PCR 5:207): "John Reade, sen." £13 18s 11d; "Thomas Read" £8 14s 4d; "Wid. Rachael Read, with the loss of a gun" £4 3s [D-in-C, probable]. Bliss calls it a "catalogue ... of those who, at one period of the war, made advances of money"; the match with the colony rate makes it Rehoboth's assessment [I, probable].
• No service found for Daniel Read. He married Hannah Peck at Rehoboth on 20 Aug 1677, the first year of peace (Rehoboth VR p. 900-901) [D].

joseph-peck-1623, Joseph Peck

• On Rehoboth's war rate, £2 10s (Bliss p. 117-118) [D-in-C, probable].
• Native side: on 6 Sept 1661 "Lieutenant Hunt and Joseph Peck were chosen to view the damage in the Indians' corn upon Kickamuet neck, and Consumpsit neck" (Bliss p. 52 [?], between the headers of pp. 51 and 53) [C]; the English cattle's damage to Wampanoag corn was one of Philip's grievances (Context_and_Native_Side.md).
• "PECKE Nathaniell, the 25th of August, 1676" and "A young child of Nicholas Pecke, in August, 1676" buried at Rehoboth (VR p. 900) [D]; whether Nathaniel and Nicholas were Joseph's brothers is not checked here [?].

banfield-capron-1660: nothing found for the war (Capron's arrival is later family tradition).

nicholas-white-d1697, Nicholas White Sr. and nicholas-white-d1728, Nicholas White Jr. (Taunton)

• Joseph White, son of Nicholas Sr. (brother of Nicholas Jr.): "He was a soldier in King Philip's war and was wounded in the 'Swamp Fight'" (Lothrop, Nicholas White Family, 1902, p. 31) [C, possible: no source given]; "Joseph White ... Joseph, son" among Taunton's No. 4 grantees (Bodge p. 427) [D, proven that a Joseph White of Taunton was a soldier-grantee; identity I, probable].
• Summer 1677: "Nicholas White, of Taunton, for selling liquor to the Indians seuerall times contrary to the law of this gou[ern]ment, was fined the sume of thirty pounds" (PCR 5:239, n252) [D, proven that a Nicholas White of Taunton was fined; which of the two is not stated, ?]. A large fine (the colony's rate on all Swansea in July 1676 was £165).
• Ursula (Macomber) White's family: see above (no war record).

Searched, nothing found for the war: abigail-pierce-fl1671 (beyond the held-back legacy), mehitable-buck-fl1679, john-holbrook-1650, john-stockbridge-d1657 (d. before), john-churchill-1657, mary-churchill-d1715, hannah-pontus-1624, mary-pontus-fl1645, philip-delano-1603, rebecca-delano-1657, sarah-bartlett-fl1656, samuel-rider-1657, john-rider-1664, dorcas-joyce-1640 (beyond her brother on the rate), elizabeth-vaughan-fl1681, ursula-macomber-fl1670, ursula-macomber-fl1673, matthias-ellis-1657, elizabeth-freeman-1624, edmund-freeman-1596, anne-busby-1608, joseph-nickerson-1647, john-nickerson-fl1709, ruhamah-jones-1650 (her 1677/8 Sabbath fine, PCR 5:253, is not a war matter), daniel-mayo-1664, banfield-capron-1660, mary-ide-1649 (beyond her husband's death).

3. Events

Figures are as the sources give them. The general chronology and the Native side are in Context_and_Native_Side.md; these are the events of this theatre that touch the family.

24 June 1675, Swansea; the Mount Hope march. The killing at Swansea opened the war (I. Mather: "Nine Englishmen murthered this day," per Context_and_Native_Side.md). Yarmouth's first levy "went to Mount Hope ... and took their first march June 24": among them Benjamin Ryder (probably a son of Samuel Rider Sr.); "Horses lost: ... Benj. Ryder ... Mr. Mayo" (HCC 2:193n). Whether Elizabeth Howland was then at her son-in-law James Browne's at Swansea is unproven (People).

June-July 1675, Taunton and Middleborough. Capt. John Freeman's Cape company was posted at Taunton: "three of our men are slain close by one of our courts of guard, (two of them, Samuel Atkins and John Knowles, of Eastham); houses are burned in our sight" (HCC 2:366-367n). Taunton fed and quartered the company and was billed for it in 1678 (PCR 5:263-264). At Middleborough Isaac Howland was in the garrison (Weston's story, in the archive); the town was then abandoned. Two Wampanoag men, Timothy Jacked alias Canjuncke and Nassamaquat, were tried in March 1676/7 for the Knowles-Tisdale-Atkins killings and, found "very suspisious," sent "out of the country" (PCR 5:224), with Joseph Bartlett and Mark Snow on the jury.

Aug-Sept 1675, the council's sales. The colony council of war adjudged 112 "men, weomen, and children" brought in to Plymouth "to be sold, and devoted vnto servitude" (PCR 5:173) and on 2 Sept the 57 "lately come in to Sandwich in a submissiue way" to "ppetuall servitude" (5:174). Capt. John Freeman was then "of the Colonial Council of War" (HCC 2:366n) [C], so he may have sat on these decisions [I, possible]; no family member is named in either entry.

4 Oct 1675, Plymouth (General Court). Committee "to take an accoumpt of the charges arising by this p[re]sent warr": Cudworth, Constant Southworth, Capt. Freeman, Barnabas Lothrop, Isaac Chittenden (PCR 5:175). Same session: Mount Hope garrison of 25 men; the Governor given "the prise of ten Indians, of those salvages lately transported out of the gou[ern]ment" (5:175).

6 Dec 1675, Marshfield (council of war): the Narragansett levy. Press masters at Scituate: Cudworth, Stetson, Isaac Chittenden (PCR 5:183). 19 Dec 1675, Great Swamp Fight: the English "killed and wounded about two hundred and thirty, whereof only eighty and five persons are dead" (I. Mather, per Context_and_Native_Side.md). Family soldiers by the land-grant lists: John Ide of Rehoboth (Bliss p. 117; No. 4), probably Timothy Cole and Thomas Mulford of Eastham (No. 7), Joseph White of Taunton (No. 4; "wounded in the Swamp Fight," Lothrop). Plymouth's Narragansett companies were Bradford's and Gorham's; no roll names which company each man was in.

7 Jan and 19 Feb 1675/6, Plymouth town. Eleven men pressed; a town council of war with Joseph Warren and Sgt. William Harlow; Joseph Bartlett on the clothing committee; a palisaded fort "an hundred foot square" on Fort Hill, every male of sixteen to build three feet of it (PTR 1:145-147).

29 Feb 1675/6, Marshfield (council of war). Town councils of war named for every town (PCR 5:186): Warren (Plymouth), Chittenden (Scituate), Edmund Freeman Jr. (Sandwich), Jeremiah Howes (Yarmouth), John Freeman and Mark Snow (Eastham). The southern-town levy with "20 or 30 of the southeren Indians" ordered to Plymouth to march "vnder the comaund of Captaine Michael Peirse and Leiftenant Samuell Fuller" (5:187). The day before, Sandwich let families "repair to the town garrison for safety" at a meeting called by Lt. John Ellis (HCC 2:68).

26 Mar 1676, Pierce's Fight, near Pawtucket. Pierce's company of about fifty English and twenty Native allies was drawn into an ambush and surrounded; "Captain Pierce was slain, and forty and nine English with him, and eight (or more) Indians who did assist the English" (I. Mather, 1676, https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofvv00math); Bodge gives "fifty-two of the English and eleven of the friendly Indians" from Newman's letter (p. 359). Family dead: Capt. Michael Pierce; Benjamin Chittenden; Benjamin Nye of Sandwich; John Walker of Eastham (grandson of Nicholas Snow); probably John Read Jr. of Rehoboth (or at Nine Men's Misery the same day). The Narragansett under Canonchet were the attackers (Bodge p. 359).

28 Mar 1676, Rehoboth burned: "forty houses and thirty barns" (Bliss p. 95). Family there: Nicholas and Martha Ide and children; John Read Sr. and sons; Joseph Peck; Samuel and Mary (Ide) Fuller.

21 Apr and 20 May 1676, Scituate. Governor Winslow's endorsement on the town's return: "13 dwelling houses burnt with their barns - one saw mill - six heads of families (Pierce, Russell, Savary, Whitcomb, Pratt, Blackmore), many others killed and made cripples" (Deane p. 128). On 20 May the attackers fought "several hours" at Charles Stockbridge's palisaded garrison by the mill and "were not repulsed until night close," when "Lieut. Buck had mustered all the men below" and Cornet Stetson came down the river (Deane pp. 126-127). Isaac Chittenden was not killed that day (People). Family there: Lt. Isaac Buck and his household (Mehitable), the Chittendens, the Woodworths, Sarah (Stockbridge) Woodworth's half-brother Charles at the garrison.

29 Apr 1676, Yarmouth war rate (raters Hawes, Samuel Rider, Matthews), total £297 (HCC 2:194-195): Jeremiah Howes, Capt. Howes, Mrs. Prence, Mr. Mayo, Nathaniel Bassett, the Riders, Teague Jones, Hosea Joyce, Nicholas Nickerson.

June-Aug 1676, Major Bradford's expedition ("a force of one hundred and fifty English and fifty Indians ... protecting the southern towns and capturing the wandering parties," Bodge p. 464): Nicholas Ide, Thomas Read and Israel Read of Rehoboth (Bliss p. 117).

21-22 July 1676, Plymouth (council of war). Scituate's soldiers paid in land: Lt. Isaac Buck £10, John Buck, Joseph Garrett, Charles Stockbridge for Benjamin Woodworth (PCR 5:206). Colony rates for the war, £3692 16s 2d, Scituate the highest at £586 7s 4d, Rehoboth £485 5s 4d (5:207). Same day: magistrates may "dispose of the children of those Indians that haue come in and yeilded themselues to the English, vnto such of the English as may vse them well ... vntill such children shall attaine the age of twenty foure or twenty fiue yeers" (5:207) [D].

Late July-Aug 1676, Church's company. On terms of half the prisoners to Church and his English soldiers, Church and "Mr. Isaac Howland" closed both sides of a swamp on Philip's track and took many prisoners "both men, women and children" (Church 1825, pp. 74, 90-92). Philip was killed at Mount Hope on 12 Aug 1676 (Context_and_Native_Side.md).

Aug-Dec 1676, Rehoboth burials: Samuel Fuller (15 Aug), Martha Ide (3 Nov), John Ide (mid-Dec) and some seventeen others (Rehoboth VR p. 900).

1 Nov 1676 and 6 Mar 1676/7, Plymouth courts. Administrations: Isaac Chittenden (1 Nov), Robert Bartlett and Nicholas Snow (6 Mar). The Irish charity "for the releiffe of such as are impouerished, destressed, and in nessesitie by the late Indian warr" distributed by Joseph Warren (Plymouth), "Isacke Howard" [Howland?] (Middleborough), Capt. Freeman (Eastham), "Mr Browne" (Swansea) (PCR 5:222). Mamanuett, sachem at Sakonnet, cleared himself and fifteen men "faithfull to the English" and was allowed back on his lands (5:224-225).

1733, Narragansett townships. No. 4 (Greenwich, Mass.; Amoskeag): John Ide (claimant Timothy, brother), Joseph White, Benjamin Woodworth (Lebanon). No. 7 (Gorham, Me.): John Freeman, Timothy Cole, Daniel Cole, Thomas Mulford, John Walker (Eastham) (Bodge pp. 427-428, 439-440).

4. Crossings

1. The town councils of war, 29 Feb 1675/6 (PCR 5:186) [D]: Joseph Warren (Plymouth), Isaac Chittenden (Scituate), Edmund Freeman Jr. (Sandwich), Jeremiah Howes (Yarmouth), Capt. John Freeman and Mark Snow (Eastham), all named in one order with the same powers over "watches and wardings and garrisons." Freeman and Howes were brothers-in-law through the Prence sisters [archive kinship]; Edmund Freeman Jr. was the brother of Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis, wife of Lt. John Ellis, who called Sandwich's garrison meeting the day before (HCC 2:68).
2. The colony committee on the war's charges, 4 Oct 1675 (PCR 5:175) [D]: Isaac Chittenden and Capt. John Freeman with Cudworth, Southworth and Barnabas Lothrop.
3. Scituate's land-for-service list, 21 July 1676 (PCR 5:206) [D]: Lt. Isaac Buck; his son-in-law Joseph Garrett; Charles Stockbridge "for" Benjamin Woodworth (Charles was the half-brother of Sarah (Stockbridge) Woodworth, Benjamin's sister-in-law). Isaac Buck's daughter Mehitable later married Stephen Chittenden, whose father was press master with Buck in the spring of 1676 (Deane p. 121) [C].
4. Pierce's company, 26 Mar 1676 (Newman's list, Bodge pp. 359-360) [D]: Capt. Michael Pierce (Abigail (Pierce) Holbrook's father), Benjamin Chittenden (Stephen's brother), Benjamin Nye (Mercy (Nye) Ellis's brother), John Walker of Eastham (Nicholas Snow's grandson), and probably John Read Jr. of Rehoboth (Daniel Read's brother). Five families of the archive lost a man in one afternoon.
5. The Scituate coroner's jury of 29 July 1676 and the jury of 6 Mar 1676/7 (PCR 5:225-227) [D]: Isaac Chittenden headed one; Joseph and Benjamin Woodworth sat on the next, entered at the same court.
6. The trial of March 1676/7 (PCR 5:224) [D]: Joseph Bartlett and Mark Snow on one jury, with "John Howland" (probably Isaac Howland's brother, I, possible), trying the men charged with the Eastham soldiers' deaths at Taunton, where Capt. Freeman had commanded.
7. Plymouth town, Jan 1675/6-1677 (PTR 1:145-151) [D]: Sgt. William Harlow and Joseph Warren on the council and as raters; Joseph Warren, Joseph Bartlett and Jabez Howland (Isaac Howland's brother) on the clothing committee; Warren and Jabez Howland presenting the town's war charges, 13 June 1676; Harlow, Warren, Samuel Rider Jr., Joseph Bartlett, Samuel Harlow, Eleazer Churchill on the list of [125]. Joseph Warren was Joseph Bartlett's uncle (Mary (Warren) Bartlett's brother) [archive kinship].
8. The Irish charity, March 1676/7 (PCR 5:222) [D]: Joseph Warren (Plymouth), Capt. John Freeman (Eastham), "Isacke Howard" [Howland?] (Middleborough), "Mr Browne" (Swansea; James Browne, Elizabeth Howland's son-in-law, I, probable) distributed it.
9. Rehoboth, 1676 [D]: the Reads, Ides, Pecks and Fullers on one rate list (Bliss pp. 117-118) and one burial list (VR p. 900); Nicholas Ide and Thomas and Israel Read in Bradford's 1676 force; Nicholas Ide Sr. administering his son-in-law Samuel Fuller's estate (PCR 5:234); Daniel Read married Hannah Peck in Aug 1677.
10. Yarmouth's rate of 29 Apr 1676 (HCC 2:194-195) [C]: Samuel Rider (rater) with his sons, Jeremiah and Capt. Thomas Howes, Mrs. Prence (their mother), Rev. John Mayo ("Mr. Mayo"), Nathaniel Bassett, Teague Jones, Hosea Joyce, Nicholas Nickerson. Rev. John Mayo was then living with his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Howes, Jeremiah's sister-in-law [C].
11. Sandwich and Barnstable, 2 Feb 1676/7 (PCR 5:233) [D]: Benjamin Nye, Sandwich's agent, paying the war balance to Barnstable's Thomas Hinckley, Thomas Huckens and Barnabas Lothrop.
12. Eastham's No. 7 grantees, 1733 (Bodge pp. 439-440) [D]: John Freeman, Timothy Cole (John Cole's brother), Thomas Mulford, John Walker, the Snows' kin.
13. Mendon, 1675 (Metcalf pp. 76-77) [C]: William Holbrook, Job Tyler and Hope Tyler were all lot-owners when Mendon was abandoned and among those who returned; cross-reference to Massachusetts_Bay.md.
14. Great Swamp Fight, 19 Dec 1675: Plymouth's 158 men (Bodge p. 184, per Connecticut_and_Long_Island.md) probably including John Ide and Joseph White, fought in the same assault as Ralph Ellinwood (Gardner's company), Richard Mather, William Dodge Jr. and Samuel Tyler of the other regions [I, possible: no Plymouth roll places a man inside the fort].

5. Sources

Primary and printed transcripts:

• Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, ed. N. B. Shurtleff, vol 5, Court Orders 1668-1678 (Boston, 1856), recordsofcolonyo0506newp, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp; pp. 64, 173-175, 183, 186-187, 190, 195, 200, 203, 206-207, 211, 213, 220-227, 231, 233-234, 237, 239, 252-253, 263-264. Printed transcript of the colony's court and council of war records. Exists: Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, ed. Shurtleff and Pulsifer, vols 1-12 (1855-61) (its URL points at vols 1-2; add this volume's id).
• Same, vol 8, Treasury Accounts etc. (1857), recordsofcolonyo0708newp, p. 145 (debts due to the colony, c. 1675/6). Exists: Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, ed. Shurtleff and Pulsifer, vols 1-12 (1855-61).
• Records of the Town of Plymouth, ed. W. T. Davis, vol 1, 1636-1705 (Plymouth, 1889), recordsoftownofp01plym, https://archive.org/details/recordsoftownofp01plym, pp. 145-151. Printed transcript. Exists: Records of the Town of Plymouth, ed. William T. Davis, vols 1-3 (1889-1903) (its URL cu31924092203698 is vol 2; vol 1 is recordsoftownofp01plym).
• James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 (Providence, 1897), cu31924028816714, https://archive.org/details/cu31924028816714, pp. 839-840 (Ide burials index), 868 (Read index), 900-901 (town record of burials 1675-76 and marriages 1677), 919 (Pierce's Fight list). Printed transcript. Exists: Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth (printed).
• Thomas Church, Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War (1716), as The History of King Philip's War, ed. S. G. Drake (Boston, 1825), khistkingphilips00churrich, pp. 74, 90-92. Printed contemporary narrative. Exists: Thomas Church, Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War (1716), as The History of King Philip's War, ed. Samuel G. Drake (1825).
• Increase Mather, A Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New-England (Boston, 1676), briefhistoryofvv00math, https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofvv00math (Pierce's Fight passage). Contemporary narrative. New.
• William Hubbard, The History of the Indian Wars in New England (1677), ed. S. G. Drake, 2 vols (Roxbury, 1865), historyofindianw01hubb_0, vol 1 p. 254 (Drake's note on the Eel River and Dartmouth killers, citing PCR 5:204-205). New.
• Rev. Noah Newman to Rev. John Cotton, Rehoboth, 27 Mar 1676: printed in Deane pp. 122-123 and Bodge pp. 359-360 (original then in private hands; not seen).

Secondary:

• George M. Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 3rd ed. (Boston, 1906), soldiersinkingph1906bodg, pp. 72, 184, 359-360, 427-428, 439-441, 457, 463-464 (pp. 427-428 and 439-440 checked on the page images). Compiled, printing the 1733 grantee lists from the proprietors' records. Exists: Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War (1906).
• Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts (Boston, 1831), historyofscituat00deane, pp. 119-123, 126-130, 232. Exists: Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts (Boston, 1831).
• Frederick Freeman, The History of Cape Cod, vol 2 (Boston, 1862), historyofcapecodfree_0 (the archive's source cites historyofcapecod02free; same volume, another scan), pp. 68, 70-71, 193-195, 358-359, 366-367. Compiled, quoting town records. Exists: Frederick Freeman, The History of Cape Cod, vol. 2 (1862).
• Leonard Bliss Jr., The History of Rehoboth (Boston, 1836), historyofrehobot00blis, https://archive.org/details/historyofrehobot00blis, pp. 52, 95, 117-118 (pp. 117-118 read from the page images). Compiled, printing town lists. New.
• J. W. Reed, History of the Reed Family (Boston, 1861), historyofreedfam1861reed, pp. 186-187, 222-223. Exists: J. W. Reed, History of the Reed Family (1861).
• Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro (1906), historyoftownofm00west_0: the Isaac Howland story already in the archive. Exists: Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (1906).
• William T. Davis, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth (1899), ancientlandmarks1899davi (Jacob Mitchell's lot; Fallowell). Exists: William T. Davis, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth (1899).
• John G. Metcalf, Annals of the Town of Mendon (1880), annalsoftownofme00metc, pp. 8-9, 56, 76-77. Exists: John G. Metcalf, Annals of the Town of Mendon, from 1659 to 1880 (1880).
• A Genealogy of the Nye Family (1907), genealogyofnyefa00nyeg. Exists: G. H. Nye and F. E. Best, A Genealogy of the Nye Family (1907).
• Lothrop, The Nicholas White Family, 1643-1900 (1902), nicholaswhitefam00loth, p. 31. Exists: Lothrop, The Nicholas White Family (1902).
• Woodworth (1898), bub_gb_b-pfAAAAMAAJ. Exists: William Atwater Woodworth, Descendants of Walter Woodworth of Scituate, Mass.: Records (1898).
• E. S. Stackpole, Macomber Genealogy, macombergenealog00stac, pp. 9-11. Exists: Stackpole, Macomber Genealogy.
• Wikipedia, "John Howland" (Rocky Nook; Elizabeth's last years), citing Beaudry, Documentary Archaeology in the New World, p. 86. Exists: Wikipedia, "John Howland". Pilgrim John Howland Society, "Elizabeth Tilley Howland" (web page, https://pilgrimjohnhowlandsociety.org) [C]: new.
• Read and not cited further: Tilton, History of Rehoboth (1918), historyofrehobot00tilt; Drake, Old Indian Chronicle (Samuel G. Drake, ed., The Old Indian Chronicle); Scituate VR vol 2 (vitalrecordsofsc02newe, Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to 1850); Pierce, Peirce's Colonial Lists (peircescoloniall00peir_0); Deane, Brief Memoirs of John and Walter Deane (1849), briefmemoirsofjo00dean (William Reed Deane, A Brief Memoir of John and Walter Deane, Two of the First Settlers of Taunton, Mass. (1849)); PCR vols 9-10 (Acts of the Commissioners), recordsofcolonyo0910newp.

6. To fetch later

• Plymouth Colony muster and pay records: Plymouth's soldiers' lists for 1675-76 (Bradford's, Gorham's, Church's, Pierce's companies) are not printed in PCR. Look in Mayflower Descendant and NEHGR for "Plymouth Colony soldiers 1675/6" (the NEHGR list looked for was not found in the archive.org full texts searched; try NEHGR index vols 1-50 on archive.org, and Pilgrim Hall / Plymouth Court House manuscripts). The colony treasurer's war accounts (Constant Southworth) for 1675-77 may name men paid.
• Scituate town records 1675-77 (the clothing committee, the press-masters, the committee report to Winslow "not extant, at least in full," Deane p. 126): Scituate Town Archives; Deane's "authentic records" for Chittenden's death.
• Isaac Chittenden's administration papers (Plymouth Colony probate, 1676): Plymouth County Registry of Probate; date and inventory may show how he died.
• Original of the coroner's jury of 29 July 1676: Plymouth Colony Court Orders, vol 5 manuscript (Plymouth County Commissioners / Mass. Archives microfilm).
• Massachusetts Archives vols 68-70 (Military) for Plymouth men under Massachusetts command and for the 1733 grantee papers and depositions (Benjamin Woodworth's claim; Timothy Cole; Daniel Cole's identity).
• Rehoboth proprietors' and town records behind Bliss's two soldier lists and the rate catalogue.
• Yarmouth town records 1675-77 behind Freeman's expedition lists and the rate of 29 Apr 1676 (to read the amounts against the jumbled OCR).
• Ira B. Peck, Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck (1868) for Nathaniel and Nicholas Peck, buried Aug 1676.
• Mayflower Families (Hopkins volume) for Sarah (Snow) Walker and her son John.
• Lebanon, Conn., land and vital records for Benjamin Woodworth (d. 1728): does he name Scituate or the 1676 service?

7. Pictures

• Bliss, History of Rehoboth p. 117: the printed lists of Rehoboth's Narragansett and Bradford soldiers and the war-rate catalogue: https://archive.org/details/historyofrehobot00blis/page/n128/mode/1up (public domain, 1836).
• PCR 5:206, Scituate's "souldiers ... whoe desired to be satisfyed in lands" (Buck, Stockbridge for Woodworth): https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n219/mode/1up (1856).
• PCR 5:186, the town councils of war of 29 Feb 1675/6: https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n199/mode/1up
• PCR 5:225-226, the Scituate jury of 29 July 1676 headed by Isaac Chittenden: https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n238/mode/1up
• Bodge pp. 439-440, Narragansett No. 7 (Gorham) grantees, Barnstable to Scituate: https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/n472/mode/1up
• PTR 1:145-146, Plymouth's town council and clothing committee of 7 Jan 1675/6: https://archive.org/details/recordsoftownofp01plym/page/n166/mode/1up
• Church (1825 ed.), frontispiece and p. 91 (Isaac Howland's swamp): https://archive.org/details/khistkingphilips00churrich/page/n96/mode/1up