married Deliverance Ames (1653-1720)
He became a weaver, Middlesex Co. Deed Bk.21, p.70: 1717 of Bridgewater, weaver, wife Deliverance. Like his father, and put his mark "IL" on, rather than signed, his deeds. Plymouth Co. Deed Bk.8, p.64.
In 1675, when he was in his mid-20s, the Indians revolted throughout both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, killing many of the colonists. That December he participated in a winter attack on the Indian stronghold in Rhode Island (the Narragansett Campaign). George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philips War (1906), p.428: of Bridgewater, his son Isaac received land.
The soldiers were not successful and when the snow melted the Indians resumed their raids. They attacked Bridgewater in April of 1676. [For more about the war see: Nahum Mitchel, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater.
He married, probably soon after his return from fighting the Indians, Deliverance Ames; her first name is found in his deeds.
The Great Swamp Fight or the Great Swamp Massacre was a crucial battle fought during King Philip's War between the colonial militia of New England and the Narragansett people in December 1675. It was fought near the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The combined force of the New England militia included 150 Pequots, and they inflicted a huge number of Narragansett casualties, including many hundred women and children. The battle has been described as "one of the most brutal and lopsided military encounters in all of New England's history."[3] Since the 1930s, Narragansett and Wampanoag people commemorate the battle annually in a ceremony initiated by Narragansett-Wampanoag scholar Princess Red Wing.
Terry T.-April 16, 2023
He became a weaver, Middlesex Co. Deed Bk.21, p.70: 1717 of Bridgewater, weaver, wife Deliverance. Like his father, and put his mark "IL" on, rather than signed, his deeds. Plymouth Co. Deed Bk.8, p.64.
In 1675, when he was in his mid-20s, the Indians revolted throughout both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, killing many of the colonists. That December he participated in a winter attack on the Indian stronghold in Rhode Island (the Narragansett Campaign). George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philips War (1906), p.428: of Bridgewater, his son Isaac received land.
The soldiers were not successful and when the snow melted the Indians resumed their raids. They attacked Bridgewater in April of 1676. [For more about the war see: Nahum Mitchel, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater.
He married, probably soon after his return from fighting the Indians, Deliverance Ames; her first name is found in his deeds.
The Great Swamp Fight or the Great Swamp Massacre was a crucial battle fought during King Philip's War between the colonial militia of New England and the Narragansett people in December 1675. It was fought near the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The combined force of the New England militia included 150 Pequots, and they inflicted a huge number of Narragansett casualties, including many hundred women and children. The battle has been described as "one of the most brutal and lopsided military encounters in all of New England's history."[3] Since the 1930s, Narragansett and Wampanoag people commemorate the battle annually in a ceremony initiated by Narragansett-Wampanoag scholar Princess Red Wing.
Terry T.-April 16, 2023
married Deliverance Ames (1653-1720)
He became a weaver, Middlesex Co. Deed Bk.21, p.70: 1717 of Bridgewater, weaver, wife Deliverance. Like his father, and put his mark "IL" on, rather than signed, his deeds. Plymouth Co. Deed Bk.8, p.64.
In 1675, when he was in his mid-20s, the Indians revolted throughout both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, killing many of the colonists. That December he participated in a winter attack on the Indian stronghold in Rhode Island (the Narragansett Campaign). George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philips War (1906), p.428: of Bridgewater, his son Isaac received land.
The soldiers were not successful and when the snow melted the Indians resumed their raids. They attacked Bridgewater in April of 1676. [For more about the war see: Nahum Mitchel, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater.
He married, probably soon after his return from fighting the Indians, Deliverance Ames; her first name is found in his deeds.
The Great Swamp Fight or the Great Swamp Massacre was a crucial battle fought during King Philip's War between the colonial militia of New England and the Narragansett people in December 1675. It was fought near the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The combined force of the New England militia included 150 Pequots, and they inflicted a huge number of Narragansett casualties, including many hundred women and children. The battle has been described as "one of the most brutal and lopsided military encounters in all of New England's history."[3] Since the 1930s, Narragansett and Wampanoag people commemorate the battle annually in a ceremony initiated by Narragansett-Wampanoag scholar Princess Red Wing.
Terry T.-April 16, 2023
He became a weaver, Middlesex Co. Deed Bk.21, p.70: 1717 of Bridgewater, weaver, wife Deliverance. Like his father, and put his mark "IL" on, rather than signed, his deeds. Plymouth Co. Deed Bk.8, p.64.
In 1675, when he was in his mid-20s, the Indians revolted throughout both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, killing many of the colonists. That December he participated in a winter attack on the Indian stronghold in Rhode Island (the Narragansett Campaign). George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philips War (1906), p.428: of Bridgewater, his son Isaac received land.
The soldiers were not successful and when the snow melted the Indians resumed their raids. They attacked Bridgewater in April of 1676. [For more about the war see: Nahum Mitchel, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater.
He married, probably soon after his return from fighting the Indians, Deliverance Ames; her first name is found in his deeds.
The Great Swamp Fight or the Great Swamp Massacre was a crucial battle fought during King Philip's War between the colonial militia of New England and the Narragansett people in December 1675. It was fought near the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The combined force of the New England militia included 150 Pequots, and they inflicted a huge number of Narragansett casualties, including many hundred women and children. The battle has been described as "one of the most brutal and lopsided military encounters in all of New England's history."[3] Since the 1930s, Narragansett and Wampanoag people commemorate the battle annually in a ceremony initiated by Narragansett-Wampanoag scholar Princess Red Wing.
Terry T.-April 16, 2023
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