Hi Elizabeth, I have been out back in the jungle lately and haven't had time to work much on genealogy but have found the bits on the Native American massacre interesting. Weren't some of our Knowltons in one of the major battles? I found in my personal library a Historical Fiction called "The Ransom" by Mark Ammerman who was the grandson by many generations of Roger Williams who worked with the Narragansett people. Most of his work was taken from journals, diarias and pamphlets etc of the 17th century New England colonists. Most of his characters were taken from real people. I found this book an interesting read taken from the side of the Narragansetts. Is there any evidence that any of our Knowltons were a part of this massacre? Sheri Burk >"In a later raid on an Indian camp near Pound Ridge >in Westchester, Underhill [Indian fighter] and the >Anglo-Dutch force were said to have slaughtered >somewhere between five hundred and seven hundred more >[Indians] with a loss of only fifteen wounded." > >The way the book is set up, there are 21 references cited >for this section of 4 pages, but you cannot tell (maybe) without >looking up each title which reference is for which event or >fact. GOTHAM is in nearly any large library nowadays, >so you could look at the 21 citations there. If this is impossible >and you really need them, email me privately and I will >photocopy all concerned and mail them to you. > > >Elizabeth W. Knowlton > > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less.

At 04:24 AM 1/17/2005, Sheri-Family Tree wrote: >Hi Elizabeth, > >I have been out back in the jungle lately and haven't had time to work much on genealogy but have found the bits on the Native American massacre interesting. Weren't some of our Knowltons in one of the major battles? > >I found in my personal library a Historical Fiction called "The Ransom" by Mark Ammerman who was the grandson by many generations of Roger Williams who worked with the Narragansett people. Most of his work was taken from journals, diarias and pamphlets etc of the 17th century New England colonists. Most of his characters were taken from real people. I found this book an interesting read taken from the side of the Narragansetts. > >Is there any evidence that any of our Knowltons were a part of this massacre? > >Sheri Burk Hi, Sheri: The standard historical work for "King Philip's War" is Douglas Leach's "Flintlock and Tomahawk". I own a copy, as well as a reprint of Benjamin Church's "Diary of King Philip's War". In the index to neither is there anyone with a surname at all like "Knowlton". This is not surprising, even if a Knowlton did participate. One online site says John KNOWLTON (Stocking #5??) (son of John, grandson of Capt. William) was "drafted into the Narragansett Winter Campaign (Major Samuel Appleton�s Company) on 11/30/1675". The Great Swamp Fight, aptly termed a massacre because of the burning of the wigwams with women and children inside (although it is not as cut and dried as it sounds), occurred December 19, 1675, and Appleton's Company participated. Leach, pgs. 126-135, has a very readable account. Regardless of whether the English actions were justified, it must be understood that this was genuinely a battle, not an unprovoked assault on relatively defenseless civilians like Custer at Sand Creek or Wounded Knee (recalled from hazy memory, sorry). Casualties were extremely high. "Of the company commanders, seven out of fourteen were killed or mortally wounded in the battle ..." (Leach, pg. 132; Church, pg. 32). Hope this is of some value. Darrell Darrell A. Martin darrellm@sprynet.com a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/