This may help those searching for ancestors during the King Philip's War... (see below) ---------------------- Forwarded Message: --------------------- From: bunnydust@attbi.com To: CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CRV] Re: [PLY/MA] King Philip's War............have posted Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:00:03 +0000 I was the administrator of the Connecticut River Valley mailing list for 3 years and posted a lot of names which are in the -- Ct-River-Valley-L@rootsweb.com archives http://archiver.rootsweb.com -- and use the Ct-River-Valley name to get to the archives -- The names are from SOLDIERS OF KING PHILIP'S WAR, George Bodge, Boston,1906. -- Cynthia Admin.Ma-Bay-Colony-L@rootsweb.com Bunnydust@attbi.com MBC archiver (postings) ----- ALWAYS VERIFY your source(s) REGARDLESS OF WHERE IT'S FROM > Hi, Merriel! > > Good morning, me again! More on the King Philip's War for these James. The > WHITON genealogy on p. 21 tells about the now recognized WHITON > progenitor/immigrant James/1 house burning in 1676 during the war. Anyways > their source for this info was the Rev. Peter Hobart's Diary. I believe??? > some of this diary has been transcribed or published somewhere by > someone??? Hopefully someone lurking has more info on this diary. This > diary has been used extensively for Hingham records. The WHITON section of > Lincoln's History of Hingham, III:289, does tell about James/1 house > burning on 20 Apr 1676 but gives no military info on James/2 (III:289) or > James/3 (III:290). Page 23 in the WHITON genealogy has who is now > recognized as James/2 military info and p. 27 James/3 info. Like we chatted > via E-mail I also agree it is impossible for James/3 born in 1676 to have > been in that war and that I suspect it is one of the multitude of errors in > this genealogy. Nowwwww here is something of interest. On p. 222 it lists > the WHITON men who served in various wars. Under the Indian and Colonial > Wars it lists only 2 James: James (2) and James (3). Now today with a > Thomas being debunked as the WHITON progenitor/immigrant (NEHGR 123:228), > this makes the book's James/2 now James/1 and James/3 now James/2 and > James/4 now James/3. Soooooooo the genealogy only found evidence of 2 James > - not 3. Why they included that bit under the 3rd James about losing his > arm, etc... is in error. That info either belongs with one of the other > James or he lost his arm, etc... during a later Indian War. > > Here is a King Philip's site that might???? have help for you: > > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/philip/ > > I don't know if it has a surname index. > > --- Susan > SGTAYLOR1@att.net > My Genealogy Website - sgt > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ > ----------------------------------------------- > USGW Mansfield, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcmansf/ > USGW New London, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcnewlo/ > USGW Norwich, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcnorwi/ > USGW Windham, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcwindh/ > USGW Coordinator Plymouth Co., MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~maplymou/ > USGW Plymouth, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ > ********************************************************* > > At 07:23 AM 2/18/03 -0500, you wrote: > >I’ve meant to ask this question for some time, and now that the Rickards > >have > >appeared on this list, I’ll try to pose the question which is regarding > >veterans of King Phillip’s War. > >The Whiton Family in America genealogy by Augustus Sherrill Whiton (which > >like all genealogies has errors) states that James Whiton, baptized in Hook > >Norton, England in 1624, had his home burned by the Indians in 1676, led by > >Chief Philip of the Pokanoket Tribe, to meet the attacks of whom the men > >residents of Hingham were impressed into service. > >The above James Whiton had a son James, baptized 1651, who married Abigail > >Rickard and the genealogy states he also served in King Philip’s War. > >Then James Whiton and Abigail had ten children, including a son James; thus > >making three generations of James Whitons. According to the genealogy (p. > >28) this third generation James was born in Hingham in Feb. 1676, lost an arm > >in King Philip’s War, during which his house was burned. > >I have thought it highly unlikely that all three James Whitons were in King > >Philip’s War, and particularly the last one seems too young to have > >served in > >it if his birthdate is correct. > >Is there any way to check which of them were in the war, and which one might > >have lost an arm in such service? I would like to apply for membership in > >the Colonial Dames, and would like to know for sure about service of the > >first two James Whitons from whom I am descended. It would seem that it may > >have been one of them who lost the arm in the war. I am not descended from > >the third James, for I believe my Whiton line is Thomas1, James 2, James 3, > >Joseph 4, and Abigail 5. > >---Merriel > > > > > >==== MAPLYMOU Mailing List ==== > > ====MAPLYMOU-L/D Mail List===== > > +-+ Owners = List Members +-+ > > =Administrator Frederick M. Dittmar= > > ====== fred@dittmar.net ====== > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > >go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== MAPLYMOU Mailing List ==== > ====MAPLYMOU-L/D Mail List===== > +-+ Owners = List Members +-+ > =Administrator Frederick M. 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