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