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    1. Re: [PAGE] Listowner Post - Your Military Ancestors
    2. Eileen Coyle
    3. I think you have to unsubscribe from your yahoo address and subscribe with your new address. Using your yahoo account, send an e-mail to PAGE-request@rootsweb.com. Put "unsubscribe" in the subject line and again in the body of the e-mail.(no quotes) Don't put anything else in the subject or body. Then do the same thing, using your new address, but put in "subscribe". (no quotes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "carla page" <carla_page39@yahoo.com> To: <page@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [PAGE] Listowner Post - Your Military Ancestors > please let it be known that my email address is cjpage1954@gmail.com > please from now on forward all emails to my email address that i have > listed.if someone can get in contact with the list owner or the moderator > please give that person my email address.i don,t know if the list owner > has gone awol on us but i keep getting these emails on my yahoo addy that > i really do not use anymore.i,ve tried to send the list owner an email and > his emails come back as unknown user and no such email address!!!!!!! > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: George W. Page <gwpage@erols.com> > To: PAGE@rootsweb.com > Sent: Mon, June 21, 2010 8:32:55 AM > Subject: Re: [PAGE] Listowner Post - Your Military Ancestors > > > I have ancestors who have fought in several wars since the 1300s in > Britain, > Europe, and America to include the Rev. War, War of 1812, Civil War, > WWI, > WWII, Korea, Vietnam (me), Iraq, and Afghanistan. > Here is one of the earliest in America who was K.I.A. during King > Phillip's > War, which most of you know nothing: > King Philip's War, sometimes called Metacom's War or Metacom's > Rebellion, > was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day > southern New England and English colonists and their Native American > allies > from 16751676. The war is named after the main leader of the Native > American > side, Metacomet, Metacom, or Pometacom, known to the English as "King > Philip." It continued in northern New England (primarily on the Maine > frontier) even after King Philip was killed, until a treaty was signed > at > Casco Bay in April 1678. > According to a combined estimate of loss of life in Schultz and Tougias' > King Philip's War, The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten > Conflict > (based on sources from the Department of Defense, the Bureau of Census, > and > the work of Colonial historian Francis Jennings), 800 out of 52,000 > English > colonists (1.5%) and 3,000 out of 20,000 natives (15%) lost their lives > due > to the war. Proportionately, it was one of the bloodiest and most costly > wars in the history of North America. More than half of New England's > ninety > towns were assaulted by Native American warriors. > Capt. Isaac Johnson, b. 11 Feb 1615/1616 in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, > Eng. d. 19 Dec 1675, Four Corners, Sakonnet River, RI, buried > Cocumcussoc > Cem., Wickford, Washington Co., RI > Eldest son of Capt. John Johnson, came to America with his father in > 1630. > Was made Freeman March 4, 1635. He was a member of the Ancient and > Honorable Artillery Company-1645 and was chosen its Captain and leader > in > 1667. He was Capt. of the Roxbury Co. in Narragansett Expedition, and > was > K.I.A. at the head of his company in the famous Fort Fight on 19 Dec. > 1675, > near Four Corners, Sakonnet River, R.I. known as "The Great Swamp > Fight". > He m. Jan. 20, 1636/7 at Roxbury, MA, Elizabeth Porter,bapt. 10 Feb > 1610/1611 in Ware, Hertfordshire, Eng., d. Aug. 13, 1683. They had six > children: Elizabeth b. Dec. 24, 1637; John b. 3 Nov. 1639,d. Dec. > 16,1661 > (Dec. 18th in Roxbury-town records); Mary b. Apr. 10,1642; Isaac b. > Nov. > 7,1643, bapt. Jan. 1, 1644 Joseph b. Nov. 9, 1645, d. Dec. 12, 1645, > Roxbury, Mass.; and, Nathaniel b. May 1, 1647. > I had an even earlier death of relatives: Thomas & Elizabeth (Felkin) > Page, > probably in a raid by Native Americans in Saco, in the Provence of Maine > on > 21 Oct 1645. > GWP > Col., US Army (Ret.) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

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