This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cbwright03608 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wright/6959.2703.2.1.2.2.2.1.1.3.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Sergeant Samuel Wright, my 7th g.grandfather, was killed in Northfield by the Indians during a raid Sept. 2, 1675. He is buried where he fell, which is today's Center Cemetery, Northfield, MA. >From my notes: Samuel was the first victim of Indian bullets on Northfield soil. (Puritan, p.130-3) He was about 45 when he died. (Hist. Nfd., p.73; Soldiers in King Philip's War, p.84) Note: It is written incorrectly in many books that Samuel died at the Battle of Bloody Brook in Northfield, however, that battle took place on Sept 18th, and Bloody Brook is in the present town of South Deerfield, and not in Northfield. To clear up this matter, the following is given, from the History of Deerfield: "The following tradition, taken by the writer (George Sheldon) in 1876 from the lips of Mrs. Polly Holton of Northfield, who died in 1879 at the age of 98, is not found elsewhere; but without doubt it refers to the events of Sept. 2-6, 1675, and is reliable. Serg. Wright, was great-great-grandfather to Mrs. Holton; his son Samuel, (III), who was sorely wounded the same day, lived until his daughter, her grandmother, was thirty years old; Mrs. Holton was twelve at the death of the later; so she had the story only second hand from one who too part in the affair. The story, which came out in a conversation about the old cemetery was this: 'The first one buried there was a man by the name of Wright from Northampton. He was killed by the Indians. He was not found for several days. He was carried up the bluff and buried just as he was, in the present burying ground.' This tradition preserves an interesting fact, and explains several otherwise obscure contemporaneous stateme! nts". (Source: Hist. Dfd., p94-97.) (Also see NEHGR, vol.38, p329.) Charles B. Wright Walpole, NH Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.