Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Samuel PRATT | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 26 Mar 1676 slain by Indians with about 47 others in Capt. Michael Pierce's company of soldiers from Scituate, battle known as "the Pawtucket Fight" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Samuel Pratt3, b. c1636, Plymouth, d. 26 Mar. 1676, Rehoboth, "Pawtucket Fight" (2:195); m. betw. 19 Dec. 1667 (17:109), when she was single in will of grandf. John Williams, and the 2 Nov. 1668 (17:111) receipt for father's est., poss. Scituate, Mary Barker dau of John Barker & Anna Williams (3:128); b. c1647, Marshfield, d. aft. the 15 May 1711 (Plym. deed 9:101) div. of 2nd hus. est. Mary m. 2nd, c1678, Francis Coombs3 (Sarah Priest2); m. 3rd, 5 Mar. 1684/5, Middleboro, David Wood (1:219); 3 Wood chil. [ref 30:85] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Samuel d. in 1679, bequeathing to bros. Joseph Pratt and John Rogers, and to his own wife and children. [ref 37:371] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - When King Philip's Indian war broke out, the inhabitants of Middleboro fled to Scituate, Duxbury, Plymouth, and other places of refuge--the number of families at Middleboro being about twenty. The probability is that Samuel2 the son of Phinehas1, married and settled in Middleboro between 1659 and the breaking out of the War, and "sojourned" in Scituate when he was "pressed," in accordance with an order of Court issued early in 1676. It was in one of the fiercest Indian fights in this war that he was killed with his Captain, Michael Pierce, and nearly all his company, who had been "trepanned into an ambushment of the enemy" on Sunday, March 26, 1676. [ref 40:59] Samuel2 (Phinehas1), the date and place of whose birth is unknown, m. Mary --. He was a member of Capt. Michael Pierce's company of soldiers from Scituate, and was slain with about forty-seven others, in a battle with the Indians, known as "the Pawtucket Fight," on Sunday, March 26, 1676. His widow afterwards married -- Woode. Children: Samuel, Susanna, Patience, and probably another daughter. [ref 40:58] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 26 Mar 1670 "Captain Pierce of Scituate with a party of about fifty English, and twenty Indians, who were Friends to the English, pursued a small number of the Enemy, who in desperate subtility ran away from them, and they went limping to make the English believe they were lame, till they had led them into a snare: for suddenly a vast body of Indians did encompass them round; so that Captain Pierce was slain, and forty and nine English with him, and eight (or more) Indians who did assist the English, and fought bravely in that engagement. How many of the Enemy fell we know not certainly, only we hear that some Indians, which have since been taken by the English, confess that Captain Pierce, and those with him killed an hundred and forty of them before they lost their own lives." "..Capt. Pierce of Scituate with fifty English and twenty friendly Indians, was cut off with most of his men.... It appears that he was...on his march into the Narraganset country, having heard that many of the enemy had collected at Pawtuxet, a few miles to the southward of Providence. He being a man of great courage, and willing to engage the enemy on any ground, was led into a fatal snare. On crossing the Pawtuxet river he found himself encircled by an overwhelming number. He retreated to the side of the river to prevent being surrounded; but this only alternative failed: For the enemy crossing the river above, came upon their backs with the same deadly effect as those in front. Thus they had to contend with triplenumbers, and a double disadvantage. Means was found to dispatch a messenger to Providence for succour, but through some unaccountable default in him, or them to whom it was delivered, none arrived until too late. The scene was horrid beyond description! Some say that all the English were slain, others, that one only escaped, which was effected as follows. A friendly Indian pursued him with an uplifted tomahawk, in the face of the enemy, who considering his fate certain, and that he was pursued by one of their own men, made no discovery of the strategem, and both escaped.... It appears that Canonchet, a Narraganset chief, who afterwards fell into the hands of the brave Capt. Denison commanded in this battle." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Mary BARKER | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mary, dau of John Barker and Anna Williams; b. c1647, Marshfield, d. aft. 15 May 1711 (div. of 2nd hus. est.). She m. 2nd, c 1678, Francis Coombs3 (Sarah Priest2); m. 3rd, 5 Mar. 1684/5, Middleboro, David Wood. [ref 30] abt 1690, Widow Mary wrote a letter asking that her son Samuel Pratt not be "pressed a souldier" because "my first husband, was slain by the heathen in Captain Pierce's fight ... and I shall take it very unkindly, Iff he that is the only son of his father that was slain in the former warr should be compelled to go out againe." [ref 30] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "These lines may give information that Samuel Pratt's Father, my first husband, was slain by the heathen in Captain Pierce's fight. He was pressed a Souldier when I sojourned att Sittuate, having then noe place of my own, and have brought him up with other small children, and I shall take it very unkindly, Iff he that is the only one son of his father that was slain in the former warr should be compelled to go out againe, itt being contrary as I am informed to the law of England and this country, therefore I desire itt may not be. (No date.) Soe petitions MARY WOODE from Middlebury [Middleboro]. [ref 40:59] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
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