Search the Bounty Rewards Archive

Upstander Project created the bounty rewards archive as a public learning and teaching resource to accompany the Bounty film project. The database includes 2,438 entries and represents several years of extensive archival and documentary research into scalp bounty acts and claims made by colonial governments and settlers in the northeastern Dawnland (later called New England), between 1675-1765.

In this online archive we present evidence about land and cash bounties granted to thousands of soldiers, militias and settler colonists (and/or their heirs), who participated in, and/or profited from, wars and bounty expeditions, resulting in scalping, killing, capturing and/or enslaving thousands of Indigenous children, women, and men.

More than £9,000 (millions of dollars in today’s U.S. currency) was paid from public treasuries of the colonial governments of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Nova Scotia, and hundreds of thousands of acres of land were granted to thousands of individuals and groups who hunted Indigenous peoples and then petitioned to found settler towns. Use the search box below to find the names of townships, killers, captors, claimants, heirs, militias and soldiers. You can also search by the year of the attack.

Due to the limitations of archival records from this time period, we cannot say with certainty in all cases which individuals actually scalped/captured Indigenous peoples and which participated without scalping or capturing yet still profited from the violence. Wherever possible, specific information, citations and sources are included in the Award Note and Source fields. This archive also excludes any bounty claims made in colonies or states outside the Dawnland (see above for regions included), as well as bounties claimed after the 6th Anglo-Abenaki aka French and Indian War (1754-1763).

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1735

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Solomon Alley
commander
Thomas Lothrop (Lathrop)
commander rank
Captain
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
84
day of killing/
captivity
18
month of killing/
captivity
9
year of killing/
captivity
1675
month of bounty claim
1
day of bounty claim
10
year of bounty claim
1735
native/colonial
locale/town
betwen Deerfield and Hatfield
present day state/
province
MA
present day town/
proximity
near Deerfield
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Killed in action
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unknown
victim number
100
victim type
killed
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
unknown
township name
granted
unknown
township state
unknown
source name
MA House Journal, 13: 197, 23, 229; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 136-37; Bachellor, State of New Hampshire, Town Charters, Vol. XXIV, 1894, 818-20.
award note
In 1735, Robert Hale Esquire, on behalf of soldiers who fought under Captn. Thomas Lothrop (Lathrop) and their heirs, request equal bounty reward in land, as that of English soldiers who fought in the "Narragansett War" (Pometacomet’s Resistance) during "Lothrop's Fight," between Deerfield and Hatfield, MA, September 18, 1675, where they killed at least 100 Native people. The Mass. House votes to allocate 2 townships, in addition to the 7 "Narragansett townships" already granted, for those who fought in "Lothrop's Fight," the "Falls Fight" and/or "Long March." In January 1736 the Mass. House committee appointed to consider claims of "Narragansett soldiers" voted to admit 232 soldiers and heirs who served in the "Fort Fight" or "Long March" during Pometacomet's Resistance to two new townships.
known group members
Captain Thomas Lothrop (Lathrop), Sergt. Thomas Smith, Samuel Stevens, John Hobbs, Daniel Button, John Harriman, Caleb Kemball, Thomas Hobbs, Robert Homes, Edward Traske, Richard Lambard (Lambert), Josiah Dodge, George Ropes, Joseph Kinge, Thomas Alexander, Francis Friende, Abel Osyer (Ozzier), John Litleale, Thomas Bayley, Ezekiel Sawyer, Jacob Kilborne, Thomas Manninge, Jacob Waynwritt (Wainwright), Benjamin Roper, John Bennett, Thomas Mentor, Peter Woodberry, Joseph Bolch, Samuel Witteridge, William Duy (Dew), Sergt. Samuel Stevens, Samuel Crumpton, John Plum, Thomas Buckley, Samuel Hudson, Adam Clarke, Ephraim Farah (Farrar), Robert Wilson, Steven Welman, Benjamin Farnell, Solomon Alley, John Merrit, Robert Hinsdall, Samuel Hinsdall, Barnabas Hinsdall, John Hinsdall, Experience Hinsdall, Ephriam Hinsdall, Joseph Gillet, John Allin, Joshua Carter, John Barnard, James Tufts, Jonathan Plimpton, Peter Plimpton, Philip Barsham, Thomas Weller, William Smeade, Zebediah Williams, Eliskim Marshall, James Mudge, George Cole, Richard Weller, William Pixly, Daniel Weld, John Stebbin, John Hawkes, Nathaniel Sutlive, Sarah Field, Solomon Stoddard, Thomas Mekins, Thomas Hastings, Samson Frary, Quentin Stockwell, Moses Crafts, Joseph Prince, John Palmer, John Langbury, Edmond Bridges, Joseph Emons, Samuel Rust, Paul Thorndike, John Plummer, Edward Trask, Thomas Buckly, Samuel Chapman, Thomas Kemball, Caleb Kemball, John Harriman, Mathew Scales, Joseph Pearson, Blaze Vinton, Andrew Stickney, Benjamin Roper, Benjamin Furnell, John Merrett, Edmond Moore, Eleazer Keyser, Thomas Rose, Stephen Warman, John Littlehall, John Andrews, Samuel Crumpton, Thomas Mentor, Zekeriah Davis, Timothy Bray, John Denison, John Bullock, Mark Pitman, Moses Pengry, Stephen Greenleaf, John Toppan (Tapin), Caleb Richardson, Daniel Rolf, Daniel Button, John Wheeler, Henry Bodwell, Thomas Hayson, John Wicher, John Boynton, Walter Hickson, Thomas Hayson, Samuel Hibbert, John Davis, John Presson, Steven Butler, Samuel Hudson, Thomas Bayleff, Josiah Bridges, Robert Leach, Thomas Tenney, Thomas Peckes, Daniel Ring, Abiel Sadler, Francis Young, Gershom Browne

1738

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Richard Allen
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
117
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
1
day of bounty claim
18
year of bounty claim
1738
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Barrington
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
26, 540 acres
township name
granted
Greenwich
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Hadley, History of the Town of Goffstown, 1733-1920, Vol. 2, 1924, 53-54; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 425-30.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #4 initially included 26,160 acres near Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River, granted to 120 soldiers of King Philip’s War, and heirs, from Northampton Mass. and vicinity, including proprietor Edward Shove. It was named Shove’s Town, later Goffstown, part of Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1735, the grantees "found it so poor and barren as to be altogether incapable of making settlements," and were instead granted 23,040 acres (plus 3,500) of land in Greenwich, Mass., settled in 1738.
known group members
Daniel Alexander, Samuel Judd, Thomas Hovey, John Pengally, Richard Childs, Bartholemew Flagg, James Hudson, Nathaniel Sanger, Joseph Lyon, Captain Isaac Johnson, Joseph Carpenter, Henry Bowen, Joseph Chamberlain, Abiell Lamb, Edward Walker, John Dunham, Benjamin Hall, Shuball Dimmock, Thomas Hazen, Daniel Wicomb, Israell Hendrick, David Hartshorn, John Hartshorn, Samuel Taylor, Jeremiah Sabin, Fenwich Sawyer, John Corbin, Jeremiah Ripley, Ephraim Beamass, John Bozorth, John Spurr, John Thresher, Malachi Holloway, William Hopkins, John Maccomber, Ebenezer Owen, Joseph White, Samuel Mirick, Jacob Hathaway, James Bell, John Wheeton, Thomas Buffington, John Brown, Jonathan Willmarth, Sampson Mason, Joseph Baker, John Hull, John Ridaway, Josiah Perry, John Ide, Thomas Kindrick, Joseph Daggett, John Martin, Benjamin Church, Theophilus Mitchell, Abraham Hathaway, Benjamin Crane, Jonathan Freeman, John Fitch, Samuel Skillings, William Wetherall, Thomas Barnam, Joshua Tisdale, Moses Cleveland, Benjamin Allen, Richard Allen, John Reed, Richard Burnham, Samuel Pecher, Daniell Hudson, Richard Jennings, Isaac Leonard, Joseph Richards, John Howard, James Cary, Elisha Hayward, Jonathan Washburn, Joseph Bailey, Solomon Cheever (Cheeker), Ebenezer Hill, John Handmore, David Church, Isaac Morriss, Benjamin Woodworth, Daniel Ramsdell, Isaac Peirce, Ellexander Reynolds (Rynge), Ebenezer Prout, John Barrett, John Briant, George Sampson, Caleb Cook, William Bradford, Nehemiah Bessey, Moses Barlow, Isaac Holmes, Elisha Busbee (Besbedge), Nathaniel Nicolls, Hopestill Busby (Besbedge), Walter Noice (Voice), Jonathan Crocker, Joseph Ross, Josiah Winslow, James Snow, Andrew Watkins, William Preist, Benjamin Chamberlain, James Ray, Thomas Lewis, Richard Man, Thomas Man, John Day, Thomas Brick, Thomas Bullen, Samuel Foster, William Robins, James Updike

1738

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Joseph Allen
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
117
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
1
day of bounty claim
18
year of bounty claim
1738
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Barrington
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
26, 540 acres
township name
granted
Greenwich
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Hadley, History of the Town of Goffstown, 1733-1920, Vol. 2, 1924, 53-54; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 425-30.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #4 initially included 26,160 acres near Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River, granted to 120 soldiers of King Philip’s War, and heirs, from Northampton Mass. and vicinity, including proprietor Edward Shove. It was named Shove’s Town, later Goffstown, part of Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1735, the grantees "found it so poor and barren as to be altogether incapable of making settlements," and were instead granted 23,040 acres (plus 3,500) of land in Greenwich, Mass., settled in 1738.
known group members
Daniel Alexander, Samuel Judd, Thomas Hovey, John Pengally, Richard Childs, Bartholemew Flagg, James Hudson, Nathaniel Sanger, Joseph Lyon, Captain Isaac Johnson, Joseph Carpenter, Henry Bowen, Joseph Chamberlain, Abiell Lamb, Edward Walker, John Dunham, Benjamin Hall, Shuball Dimmock, Thomas Hazen, Daniel Wicomb, Israell Hendrick, David Hartshorn, John Hartshorn, Samuel Taylor, Jeremiah Sabin, Fenwich Sawyer, John Corbin, Jeremiah Ripley, Ephraim Beamass, John Bozorth, John Spurr, John Thresher, Malachi Holloway, William Hopkins, John Maccomber, Ebenezer Owen, Joseph White, Samuel Mirick, Jacob Hathaway, James Bell, John Wheeton, Thomas Buffington, John Brown, Jonathan Willmarth, Sampson Mason, Joseph Baker, John Hull, John Ridaway, Josiah Perry, John Ide, Thomas Kindrick, Joseph Daggett, John Martin, Benjamin Church, Theophilus Mitchell, Abraham Hathaway, Benjamin Crane, Jonathan Freeman, John Fitch, Samuel Skillings, William Wetherall, Thomas Barnam, Joshua Tisdale, Moses Cleveland, Benjamin Allen, Richard Allen, John Reed, Richard Burnham, Samuel Pecher, Daniell Hudson, Richard Jennings, Isaac Leonard, Joseph Richards, John Howard, James Cary, Elisha Hayward, Jonathan Washburn, Joseph Bailey, Solomon Cheever (Cheeker), Ebenezer Hill, John Handmore, David Church, Isaac Morriss, Benjamin Woodworth, Daniel Ramsdell, Isaac Peirce, Ellexander Reynolds (Rynge), Ebenezer Prout, John Barrett, John Briant, George Sampson, Caleb Cook, William Bradford, Nehemiah Bessey, Moses Barlow, Isaac Holmes, Elisha Busbee (Besbedge), Nathaniel Nicolls, Hopestill Busby (Besbedge), Walter Noice (Voice), Jonathan Crocker, Joseph Ross, Josiah Winslow, James Snow, Andrew Watkins, William Preist, Benjamin Chamberlain, James Ray, Thomas Lewis, Richard Man, Thomas Man, John Day, Thomas Brick, Thomas Bullen, Samuel Foster, William Robins, James Updike

1735

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Thomas Alexander
commander
Thomas Lothrop (Lathrop)
commander rank
Captain
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
84
day of killing/
captivity
18
month of killing/
captivity
9
year of killing/
captivity
1675
month of bounty claim
1
day of bounty claim
10
year of bounty claim
1735
native/colonial
locale/town
betwen Deerfield and Hatfield
present day state/
province
MA
present day town/
proximity
near Deerfield
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Killed in action
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unknown
victim number
100
victim type
killed
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
unknown
township name
granted
unknown
township state
unknown
source name
MA House Journal, 13: 197, 23, 229; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 136-37; Bachellor, State of New Hampshire, Town Charters, Vol. XXIV, 1894, 818-20.
award note
In 1735, Robert Hale Esquire, on behalf of soldiers who fought under Captn. Thomas Lothrop (Lathrop) and their heirs, request equal bounty reward in land, as that of English soldiers who fought in the "Narragansett War" (Pometacomet’s Resistance) during "Lothrop's Fight," between Deerfield and Hatfield, MA, September 18, 1675, where they killed at least 100 Native people. The Mass. House votes to allocate 2 townships, in addition to the 7 "Narragansett townships" already granted, for those who fought in "Lothrop's Fight," the "Falls Fight" and/or "Long March." In January 1736 the Mass. House committee appointed to consider claims of "Narragansett soldiers" voted to admit 232 soldiers and heirs who served in the "Fort Fight" or "Long March" during Pometacomet's Resistance to two new townships.
known group members
Captain Thomas Lothrop (Lathrop), Sergt. Thomas Smith, Samuel Stevens, John Hobbs, Daniel Button, John Harriman, Caleb Kemball, Thomas Hobbs, Robert Homes, Edward Traske, Richard Lambard (Lambert), Josiah Dodge, George Ropes, Joseph Kinge, Thomas Alexander, Francis Friende, Abel Osyer (Ozzier), John Litleale, Thomas Bayley, Ezekiel Sawyer, Jacob Kilborne, Thomas Manninge, Jacob Waynwritt (Wainwright), Benjamin Roper, John Bennett, Thomas Mentor, Peter Woodberry, Joseph Bolch, Samuel Witteridge, William Duy (Dew), Sergt. Samuel Stevens, Samuel Crumpton, John Plum, Thomas Buckley, Samuel Hudson, Adam Clarke, Ephraim Farah (Farrar), Robert Wilson, Steven Welman, Benjamin Farnell, Solomon Alley, John Merrit, Robert Hinsdall, Samuel Hinsdall, Barnabas Hinsdall, John Hinsdall, Experience Hinsdall, Ephriam Hinsdall, Joseph Gillet, John Allin, Joshua Carter, John Barnard, James Tufts, Jonathan Plimpton, Peter Plimpton, Philip Barsham, Thomas Weller, William Smeade, Zebediah Williams, Eliskim Marshall, James Mudge, George Cole, Richard Weller, William Pixly, Daniel Weld, John Stebbin, John Hawkes, Nathaniel Sutlive, Sarah Field, Solomon Stoddard, Thomas Mekins, Thomas Hastings, Samson Frary, Quentin Stockwell, Moses Crafts, Joseph Prince, John Palmer, John Langbury, Edmond Bridges, Joseph Emons, Samuel Rust, Paul Thorndike, John Plummer, Edward Trask, Thomas Buckly, Samuel Chapman, Thomas Kemball, Caleb Kemball, John Harriman, Mathew Scales, Joseph Pearson, Blaze Vinton, Andrew Stickney, Benjamin Roper, Benjamin Furnell, John Merrett, Edmond Moore, Eleazer Keyser, Thomas Rose, Stephen Warman, John Littlehall, John Andrews, Samuel Crumpton, Thomas Mentor, Zekeriah Davis, Timothy Bray, John Denison, John Bullock, Mark Pitman, Moses Pengry, Stephen Greenleaf, John Toppan (Tapin), Caleb Richardson, Daniel Rolf, Daniel Button, John Wheeler, Henry Bodwell, Thomas Hayson, John Wicher, John Boynton, Walter Hickson, Thomas Hayson, Samuel Hibbert, John Davis, John Presson, Steven Butler, Samuel Hudson, Thomas Bayleff, Josiah Bridges, Robert Leach, Thomas Tenney, Thomas Peckes, Daniel Ring, Abiel Sadler, Francis Young, Gershom Browne

1738

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Benjamin Allen
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
117
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
1
day of bounty claim
18
year of bounty claim
1738
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Barrington
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
26, 540 acres
township name
granted
Greenwich
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Hadley, History of the Town of Goffstown, 1733-1920, Vol. 2, 1924, 53-54; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 425-30.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #4 initially included 26,160 acres near Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River, granted to 120 soldiers of King Philip’s War, and heirs, from Northampton Mass. and vicinity, including proprietor Edward Shove. It was named Shove’s Town, later Goffstown, part of Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1735, the grantees "found it so poor and barren as to be altogether incapable of making settlements," and were instead granted 23,040 acres (plus 3,500) of land in Greenwich, Mass., settled in 1738.
known group members
Daniel Alexander, Samuel Judd, Thomas Hovey, John Pengally, Richard Childs, Bartholemew Flagg, James Hudson, Nathaniel Sanger, Joseph Lyon, Captain Isaac Johnson, Joseph Carpenter, Henry Bowen, Joseph Chamberlain, Abiell Lamb, Edward Walker, John Dunham, Benjamin Hall, Shuball Dimmock, Thomas Hazen, Daniel Wicomb, Israell Hendrick, David Hartshorn, John Hartshorn, Samuel Taylor, Jeremiah Sabin, Fenwich Sawyer, John Corbin, Jeremiah Ripley, Ephraim Beamass, John Bozorth, John Spurr, John Thresher, Malachi Holloway, William Hopkins, John Maccomber, Ebenezer Owen, Joseph White, Samuel Mirick, Jacob Hathaway, James Bell, John Wheeton, Thomas Buffington, John Brown, Jonathan Willmarth, Sampson Mason, Joseph Baker, John Hull, John Ridaway, Josiah Perry, John Ide, Thomas Kindrick, Joseph Daggett, John Martin, Benjamin Church, Theophilus Mitchell, Abraham Hathaway, Benjamin Crane, Jonathan Freeman, John Fitch, Samuel Skillings, William Wetherall, Thomas Barnam, Joshua Tisdale, Moses Cleveland, Benjamin Allen, Richard Allen, John Reed, Richard Burnham, Samuel Pecher, Daniell Hudson, Richard Jennings, Isaac Leonard, Joseph Richards, John Howard, James Cary, Elisha Hayward, Jonathan Washburn, Joseph Bailey, Solomon Cheever (Cheeker), Ebenezer Hill, John Handmore, David Church, Isaac Morriss, Benjamin Woodworth, Daniel Ramsdell, Isaac Peirce, Ellexander Reynolds (Rynge), Ebenezer Prout, John Barrett, John Briant, George Sampson, Caleb Cook, William Bradford, Nehemiah Bessey, Moses Barlow, Isaac Holmes, Elisha Busbee (Besbedge), Nathaniel Nicolls, Hopestill Busby (Besbedge), Walter Noice (Voice), Jonathan Crocker, Joseph Ross, Josiah Winslow, James Snow, Andrew Watkins, William Preist, Benjamin Chamberlain, James Ray, Thomas Lewis, Richard Man, Thomas Man, John Day, Thomas Brick, Thomas Bullen, Samuel Foster, William Robins, James Updike

1736

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Nathaniel Alexander
commander
William Turner
commander rank
Captain
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
98
day of killing/
captivity
18
month of killing/
captivity
5
year of killing/
captivity
1676
month of bounty claim
6
day of bounty claim
23
year of bounty claim
1736
native/colonial
locale/town
Connecticut River, Turner Falls
present day state/
province
MA
present day town/
proximity
near Gill
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
Northampton
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Northampton
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 square miles
township name
granted
Bernardston
township state
MA
source name
MA House Journal, 11: 292; MA House Journal, 12: 91; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 240-41, 247-55.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. In 1734, Samuel Hunt on behalf of soldiers and heirs petitioned for land. In 1736 the court granted a 6 square mile area north of Deerfield, Mass. first called "Falltown" (including the towns of Bernardston, Colraine, Leyden and others) for soldiers under Captain William Turner in the May 18, 1676 "Falls Fight," Peskeompscut massacre, on the Connecticut River, in which about 200 Native men, women and children were killed.
known group members
Captain William Turner, Samuel Hunt, Reverend Hope Atherton, Nathaniel Alexander, Thomas Alvard, William Arms, Timothy Baker, Samuel Bedortha, James Bennett, John Barbur, John Bradshaw, John Burnap, Peter Bushrod, Samuel Boltwood, Robert Bardwell, Samuell Ball, Elnathan Beers, Samuel Beldin, Preserved Clap, Japheth Chapin, Samuell Crow, Joseph Crowfoot, William Clark, Noah Coleman, Benjamin Chamberlain, Joseph Chamberlain, John Cunniball, John Chase, Nehemiah Dickeson, Sergeant John Dickinson (Dickeson), Benjamin Edwards, Joseph Fuller, Samuel Feild, Nathaniel Foot, John Flanders, Isaac Gleason, Isaac Harrison, Simon Grover, Joseph Griffen, John Hitchcock, Luke Hitchcock, David Holt, John Hawks, Eleaser Hawks, James Harwood, Experience Hinsdall, Abell James, John Ingram, Samuel Jellett, Robert Jones, John King, Francis Keet, Sergeant Joseph Kellog, John Lee, John Lyman, Joseph Leeds, Josiah Leonard, Cornelius Merry, Isaac Morgan, Jonathan Morgan, Thomas Miller, James Mun, John Mun, Phillip Mattoon, Godfrey Nims, Medad Pumroy, Caleb Pumroy, Robert Price, John Preston, John Pratt, John Pressey, Henry Rogers, Thomas Reed, Nathaniel Sikes, Nathaniel Sutliff, Samuel Stubbins, Thomas Stubbins, William Smeed, John Smith, James Stephenson, Joseph Selden, William Scott, John Salter, Benjamen Thomas, Jonathan Tailer, Samuell Tyley, James Wright, John Webb, Richard Webb, Benjamin Wait, Eleaser Webber, Thomas Wells, Joseph Wariner, Jonathan Wells, Nicholas Worthington, John Scott, Samuel Colby, Tryall Newbury

1738

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
John Alexander
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
117
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
1
day of bounty claim
18
year of bounty claim
1738
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Northampton
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
26, 540 acres
township name
granted
Greenwich
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Hadley, History of the Town of Goffstown, 1733-1920, Vol. 2, 1924, 53-54; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 425-30.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #4 initially included 26,160 acres near Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River, granted to 120 soldiers of King Philip’s War, and heirs, from Northampton Mass. and vicinity, including proprietor Edward Shove. It was named Shove’s Town, later Goffstown, part of Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1735, the grantees "found it so poor and barren as to be altogether incapable of making settlements," and were instead granted 23,040 acres (plus 3,500) of land in Greenwich, Mass., settled in 1738.
known group members
Daniel Alexander, Samuel Judd, Thomas Hovey, John Pengally, Richard Childs, Bartholemew Flagg, James Hudson, Nathaniel Sanger, Joseph Lyon, Captain Isaac Johnson, Joseph Carpenter, Henry Bowen, Joseph Chamberlain, Abiell Lamb, Edward Walker, John Dunham, Benjamin Hall, Shuball Dimmock, Thomas Hazen, Daniel Wicomb, Israell Hendrick, David Hartshorn, John Hartshorn, Samuel Taylor, Jeremiah Sabin, Fenwich Sawyer, John Corbin, Jeremiah Ripley, Ephraim Beamass, John Bozorth, John Spurr, John Thresher, Malachi Holloway, William Hopkins, John Maccomber, Ebenezer Owen, Joseph White, Samuel Mirick, Jacob Hathaway, James Bell, John Wheeton, Thomas Buffington, John Brown, Jonathan Willmarth, Sampson Mason, Joseph Baker, John Hull, John Ridaway, Josiah Perry, John Ide, Thomas Kindrick, Joseph Daggett, John Martin, Benjamin Church, Theophilus Mitchell, Abraham Hathaway, Benjamin Crane, Jonathan Freeman, John Fitch, Samuel Skillings, William Wetherall, Thomas Barnam, Joshua Tisdale, Moses Cleveland, Benjamin Allen, Richard Allen, John Reed, Richard Burnham, Samuel Pecher, Daniell Hudson, Richard Jennings, Isaac Leonard, Joseph Richards, John Howard, James Cary, Elisha Hayward, Jonathan Washburn, Joseph Bailey, Solomon Cheever (Cheeker), Ebenezer Hill, John Handmore, David Church, Isaac Morriss, Benjamin Woodworth, Daniel Ramsdell, Isaac Peirce, Ellexander Reynolds (Rynge), Ebenezer Prout, John Barrett, John Briant, George Sampson, Caleb Cook, William Bradford, Nehemiah Bessey, Moses Barlow, Isaac Holmes, Elisha Busbee (Besbedge), Nathaniel Nicolls, Hopestill Busby (Besbedge), Walter Noice (Voice), Jonathan Crocker, Joseph Ross, Josiah Winslow, James Snow, Andrew Watkins, William Preist, Benjamin Chamberlain, James Ray, Thomas Lewis, Richard Man, Thomas Man, John Day, Thomas Brick, Thomas Bullen, Samuel Foster, William Robins, James Updike

1738

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Daniel Alexander
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
117
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
1
day of bounty claim
18
year of bounty claim
1738
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Northampton
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
26, 540 acres
township name
granted
Greenwich
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Hadley, History of the Town of Goffstown, 1733-1920, Vol. 2, 1924, 53-54; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 425-30.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #4 initially included 26,160 acres near Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River, granted to 120 soldiers of King Philip’s War, and heirs, from Northampton Mass. and vicinity, including proprietor Edward Shove. It was named Shove’s Town, later Goffstown, part of Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1735, the grantees "found it so poor and barren as to be altogether incapable of making settlements," and were instead granted 23,040 acres (plus 3,500) of land in Greenwich, Mass., settled in 1738.
known group members
Daniel Alexander, Samuel Judd, Thomas Hovey, John Pengally, Richard Childs, Bartholemew Flagg, James Hudson, Nathaniel Sanger, Joseph Lyon, Captain Isaac Johnson, Joseph Carpenter, Henry Bowen, Joseph Chamberlain, Abiell Lamb, Edward Walker, John Dunham, Benjamin Hall, Shuball Dimmock, Thomas Hazen, Daniel Wicomb, Israell Hendrick, David Hartshorn, John Hartshorn, Samuel Taylor, Jeremiah Sabin, Fenwich Sawyer, John Corbin, Jeremiah Ripley, Ephraim Beamass, John Bozorth, John Spurr, John Thresher, Malachi Holloway, William Hopkins, John Maccomber, Ebenezer Owen, Joseph White, Samuel Mirick, Jacob Hathaway, James Bell, John Wheeton, Thomas Buffington, John Brown, Jonathan Willmarth, Sampson Mason, Joseph Baker, John Hull, John Ridaway, Josiah Perry, John Ide, Thomas Kindrick, Joseph Daggett, John Martin, Benjamin Church, Theophilus Mitchell, Abraham Hathaway, Benjamin Crane, Jonathan Freeman, John Fitch, Samuel Skillings, William Wetherall, Thomas Barnam, Joshua Tisdale, Moses Cleveland, Benjamin Allen, Richard Allen, John Reed, Richard Burnham, Samuel Pecher, Daniell Hudson, Richard Jennings, Isaac Leonard, Joseph Richards, John Howard, James Cary, Elisha Hayward, Jonathan Washburn, Joseph Bailey, Solomon Cheever (Cheeker), Ebenezer Hill, John Handmore, David Church, Isaac Morriss, Benjamin Woodworth, Daniel Ramsdell, Isaac Peirce, Ellexander Reynolds (Rynge), Ebenezer Prout, John Barrett, John Briant, George Sampson, Caleb Cook, William Bradford, Nehemiah Bessey, Moses Barlow, Isaac Holmes, Elisha Busbee (Besbedge), Nathaniel Nicolls, Hopestill Busby (Besbedge), Walter Noice (Voice), Jonathan Crocker, Joseph Ross, Josiah Winslow, James Snow, Andrew Watkins, William Preist, Benjamin Chamberlain, James Ray, Thomas Lewis, Richard Man, Thomas Man, John Day, Thomas Brick, Thomas Bullen, Samuel Foster, William Robins, James Updike

1676

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Alderman
commander
Benjamin Church
commander rank
Captain
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
6-7
day of killing/
captivity
12
month of killing/
captivity
8
year of killing/
captivity
1676
month of bounty claim
8
day of bounty claim
unknown
year of bounty claim
1676
native/colonial
locale/town
Mount Hope
present day state/
province
RI
present day town/
proximity
Bristol
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
Pocasset
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
Pometacomet
victim number
1
victim type
dismembered
victim note
male
monetary reward
30 shillings
land reward
unknown
township name
granted
unknown
township state
unknown
source name
Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, 106; Grenier, The First Way of War, 2005, 39; Ghere and Morrison, "Sanctions for Slaughter"; Brooks, Our Beloved Kin, 2018, 323; Ball, "Grim Commerce," 2013, 85; Doreski, Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-century Conflicts, 1982, 16; Thomas Church, Benjamin Church, and Samuel Drake, The History of King Philip's War , 1825, 101; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 387-88.
award note
In 1675, Captain Benjamin Church and his company are offered a bounty of £5 (100 shillings) for procuring Pometacomet's/King Philip's scalp. August 12, 1676, Church and company, including Alderman, a Pocasset Wampanoag, track and kill Pometacomet near Mount Hope, R.I. Church orders that "not one of his bones should be buried," dismembers his corpse and "delivered the paws of that monster which hath caused us so much mischief" to Boston. His severed head is placed on a pole in Plymouth in public view. MA governor John Leverett promised 100£ from the public treasury as a reward for Church's service, but died before this was rewarded. Colonial authorities award Church and company 30 shillings for Pometacomet and the others caught with him, amounting to “Four Shillings and Six Pence a Man,” which Church bemoaned as “scanty reward and poor encouragement.”
known group members
Alderman, Captain Benjamin Church , Captains Sanford, Captain Golding, Captain John Williams

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Simon Adams
commander
Daniel Denison, Samuel Appleton
commander rank
Captains
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
121
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
6
day of bounty claim
unknown
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
(Ipswich, Newbury, Rowley, Haverhill, Salisbury, Amesbury, Methuen, MA); (Hampton, Greenland, NH); (Berwick, ME)
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
scalps, killed, captives
victim note
men, women, children
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Buxton
township state
ME
source name
MA House Journal, 10: 13; MA A&R, 11: 325; MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; McLellan, History of Gorham, Me, 1903, 26-27; Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements and Families, Vol. 1., 1895, 104-05. Bachellor, Town charters, 793; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 413-16; Doreski, Carole, ed. Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-century Conflicts. Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1982.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #1 consisted of 16,224 acres, which became Buxton, Maine (near Falmouth/Portland) was granted to heirs of 121 soldiers (named in "known group members") from "the Ipswich Society," to proprietors John Hobson, Col. Joseph Gerrish of Newbury, Philemon Dane and John Gains from Ipswich.
known group members
Captains Daniel Denison, Samuel Appleton, Richard Allin, John Andrews, Simon Adams, John (Asy) Asa, William Allin, Captain Samuel Brocklebanck, Thomas Brown, John Brown, Joseph Brown, William Brown, John Boynton, Gershom Brown, John Brown, Edmond Brown, John Baker, James Burnom, Richard Brier, Henry Bodwell, Joshua Boynton, Christopher Bartlett, Jonathan Clark, Moses Chase, George Cross, Richard Curriour, Edward Cogswell, Edward Colcut, Robert Down, Philemon Dane, Moses Durell, Zechariah Davis, Thomas Dow, John Denison, John David, Cornelius Davis, William Elsley, Isaac Ilsley, Thomas Easmon, Nathaniel Emerson, Jonathan Emery, Peter Emons, James Fuller, Isaac Fellows, Joseph Fellows, James George, Captain Stephen Greenleaf, Amos (Goddin) Gody, John Giddins, Hugh Gallaway, John Herrin, John Harvey, John Hobson, Samuel Hutchinson, Samuel Hadley, Samuel Hill, Samuel Ingals, John Jackson, Caleb Jackson, Richard Jacobs, Joseph Jewett, Henry Kimbal, Caleb Kimbal, Robert Kinsmon, Nathaniel Keene, Samuel Kneeland, William Knowlton, Thomas Kingsbury, Christopher Kennistone, John Laighton, Thomas Low, Moses Little, Daniel Lad, John Lovel, Jabez Musgro, Lieutenant Jonathan Moors, John Mitchell, John Martin, John Martin, Benjamin Newman, Zaccheus Newmarch, Samuel Poore, Benjamin Parson, Jospeh Plummer, Henry Poore, John Pickard, Thomas Palmer, Samuel (Parse) Peirce, Edmond Potter, Captain Daniel Ring, Caleb Richardson, Thomas Rogers, Nicholas Rollins, Nicholas Richardson, Daniel Ruff, Joseph Rose, Daniel Rolf, Daniel Sumersby, Solomon Sheapard, George Stimson, John Spofford, William Sawyer, Thomas Smith, Abiel Sadler, Robert Swan, Seth Storer, Richard Swan, Thomas Sparks, John Stickney, John Sheapard, Daniel Tenny, Nicholas Tarbot, Thomas Tenney, Daniel Thurston, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Verey, Benjamin Verey, Jonathan Verey, John Williams, John Woodin, Ezekiel Woodward, Thomas Wait, Francis Young,

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
John Adams
commander
Thomas Prentice
commander rank
Captain
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
80
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
2
day of bounty claim
12
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Gardner
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Hurd, History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, 1889, 1055; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 435-38; Carole Doreski, Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-Century Conflicts (Boston, MA: Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts), 1982.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. On February 12, 1733, the General Court confirmed Narragansett Town #6, which became Templeton, a part of Gardner Mass., granted to 120 soldiers and their heirs, from the towns Concord, Groton, Marlboro, Chelmsford, Billerica, Lancaster, Lexington, Stow, Framingham, Littleton, Sherborn, Stoneham, Southboro, Woburn, Mass. Proprietors included Samuel Chandler, Jacob Wright, and Captain Benjamin Prescott. On June 24, 1735, lots were drawn.
known group members
Joseph Buss (Busse), Nathaniel Wilson, Henry Bartlett, John Kendall, Moses Wheat, Jacob Amsden, Josiah Hobbs, Samuel Buttrick (Butterick) (Boutericke), Zechariah Paddleford (Paddlefoot), Jonathan Whitney, John Baldwin, Isaac Amsden (Emsden) (Almsden), Daniel Woodward, Jonathan Lawrence, Samuel Swan, John Parker, Joseph Wheeler, Abraham Temple, Thomas Brown, Samuel How, John Wheeler, John Wood, John Taylor, Thomas Parker, John Cutler (Cuttler), Zachariah Snow, Peter Bateman, Caleb Simons (Simonds), John Priest, John Sheldon (Shelden) (Shilden), William Roberts, (Robards), John White Jr., James Smith, Michael Flagg (Flegg), Moses Whitney (Whettny), Joseph Waight, Daniel Warren (Warrin), Isaac Larned (Learned), Joseph Smith, Jonathan Smith, John Wilson, Increase Winne (Win), John Needham, Lieutenant John Wyman, John Adams, Thomas Gery (Geery), Daniel Dean, Francis Wyman Jr., John Wyman Jr., Deacon Samuel Stone, Nathaniel Richardson, Joseph Wright, William Shattuck (Shattock), John Eams (Eames), John Barrett, Nathaniel Billing, James Pattison, John Trask, Samuel Phelps (Phelpes), John Prescott, Benjamin Muzzey, John Griggs, Thomas Hincher (Henshaw), Eleazar Flagg, Elias Tattingham, Morgan Jones, John Robins (Robbins), Matthias Farnsworth, John Bush, Ephraim Sawyer, John Shedd (Shead), Samuel Hartwell, Peter Buckley (Buckly), Patrick Fasset, Nathaniel Rogers, Samuel Hunt, James Haughton (Houghton), John Kene, Joseph Thomson, John Cane

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Henry Adams
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
120
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
10
day of bounty claim
17
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Lynn
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Amherst
township state
NH
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 421-24; Hayward, The New England Gazetteer, 1839, 28; Daniel F. Secomb, History of the town of Amherst, 1883; Coolidge, A History and Description of New England, General and Local, Vol. 1., 1859, 409.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #3 was granted to 120 soldiers and their heirs from (Salem, Lynn, Marblehead, Gloucester, Andover, Topsfield, Beverly, Wenham, Boxford, Bradford, Chatham, MA) and (Scarborough, York, Falmouth, ME), including a committee of proprietors led by Richard Moore, John Trask and Ebenezer Rayment. Only 19 living veteran soldiers of King Philip’s War were grantees. This was settled as Souhegan West, later named Amherst, New Hampshire (for General Jeffrey Amherst who warred against Native people in the 6th Anglo-Abenaki and "Pontiac’s War.")
known group members
Edward Harradaway, John Elwell, Thomas Babson, Joseph Soams, Thomas Putnam, Joseph Hutchinson, Andrew Gold, Thomas Fuller, John Ross, Samuel Verry, Joseph Holton, Thomas Flynt, Samuel Pickworth, William Curtice, William Trask, Thomas Bell, Jonathan Lambert, William Osborn, John Bullock, Jeremiah Neal, John Gloyd, Captain Joseph Gardner, John Abbott, Thomas Kenney, Edward Hollice, Richard Prince, John Tarble, Joseph Herrick, William Hinds, David Shaply, John Walcot, Joseph Majory, Dr. Richard Knott, Stephen Sweat, John Gatchell, Henry Collins, John Newhall, Thomas Baker, William Bassett, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Collins, John Burrill, Robert Potter, John Lindsey, Aquilla Ramsdell, Robert Driver, Ephraim Farrow, John Ballard, John Mower, Samuel Graves, Samuel Edmonds, John Farrington, John Davis, -- Rand, Joseph Farr, John Lewis, Samuel Tarbox, -- Johnson, Joseph Barrell, Timothy Breed, Andrew Townsend, Richard Haven, Henry Row, Samuel Ingersoll, Edward Harrington, John Day, Isaac Ellery, Samuel Tyler, James Fry, Nathaniel Ballard, John Presson, John Ballard, Ebenezer Barker, Andrew Peters, John Parker, Samuel Phelps, Zaccheus Perkins, Nathaniel Wood, Abraham Fitts, Thomas Davis, Elihu Wardwell, John Huchins, Josiah Clark, James Ford, Samuel Perkins, Joseph Wells, Jonathan Wild, Robert Brown, Thomas Rayment, Ralph Elinwood, Henry Bayley, Christopher Reid, Lott Conant, Thomas Blachfield, Joh Elinwood, Joseph Morgan, William Dodge, John Dodge, Jonathan Byels, William Rayment, Elias Picket, Samuel Harris, Thomas Abbet, Richard Hutton, Joseph Bacheler, Joseph Perkins, William Peabody, Francis Jeffrys, Robert Andrews, Joseph Bixbe, John Boynton, John Harmon, John Bowtel, Nicholas Lum (Lunn), Andrew Sargent, Joseph Hatch, Philip Dexter, Robert Nicholson, Nicholas Manning, Timothy Lufkin

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
John Adams Jr.
commander
Thomas Prentice
commander rank
Captain
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
80
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
2
day of bounty claim
12
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
(Concord, Groton, Marlboro, Chelmsford, Billerica, Lancaster, Lexington, Stow, Framingham, Littleton, Sherborn, Stoneham, Southboro, Woburn)
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Gardner
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Hurd, History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, 1889, 1055; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 435-38; Carole Doreski, Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-Century Conflicts (Boston, MA: Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts), 1982.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. On February 12, 1733, the General Court confirmed Narragansett Town #6, which became Templeton, a part of Gardner Mass., granted to 120 soldiers and their heirs, from the towns Concord, Groton, Marlboro, Chelmsford, Billerica, Lancaster, Lexington, Stow, Framingham, Littleton, Sherborn, Stoneham, Southboro, Woburn, Mass. Proprietors included Samuel Chandler, Jacob Wright, and Captain Benjamin Prescott. On June 24, 1735, lots were drawn.
known group members
Joseph Buss (Busse), Nathaniel Wilson, Henry Bartlett, John Kendall, Moses Wheat, Jacob Amsden, Josiah Hobbs, Samuel Buttrick (Butterick) (Boutericke), Zechariah Paddleford (Paddlefoot), Jonathan Whitney, John Baldwin, Isaac Amsden (Emsden) (Almsden), Daniel Woodward, Jonathan Lawrence, Samuel Swan, John Parker, Joseph Wheeler, Abraham Temple, Thomas Brown, Samuel How, John Wheeler, John Wood, John Taylor, Thomas Parker, John Cutler (Cuttler), Zachariah Snow, Peter Bateman, Caleb Simons (Simonds), John Priest, John Sheldon (Shelden) (Shilden), William Roberts, (Robards), John White Jr., James Smith, Michael Flagg (Flegg), Moses Whitney (Whettny), Joseph Waight, Daniel Warren (Warrin), Isaac Larned (Learned), Joseph Smith, Jonathan Smith, John Wilson, Increase Winne (Win), John Needham, Lieutenant John Wyman, John Adams, Thomas Gery (Geery), Daniel Dean, Francis Wyman Jr., John Wyman Jr., Deacon Samuel Stone, Nathaniel Richardson, Joseph Wright, William Shattuck (Shattock), John Eams (Eames), John Barrett, Nathaniel Billing, James Pattison, John Trask, Samuel Phelps (Phelpes), John Prescott, Benjamin Muzzey, John Griggs, Thomas Hincher (Henshaw), Eleazar Flagg, Elias Tattingham, Morgan Jones, John Robins (Robbins), Matthias Farnsworth, John Bush, Ephraim Sawyer, John Shedd (Shead), Samuel Hartwell, Peter Buckley (Buckly), Patrick Fasset, Nathaniel Rogers, Samuel Hunt, James Haughton (Houghton), John Kene, Joseph Thomson, John Cane

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
John Adams
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
119
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
10
day of bounty claim
17
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Sudbury
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
23, 040 acres
township name
granted
Westminster
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 325; MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 417-20; Hurd, History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, 1889, 1143-44.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. In 1728, 2 townships of 6 miles square were granted in "Nipmuc Country" near Rutland, Lunenburg and Great Wachusett Hill to Samuel Chandler, Jacob Wright and heirs of 60 soldiers from Hingham, Lynn, Beverly, Reading for service in the Narragansett War (Pometacomet's Resistance). The soldiers were promised 8 square miles of land in 1685, which was never allocated. These grants were unsettled until 1733, when Narragansett township # 2, (later named Westminster, Mass.), was allotted to 100 heirs and 20 soldiers, including James Lowden, John Cutting, James Lowden, Jonathan Belcher Esquire and others from Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Weston, Sudbury, Newton, Medford, Malden and Reading.
known group members
William Russell, Gershom Cutter, Joseph Beames, Captain Jonathan Remington, Samuel Champney, Thomas Bathrick, John Barrell, William Gleason, John Smith, Samuel Smith, Joseph Smith, Nathaniel Smith, Thomas Brown, Simon Gates, John Willington, Thomas Brattle, James Cheaver, James Lowden, Samuel Read, Henry Sumers, John Fosket, Isaac Lewis, Samuel Fosket, Samuel Newell, Joseph Dowse, Benjamin Lathrop, James Smith, Samuel Lemmon, William Burtt, Jacob Cole, John Mousley (Mousall), Humphrey Miller, John Hawkins, John Trumbul, Alexander Philips, George Mudge, John Shepherd, Thomas Welch, George Grind, Joseph Lind, Timothy Cuttler, (Jonathan) Kittle, Thomas Genner (Jenner), Matthew Griffin, John Breed, Hopestill Davis, Johnathan Sprague, Edward Johnson, John Senter, Thomas Sawen, Ephraim Cutler, James Cutting, John Barnard, Joshua Biglow, William Shattuck, Joseph Grout, Jonathan Smith, John Hager, George Herrington, John Herrington, Dr. (Palgrave) Willington, Zachariah Cutting, John Bright, William Parmeter, Jacob Bullard, Timothy Rice, John Sherman, James Barnard, Joseph Smith, Elnathan Beirs, Michael Flag, John Barnard, John Cutting, Joseph Priest, Benjamin Willington, Caleb Grant, Thomas Cory, Daniel Warren, James Pike, Jeremiah Norcross, Matthew Gibbs, Thomas Taylor, Sebred Taylor, John Marston, John Parkhurst, Dennis Hedley, John Adams, Joseph Parmeter, Thomas Rutter, Joseph Graves, Joseph More, Seborn Jackson, Nathaniel Haly, Richard Beach, Stephen Cook, John Park, Jacob Willard, Captain Thomas Prentice, Captain (Joseph) Scill, John Whitmore, Thomas Willis, John Mudge, Phineas Upham, Abraham Skinner, James Cheak, John Winslow, John Bacheler, Johnathan Parker, Edmon Brown, Thomas Nichols, Major Jeremiah Swain, Isaac Welman, Benjamin Davis, Samuel Lamson, Thomas Hodgman, Phinehas Upham, William Jones, Ebenezer Breed, Samuel Trumbull, Joseph Pratt

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Daniel Adams
commander
Thomas Prentice
commander rank
Captain
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
80
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
2
day of bounty claim
12
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
(Concord, Groton, Marlboro, Chelmsford, Billerica, Lancaster, Lexington, Stow, Framingham, Littleton, Sherborn, Stoneham, Southboro, Woburn)
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Gardner
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Hurd, History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, 1889, 1055; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 435-38; Carole Doreski, Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-Century Conflicts (Boston, MA: Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts), 1982.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. On February 12, 1733, the General Court confirmed Narragansett Town #6, which became Templeton, a part of Gardner Mass., granted to 120 soldiers and their heirs, from the towns Concord, Groton, Marlboro, Chelmsford, Billerica, Lancaster, Lexington, Stow, Framingham, Littleton, Sherborn, Stoneham, Southboro, Woburn, Mass. Proprietors included Samuel Chandler, Jacob Wright, and Captain Benjamin Prescott. On June 24, 1735, lots were drawn.
known group members
Joseph Buss (Busse), Nathaniel Wilson, Henry Bartlett, John Kendall, Moses Wheat, Jacob Amsden, Josiah Hobbs, Samuel Buttrick (Butterick) (Boutericke), Zechariah Paddleford (Paddlefoot), Jonathan Whitney, John Baldwin, Isaac Amsden (Emsden) (Almsden), Daniel Woodward, Jonathan Lawrence, Samuel Swan, John Parker, Joseph Wheeler, Abraham Temple, Thomas Brown, Samuel How, John Wheeler, John Wood, John Taylor, Thomas Parker, John Cutler (Cuttler), Zachariah Snow, Peter Bateman, Caleb Simons (Simonds), John Priest, John Sheldon (Shelden) (Shilden), William Roberts, (Robards), John White Jr., James Smith, Michael Flagg (Flegg), Moses Whitney (Whettny), Joseph Waight, Daniel Warren (Warrin), Isaac Larned (Learned), Joseph Smith, Jonathan Smith, John Wilson, Increase Winne (Win), John Needham, Lieutenant John Wyman, John Adams, Thomas Gery (Geery), Daniel Dean, Francis Wyman Jr., John Wyman Jr., Deacon Samuel Stone, Nathaniel Richardson, Joseph Wright, William Shattuck (Shattock), John Eams (Eames), John Barrett, Nathaniel Billing, James Pattison, John Trask, Samuel Phelps (Phelpes), John Prescott, Benjamin Muzzey, John Griggs, Thomas Hincher (Henshaw), Eleazar Flagg, Elias Tattingham, Morgan Jones, John Robins (Robbins), Matthias Farnsworth, John Bush, Ephraim Sawyer, John Shedd (Shead), Samuel Hartwell, Peter Buckley (Buckly), Patrick Fasset, Nathaniel Rogers, Samuel Hunt, James Haughton (Houghton), John Kene, Joseph Thomson, John Cane

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Daniel Adams
commander
Daniel Denison, Samuel Appleton
commander rank
Captains
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
121
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
6
day of bounty claim
unknown
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
(Ipswich, Newbury, Rowley, Haverhill, Salisbury, Amesbury, Methuen, MA); (Hampton, Greenland, NH); (Berwick, ME)
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
scalps, killed, captives
victim note
men, women, children
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Buxton
township state
ME
source name
MA House Journal, 10: 13; MA A&R, 11: 325; MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; McLellan, History of Gorham, Me, 1903, 26-27; Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements and Families, Vol. 1., 1895, 104-05. Bachellor, Town charters, 793; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 413-16; Doreski, Carole, ed. Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-century Conflicts. Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1982.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #1 consisted of 16,224 acres, which became Buxton, Maine (near Falmouth/Portland) was granted to heirs of 121 soldiers (named in "known group members") from "the Ipswich Society," to proprietors John Hobson, Col. Joseph Gerrish of Newbury, Philemon Dane and John Gains from Ipswich.
known group members
Captains Daniel Denison, Samuel Appleton, Richard Allin, John Andrews, Simon Adams, John (Asy) Asa, William Allin, Captain Samuel Brocklebanck, Thomas Brown, John Brown, Joseph Brown, William Brown, John Boynton, Gershom Brown, John Brown, Edmond Brown, John Baker, James Burnom, Richard Brier, Henry Bodwell, Joshua Boynton, Christopher Bartlett, Jonathan Clark, Moses Chase, George Cross, Richard Curriour, Edward Cogswell, Edward Colcut, Robert Down, Philemon Dane, Moses Durell, Zechariah Davis, Thomas Dow, John Denison, John David, Cornelius Davis, William Elsley, Isaac Ilsley, Thomas Easmon, Nathaniel Emerson, Jonathan Emery, Peter Emons, James Fuller, Isaac Fellows, Joseph Fellows, James George, Captain Stephen Greenleaf, Amos (Goddin) Gody, John Giddins, Hugh Gallaway, John Herrin, John Harvey, John Hobson, Samuel Hutchinson, Samuel Hadley, Samuel Hill, Samuel Ingals, John Jackson, Caleb Jackson, Richard Jacobs, Joseph Jewett, Henry Kimbal, Caleb Kimbal, Robert Kinsmon, Nathaniel Keene, Samuel Kneeland, William Knowlton, Thomas Kingsbury, Christopher Kennistone, John Laighton, Thomas Low, Moses Little, Daniel Lad, John Lovel, Jabez Musgro, Lieutenant Jonathan Moors, John Mitchell, John Martin, John Martin, Benjamin Newman, Zaccheus Newmarch, Samuel Poore, Benjamin Parson, Jospeh Plummer, Henry Poore, John Pickard, Thomas Palmer, Samuel (Parse) Peirce, Edmond Potter, Captain Daniel Ring, Caleb Richardson, Thomas Rogers, Nicholas Rollins, Nicholas Richardson, Daniel Ruff, Joseph Rose, Daniel Rolf, Daniel Sumersby, Solomon Sheapard, George Stimson, John Spofford, William Sawyer, Thomas Smith, Abiel Sadler, Robert Swan, Seth Storer, Richard Swan, Thomas Sparks, John Stickney, John Sheapard, Daniel Tenny, Nicholas Tarbot, Thomas Tenney, Daniel Thurston, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Verey, Benjamin Verey, Jonathan Verey, John Williams, John Woodin, Ezekiel Woodward, Thomas Wait, Francis Young,

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Nehemiah Abbott
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
80
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
2
day of bounty claim
12
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
(Concord, Groton, Marlboro, Chelmsford, Billerica, Lancaster, Lexington, Stow, Framingham, Littleton, Sherborn, Stoneham, Southboro, Woburn)
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Gardner
township state
MA
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Hurd, History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, 1889, 1055; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 435-38; Carole Doreski, Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-Century Conflicts (Boston, MA: Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts), 1982.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. On February 12, 1733, the General Court confirmed Narragansett Town #6, which became Templeton, a part of Gardner Mass., granted to 120 soldiers and their heirs, from the towns Concord, Groton, Marlboro, Chelmsford, Billerica, Lancaster, Lexington, Stow, Framingham, Littleton, Sherborn, Stoneham, Southboro, Woburn, Mass. Proprietors included Samuel Chandler, Jacob Wright, and Captain Benjamin Prescott. On June 24, 1735, lots were drawn.
known group members
Joseph Buss (Busse), Nathaniel Wilson, Henry Bartlett, John Kendall, Moses Wheat, Jacob Amsden, Josiah Hobbs, Samuel Buttrick (Butterick) (Boutericke), Zechariah Paddleford (Paddlefoot), Jonathan Whitney, John Baldwin, Isaac Amsden (Emsden) (Almsden), Daniel Woodward, Jonathan Lawrence, Samuel Swan, John Parker, Joseph Wheeler, Abraham Temple, Thomas Brown, Samuel How, John Wheeler, John Wood, John Taylor, Thomas Parker, John Cutler (Cuttler), Zachariah Snow, Peter Bateman, Caleb Simons (Simonds), John Priest, John Sheldon (Shelden) (Shilden), William Roberts, (Robards), John White Jr., James Smith, Michael Flagg (Flegg), Moses Whitney (Whettny), Joseph Waight, Daniel Warren (Warrin), Isaac Larned (Learned), Joseph Smith, Jonathan Smith, John Wilson, Increase Winne (Win), John Needham, Lieutenant John Wyman, John Adams, Thomas Gery (Geery), Daniel Dean, Francis Wyman Jr., John Wyman Jr., Deacon Samuel Stone, Nathaniel Richardson, Joseph Wright, William Shattuck (Shattock), John Eams (Eames), John Barrett, Nathaniel Billing, James Pattison, John Trask, Samuel Phelps (Phelpes), John Prescott, Benjamin Muzzey, John Griggs, Thomas Hincher (Henshaw), Eleazar Flagg, Elias Tattingham, Morgan Jones, John Robins (Robbins), Matthias Farnsworth, John Bush, Ephraim Sawyer, John Shedd (Shead), Samuel Hartwell, Peter Buckley (Buckly), Patrick Fasset, Nathaniel Rogers, Samuel Hunt, James Haughton (Houghton), John Kene, Joseph Thomson, John Cane

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Abraham Adams
commander
Daniel Denison, Samuel Appleton
commander rank
Captains
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
121
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
6
day of bounty claim
unknown
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
(Ipswich, Newbury, Rowley, Haverhill, Salisbury, Amesbury, Methuen, MA); (Hampton, Greenland, NH); (Berwick, ME)
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
scalps, killed, captives
victim note
men, women, children
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Buxton
township state
ME
source name
MA House Journal, 10: 13; MA A&R, 11: 325; MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; McLellan, History of Gorham, Me, 1903, 26-27; Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements and Families, Vol. 1., 1895, 104-05. Bachellor, Town charters, 793; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 413-16; Doreski, Carole, ed. Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-century Conflicts. Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1982.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #1 consisted of 16,224 acres, which became Buxton, Maine (near Falmouth/Portland) was granted to heirs of 121 soldiers (named in "known group members") from "the Ipswich Society," to proprietors John Hobson, Col. Joseph Gerrish of Newbury, Philemon Dane and John Gains from Ipswich.
known group members
Captains Daniel Denison, Samuel Appleton, Richard Allin, John Andrews, Simon Adams, John (Asy) Asa, William Allin, Captain Samuel Brocklebanck, Thomas Brown, John Brown, Joseph Brown, William Brown, John Boynton, Gershom Brown, John Brown, Edmond Brown, John Baker, James Burnom, Richard Brier, Henry Bodwell, Joshua Boynton, Christopher Bartlett, Jonathan Clark, Moses Chase, George Cross, Richard Curriour, Edward Cogswell, Edward Colcut, Robert Down, Philemon Dane, Moses Durell, Zechariah Davis, Thomas Dow, John Denison, John David, Cornelius Davis, William Elsley, Isaac Ilsley, Thomas Easmon, Nathaniel Emerson, Jonathan Emery, Peter Emons, James Fuller, Isaac Fellows, Joseph Fellows, James George, Captain Stephen Greenleaf, Amos (Goddin) Gody, John Giddins, Hugh Gallaway, John Herrin, John Harvey, John Hobson, Samuel Hutchinson, Samuel Hadley, Samuel Hill, Samuel Ingals, John Jackson, Caleb Jackson, Richard Jacobs, Joseph Jewett, Henry Kimbal, Caleb Kimbal, Robert Kinsmon, Nathaniel Keene, Samuel Kneeland, William Knowlton, Thomas Kingsbury, Christopher Kennistone, John Laighton, Thomas Low, Moses Little, Daniel Lad, John Lovel, Jabez Musgro, Lieutenant Jonathan Moors, John Mitchell, John Martin, John Martin, Benjamin Newman, Zaccheus Newmarch, Samuel Poore, Benjamin Parson, Jospeh Plummer, Henry Poore, John Pickard, Thomas Palmer, Samuel (Parse) Peirce, Edmond Potter, Captain Daniel Ring, Caleb Richardson, Thomas Rogers, Nicholas Rollins, Nicholas Richardson, Daniel Ruff, Joseph Rose, Daniel Rolf, Daniel Sumersby, Solomon Sheapard, George Stimson, John Spofford, William Sawyer, Thomas Smith, Abiel Sadler, Robert Swan, Seth Storer, Richard Swan, Thomas Sparks, John Stickney, John Sheapard, Daniel Tenny, Nicholas Tarbot, Thomas Tenney, Daniel Thurston, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Verey, Benjamin Verey, Jonathan Verey, John Williams, John Woodin, Ezekiel Woodward, Thomas Wait, Francis Young,

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Obid Abot
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
120
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
10
day of bounty claim
17
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Marblehead
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Amherst
township state
NH
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 421-24; Hayward, The New England Gazetteer, 1839, 28; Daniel F. Secomb, History of the town of Amherst, 1883; Coolidge, A History and Description of New England, General and Local, Vol. 1., 1859, 409.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #3 was granted to 120 soldiers and their heirs from (Salem, Lynn, Marblehead, Gloucester, Andover, Topsfield, Beverly, Wenham, Boxford, Bradford, Chatham, MA) and (Scarborough, York, Falmouth, ME), including a committee of proprietors led by Richard Moore, John Trask and Ebenezer Rayment. Only 19 living veteran soldiers of King Philip’s War were grantees. This was settled as Souhegan West, later named Amherst, New Hampshire (for General Jeffrey Amherst who warred against Native people in the 6th Anglo-Abenaki and "Pontiac’s War.")
known group members
Edward Harradaway, John Elwell, Thomas Babson, Joseph Soams, Thomas Putnam, Joseph Hutchinson, Andrew Gold, Thomas Fuller, John Ross, Samuel Verry, Joseph Holton, Thomas Flynt, Samuel Pickworth, William Curtice, William Trask, Thomas Bell, Jonathan Lambert, William Osborn, John Bullock, Jeremiah Neal, John Gloyd, Captain Joseph Gardner, John Abbott, Thomas Kenney, Edward Hollice, Richard Prince, John Tarble, Joseph Herrick, William Hinds, David Shaply, John Walcot, Joseph Majory, Dr. Richard Knott, Stephen Sweat, John Gatchell, Henry Collins, John Newhall, Thomas Baker, William Bassett, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Collins, John Burrill, Robert Potter, John Lindsey, Aquilla Ramsdell, Robert Driver, Ephraim Farrow, John Ballard, John Mower, Samuel Graves, Samuel Edmonds, John Farrington, John Davis, -- Rand, Joseph Farr, John Lewis, Samuel Tarbox, -- Johnson, Joseph Barrell, Timothy Breed, Andrew Townsend, Richard Haven, Henry Row, Samuel Ingersoll, Edward Harrington, John Day, Isaac Ellery, Samuel Tyler, James Fry, Nathaniel Ballard, John Presson, John Ballard, Ebenezer Barker, Andrew Peters, John Parker, Samuel Phelps, Zaccheus Perkins, Nathaniel Wood, Abraham Fitts, Thomas Davis, Elihu Wardwell, John Huchins, Josiah Clark, James Ford, Samuel Perkins, Joseph Wells, Jonathan Wild, Robert Brown, Thomas Rayment, Ralph Elinwood, Henry Bayley, Christopher Reid, Lott Conant, Thomas Blachfield, Joh Elinwood, Joseph Morgan, William Dodge, John Dodge, Jonathan Byels, William Rayment, Elias Picket, Samuel Harris, Thomas Abbet, Richard Hutton, Joseph Bacheler, Joseph Perkins, William Peabody, Francis Jeffrys, Robert Andrews, Joseph Bixbe, John Boynton, John Harmon, John Bowtel, Nicholas Lum (Lunn), Andrew Sargent, Joseph Hatch, Philip Dexter, Robert Nicholson, Nicholas Manning, Timothy Lufkin

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
John Abbott
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
120
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
12
year of killing/
captivity
1675
month of bounty claim
10
day of bounty claim
17
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Salem
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Amherst
township state
NH
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 421-24; Hayward, The New England Gazetteer, 1839, 28; Daniel F. Secomb, History of the town of Amherst, 1883; Coolidge, A History and Description of New England, General and Local, Vol. 1., 1859, 409.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #3 was granted to 120 soldiers and their heirs from (Salem, Lynn, Marblehead, Gloucester, Andover, Topsfield, Beverly, Wenham, Boxford, Bradford, Chatham, MA) and (Scarborough, York, Falmouth, ME), including a committee of proprietors led by Richard Moore, John Trask and Ebenezer Rayment. Only 19 living veteran soldiers of King Philip’s War were grantees. This was settled as Souhegan West, later named Amherst, New Hampshire (for General Jeffrey Amherst who warred against Native people in the 6th Anglo-Abenaki and "Pontiac’s War.")
known group members
Edward Harradaway, John Elwell, Thomas Babson, Joseph Soams, Thomas Putnam, Joseph Hutchinson, Andrew Gold, Thomas Fuller, John Ross, Samuel Verry, Joseph Holton, Thomas Flynt, Samuel Pickworth, William Curtice, William Trask, Thomas Bell, Jonathan Lambert, William Osborn, John Bullock, Jeremiah Neal, John Gloyd, Captain Joseph Gardner, John Abbott, Thomas Kenney, Edward Hollice, Richard Prince, John Tarble, Joseph Herrick, William Hinds, David Shaply, John Walcot, Joseph Majory, Dr. Richard Knott, Stephen Sweat, John Gatchell, Henry Collins, John Newhall, Thomas Baker, William Bassett, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Collins, John Burrill, Robert Potter, John Lindsey, Aquilla Ramsdell, Robert Driver, Ephraim Farrow, John Ballard, John Mower, Samuel Graves, Samuel Edmonds, John Farrington, John Davis, -- Rand, Joseph Farr, John Lewis, Samuel Tarbox, -- Johnson, Joseph Barrell, Timothy Breed, Andrew Townsend, Richard Haven, Henry Row, Samuel Ingersoll, Edward Harrington, John Day, Isaac Ellery, Samuel Tyler, James Fry, Nathaniel Ballard, John Presson, John Ballard, Ebenezer Barker, Andrew Peters, John Parker, Samuel Phelps, Zaccheus Perkins, Nathaniel Wood, Abraham Fitts, Thomas Davis, Elihu Wardwell, John Huchins, Josiah Clark, James Ford, Samuel Perkins, Joseph Wells, Jonathan Wild, Robert Brown, Thomas Rayment, Ralph Elinwood, Henry Bayley, Christopher Reid, Lott Conant, Thomas Blachfield, John Elinwood, Joseph Morgan, William Dodge, John Dodge, Jonathan Byels, William Rayment, Elias Picket, Samuel Harris, Thomas Abbet, Richard Hutton, Joseph Bacheler, Joseph Perkins, William Peabody, Francis Jeffrys, Robert Andrews, Joseph Bixbe, John Boynton, John Harmon, John Bowtel, Nicholas Lum (Lunn), Andrew Sargent, Joseph Hatch, Philip Dexter, Robert Nicholson, Nicholas Manning, Timothy Lufkin

1700

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Joshua Abell
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
182
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
10
day of bounty claim
unknown
year of bounty claim
1700
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
CT
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unkown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Voluntown
township state
CT
source name
Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 441-45.
award note
In October, 1700, Connecticut volunteer militia who fought in King Philip’s War were granted a township of 6 miles square, from some of the “conquered land,” which was incorporated as Voluntown, CT. Captain Samuel Mason, John Gallop, and Lieutenant James Avery were appointed to view the said tract. Committee members Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell, Lieutenant Richard Bushnell, Isaac Wheeler, Caleb Fobes, Samuel Bliss, Joseph Morgan, and Manasseh Miner were charged with allotting the bounty land. Captain Richard Bushnell made a list of the names of 180 “Narragansett soldiers.” The bounty to “English volunteers” excluded Indigenous soldiers, who formed a large part of Connecticut companies, as well as whites pressed into service (in contrast to Massachusetts which granted “impressed” soldiers and their heirs land bounties 30 years later).
known group members
Major Edward Palmes, Captain George Denison, Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell, Major Wait Winthrop, Reverend James Fitch, Sargent John Frink, Captain James Avery, James Avery, John Avery, Thomas Avery, Joshua Baker, John Wickweier (Wickwire), Ephraim Colver (Culver), William Potts, Edward Colver, Samuel Yeomans, John Lewis, John Fish, Samuel Fish, William Williams, George Denison, William Denison, Nathaniel Beebe, Henry Stephens, Edmond Fanning, Thomas Fanning, John Bennett, William Bennett, Thomas Rose (Ross), Phillip Bill, Phillip Bill Jr., Deny Springer, Ezekiel Mayn (Maine), William Wheeller (Wheeler), Thomas Wooster, Gershom Palmer, Jonathan Armstrong, Samuel Stanton, Robert Stanton, Daniel Stanton, James Morgan, John Keene (Kinne), John Latham, John Waterhouse, Joseph Morgan, Nathaniel Park, William Douglace (Douglass), Manasseth Miner, James Willit (Willet), Reverend James Noyes, Captain John Stanton, Joseph Stanton, Aaron Stark, John Stark, James York, Thomas Bell (Bill), Lieutenant Thomas Miner, Richard Bushnell, Samuel Lathrop, Solomon Tracy, John Wiley, Samuel Tubbs, Robert Park, Peter Spiser (Spicer), Jonathan Rudd, Richard Cook, Thomas Park, Henry Elliott, Thomas Bliss, Isaac Wheeler, Peter Cross, Jonathan Gennings, Caleb Fobes, John Gallop (Gallup), Adam Gallop (Gallup), William Gallop (Gallup), Nathaniel Cheesbro, Ephraim Miner, Joseph Miner, Samuel Miner, John Ashcroft, Joshua Holmes, Captain Ebenezer Johnson, Joseph Wheeler, Sergeant Moses Johnson, Daniel Tracy, Edmond Fanning, William Roberts, John Denison, Matthew Griswold, Richard Lord, Stephen Dewolf, Richard Smith, John Smith, Francis Smith, Moses Huntly (Huntley), Henry Bennett, Henry Peterson, Samuel Stephens, Henry Hall, William Champlin, Captain Pembleton (Pendleton), Daniel Crumb, Nicholas Cottrell (Cotterall), John Pameter (Palmetor), Samuel Roger (Rogers), John Hull, Daniel Kelsie (Kelsey), John Mintor (Minton), John Stephens, Ebenezer French, John Griswold, Nehemiah Smith, John Wheeler, Nathaniel Haiden, Joseph Hull, Samuel Sheather (Shother), John Charles, Samuel Frisbie, John Plant, Samuel Fox, Jacob Joy, Clement Minor, William Pendall, Daniel Stubbins, John Hough, Samuel Roberts, Joshua Abell, Thomas Rood, William Knights, Matthew Jones, Thomas Williams, Joseph Waterhouse, Richard Dart, Samuel Hough, William Hough, Abel More (Moir), Jeremiah Blake (Black, Blage), John Plumb, Thomas Hungerford, John Packer (Parker), Samuel Packer (Parker), Nathaniel Holt, Robert Lord, John Woller, Richard Smith, Edward Dewolf, Aaron Huntly (Huntley), James Murphy (Murffey), Robert Holmes, Daniel Comstock, George Chappell (Chapple), Thurston Reinerd (Rainard), Hugh Rowland, John Lathrop, James Welch, Daniel Clark, Edward Shipman, Joseph Ingarum (Ingraham), Joseph Colver (Culver), William Billings, John Shaw, Stephen Richeson, Roger Orris, James Danielson, Ebenezer Billings, Jonathan Burtch, William Johnson, Samuel Richarson, Thomas Brand, William Champlin, John Babcock, Edward Larkin, Daniel Shaw, Thomas Reynolds (Renols), William Lees (Lee), Reverend Moises Noise, John Larabe, Joseph Northrop, Robert Old, Nathan Gillet (Gillit), John Somes, Clement Miner, John Waller, Benaiah Bushnel, Samuel Richards, John Fanning, Henry Paterson, John Lummis, Moses Bennett.

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Thomas Abbett
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
120
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
10
day of bounty claim
17
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Wenham
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Amherst
township state
NH
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 421-24; Hayward, The New England Gazetteer, 1839, 28; Daniel F. Secomb, History of the town of Amherst, 1883; Coolidge, A History and Description of New England, General and Local, Vol. 1., 1859, 409.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #3 was granted to 120 soldiers and their heirs from (Salem, Lynn, Marblehead, Gloucester, Andover, Topsfield, Beverly, Wenham, Boxford, Bradford, Chatham, MA) and (Scarborough, York, Falmouth, ME), including a committee of proprietors led by Richard Moore, John Trask and Ebenezer Rayment. Only 19 living veteran soldiers of King Philip’s War were grantees. This was settled as Souhegan West, later named Amherst, New Hampshire (for General Jeffrey Amherst who warred against Native people in the 6th Anglo-Abenaki and "Pontiac’s War.")
known group members
Edward Harradaway, John Elwell, Thomas Babson, Joseph Soams, Thomas Putnam, Joseph Hutchinson, Andrew Gold, Thomas Fuller, John Ross, Samuel Verry, Joseph Holton, Thomas Flynt, Samuel Pickworth, William Curtice, William Trask, Thomas Bell, Jonathan Lambert, William Osborn, John Bullock, Jeremiah Neal, John Gloyd, Captain Joseph Gardner, John Abbott, Thomas Kenney, Edward Hollice, Richard Prince, John Tarble, Joseph Herrick, William Hinds, David Shaply, John Walcot, Joseph Majory, Dr. Richard Knott, Stephen Sweat, John Gatchell, Henry Collins, John Newhall, Thomas Baker, William Bassett, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Collins, John Burrill, Robert Potter, John Lindsey, Aquilla Ramsdell, Robert Driver, Ephraim Farrow, John Ballard, John Mower, Samuel Graves, Samuel Edmonds, John Farrington, John Davis, -- Rand, Joseph Farr, John Lewis, Samuel Tarbox, -- Johnson, Joseph Barrell, Timothy Breed, Andrew Townsend, Richard Haven, Henry Row, Samuel Ingersoll, Edward Harrington, John Day, Isaac Ellery, Samuel Tyler, James Fry, Nathaniel Ballard, John Presson, John Ballard, Ebenezer Barker, Andrew Peters, John Parker, Samuel Phelps, Zaccheus Perkins, Nathaniel Wood, Abraham Fitts, Thomas Davis, Elihu Wardwell, John Huchins, Josiah Clark, James Ford, Samuel Perkins, Joseph Wells, Jonathan Wild, Robert Brown, Thomas Rayment, Ralph Elinwood, Henry Bayley, Christopher Reid, Lott Conant, Thomas Blachfield, John Elinwood, Joseph Morgan, William Dodge, John Dodge, Jonathan Byels, William Rayment, Elias Picket, Samuel Harris, Thomas Abbet, Richard Hutton, Joseph Bacheler, Joseph Perkins, William Peabody, Francis Jeffrys, Robert Andrews, Joseph Bixbe, John Boynton, John Harmon, John Bowtel, Nicholas Lum (Lunn), Andrew Sargent, Joseph Hatch, Philip Dexter, Robert Nicholson, Nicholas Manning, Timothy Lufkin

1733

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Thomas Abbett Jr.
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
120
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
unknown
year of killing/
captivity
1675 to 76
month of bounty claim
10
day of bounty claim
17
year of bounty claim
1733
native/colonial
locale/town
unknown
present day state/
province
unknown
present day town/
proximity
unknown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
MA
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
Wenham
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
MA
victim name
unknown
victim number
unknown
victim type
unknown
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
6 miles square
township name
granted
Amherst
township state
NH
source name
MA A&R, 11: 460; MA A&R, 11: 673; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 421-24; Hayward, The New England Gazetteer, 1839, 28; Daniel F. Secomb, History of the town of Amherst, 1883; Coolidge, A History and Description of New England, General and Local, Vol. 1., 1859, 409.
award note
In 1728, the General Court first attempted to redeem a promise made to soldiers who fought in King Philip's War in 1675, that if they “played the man, took the Fort, and drove the enemy out of the Narragansett Country, which was their great seat, they should have a gratuity in Land besides their wages.” The army was known as the "Narragansett Army." In 1730, the legislature of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, appointed a committee to grant a 6 square mile township for every 120 claimants. It was not until 1733 that 7 towns were allotted, primarily to 840 heirs of "Narragansett soldiers," who gathered on the Boston Common. Several Proprietors from each town served on a joint committee of 21. Narragansett Town #3 was granted to 120 soldiers and their heirs from (Salem, Lynn, Marblehead, Gloucester, Andover, Topsfield, Beverly, Wenham, Boxford, Bradford, Chatham, MA) and (Scarborough, York, Falmouth, ME), including a committee of proprietors led by Richard Moore, John Trask and Ebenezer Rayment. Only 19 living veteran soldiers of King Philip’s War were grantees. This was settled as Souhegan West, later named Amherst, New Hampshire (for General Jeffrey Amherst who warred against Native people in the 6th Anglo-Abenaki and "Pontiac’s War.")
known group members
Edward Harradaway, John Elwell, Thomas Babson, Joseph Soams, Thomas Putnam, Joseph Hutchinson, Andrew Gold, Thomas Fuller, John Ross, Samuel Verry, Joseph Holton, Thomas Flynt, Samuel Pickworth, William Curtice, William Trask, Thomas Bell, Jonathan Lambert, William Osborn, John Bullock, Jeremiah Neal, John Gloyd, Captain Joseph Gardner, John Abbott, Thomas Kenney, Edward Hollice, Richard Prince, John Tarble, Joseph Herrick, William Hinds, David Shaply, John Walcot, Joseph Majory, Dr. Richard Knott, Stephen Sweat, John Gatchell, Henry Collins, John Newhall, Thomas Baker, William Bassett, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Collins, John Burrill, Robert Potter, John Lindsey, Aquilla Ramsdell, Robert Driver, Ephraim Farrow, John Ballard, John Mower, Samuel Graves, Samuel Edmonds, John Farrington, John Davis, -- Rand, Joseph Farr, John Lewis, Samuel Tarbox, -- Johnson, Joseph Barrell, Timothy Breed, Andrew Townsend, Richard Haven, Henry Row, Samuel Ingersoll, Edward Harrington, John Day, Isaac Ellery, Samuel Tyler, James Fry, Nathaniel Ballard, John Presson, John Ballard, Ebenezer Barker, Andrew Peters, John Parker, Samuel Phelps, Zaccheus Perkins, Nathaniel Wood, Abraham Fitts, Thomas Davis, Elihu Wardwell, John Huchins, Josiah Clark, James Ford, Samuel Perkins, Joseph Wells, Jonathan Wild, Robert Brown, Thomas Rayment, Ralph Elinwood, Henry Bayley, Christopher Reid, Lott Conant, Thomas Blachfield, John Elinwood, Joseph Morgan, William Dodge, John Dodge, Jonathan Byels, William Rayment, Elias Picket, Samuel Harris, Thomas Abbet, Richard Hutton, Joseph Bacheler, Joseph Perkins, William Peabody, Francis Jeffrys, Robert Andrews, Joseph Bixbe, John Boynton, John Harmon, John Bowtel, Nicholas Lum (Lunn), Andrew Sargent, Joseph Hatch, Philip Dexter, Robert Nicholson, Nicholas Manning, Timothy Lufkin

unknown

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
unknown
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
unknown
day of killing/
captivity
7
month of killing/
captivity
8
year of killing/
captivity
1676
month of bounty claim
unknown
day of bounty claim
unknown
year of bounty claim
unknown
native/colonial
locale/town
Taunton
present day state/
province
MA
present day town/
proximity
Taunton
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
Weetamoo
victim number
1
victim type
dismembered
victim note
female
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
unknown
township name
granted
unknown
township state
unknown
source name
Bodge, George M. Soldiers in King Philip's War, 1906, 39; Brooks, "Writing Weetamoo to Death,"Our Beloved Kin: Remapping A New History Of King Philip's War.
award note
Weetamoo, Sunksqua leader of the Pocasset Wampanoag was a renown bead-worker/storyteller and ritual dancer. She joined her brother-in-law Pometacomet's resistance movement. On August 7, 1676, she drowned while crossing the Taunton River. Her body was mutilated by colonists and her head cut off and paraded through Taunton, where it was displayed publicly.
known group members
unknown

1757

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
Daniel
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
unknown
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
7
year of killing/
captivity
1757
month of bounty claim
29
day of bounty claim
7
year of bounty claim
1757
native/colonial
locale/town
Ticonderoga
present day state/
province
NY
present day town/
proximity
Ticonderoga
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unknown
victim number
2
victim type
scalps
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
unknown
township name
granted
unknown
township state
unknown
source name
Johnson, Papers of Sir William Johnson, Vol.9: 806.
award note
A Mohawk Daniel and 18 scouts brought 2 scalps to Indian Superintendent William Johnson, taken at Ticonderoga, New York: “Sir William showed the scalp to the chief of the Cherokees who after looking at them locked his hands together as hard as he could & endeavored to make him understand they would be firm friends to the English and that nothing but death should separate us. Sir William gave the party all new shirts, paint, victuals and liquor enough and some cags of rum to drink with their friends in the Castle and so parted well pleased.”
known group members
Daniel

1761

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
unknown
commander
unknown
commander rank
War Chief
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
unknown
day of killing/
captivity
unknown
month of killing/
captivity
9
year of killing/
captivity
1761
month of bounty claim
29
day of bounty claim
9
year of bounty claim
1761
native/colonial
locale/town
near Johnstown
present day state/
province
NY
present day town/
proximity
near Johnstown
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unknown
victim number
3
victim type
scalps, captives
victim note
unknown
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
unknown
township name
granted
unknown
township state
unknown
source name
Johnson, The Papers of Sir William Johnson, 1928, Vol. 10: 328.
award note
September 1761, from an Indian Conference at Johnson Hall, New York: “This day arrived one chief of the Shawnese with nine warriors from a scout brought in 2 prisoners and a scalp which they gave me as likewise a string of wampum and made great complaints in the name of all the Indians of the dearness of the merchants goods & the low price that was set on their furs so that it was almost impossible they could live.” Bounty paid included 1 gallon of rum and a roll of tobacco.
known group members
unknown

1746

Title
none
killer/captor/
claimant
unknown
commander
unknown
commander rank
none
killer/captor/
claimant group
size
unknown
day of killing/
captivity
26
month of killing/
captivity
8
year of killing/
captivity
1746
month of bounty claim
unknown
day of bounty claim
unknown
year of bounty claim
1746
native/colonial
locale/town
Deerfield
present day state/
province
MA
present day town/
proximity
Deerfield
town residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
state residence of
killer/captor at
time
unknown
town of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
state of killer/
captor/claimant
after
unknown
victim name
unknown
victim number
1
victim type
scalp
victim note
male
monetary reward
unknown
land reward
unknown
township name
granted
unknown
township state
unknown
source name
Drake, Samuel G. A Particular History of the Five Years French and Indian War in New England and Parts Adjacent, 1870, 128.
award note
An English-allied Native soldier kills and scalps an Indigenous man who attacked Deerfield, August 26 1746, during the siege of Fort Massachusetts. The scalp is presented to Governor Shirley in Boston who recommends a bounty reward.
known group members
unknown