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Capt. Daniel Henchman’s Company in King Philip’s War

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This company marched out to Dedham to the Neponset river, together with Capt. Prentice's troop(s), and halted during the eclipse of the moon , then to Woodcock's (now Attleborough). Capt. Moseley's Volunteers overtook them and all three companies marched to Swanzy, where they were joined by Maj. Thomas Savage, commander-in-chief of the Massachusetts forces, and the troop of Capt. Nicolas Paige.

List of Soldiers credited with Military Service in Capt. Daniel Henchman’s. Company[1]

August 20, 1675:[2]

  • Thomas Burges
  • John Hills
  • John Lewis
  • John Angel
  • Benjamin Negus
  • John Chapman
  • Robert Smith
  • William Manly, [was alive Apr 1735; claimed his Narragansett right in person]
  • Thomas Irons
  • Samuel Perkins
  • Hugh Taylor
  • David Jones
  • James Whippo, [probably from Barnstable where the name was Whipple]
  • Theophilus Thornton
  • Nathaniel Osborne
  • Samuel Davis
  • Henry Kerby
  • Ephraim Hall
  • Richard Gibson
  • Thomas Williams
  • Joseph Ford
  • Samuel Walles
  • William Bently
  • Peter Edgerton
  • John Bull
  • Richard Brooks
  • John Barrett
  • Joseph Fiske
  • Joseph Tucker
  • Israel Smith
  • Samuel Ireson

August 21 1675:[3]

  • James Dichetto, [Elsewhere Dickenden and Dighenton], attended wounded at Narragansett
  • Jacob Gully
  • Isaac Ratt
  • Samuel Veze, (als Very)
  • Samuel Daniel
  • John Kemble
  • John Russell
  • Simon Groveling
  • John Thorne
  • Charles Damport, [name often written Danforth or Davenport]
  • Benjamin Bishop
  • John Throp, [Thorp and Throppe]
  • Solomon Watts
  • Philip Coker
  • John Jeffries
  • Robert Wills
  • Isaac Morris
  • Nicholas Weymouth
  • Nathaniel Jewell
  • Samuel Mirick
  • William Parham
  • Thomas Roberts

August 27 (or 23rd)[4]

  • John Hubbard
  • John Tebb
  • Henry Timberlake. Sergt.
  • John Taylor, Sergt.
  • Thomas Bishop
  • Peter Bennett, Marshall
  • Simeon Messener
  • John Polly
  • John Essery
  • Henry arward, Sergt.
  • Samuel Barber
  • Phillip Jessop
  • Charles Blinclott. Sergt., [Blinco, Blinko]
  • Isaac Amsden
  • Henry Prentice
  • John Streeter
  • Abraham hathaway
  • James Johnson. Sergt
  • Isaac How
  • Thomas Parker
  • Joseph Pierce
  • John Oates
  • William Hopkins
  • Ralph Hall, clark
  • Thomas Wigfall, Ensigne
  • Richard Bennet
  • John Scopelin

September 3 1675[5]

  • Josiah Arnold
  • Wm Smallidge
  • John Bucknam
  • Enoch Greenleaf, Lieut.
  • Samuel Johnson
  • William Drew
  • William Hardin
  • John Cray
  • Nathaniel Fiske
  • John Miller
  • John King
  • James Ogleby
  • Rowland Soley
  • Thomas Region
  • Thomas Hincher
  • Joseph Smith
  • Thomas Alison
  • George Burkback
  • Daniel Magenis
  • Henry Eliott
  • Thomas Okerby
  • John Hastings
  • Edward Weeden
  • John Wiseman

Sept 14 [1675][6]

  • Joseph Priest
  • Nathaniel King
  • John Pemberton
  • Osbel Morrison
  • John Cross
  • Perez Savage. Ensigne || of Boston
  • Roger Procer
  • Robert Orachard, Sergt.

September 21, 1675[7]

  • David Church
  • Samual Johnson || butcher
  • Thomas Traine
  • Ebenezer Owen
  • Matthew Stone
  • Nathaniel Kean
  • Benjamin Tower
  • Jonathan Dunning

Of the following list, Bodge writes "I am at loss to determine upon what occasion these soldiers... served.

October 5, 1675:[8]

  • Richard Wood
  • Ephraim Willer, Corp
  • Thomas May
  • Michael Bearstow
  • Thomas Webb
  • Edward Dickinson
  • Jacob Bullard
  • Samuel Witney
  • John Shattock
  • Daniel Keniday

November 30, 1675:[9]

  • Edward Barton
  • Isaac Heath
  • Henry Kerby
  • Jeremiah Wise
  • Benjamin Negus
  • John Leech
  • James White
  • John Good
  • Joseph Batemen
  • Edward Everet
  • Richard Francis
  • John Kemble
  • Experience Orris
  • Samuel Ryall
  • Joseph Gridley
  • William Bodkin
  • William Hooper
  • John Tuckerman
  • John Cann
  • William Price
  • William Davenport
  • Thomas Smith
  • Joseph Bugby (Bigby?)
  • Samuel Gardner
  • Simon Rogers
  • Abiel Lamb
  • Richard Woods
  • Degory Sargent
  • JOsiah Mann
  • John Malony
  • Francis Siddall
  • Hugh Price
  • James Harrington
  • Benjamin Gamlin (married Philip Curtis' widow in 1678)
  • Isaac Morris
  • Josiah Holland
  • Joseph Wilson
  • Samuel Ruggles
  • Philip Curtis, Lieut.

Others mentioned in the narrative through this time:

  • Capt. Samuel Moseley, (an old privateer "at Jamaica"; m. dau of Isaac Addington)
  • Mr. Miles of Swanzy
  • Maj. Thomas Savage, (commander-in-chief of Mass. forces)
  • Capt. Nicholas Paige
  • Capt. Hutchinson
  • Cudworth (Plymouth)
  • Fuller (Plymouth)
  • Church (Plymouth)
  • Rev. Noah Newman, of Rehoboth
  • Peter Hunt, of Rehoboth
  • Lt. Thomas
  • Mr. James Brown
  • Mr. Almiee
  • Dan. Stanton,| of the island [near Seaconk?]
  • Gen. Daniel Denison || commander-in-chief of Mass. forces 9 Aug 1675)
  • John Eliot || (advocated on behalf of captive Indians in Boston)
  • Capt. Gookin (ditto)
  • Capt. Oliver
  • Capt. Lake
  • Capt. Wright

Dec 3, 1675 (impressed in Boston for Narragansett campaign)[10]

  • James Whipple
  • Samuel Jenkins
  • Walter Cohone
  • James White
  • Thomas Jones
  • Thomas Stains
  • John Dereing
  • Robert Emory
  • Ralph Powe for Mr. James Lloyd
  • Francis Cooke for Mr. William Larrison

Dec 20, 1675[11]

  • Joshua Silverwood
  • John Sherman
  • John Corbin
  • Henry Tite
  • Simon Yates
  • Thomas Birch
  • John Pierpont
  • John Necks
  • John Griggs
  • Thomas Lawrence
  • Joshua Atherton
  • William Briggs
  • Nicholas Gray
  • Isaac Hubbard
  • James Draper

Jan 25, 1675/6[12]

  • William Goswell
  • Onesiphorus Tilston
  • Thomas Jones
  • Samuel Burnall
  • Joh Spurr
  • Lawrence White
  • Thomas Cheyney
  • Thomas Bridentine
  • Robert Woodword

Feb 29, 1675/6[13]

  • Joseph Bodman
  • William Lyon
  • John Parker

Mar. 24, 1676[14]

  • William Elliot
  • Joseph Clark

Apr 24, 1676[15]

  • Hugh Clark
  • Thomas North

Summer Campaign 1676[16]

  • Magnus White
  • Joseph Lyon
  • John Chub
  • Daniel Hawes
  • Hugh Taylor
  • Joseph Procter
  • JohnMoore
  • Thomas Wheeler
  • Richard Scott, cornett
  • George Stedman
  • Jonathan Atherton
  • Jacob Hill
  • James Cheevers
  • John Oyne
  • William Keene
  • James Franklin
  • Joseph Richeson
  • Justinian Holding
  • Denis Sihy (served under several different captains)
  • Thomas North
  • Thomas Robinson
  • Robert Emes
  • Richard Browne
  • Francis Woolfe
  • Joseph Garfield
  • John Floyd, Lieut.
  • Jonathan Sprague
  • Benjamin Muzzye
  • Thomas Adams
  • Francis Cooke
  • John Stone
  • Patrick Morren
  • William Healy
  • Simon Groves (als. Grow)
  • John Polly
  • John Kendall
  • Ephraim Regimant
  • Benjamin Rice
  • Joshua Sawyer
  • James Sawyer
  • Jacob Willar
  • John Winter
  • John Tolman
  • James Cutler
  • Nathaniel Adams
  • James White
  • Joseph Browne
  • Samuel Edmons
  • John Greenland
  • John Pinder
  • John Redman
  • Abraham Wilkinson
  • James Bayly
  • Daniel Ruff (as Roff)
  • John Gibson
  • Richard Wood
  • Josiah White
  • John Adams
  • Joseph Bucknam
  • John Stedman
  • James Miller
  • Jonathan Hill
  • James Patterson
  • Thomas How
  • Richard Scott

Sources

  1. George M. Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, Boston, Printed for the author (1891)
  2. Bodge, p 5
  3. Bodge, pp 5-6
  4. Bodge, p 6
  5. Bodge, p 6
  6. Bodge, p 6
  7. Bodge, p 6
  8. Bodge, p 9
  9. Bodge, p 12
  10. Bodge, p 12, citing Mass Archives vol 68, 86
  11. Bodge, p 12
  12. Bodge, p 12
  13. Bodge, p 12
  14. Bodge, p 12
  15. Bodge, p 12
  16. Bodge, p 14-15




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