By: Sylvester Judd, Pub, Springfield, MA, 1905, pp 175-7 Provided by: Nancy Curran Killed - Sgt Isaac Graves and his brother John Graves; John Atchisson; John Cooper of Springfield, aged 18; Elizabeth, wife of Philip Russell and her son Stephen, age 3 yrs; Hannah, wife of John Coleman, and her babe Bethiah; Sarah, wife of Samuel Kellogg, and her babe Joseph; Mary, wife of Samuel Belding; Elizabeth Wells, age 2 yrs, daughter of John Wells, in all, 12. Taken - Sarah Coleman, aged 4 yrs, and another child of John Coleman; Martha, wife of Benjamin Waite, and her 3 daughters, Mary, age 6, Martha, 4, and Sarah, 2; Mary, wife of Samuel Foote, and a young son, and dau Mary, aged 3; Hannah, wife of Stephen Jennings, and two of his children by a previous wife; Obadiah Dickinson and one child; Samuel, son of Samuel Kellog, aged 8; Abigail, dau of John Allis, aged 6; Abigail, dau of William Bartholomew, who lived at Deerfield before the war; in all, 17. Wounded - a child of John Coleman; wife and dau of John Wells; wife of Obadiah Dickinson. [Note - I believe that Hannah, wife of Stephen Jennings, had with her two children from her previous marriage, not his.] Canada Babes - The two babes born in Canada were females; one was a daughter of Benjamin Wait, born Jan 22, 1687; the other a daughter of Stephen Jennings, born Mar 14, 1678. To commemorate the captivity in Canada, Wait's child was named Canada, and Jennings' child, Captivity, and these names they ever retained. Canada Wait married Joseph Smith, son of the John Smith of Hadley who was slain in Hatfield meadow, May 30, 1676; she was the grandmother of the late Oliver Smith and his five brothers. Stephen Jennings removed to Brookfield and his daughter Captivity married Abijah Bartlett of that town. [I hope you find the story interesting. Can you imagine what it was like to keep those children from crying and complaining and convincing them to do so would probably cost them their lives. I guess I would still be here if they had been killed, but some of us wouldn't be. - Daria]
In 1708 several lives were lost in Hampshire.
July 26, seven or eight Indians rushed into the house of Lt Abel Wright of Skipmuch in Springfield, and killed two soldiers, Aaron Parsons of Northampton and Benjah Hulbert of Enfield; scalped the wife of Lt Wright, who died Oct 19; took Hannah, the wife of Lieut Wright's son Henry, and probably slew her; killed her infant son Henry in a cradle and knocked in the head of her daughter Hannah, aged 2 years, in the same cradle; the latter recovered.
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