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that of Major Gookin, who puts the number of those slain, besides
the two Captains, as "about thirty-two private soldiers." Cowell
had eighteen, and the Concord men were twelve. The Watertown
company was not probably over forty, while the garrisons of Sudbury
amounted to but eighty. Thus about two hundred men were
actively engaged with, and holding in play, probably more than a
thousand Indians one whole day, and finally defeated their intention
of capturing the town, sending them away with fearful loss.
Unfortunately we are not as yet able to find any list of the names
of those killed on that day, and Mr. Hull's accounts do not show
only here and there are we able
any credits referable to that service ;
to glean from probate and town and church records a few names of
those killed.
From the Roxbury Records we find that
" Samuel Gardner, son of Peter
Thomas Baker
John Roberts
Nathaniel Sever
William Cleaves
Joseph Pepper
John Sharpe
Thomas Hopkins
Thomas Hawley S r Lieut Samuel Gardner
were all slain att Sudbury under command of Capt. Sam 11 Wadsworth
upon 21 Aprill 1676."
Of the Concord men killed in the meadow near " Haynes's Garrison,"
but five bodies were recovered, and but seven names of the
killed are preserved in the records.
James Hosmer Samuel Potter John Barnes
Daniel Corny Joseph Buttrick Josiah Wheeler
William Heywood
Three of Cowell's men that were killed are in the Roxbury list
above. The fourth was Robert Wayles, of Dorchester. The Suffolk
Probate Records give an additional name, Eliazer Hawes, of
Dorchester. These, with Capts. Wadsworth and Brocklebank,
make in all but twenty-one. It is hoped that a more complete list
of those who fell with Capt. Wadsworth may be made before the
close of this series of articles, and any assistance in that direction
will be gratefully received.
John Wadsworth, youngest son of Capt. Samuel, was left out of
the list of his children by mistake. He was born in 1674 ; became
a prominent citizen of Milton ; had a family of twelve children, of
whom his second son, Benjamin, built a house now standing in
Milton.