Soldiers in King Philip's war. Containing lists of the soldiers of ...

April 24 th 1676
Samuel Varnam 02 00 00
John Ragles 05 16 00
June 24 th 1076
John Wheeler 01 10 00
Resolved White 02 11 00
Join. Chapman 04 10 00
Edward Colcord 02 00 00
Richard Norman 01 10 00
Thomas Fuller 01 10 00
Ebenezer Prout 04 10 00
John Spauldin
02 00 00
William Rayment 01 16 00
Christopher Palmer 01 08 07
Jonathan Moore 01 12 10
John Lewis 01 16 00
Samuel Johnson 01 10 00
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Nathaniel Kirkland 01
Joseph Collins 01
Samuel Hartwell 01
Robert Kinsman 01
Nicholas Manning, Capt. 18
Jonathan Fairbanks 04
Alwin Breed 01
Caleb Kemball 01
Elihu Wardall 01
July 24 th 1676
James Kidd 01
Henry Farrar 02
August 24 th 1676
Benjamin White 04
Palmer 02
Joseph Smith 02
Capt. Jonathan Remington and his Men.
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Jonathan .Remington was the son of John of Newbury, 1637, and
was born February 12, 1639 ; settled in Cambridge and married
Martha Belcher, daughter of Andrew, July 13th, 1664, and had
Martha, born February 18, 1666-7, d. April 23, 1669; Jonathan,
born March 17, 1668-9, died April 16, 1669 ; Martha, born October
28, 1674, married Capt. Nicholas Bowes of Boston, January
19, 1718-19; Jonathan, born September 25, 1677; Samuel, born
July 11, 1679, died June 3d, 1680; Anna, born January 30, 1680
-81, married John Hill, June 24th, 1708; John and Mary, who
died 1689 and 1690; Elizabeth, had a share in the estate; Sarah,
born May 10, 1688, married John Biscoe of Watertown, February
1, 1710-11. "Was prominent in public and especially in military
affairs, and from 1682 till his death, kept the original " Blue Anchor
Tavern," Cambridge. He held the position of Corporal in the
local military company at Cambridge, and was in command of a
company during the winter and spring of 1675—6. He was active
in the later Indian war, in 1689 at Groton, and in 1691 at "Wells
and in the eastward parts. He died April 21, 1700, leaving his
widow Martha, who died July 16, 1711, and through his son Jonathan
left a notable and numerous posterity (see Paige's Cambridge,
and Register, viii. 317-20). He served with the Cambridge men
under Capt. Davenport in the Narraganset campaign, and was in
the Swamp fight. In the winter following he was active in the command
and supply of some of the garrisons in the interior towns, and
was ordered March 11, 1675-6, to leave " the garrison " and march
his soldiers home. His son Jonathan inherited his Narraganset
claim.
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