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name is found with a multitude of spell-
ings, using both K and C as the initial,
and many families of the name were
found in Great Leigh and Braintree,
Essex.
Nicholas Kellogg, above mentioned,
born about 1488, was buried in Debden,
May 17, 1558. His wife, Florence, daugh-
ter of William Hall, was buried there,
November 8, 1571.
Their son, Thomas Kellogg, who lived
in Debden, was probably the ancestor of
the American immigrant.
Phillipe Kellogg was in Bocking, Es-
sex, where his son, Thomas, was baptized
September 15, 1583. He was later in
Great Leigh, where a child was buried in
1611.
His son, Martyn Kellogg, baptized November
23, 1595, in Great Leigh, was a
weaver and cloth worker, living in that
parish, and in Braintree. He married, at
St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire,
September 24, 1621, Prudence
Bird, whom he survived.
They were the parents of Lieutenant
Joseph Kellogg, who was baptized April
1, 1626, at Great Leigh, and settled in
Farmington, Connecticut, where he was
living in 165 1. He sold his home lot in
1655, removed about two years later to
Boston, and in 1659 purchased a dwelling
house on the street leading to Roxbury.
The lot is now occupied by the "Adver-
tiser" building on Washington street,
Boston. His purchase price was the
equivalent of seven hundred dollars. He
sold this property in 1668, and removed
to Hadley, Massachusetts, where he made
an agreement with the town in that year
to keep a ferry to Northampton. He
built his house on a lot which had been
reserved by the town for a ferry lot, and
was given leave to entertain travelers.
In 1677 the town voted him £40 for ferry-
age for soldiers and the loss of his team,
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which had been impressed for the Col-
onial service. His son, John, and grand-
son, John, continued to keep the ferry
until 1758. For many years Joseph Kel-
logg was a selectman of Hadley, and he
served on various important committees,
was a sergeant of the Military Company
in 1663, ensign, 1678, and lieutenant from
October of that year until 1692. As sergeant,
he was in command of the Hadley
Troop at the famous Turner's Falls Fight,
May 18, 1675. His wife, Joanna, who
probably accompanied him from England,
died in Hadley, September 14, 1666.
Their fourth son, Martin Kellogg, was
born November 22, 1658, in Boston, and
lived in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where
he was one of the victims of the Indian
massacre during Queen Anne's War.
Over forty of the inhabitants were killed,
and one hundred and twelve of both sexes
and all ages were carried into captivity
by the Indians, including Martin Kellogg
and four of his children. His wife took
refuge in the cellar where she concealed
her infant son and hid herself under a
tub. The cries of the infant attracted the
attention of the Indians, who quickly dis-
patched it, and sat down upon the tub
under which the agonized mother was
lying to regale themselves on food found
in the cellar. After the departure of the
Indians, she ran two miles through the
deep snow, with bare feet, to the house
used as a fort, the only building in the
town not captured by the Indians. Mar-
tin Kellogg was one of the fifty-seven
survivors who were redeemed from captivity
and returned to Deerfield. He mar-
ried, December 10, 1684, Anne Hinsdale,
born February 22, 1667, died July 19, 1689,
daughter of Samuel and Mehitable (Johnson)
Hinsdale, of Hadley.
Martin Kellogg, eldest child of Martin
and Anne (Hinsdale) Kellogg, was born
October 26, 1686, in Deerfield, and was