King Philip’s War was a bloody and costly series of raids and skirmishes in 1675 and 1676 between the Native American people and the colonials. King Philip was the Native American leader Metacom.
To be presented to the court meant to be charged or indited.
The town common (commons) was a small, open field at the center of the town which was jointly owned. It was used as a marketplace, a place for the militia to drill, or for grazing livestock.
She married Robert Dutch who was born in 1621 in Bridport, Dorset, England. His parents were Osmund (Osmand) and Grace Dutch.
They settled at first in Gloucester and their children were born there.
John Dutch, (1646, married Elizabeth Roper),
Robert Dutch, Jr. (1647, married Hannah Lovel),
Samuel Dutch (1650, married Abigail Gidding),
Mary Dutch Cowes (1652, married Giles Cowes),
Caleb Dutch (1659), and
Benjamin Dutch (1665, married Elizabeth Baker).
Robert was presented at Court in September, 1653,
for reproachfull speeches against mr wm Perkines in a publick towne meeting. Files, Volume II. 86.
In 1656, he sold his holdings in Gloucester to Edward Haraden. The holdings included a house with thirty acres on Planter's Neck, and a barn and orchard with twelve acres on Meeting-house Neck.
When her father died in 1675 she received
ten pounds, five pounds to be payd a year & halfe after my decease, the other five pound the year after that.
Robert was a soldier in King Philip's War of 1675 with Captain Moseley. In the Bloody Brook battle, he was wounded, beaten, stripped, and left for dead, but he recovered.
As Capt Mosely came upon the Indians in the Morning, he found them stripping the Slain, amongst whom was one Robert Dutch of Ipswich having been sorely wounded by a bullet that rased to his Skull and then mauled by the Indian Hatchets, was left for dead by the Salvages, and stript by them of all but his skin...
Mary died on July 12, 1686 and Robert died August 21, 1686.
Mary White Rowlandson,Talcot
was captured by Native Americans
during King Philip's War
(1675-1676).
Rattlesden is a village in Suffolk in eastern England. St. Nicholas church dates from the 13th century. The village was a center of Puritanism in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Old Style Calendar
Before 1752 the year began on Lady Day, March 25th,. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year. Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) are used to indicate whether the year has been adjusted. Often both dates are used.
Europeans who made the voyage to America faced a difficult journey of several months.
Women played an essential role in American society as mothers and homemakers.
American colonists continued to use British monetary units, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which £1 (orli) equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. In 1792 the dollar was established as the basic unit of currency.
King Charles I ruled England from
March 27,
1625 to 1649.
