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48. John Colburn, Dunstable, son of John and grandson of Edward Colburn, was born in Dunstable. John, the father died December 1, 1700, and John, the son, was the representative of his grandfather, Edward Colburn of Chelmsford, who was killed in an ambuscade in King Philip's war.
51. Jonas Clark, Esq., Chelmsford, son of Rev. Thomas Clark of Chelmsford, was born December 20, 1684. He was a colonel and a magistrate. Several meetings of the proprietors of Tyngstown were held at his house in Chelmsford. He died April 8, 1770. His sister, Lucy or Lucia, was the wife of Major William Tyng, and his sister Elizabeth married Rev. John Hancock of Lexington, and was grandmother of Gov. John Hancock, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
53. Thomas Parker and William Reed. In a description of lands belonging to this right, the first name is written "Rev. Mr. Thomas Parker." He was a son of Josiah Parker of Groton, Woburn and Cambridge, and he was born in Cambridge, December 7, 1700. He graduated from Harvard University in 1718. At nineteen years of age he was ordained and installed over the church in Dracut early in 1720, and there labored and preached until his death, March 18, 1765. He attended several of the meetings of the proprietors, and was moderator of one or more meetings.
William Read, the joint owner of this right, without doubt, was William Read of Chelmsford, son of Thomas Read, and was born about 1688. He married Hannah Bates and lived in Chelmsford. Among his children were Robert Read of Amherst and Col. William Read of Litchfield, in whose honor Reed's Ferry was named. This family generally wrote the name Read, while the ferry is written Reed's Ferry.
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57. Jonathan Hartwell, Chelmsford, son of John and Elizabeth (Wright) Hartwell, was born in Concord, February 15, 1691-2. He lived several years in Chelmsford and, by division of the town, in Westford. He died in Littleton, October 18, 1778 .. The father, John, and his brother, William, were soldiers in King Philip's war. The heirs of William were grantees of Templeton, Mass. Jonathan Hartwell probably was admitted a grantee on account of the service of his father. See the clause in the grant relative to soldiers "at the Fort Fight or Long March in the Narragansett War."
Col. Jonathan Tyng had three sons who grew to manhood:
First, John, born in 1673, graduated from Harvard University in 1691, and immediately went to England where he soon died.
Second, William, born April 22, 1679, was in the service almost continuously from 1703 until his death. He married Lucy Clark, a daughter of Rev. Thomas Clark, and settled in Chelms- ford. He was a representative to the General Court from that town in 1707, and in the service was promoted, 1709, to major. In the summer of 1710, while in command of a battalion between Groton and Lancaster, he was mortally wounded by the Indians. He was carried to Concord for medical attendance, and there died a few days later [Aug. 16]. This date is confirmed by probate records, and in the will of the father, Col. Jonathan Tyng, written a few years later, he makes mention of his deceased sons, John and William.
Third, Eleazer, born April 30, 1690, graduated from Harvard University in 1712 and was commissioned colonel in 1724. He was an influential and honored citizen of Dunstable.
Governor Dudley wrote from Cambridge to Major Lane, November 5, 1702: "Sir, I desire you with two of your troops to repayr to the touns of Marlboro', Lancaster, Groten, Chelms- ford and Dunstable, and there deliver severally the letters given you, and encourage the officers in their duty, agreeable to the several directions . . Let the officers in the several towns use all prudence not to make the first breach [Hazen's Billerica, p. 136.]
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LETTER OF COLONEL TYNG.
Capt. Lane.
these are to order you forthwith to give out your warrant to your soldiers in Chelmsford to watch two in a night & the Day following at the wadeing place at Wamesit & to continue in yt service till they have gone Round: The Soldiers are to keep at the said wading place till they are Relieved as the custom hath been by Capt. Bowers men
Jonathan Tyng, Col.
Dunst. 3 Sept. 1703.
[Original among papers of A. E. Brown, Bedford.]
1703, November 26, £40 was allowed out of the Province treasury for each scalp of the Indian enemy above ten years of age. All Indians taken under that age were to be owned or sold by their captors.
Supplies of bread were sent to Concord, Chelmsford, and neighboring places for the marching soldiers on the expedition to the north.
In 1704 six hundred pairs of snow-shoes and "Mogginsons" were provided. Chelmsford and Captain William Tyng's company were the special objects of revenge on the part of the French and Indians.
Dr. Green, in "Groton in the Indian Wars," quotes Pen- hallow's account of Butterfield's experience, among other instances of cruel treatment by the Indians:
"A third was of Samuel Butterfield, who being sent to Groton as a soldier, was with others attackt, as they were gathering in the Harvest; his bravery was such, that he Kill'd one and wounded another, but being overpower'd by strength, was forc'd to submit; and it hapned that the slain Indian was a Sagamore, and of great dexterity in War, which caused matter of Lamentation, and enrag'd them to such a degree that they vow'd the utmost revenge; Some were for whipping him to Death; others for burning him alive; but differing in their Sentiments, they submitted the Issue to the Squaw Widow, concluding she would determine something very dreadful, but when the matter was opened, and the Fact considered, her Spirits were so moderate as to make no other reply, than, "Fortune L'guare." Upon which some were uneasy; to whom she answered, If by Killing him, you can bring my Husband to life again, I beg you to study what Death you please; but if not let him be my Servant; which he accordingly was, during his Captivity, and had favour shown him."
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Dr. Green continues: The account of Butterfield's case was in substance originally printed in a pamphlet entitled "A Memorial of the Present Deplorable State of New England (1707)-now of great rarity,-which appeared twenty years before Judge Pen- hallow's History was published. This pamphlet has since been reprinted in the introduction to the sixth volume, fifth series, of the "Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society." The account is as follows: A man had Valiantly Killed an Indian or two before the Salvages took him. He was next morning to undergo an horrible Death, whereof the Manner and the Torture was to be assigned by the Widow Squa of the Dead Indian. The French Priests told him, they had indeavoured to direct the Tygres from ther bloody Intention, but could not prevail with them; he must prepare for the terrible Execution. His cries to God were hard, and heard; when the Sentence of the Squa, was demanded, quite contrary to Every ones Expectation, and the Revengeful Inclination so usual and well-Known among these Creatures, she only said, His Death won't fetch my Husband to Life; Do nothing to him! So nothing was done to him.
Butterfield remained a captive for more than a year. It is not known how he obtained his release.
BUTTERFIELD'S PETITION.
To his Excellency Joseph Dudley Esq. Capt General and Governor in Chief To the Honoble the Council and House of Representatives now in General Assembly convened at Boston- within & for her Majesties Province of the Massachuts Bay April 10. 1706.
The Humble Petition of Samuel Butterfield-Sheweth
That yor. Petitioner is an Jnhabitant of the Town of Chelms- ford, and in the month of August 1704, when the Enemy came upon Nashoway & Groton &c, yor. Petitioner (with others) was sent out by the Capt Jerathmel Bowers to Groton to assist Col. Taylor, where yor Petitioner being ordered out with some others to Guard a man who was going to work in the field, the Enemy came upon them, Killed one man and took yor. Petitioner and one other Prisoner, Tho yor. Petitioner made all the resistance possible, Killed one and Knocked down two more after they had seized him, for which yor Petitioner was cruelly used by them afterwards & threatened to be burnt, several times, May it please this great and Generall Assembly yor Petitioner was very well accoutred in all respects when he was taken, And then was stript of all and was between fourteen and fifteen months a Captive exposed to great hardships, and has sustained great loss and Damage.
Yor. Petitioner therefore humbly prays the favor of this great and General Assembly to take the premises into yor serious
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Consideration and Grant him such recompence for his Losses and sufferings as a foresd, as to yor wisdom and goodness shall seem meet.
And yor Petitioner (as in duty bound) shall ever pray &c Samuel Butterfield
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 71, p. 196.]
Acts & Resolves. Vol. VIII. Chapter 48.
Resolved that there be allow'd and paid out of the publick treasury to John Shipley of Groton, and Samuel Butterfield, the sum of four pounds, each, for the scalp of one of the Indian enemy, being a man by them killed at Groton aforesaid in the summer past [1704] and that no other or further sum be allowed for Killing the said Indian. (Allowed as a special gratuity, he being not entitled to demand the statute bounty.)
Chapter 107. (Taken Prisoner while in the Queen's Service.)
Upon reading the petition of Samuel Butterfield setting forth his being taken Captive by the Indian enemy, cruelly used and strip'd of all, having Killed one of them after they had seized him- Resolved that the sum of Five Pounds be Allowed, & Paid out of the Publick Treasury to Samuel Butterfield the Petitioner in Consideration of his Losse & service.
In the Journal of the Rev. John Pike of Dover, N. H., is the following :
1706, July 3. Captain Pearson's troops at supper were surprised by Indians marching to Dunstable. Jacob Galusha, a Dutchman, his house assaulted by Indians. The house was burned and some persons were killed, and some escaped.
July 27. Lt. Butterfield and his wife, riding between Dunstable and some other town [returning home to Chelmsford], had their horse shot down by the enemy. The man escaped, the woman was taken, and Jo. English, a friendly Indian in company with them, was at the same time slain. [Coll. N. H. H. Soc., Vol. III.]
In Vol. VIII of the Acts and Resolves it is stated that a band or bands of hostile savages, apparently those who perpetrated the outrages above described, infested for several days the region extending from Chelmsford to Exeter, N. H.
Jo English was much distinguished for his attachment to the white settlers.
Penhallow records: July 21, 1706, several strokes were afterwards made on Chelmsford, Sudbury and Groton.
Chelmsford names on a list of men who went to Lancaster, Aug. 4, 1704, to "inforce Major Taylor," and had received nothing for provision.
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Henery Spaldinge, Benjamin Adams, Edward Spalding, John Swolow. [Lane papers.]
"The Names of the men that went the roun[d]s with Major Lane." No date.
Henry Spalding, John Swolow, John Barit, also six Billerica men and as many officers. [Lane papers.]
Another list headed by the name of Capt Lane. no date. 30 Billerica men with officers. 7 Groton and Dracut men.
Chelmsford men: Edward Spalding, Henery Spalding, John Swalo, Samull Chamberlain, Benoy Perham, Samull Barron, Samull Sady, Jonathan Hill, Roland Flechard, John Barit, Joseph Hilldrath. [Lane papers.]
Another list has these names:
Benony Perhame, Benjamin Adams, Samuell Barron, Henery Spalding, John Swalow. [Lane papers.]
In the Archives, Vol. 71, page 105, is the petition of William Tyng, stating that just before the mischief was done at Lancaster, by his Excellency's order he was going from Boston by Dunstable to Lancaster on his own horse which he turned into a pasture, and in the morning the Indians drove the horse into the woods and killed and ate him. Also that John Spalding, a young man and good soldier, was killed and his gun taken by the Indians. The gun was his father's, who was very poor. (Nov. 18, 1704.) On page 138 Jonathan Tyng asks to be paid for 42 pair of snow- shoes; also 43 pair at 5 shillings a pair; also hired 12 pair at 2 shillings a pair. He was granted £42. 9. 0.
To his Excy ye Gouernor and Hond Councill & Reprsentatiues now in Generall Court Assembled in Boston: Novr. 3d. 1704. The humble motion of Jonathan Tynge, of Dunstable Sheweth That whereas yor petitionr, by vertue of an order from his Excell- ency ye Gournr for the takeing Care that prsuant to ye Direction of ye Generall Assembly there Should be Erected and built four Blockhouses upon Merimack River In Complyance where wth, he hath procured ye Same to be done and perfected, the Same being all in ye County of Middx-vizt one in Billerica, Two in Chelmsford, and one in Dunstable for ye which according to his agreemt wth Sundry prsons for ye same he Stands obliged to pay them Six pounds apeice, ye whole amounting to Twenty four pounds,
Humbly prayes That yor Excelency and ye Honbl Councill & Reprsentatiues, would please to grant An order that he may be paid out of ye Province Treasury the Said Sum, that he may Satisfy ye Workmen there wth as he Stands obliged.
And as in Duty bound Shall Jonathan Tyng:
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In the House of Representatives
Novr: 3: 1704 Read and Ordered That the Praier of this Petition be Granted, and the Sum of Twenty four Pounds be Allowed & Paid out of the publick Treasury to Jonathan Tyng Esqr. accordingly. Sent up for Concurrence. Iams. Converse Speaker In Council.
Read and Concurrd.
Isa: Addington Sectry.
[Indorsed] Jona. Tyng Esqr. Allowed £24. for four blockhouses Erected on Merrimack River past Novr. 1704. [Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 71, p. 83.]
TYNG'S LETTER.
For Capt. William Tyng at Boston.
Son Tyng I met ym this day at Chelmsford: I had at Chelmsford 30 pr: of Rackets: at my house 42 pr : at Groton 6 pr : beside them yt were brought there of Capt Willards providing, of those about 30 may be fit for a long march & 40 may be service- able for scouting with riging up, the rest are lost and not fit for any servis:
I am yr loving ffather Jonath Tyng
June ye 14. 1705.
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 71, p. 139.]
1706. "A list of the Names of yr. Troopers which serued vnder my comand to the releefe of Dunstable July the fourth seventeen hundred & six: Being seventy nine men two days with theire sustenance."
28 names are given; including these of Chelmsford:
Edward Spoldin, Samll. Chamberlin, Benone Periham, John Colborn, James Dutton. [Lane papers.]
1706. "Those which served under me in my march to Groton & Dunstable & Drawcut from the 11th of August to the 13th by Command from his Exelency are as followeth & served 3 days and found thir own sustenance."
20 names are given : among them:
Edward Spoldin, Benone Periham, Samll. Sady, Samll. Barren, Henery Spolden, Samll. Chamberlin. [Lane papers.]
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1708.
Chelmsford names on the Muster Roll of John Lane's Com- pany. 24 Billerica names are followed by these:
John Swolow
Centinel Aug. 30. Sept. 4.
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Samuel Sady
Samuel Chamberlin
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Henery Spaldin 60
Benony Periam
Eephrim Hildreth
John Baritt 66
Thomas Tarbell
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Samull Parker
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William Nutting
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[Lane papers. A. B. Cutler, Bedford. Copied by Henry A. Hazen for H. S. Perham.]
Soldiers were "for their encouragement" paid seven shillings for the first cost of their snow shoes and mogginsons, and two shillings a year afterwards from the year 1711.
DUMMER'S WAR.
In August, 1723, Lieutenant-Governor Dummer, then acting Governor of the Province, ordered detachments of from three to six men from the several frontier towns to range the woods, as the Indians were still in a threatening attitude. Groton, Dunstable and Lancaster were then more on the frontier than Chelmsford, but this town was still necessarily watchful, and contributed men for the service. A number of men (some of them prominent) who are credited to other towns were born in Chelmsford.
In Dummer's, or Lovewell's, War, snow-shoe companies were raised in all the towns lying upon Merrimack river, says Allen, page 182. These companies were minute men, equipt with snow- shoes and fire arms, &c., holding themselves in readiness to go on scouting parties in pursuit of the Indians at the moment of alarm.
The following constituted the snow-shoe company in Chelms- ford in 1724; under the command of Captain Robert Richardson and Lieutenant Joseph Parker:
Paul Fletcher, Samuel Fletcher, Joseph Keyes, Henry Stevens, Robert Peirce, Josiah Spaulding, Zacharias Richardson, Nathan Proctor, Matthias Cowdrey, John Proctor, Jr., Benjamin Robbins, John Butterfield, James Burn, Benjamin Chamberlain, Benjamin Goold, Moses Graves, Timothy Spaulding, Phineas Spaulding, Joseph Underwood, Jacob Blodget, Ebenezer Parker, Joseph Warren, Jr., Jonathan Parker, Joseph Fletcher, Jonathan Spauld-
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ing, James Kidder, Ezekiel Keyes, Edward Foster, Benjamin Parker, John Spaulding, John Corey, Jonathan Hildreth, Josiah Birge, Simon Rummery, Daniel Blodget, Henry Spaulding, Jonathan Cummings, Thomas Reed, Joseph Foster.
JOSEPH PARKER'S COMMISSION.
William Dummer, Esq., Lieut. Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Majesty's province of Massachusetts Bay in New-England.
To Joseph Parker, Gent :- Greeting.
By virtue of the power and authority in and by his Majesty's Commission to me granted, to be Lieutenant Governor &c., I do by these presents, reposing especial trust and confidence in your loyalty, courage and good conduct, constitute and appoint you the said Joseph Parker to be Lieutenant of a company of snow- shoe-men, and of those that are appointed to be in readiness to issue out against the Indian enemy and rebels upon any alarm or attack; whereof Robert Richardson is Captain, in the regiment of Militia in the county of Middlesex, whereof Eleazer Tyng, Esq., is Colonel. You are therefore diligently and faithfully to dis- charge the duties of a Lieutenant, &c.
Given under my hand and seal at arms at Boston, 5th day February, in the Eleventh year of the reign of his Majesty, King George. A. D. 1724.
Wm. Dummer.
[Allen, p. 183.]
CAPTAIN RICHARDSON'S CERTIFICATE.
May it Please your honores By Virtue of an order from Coll. Eleazer Tyng I have drawn out of my company Thirteen able bodyed men well fitted with snow shoes and moggasons according to the order of ye General Court and I desire the money may be paid to Robert Richardson Capt. over said snow shoemen to be repaid by him to his men.
Your humble Servant Jonth Richardson, Capt.
Chelmsford Feby. 22, 1724/5
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 72, p. 218.]
The following rolls contain Chelmsford names:
A Muster Roll of the Company in His Majesty's Service under the Command of Captain [1724?]:
Jonathan Butterfield, Sergt., Dunstable; Joseph Richardson, Centinel; Joseph Bassow, Joseph Chamberlain, Wm. Chamberlain,
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Benj. Blochet, Timo. Spaulding, Wm. Spaulding, Zach. Spaulding (servant to John Davis), David Procter, John Hildrake, Joseph Reed, Nath. Emerson, Benj. Smith, Henry Farwell, Heny. Wright, Wm. Jeffs (serv't to John Spaulding), Zach. Coburn, John Coburn, Thos. Coburn, Jno. Peirce, John Wright, John Procter, Thos. Lane, Wm. Richardson, Thos. Chamberlain, Zach. Stevens, Wm. Gasson (servt to Benj. Robbins).
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 91, pp. 66, 67.]
Another Roll, probably 1724:
John Foott, Capt .; Joseph Varnum, 13/4 per week; Benj. Kidder, Centinel, 10/ per week; Ephraim Corey; Ebenezer Frost, John Farmer, Wm. French, sons under age; Obediah Parker, Josiah Wright, Jonathan Wright, Eben Wright, James Kidder, Jona. Snow, John Barrot.
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 91, pp. 66, 67.]
Read and committed. House of Rep. June 18. 1724:
Jabez Fairbank, Capt .; Jona. Butterfield, Sentinel; Jno. Barret, Ebenr. Virgin, Benj. Chamberlain, Jona. Heldreth. These are all Chelmsford names.
[Ibid, Vol. 91.]
A list of soldiers dismissed. In Col. Tyng's Company. Nov. 3. 1724:
Wm. Spaulding, Edw. Winn, Benj Baldwin, Saml. Barron, Nich Danforth, Wm. Jeffs, Saml. Winn, Ephraim Spaulding.
Those who remained in ye service:
Lt. Joseph Blanchard, En. Jonathan Butterfield, John Snow, Henry Keyes, Eph. Chandler, Wm. Proctor, Eph. Corey, Eph. Barrot, Saml. Adams, Wm. Boyd, Joshua Reed, Jona. Wright, John Wilson, Henry Richardson, Jos. Butterfield, Jos. Whittemore, Josiah Richardson.
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 91, pp. 124, 126.]
Sept. 13. 1724. Powder. bullets. and flints were delivered out by the Military officers of Chelmsford. 24 men received from half a jill to a pint of powder, from 6 to 18 bullets and 2 to 4 flints
PETITION OF CHELMSFORD CAPTAINS.
To ye Honourable William Dummer Esq. Lieut Governour in Chief and over his Majesties province of the Massachusets bay in New England. The petition of us ye Subscribers Humbly sheweth that where as Merrymacke River is at present being exceeding low and thereby ye Town of Chelmsford is very Exceedingly endangred and we humbly pray your honour we
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may be allowed a Scout of men to Scout upon said River and other exposed part of the Town for about ye space of Two months from ye date hereof as in Duty bound Your humble Petitioners shall ever pray.
Chelmsford June ye 23, 1725. Jonathan Richardson Captains for Jonas Clark Chelmsford.
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 72, p. 247.]
Chelmsford men in the Company of Capt Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable. 1725:
John Walker,
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Thomas Spaulden,
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Samuel Barron,
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Jonathan Spaulden,
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Benj Kidder,
Wm. Spaulden,
John Corey,
Zechariah Emery,
James Burn,
James Kidder
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Benj Smith,
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Gersham Proctor,
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[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 91, p. 169.]
Chelmsford men under Capt. Eleazer Tyng of Dunstable from June 10 to Nov. 10, 1725:
Jona. Butterfield, Lieut .; Eph. Cory, Corp .; Henry Keyes, Corp .; Thos. Chamberlain, Jo. Chamberlain, John Bowers, Jona. Bowers, Aaron Hubbard, Alexander Kelsy, Josiah Cory, Robt. Miers, Jona. Spaulding, Benj. Blodget, Nathan Cross, Jabez Davis, John Usher, Benj. Chamberlain, Eph. Barrot, Saml. Adams, John Williams, Centinels; Robert Dickie, John Wright, John Kerkin, Samuel Lennox, John Kerkin, Tho. Bixby, Thomas Bixby, Moses Colburn, Ebr. Virgin.
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 91, p. 193.]
1725. Under Capt Joseph Heath. James Coller [of Chelms- ford]. (Same at Richmond Fort.)
[Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 91, p. 254.]
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On the 8th of May, 1725, occurred the famous Lovewell's fight. On April 15th Capt. John Lovewell of Dunstable with forty-seven well-armed men (Green: Groton during the Indian wars, says thirty-four were in the fight) set out to travel more than two hundred miles to attack the Pequawkets under Paugus, their Sachem, whose headquarters were on the Saco river in what is now Fryeburg, Maine, named for the English Chaplain, Jonathan Frye, of Andover, one of Lovewell's men who was slain. Of this party Lieut. Jonathan Robbins, and Solomon Keyes were born in Chelmsford, as was John Chamberlain who killed Paugus. (Nason: Hist .- Dunstable says, "Paugus was probably killed by Ensign Wyman.") The parents of Chamberlain were Thomas and Elizabeth; his father was a carpenter and miller. John was born March 29, 1692. Solomon Keyes was born May 11, 1701, son of Solomon, son of Solomon. Mr. H. S. Perham quotes Parkman [see "The Wamesit Purchase," Old Res. Contributions]: "Solomon Keyes of Billerica received two wounds, but fought on till a third shot struck him. He then crawled up to Wyman in the heat of the fight, and told him that he, Keyes, was a dead man, but that the Indians should not get his scalp if he could help it. Creeping along the sandy edge of the pond, he chanced to find a stranded canoe, pushed it afloat, rolled himself into it, and drifted away before the wind." Fortunately a favoring breeze wafted him across the lake, and notwithstanding his wounds, he succeeded in reaching the stockade. There he found several others of the survivers with whom he set out through the wilderness for Dun- stable, which they managed to reach six days later. The brave and hardy Keyes recovered from his wounds but was killed in battle thirty years later at Lake George while commanding a Why he was company from Western (now Warren), Mass. credited to Billerica does not appear. Hazen's History of Billerica gives no evidence of such a name there until it appeared upon their tax list in 1749. Hodgman, the Westford historian, claims him for that town. We will make the claim for Chelmsford, where we find his early home at Wamesit, and the name upon the tax list until after the date of Lovewell's fight.
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