Reverend, Graduated from Harvard University in 1668. He was an ordained minister who continued to reside at Harvard for life.
664. Simon Gates
"A soldier in King Philip's War. In 1735 his son, Jonathan Gates, was granted land in Narragansett Township [No. 2, now Westminster, Mass.] on account of his father's service in the war (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 16, p. 145, April 1862); afterward resides in Lancaster, Cambridge and Boston. Simon Gates was sued 9 Nov. 1670 by John Woods of Marlborough, Mass., for breaking a marriage contract with his daughter Frances. In his suit against Gates, Woods stated that 'he hath contracted with another to the great wrong of said Frances.'"
-- from Clarence Almon Torrey, "Stephen Gates of Hingham, Lancaster, and Cambridge, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 120 [July 1966]: 164.
Died in the part of Boston called Muddy River, now Brookline, Norfolk Co., Mass.
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"The horrors and devastation of Philip's war have no parallel in our history. The Revolution was a struggle for freedom; the contest with Philip was for existence. The war lasted only about fourteen months; and yet the towns of Brookfield, Lancaster, Marlborough, Medfield, Sudbury, Groton, Deerfield, Hatfield, Hadley, Northfield, Sprigfield, Weymouth, Chelmsford, Andover, Scituate, Bridgewater, Plymouth, and several other places were wholly or partially destroyed, and many of the inhabitants were massacred or carried into captivity. During this short period, six hundred of our brave men, the flower and strength of the Colony, had fallen, and six hundred dwelling houses were consumed. Every eleventh family was houseless, and every eleventh soldier had sunk to his grave."
-- Charles Hudson, A History of Marlborough
A web-based account of King Philip's War (1675-76):November 2nd - Convinced that a war with the Naragansetts is a certainty the [...] of Plymouth, Massachusetts and Connecticut declare war on the Narragansetts and call for an army of one thousand men that would march against the Naragansetts stronghold. Of these Massachusetts mustered 527, Plymouth 158, and Connecticut 300. Overall command is given to Josiah Winslow. Major Samuel Appleton led the Massachusetts contingent, Major William Bradford the men from Plymouth, and Major Robert Treat those of Connecticut.
December 9th - The Massachusetts troops mustered at Dedham and a proclamation was read which stated "that if they played the man, took the Fort, & Drove the Enemy out of the Naragansett Country, which was their great Seat, that they should have a gratuity in land besides wages." That afternoon they marched twenty-seven miles to Woodcock's Garrison, now Attleboro.
December 10th through the 18th - The Massachusetts army arrived in Seekonk on the evening of December 10th, where vessels with supplies were waiting. By Saturday the 11th they had reached Providence, RI where they formed with the army from Plymouth Colony. On December 12th the combined armies marched into "Ponham's Country", now the area around Warwick, RI, but they failed to capture Ponham, and after a whole night of marching about, they arrived at Mr. Smith's garrison-house at Wickford, RI on the 13th of December. Here the army spent several anxious days waiting, but December 17th word came that the Connecticut companies were waiting at Pettaquamscutt, and on the eighteenth the army came together.
December 19th - the Great Swamp fight. The troops bivouacked that night, during a snow storm, bitter cold and no blankets, in open field and at five o'clock Sunday morning they formed companies and set out to the Naragansetts fort. They arrived at the edge of the Great Swamp, an area around South Kingston, R.I., at about one o'clock. The Massachusetts troops were in the lead and they were fired upon by a small band of Indians. The men did not stop for orders but as the Indians retreated pursued them across the frozen swamp to the entrance of the fort.
The fort was built upon a piece of land that stood above the swamp and was surrounded by a triple palisade of logs twelve feet high. It was made more formidable by small block houses at intervals above the palisade. Inside was the main village housing about 3,000 men, women and children.
The Massachusetts troops had arrived at the strongest section of the palisade where, however, there was a gap for which no gate had yet been built. But across it the Indians had placed a tree trunk breast height, as a barrier to check any charge, and just above it was a blockhouse. Without waiting for the Plymouth and Connecticut companies, the Massachusetts soldiers charged the opening and swarmed over the barrier in the face of a murderous fire. Five company commanders were killed in the charge, but for awhile the troops managed to keep a foothold inside the fort. But the Naragansetts forced the English back into the swamp.The Massachusetts men, now joined by Plymouth, gathered themselves for a second charge. Meanwhile, Major Treat led his Connecticut troops round to the back of the fort where they found that the palisade had not been completely finished. Here and there the posts were spaced apart and protected partially by a tangled mass of limbs and brush. The men charged up a bank under heavy fire, swarmed up to it, and forced their way over or through the palisade. As they gained a foothold inside, the second charge at the gap also forced an entrance and the battle now raged through the Indian village. It was a murderous fight, without quarter on either side, and it was still raging as the sun set, when Winslow ordered the wigwams set on fire.
Winslow finally decided that the time had had come to get his army out. He decided to march his men back to Wickford, hoping that some of the supply ships had arrived. The English gathered their wounded, the worst being taken on horseback, and proceeded to march to Wickford. It was not until two in the morning that the leading units stumbled into the town. Some, losing their way, did not get in until seven in the morning. This was the end of the Naragansett Campaign.
The battle had raged for nearly three hours with the English suffering twenty killed and two hundred wounded (eighty of whom who later die from their wounds) and the Naragansetts also suffered high casualties although about one thousand did escape. While the Naragansetts were not completely crushed there can be no question that the Great Swamp fight was the turning point in the war. If the tribe had been able to join the Wampanoags at full strength in the spring the war would have been far uglier and lasted much longer than it did. The Naragansetts would have a few more victories in 1676, they burned Rehobeth and Providence, and in March they ambushed Capt. Michael Pierce. But for all practical purposes the Naragansetts were out of the war.
February 10, 1676- Four hundred Nipmuck Indians attack the town of Lancaster killing twelve and taking about 25 prisoner. Lancaster was soon abandoned and all the houses would be destroyed by the Indians.
February 20- Medfield is attacked. To counter these latest raids Boston forms a regiment of six hundred mounted men to range the Nipmuck country and drive the Indians from their towns. But Plymouth could not contribute its share and only 300 Massachusetts men under Major Savage were mustered at Brookfield. The troops did march on Menameset, the Nipmuck town, and forced the Indians to evacuate into what is now Vermont. But the raids still continued.
March 13- Groton is almost entirely destroyed. Though the people had defended themselves successfully they decide to abandon the town.
March 26- The Indians burn most of the town of Marlborough and its people add to the growing numbers of refugees, but because of its strategic location its garrison is maintained. Mendon and Wrentham were the next to be vacated, and it seemed the whole frontier was going to collapse.
April 21- More than five hundred Indians who had been encamped at Mount Wachusett made an onslaught on Sudbury. The alarm went out and men or troops rode from Marlborough, Watertown, Concord and even Charlestown. These parties arrive piecemeal and even though the English are forced to retreat, they save the greater part of Sudbury from destruction. A lull in the fighting follows Sudbury.
May 17- Captain William Turner of the Hatfield garrison leads 150 men on a raid to a Indian fishing camp north of Deerfield, now Turner Falls. They kill more than one hundred of them. The other Indian fishing camps rally and counter-attack Captain Turner's men. The fight turns into a blind panic and the retreat becomes a rout. Many of the wounded are left behind, among them Captain Turner. Slightly over one hundred men got back to Hatfield; the dead were something over forty; but the Indians had suffered far worse and the fighting in the Connecticut Valley comes to an end.
End of July- Plymouth Colony had organized a company of one hundred and fifty men and about fifty friendly Indians to patrol its western boundary. During July rumors abounded that Philip had returned to the Mount Hope area. In a skirmish at Bridgewater, his uncle is found among the dead. A little latter Benjamin Church, leading a company that he had raised and who were chosen for their Indian fighting skills, almost catches Philip crossing the Taunton River. Philip does manage to escape but his wife and child are captured and there is a great debate about whether to execute Philip's son. In the end it's decided to sell him and his mother as slaves in the West Indies--the common fate of Indians who were taken prisoner and not killed outright.
August 11- Church receives word that Philip is hiding with only a small party in a swamp on Mount Hope. Church and his men arrive at the swamp during the night and wait until morning to attack. The attack is a total surprise and the Indians break and run for safety. One of the Indians who did not make it was Philip, who was shot while trying to run. Philip's head was cut off, in what had become an established tradition, and taken to Plymouth and there mounted on a pole on the village green where people on their way to worship could gaze upon it in grateful security.
768. Pierre Boivin
BIRTH:Dictionnaire de Genealogique TANGUAY;Dictionnaire Genealogique des
familles de Quebec a 1730, JETTE, p. 123; Origine de Familles Canadiennes
Francaises, GODBOUT, p.31
!MARRIAGE:Dictionnaire de Genealogique TANGUAY, p. 64
!DEATH:Dictionnaire Genealolgique des familles de Quebec A 1730, p.123 JETTEPierre Boivin, fils de Pierre Boivin et d'Anne Lecoq, est baptisé le 26 juillet 1643, à l’église Saint-Maclou de St-Sauveur de Rouen, France. La famille Boivin compte au moins trois autres enfants, tous également originaires du même endroit: Église Saint-Maclou de St-Sauveur de Rouen, France. Marie Boivin, née le 29 août 1634, Anne Boivin, née le 26 septembre 1635 et Anne Boivin, née le 2 mars 1640.
Pierre Boivin décide de s'établir en Nouvelle-France vers 1661 sans doute influencé par les activités de ses oncles, Charles, Guillaume et François. Son nom apparait pour la premiere fois dans un acte de confirmation par Mgr François de Montmorency-Laval, Evêque de Québec. Le 21 novembre 1662, Pierre Boivin, alors domestique de Jacques Picot dit Labrie, s'engage avec les Sulpiciens de Montréal à défricher quatre arpents de terre de leur ferme St-Gabriel. Le 4 novembre 1664, il épouse à Trois-Rivières Etiennette Fafard, agée de douze ans et demi, fille de Bertrand Fafard et de Marie Sédîllot. Par son contrat de mariage passé devant le Notaire Séverin Ameau, Pierre Boivin est désigné héritier de son oncle, François Boivin. Il signe ce contrat d'une croix, Le nom de Pierre Boivin figure aux recensements de la Côte de Beaupré en 1667 (il a 22 ans et habite chez son oncle françois Boivin) et de la Seigneurie de Beaupré en 1681.________________________________
C'est aux alentours de ses vingt ans, vers 1661, que Pierre Boivin arrive en Nouvelle-France. Il exerce le métier de maçon à Trois-Rivières où il épouse une adolescente de douze ans, Étiennette Fafard. Trois oncles de Pierre sont arrivés avant lui au Québec. Guillaume et Charles sont maîtres-charpentiers et travaillent pour la communauté des Jésuites à Sillery. Le troisième oncle, François, également charpentier, a construit l'église des Trois-Rivières et a travaillé pour les Ursulines à Québec. Il posséde plusieurs terres dont une à Sainte-Anne-du-Petit-Cap (Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré) qu'il donne en héritage à son neveu, Pierre, qui s'y établi pour fonder sa famille. Pierre participera à la construction et à l'entretien de l'église de cette paroisse.
770. Pierre Poulin
BIRTH:Dictionnaire Genealogique des familles du Quebec a 1730, JETTE,
p.938;IGI, 1988 Edition
!MARRIAGE:ibid
!DEATH:JETTE, died in Hotel-Dieu.
771. Anne Giguère
BIRTH:Dictionnaire Genealogique des familles du Quebec a 1730, JETTE;IGI, 1988
Edition
772. Jean Plouf
BIRTH:Dictionnaire Genealogique des familles du Quebec des origins a 1730,
JETTE; IGI, 1992 Edition
Also known as Jean BLOUF.
!MARRIAGE:Dictionnar Genealogique des familles du Quebec des origins a
1730,JETTE;IGI,I988 Edition
!DEATH:JETTE
773. Marie Madeleine Guilleboeuf
BIRTH:Dictionnaire Genealogique des familles du Quebec a 1730,JETTE;Origine
des Familles Canadiennes Francaises, GODBOUT, p. 18;IGI, 1992 Edition.
!MARRIAGE:Nos Origines en France des debuts a 1825, #7 Normandie et
Perche,Normand ROBERT
780. Étienne Fontaine
BIRTH:Dictionnaire Genealogique des familles du Quebec a 1730, JETTE; IGI,
1988 edition
!MARRIAGE:ibid.
BIRTH:Dictionnaire Genealogique des familles du Quebec a 1730, JETTE; IGI,
1988 Edition
!MARRIAGE:ibid
782. Jacques Dagneau
BIRTH:Dictionnaire Genealogique des familles du Quebec a 1730, JETTE;IGI, 1992
Edition
!MARRIAGE:ibid.
896. Johannes or Jan Heesakkers
BIRTH:Certificate, Heesakkers Family History, Louis Bressers, Netherlands.
!MARRIAGE:Heesakkers Family history, Louis Bressers, Netherlands.
MARRIAGE:Louis Bressers'Heesakkers Family History.