Lydia EAMES

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Between Feb and May 1675; Served in King Philip's War under Lieut. Gillam and Major Savage
• Immigration: 1634
• Military Service: 1637; Soldier in the Pequot War

Notes:

Thomas was a soldier in the Pequot War. Served in King Philip's War under lieutenant Gillam & Major Savage, February to May, 1675-1676.

Excerpt from Connecticut, 1600s-1800s Local Families and Histories: "In 1640 he was an inhabitant and proprietor of the town of Dedham, Massachusetts. He removed to Medford, and was living there in 1652-59, occupying the water mill on the Mystic side of Charlestown, later Woburn. He moved to Cambridge, where he owned a house and eight acres of land east of the common. He sold his property there February 10, 1664, to Nicholas Wyeth and removed to Sudbury, where he leased Mr. Pelham's farm and lived until 1669. He settled finally in Framingham, where he built a house and barn, though he attended church in the adjoining town of Sherborn and was recorded as an inhabitant there January 4, 1674. During King Philip's war, February 1, 1676, his wife and several children were killed or taken captives. He held the office of selectman and was on various important committees before coming to Framinghan."

Thomas married Mary BLANDFORD about 1662 in Cumberland, Middlesex, Mass.. Mary (daughter of John BLANDFORD and Mary ?) was born between 1632 and 1635 in England; died on 01 Feb 1676 in Killed by the Indians at Framingham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Blandford Padelford and several of her children were killed in an Indian massacre during King Philip's War.