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Forty Ninth Week, Monday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"On February 22, 1676, Medfield began to recover from the attack on the town the previous day by Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck Native-Americans during the King Philip War. An unknown number of Native-Americans along with 14 residents and three soldiers, sent here to protect the town, were killed. Those residents killed included Henry Adams, age 72 and his wife Elizabeth, about age 70, John Fussell, age 90, John Bowers age 56 and his son John Jr., age 34, Thomas Mason age 41 and his two sons, Thomas Jr., age 15 and Zachary, age 13, Margaret Thurston, age 7 and her brother Samuel, age 18 months, Timothy Dwight (who died of wounds suffered a few weeks after the attack) and Daniel Clark, age 29. Jonathan Wood, age 25 of Sherborn was killed while here in Medfield. Three soldiers, William Williams and John Hooper both of Boston and Edward Jackson of Cambridge were also killed."