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Maxson, Richard |
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Grace Titus
Sept 9, 2021 · Potter/McKean Genealogy
Below is what was thought of them as they were militia as well as ministers......stalwart men and fine Preachers.
John Maxson was the 1st Minister of the 2nd SDB Church in the Colonies,
his father Richard, a blacksmith came to this land in 1634, was massacured along w/ his oldest son Richard Jr at Throggsneck, NY along with Ann Hutchinson and all of her younger children, except one in 1643....who is also one of my ancesters'.
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Grace Titus
They "fought a good fight and kept the faith"
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John C Wetzel
I thought this was interesting: Settled by john Throckmorton in 1642, the peninsula also known as Maxson's point since the Maxson family, Richard, Rebecca, John, ... lived there.
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Sr. |
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Male |
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1637 |
- The party with which they were connected made a temporary settlement, it is supposed, near Throg’s Neck, hence for some time after called Maxson’s Point. They carried on a trade with the Indians, and prospered, until about the time of the breaking out of the Pequod War, in 1637, when the Indians who surrounded them, instigated probably by emissaries from the Pequods, suddenly abstained from intercourse with [page 50] the settlers. Upon their sending to the natives to inquire why they did not come in as usual to trade, they received answer, that they feared their dogs, which they allowed to go unconfined, but that if they would shut them up, they would come in again. The unsuspecting colonists, blinded by their apparent good will, complied with the condition; and their watchful sentinels once confined, the savages made an attack upon the settlement, and drove the whites to their shallop. A portion of them landing in a boat the next day, to procure more provisions and produce from their gardens, were again attacked, and Mr. Maxson and his son Richard were killed. Mrs. Maxson escaped with the survivors in the shallop, and after a long and tedious passage, landed on the island of Aquetneck, the nearest place on the coast at that time free from danger of the hostile Indians; where, soon after landing, John was born. This was in the spring of 1638; and as the island was purchased of the Sachems Miantonimoh and Canonicus on the 24th of March of that year, and settled by the English immediately thereafter, Mrs. Maxson remained there, and devoted herself to the support and education of her son. Mr. Maxson, thus has the distinction of being the first white child born on the island of Rhode Island, or Aquetneck as it was then called.
- breaking out of the Pequod War, in 1637 ... Mr. Maxson and his son Richard were killed. ...Aquetneck, the nearest place on the coast at that time free from danger of the hostile Indians; where, soon after landing, John was born. This was in the spring of 1638;
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| Death |
Abt 1643 |
Throggs Neck, Bronx, New York, USA  |
| massacred along w/ his oldest son Richard Jr at Throggsneck, NY along with Ann Hutchinson and all of her younger children, except one in 1643. |
- 20210915GHLn-
Grace Titus
Sept 9, 2021 · Potter/McKean Genealogy
Below is what was thought of them as they were militia as well as ministers......stalwart men and fine Preachers.
John Maxson was the 1st Minister of the 2nd SDB Church in the Colonies,
his father Richard, a blacksmith came to this land in 1634, was massacured along w/ his oldest son Richard Jr at Throggsneck, NY along with Ann Hutchinson and all of her younger children, except one in 1643....who is also one of my ancesters'.
Comments
Grace Titus
They "fought a good fight and kept the faith"
· Reply · 5d
John C Wetzel
I thought this was interesting: Settled by john Throckmorton in 1642, the peninsula also known as Maxson's point since the Maxson family, Richard, Rebecca, John, ... lived there.
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she (Ann Hutchinson) settled with her younger children near an ancient landmark, Split Rock, in what later became The Bronx in New York City. Tensions were high at the time with the Siwanoy Indian tribe. In August 1643, Hutchinson, six of her (11) children, and other household members were killed by Siwanoys during Kieft's War. The only survivor was her nine-year-old daughter Susanna, who was taken captive.
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Rhode Island, USA |
| blacksmith |
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Grace Titus
Sept 9, 2021 · Potter/McKean Genealogy
Below is what was thought of them as they were militia as well as ministers......stalwart men and fine Preachers.
John Maxson was the 1st Minister of the 2nd SDB Church in the Colonies,
his father Richard, a blacksmith came to this land in 1634, was massacured along w/ his oldest son Richard Jr at Throggsneck, NY along with Ann Hutchinson and all of her younger children, except one in 1643....who is also one of my ancesters'.
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Grace Titus
They "fought a good fight and kept the faith"
· Reply · 5d
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I87215 |
WetzelFANcestry |
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