Rocket [sic]... JOHN, Mendon, s. perhaps of Richard, had John, b. at Braintree, 18 Aug. 1663, wh. was k. by the Ind. when they burn. the town in 1675; rem. to Medfield, there had Joseph, with perhaps two or three more; but certain. Trial, 28 Feb. 1677; and Deliverance, 31 Oct. 1678; in the interval suffer. much from Ind. and still had w. and six ch. to support.
ROCKETT, Deliverance, d. John and Johannah, [died] Oct. 31, 1678.
↑ Savage apparently represents the 1678 date as a birth, but the Medfield record is for a death. Further, due to the recorded birth of sister Trial Feb 1677/78, even a still birth 8 months later is unlikely. The name Deliverance suggests she might have been born soon after the family escaped Mendon (where their son John was killed by Indians in 1675), hence it is estimated she was born say, around 1676. By 1678, apparently the ordeal of being displaced from their home had become a trial.
