Person:James Franklin (48)

'James had been a soldier in Phillip's War. ... On 9 Dec. 1675 he was one of Capt. Samuel Moseleys volunteer troopers and was present at the Great Swamp Fight later in that month.'

Information on King Philip's War and the Great Swamp Fight can be found in Wikipedia and other web sites.

1. ↑ Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. The Hammonds of Rehoboth and Swansea, Massachusetts. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1995)
   149:223-4.

   'Elizabeth Hammond, ... m. (1) at Swansea, 17 April 1695, James Franklin [citing Swansea VRs], formerly of Dartmouth, b. ca. 1650 [citing Margaret Clare, The Franklin Fireplace].'

2. ↑ Assumed by compiler (Janet Bjorndahl).

   His widow remarried in 1722.

3. ↑ Moriarty, G. Andrews. Some Notes on Eighteenth Century Block Island. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1951)
   105:256.

   'James had been a soldier in Phillip's War. ... On 9 Dec. 1675 he was one of Capt. Samuel Moseleys volunteer troopers and was present at the Great Swamp Fight later in that month [Bodge's "Soldiers of Phillip's War", p. 477].'

4. ↑ Moriarty, G. Andrews. Some Notes on Eighteenth Century Block Island. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1951)
   105:256.

   'On 24 Aug. 1676 his pay was assigned at Braintree, Mass. This would indicate that at that date he was probably a resident of that town [Bodge's "Soldiers of Phillip's War", p. 368].'

5.   Cousins United: Franklin Descendants, Terry Dean Olson online (http:/www.terrydeanolson.com/Franklincousins.ht.

   'The ancestry of James has yet to be proven, and he is not known to be related to THE Benjamin Franklin, whose father was Josiah Franklin of Ecton, England.'