John Divoll is first mentioned in the records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, when on the 23rd of 10th month, 1663, he married Hannah White. During King Philip's War as an Ensign he was killed by the Indians, February 10, 1676, while defending the home of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson, and his wife and children together with Mrs. Rowlandson, who his wife's sister Mary, were carried into captivity as prisoners by Sam, Sagamon of the Nashawas, who was hung at Boston, September 26, 1676. In May, 1676, they were ransomed at Portsmouth with what children were then alive, some of them having succumbed to the hardships.
