In 1689 only eleven years after the end of King Philip’s War the French and Indians began a rampage in New York and New England that would be called King William’s War. The year 1690 saw the rampage continue when Schenectady New York was attacked and burned in February. In March 1690 the settlement at Salmon Falls Maine was attacked and decimated. In May 1690 … Continue reading Captain Noah Wiswall’s fight
1684 – The Suspicious Death of Philip Smith Cotton Mather’s seventh example of witchcraft in New England in his book Magnalia Christi Americana details the death of my ancestor Philip Smith of Hadley Massachusetts in 1684. Philip arrived in the New World as a one year old having been born in England around 1633 to Samuel and Elizabeth Smith, early settlers of Wethersfield CT, and of Hadley MA. Philip … Continue reading The New England Witch Trials – part 2
The Boating Genealogists 