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About Henry Axtell
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The inventory of his property is dated April 1, 1676. The famous Sudbury fight, when the captain and his men were caught in ambush by the Indians and many of them were slain, took place three weeks after the death of Henry
Axtell. His widow married Will Taylor July 16, 1677. b. in England and christened in Berkhamstead on October 15, 1641. He was a boy of five when his father died. In 1660 a tract of land lying west of Sudbury was incorporated as a town by th name of Marlboro. Edmond Rice, before mentioned, was a prime mover in the formation of the new town. Henry Axtell, then only nineteen, became one of the proprietors and received fifteen acres of land in the central part of the town as his portion for what was called "a house lot." Besides this, he probably had a portion of meadow and other out-lying land. On June 14, 1665, he married Hannah, the daughter of George and Susan Merriam who came from Kent, England, in the ship "Castle" in 1638. She was born in Concord, Massachusetts, July 14, 1645. In the spring of 1676 the Indians, led by King Phillip of Mount Hope, Rhode Island, made a general war on the white settlements. They attacked several of the smaller places in the interior of Massachusetts and killed many of the settlers; among those from Marlboro was Henry Axtell.
The inventory of his property is dated April 1, 1676. The famous Sudbury fight, when the captain and his men were caught in ambush by the Indians and many of them were slain, took place three weeks after the death of Henry
Axtell. His widow married Will Taylor July 16, 1677.
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Son of *Thomas Axtell 1619-1646 and *Mary Starr
Siblings: Mary Axtell, Lydia Axtell 1644-
Married *Hannah Merriam Jun 14, 1665
Children: Samuel Axtell 1666-,
Hannah Axtell 1667- ,
Mary Axtell 1670- ,
Thomas Axtell 1672-1750,
- Daniel Axtell 1673-1734,
Sarah Axtell 1675
- My grandparents
Henry Axtell was killed during King Philip's War in 1676 in Sudbury MA. One account states he was killed within a couple weeks of the town being attacked as he worked in his fields, other accounts place him in or near Sudbury around April 19-21, 1676. What is sure is that Henry Axtell died among many others and was buried in an ummarked grave near Wadsworth cemetery where 29 soldiers were also buried and a memorial to those who died during those attacks stands today.
The bridge was located a short distance north of the present bridge carrying Old Sudbury Road over the Sudbury River. The Native American attackers used this bridge to attack the east side of Sudbury (the present Town of Wayland).The more heavily populated eastern part of Sudbury was defended by the bulk of the eighty-man Sudbury militia.
The militia would have been active in protecting the fortified church/meeting house near the bridge since it was the principal Town storehouse for emergency supplies of guns, shot, and gunpowder, and it also served as a place of refuge for civilians at times of attack.
The militia was able to protect the east-side civilians and some of their property, but they did not have sufficient manpower to force the Native American attackers back across the bridge.
The roughly 200 hostile Native Americans did not go long distances from the bridge during their destructive raids on the eastern side of the river, since they needed to be able to retreat quickly back to the western part of Town if major military assistance from other Towns arrived. However, some structures in the far western part of what is now the Town of Weston were burned by the hostile Native Americans.
A group of soldiers from Watertown did arrive in the middle of the day, and the combined force of these soldiers and the Sudbury militia was able to drive the hostile Native Americans back across the bridge into the western part of the Town.
Excerpt from a description of the battle from town of Sudbury MA US website and the Soldiers in King Philip's War by George Madison Bodge
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Parents:
Thomas Axtell (1619 - 1646)
Mary Starr Axtell (1620 - 1659)
Spouse:
Hannah Merriam Axtell (1645 - 1682)
Children:
Daniel Axtell (1673 - 1735)*
- Calculated relationship
Burial: Wadsworth Cemetery Sudbury Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA
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Henry Axtell's Timeline
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October 13, 1641
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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October 13, 1641
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Berkhamstead,Hertford,England
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October 15, 1641
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK
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March 27, 1666
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March 27, 1666
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Marlborough, Middlesex, MA
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| 1667 |
November 18, 1667
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Marlborough, Middlesex, MA
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August 8, 1670
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Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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April 16, 1672
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Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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