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Immigration: Abt. 1630 John and wife Mary arrive aboard the ship Arabella.
Served in military: King Philips War- Killed in action by Indians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War
R.I. Register:
From Austin:
a sad wretch, he never heard a sermon but once these fourteen years.
Virkus:
G&B Record, Part 2:
De Forest: John Tefft, emigrated to Portsmouth, RI, in 1630 and was made a freeman in 1655. In 1671 he was registered as an inhabitant of Kingstown, RI. On 22 Nov. 1672 he and wife Mary sold seven acres of Portsmouth land. His will was dated 30 Nov. 1674 and probably written in Kingstown.
Memorial: John Tefft, brother of William Tefft of Boston, settled in Portsmouth and Kingston, RI, and made a freeman there in 1655.
Narragansett: A Tefft-Barber marriage farther down the line: South Kingston, R.I., Mary Barber and Samuel Tefft, son of John, married 5 Oct. 1727.
Founders: John Tefft, Portsmouth, RI, 1655, Kingston 1671. Died by 26 Jan. 1676. Freeman.
Savage: John Tefft, died 1676; from England to Mass. and thence to Portsmouth (Kingstown), R.I. Freeman 1655. Killed in King Philip's War. Married Mary Barber.
Witter Family: John Tefft, born about 1620 in England. Died 18 Jan 1676. He emigrated to Boston, his brother (not named) was there by 24 Dec. 1638. "In King Philip's War, son Joshua shot 20 times at English in the Narragansett Fight,' captured by Capt. Fenner, tried, hanged and quartered at at Wickford, R.I., 18 Jan 1676. Said he was captured by Indians, made slave to chief, made to fight. Didn't go over. Had Indian wife. Father, John Tefft, wemt to get body, could not find head."
John Tefft lived in Portsmouth and Kingstown, R.I.; was one paid to "keepe auld JOHN MOTT" [Chart 21, #121] in 1656. Sold land in 1662. Inhabitant of Pettaquamscott in 1671. Daughter Sarah, unmarried, in town of Warwick, which was founded by religious outcasts.
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From: Find A Grave Memorial# 34093854
John Tefft
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from TEFFT-L Archives - http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TEFFT/2000-11/0975540255
Subject: [TEFFT] Re: The Tefft Historical Park
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:24:15 -0500
"It's official! The South Kingstown Land trust closed on 28 acres containing a significant portion of the Tefft homestead yesterday. Now it will be possible for us and future generations to walk the same land that John Tefft and his descendants walked and see how they lived. Hopefully, archaeologists will be able to give us greater insight into their everyday lives. ... " ~ A. Craig Anthony
from The Tefft Papers - The Tefft Family and the Narragansett Controversy - http://www.freewebs.com/kingsprovince/teffthistoricalpark.htm
..."It was these favorable environmental attributes that motivated the English immigrant John Tefft to purchase 500 acres of land encompassing the site sometime between 1658 and 1672. The original deed has not survived. John Tefft served as a witness to the second Pettaquamscutt Purchase of 1661, and possibly laid out his share soon after. From land evidence records of adjoining neighbors, and from the Fones Record, we learn the location and extent of John Tefft's holdings. From John Tefft's 1674 will, we also learn that he owned a 20 acre homestead along the Pettaquamscutt River in the Tower Hill area of the Pettaquamscutt Purchase.
It appears that Joshua and Samuel Tefft, John's only sons, settled the 500 acre property and began to raise livestock, cattle in particular, in the mid-1660s. The homestead site, situated near the geographical center of the property, seems to suggest that it was probably selected first before the boundaries were run. Situated nearby a natural protective peninsula in the Genessee Swamp called Tobeys Neck, along with the natural springs and fertile ground, the site was ideal for agricultural pursuits.
There is documentary evidence that both Joshua Tefft and his brother Samuel spoke the native Algonquin language. (Providence Town Papers, 1:364, LaFantasie, 2:711) Joshua Tefft mentions his cattle and "his farme a mile and a half from Puttuckquomscut" in a deposition taken by Roger Williams in 1676. (LaFantasie, 2:711) For fourteen years the Tefft family lived peacefully with their Narragansett neighbors, until the outbreak of King Philip's War in 1675. While the Tefft family sought safety on Aquidneck Island, Joshua remained behind to care for the cattle. Joshua Tefft did not survive the war."
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March 31, 1610
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Thetford, Norfolk, England
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1630 |
1630
Age 19
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1633 |
1633
Age 22
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Boston, Suffolk Co., MA
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1640 |
1640
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Rhode Island
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1640
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Providence, Providence Plantations in Narraganset Bay
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1642 |
1642
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Providence, Washington Co., RI
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1644 |
1644
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Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
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1646 |
1646
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South Kingston, Washington County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, British North America
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1646
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