Phillip Mattoon

Here is what happened to his family in the Deerfield Massacre:

• his son: Phillip Mattoon was captured in the 1704 raid on Deerfield and died on the forced march to Canada at age 24
• his daughter-in-law Rebecca Nims Mattoon, b. August 14, 1679. Married Philip Mattoon January 15, 1702/3. She was killed in the 1704 raid on Deerfield, age 24
• his grandchild

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  Mattoon killed in the 1704 raid
• his daughter Sarah Mattoon age 17 taken captive 1704, escaped 1709, was recaptured and was ransomed in 1711

https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00matt#page/n15/mode/2up

"Philip "Mattun" - emigrant from Scotland, was sent from Marlboro with 47 other men 1767 to the Connecticut River Valley to defend settlers from Indian attack. Later married Sarah Hawks. Moved to Deerfield in 1688 or thereabouts, and died in 1696."

(http://genforum.genealogy.com/mattoon/messages/17.html)

Paul... Im not sure where the Scottish talk is comming from.... all research I have done to date shows Phillip as being a French Heugonaut... Comming to Deerfield Mass to escape religeous persecution during the reign of Louis IVX

(http://genforum.genealogy.com/mattoon/messages/52.html)

The Scottish thread was generated by another and I believe it's false. A previous email indicated that a book about Gen. Ebenzer Mattoon, "Mary Mattoon and her Hero of the Revolution," published in 1902 by the Mary Mattoon Chapter of the D.A.R. claims that

Philip "Mattun" was an emigrant from Scotland.

Donald P. Mattoon, and wife Lillian, prepared a manuscript, "Mattoon Family in Europe and Early America." This document attempts to prove that Hujbrecht (or Rupert) Mattoon was the father of Philip (in addition to John (an older brother), Richard (a younger), and Grace (a sister). Hujbrecht bought property in Saco, MA in 1683 and shows him "a Portsmith tailor and fine gentleman of unknown antecedents, frist seen as witness to Thos. Walford's deed, 1 January 1648/9." "His continental origin, possibly from a Walloon family in Canterbury or London, probably assumed largely because of the spelling of his name, which combined a Dutch and French connotation."

London or Canterbury is probably the closest he got to Scotland.

Hope this helps clarify. You're right that the Mattoons were French Hugeonots. Incidently, I was asked once whether I was Dutch by a Dutchman based on the spelling of our name. I said I wasn't but believed that my family escaped persecution by leaving France by way of Holland, hence the two "Ts" and two "Os". Was originally Maton. I asked how Mattoon was pronounced in Dutch, which he said, Mah-tome'.

(http://genforum.genealogy.com/mattoon/messages/53.html)

• Marriage: (10 Sep 1677 — Age: 25) Deerfield, Franklin, MA* Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via son JOHN MATTOON (6th GG) by SmartCopy: Jun 23 2015, 3:24:14 UTC

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For many more details, see "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Philip Mattoon of Deerfield, Massachusetts," published 1965, at archive.org.