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• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

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From Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors: " When Deerfield was destroyed by the French and Indians, 29 Feb., 1704, he and four of his children, Martin, Joseph, Joanna and Rebecca, were taken prisoners and carried to Canada. His son, Jonathan, was killed. Mrs. Kellogg escaped. There is a tradition that at the time of the attack upon the house (which was at night), Mrs. Kellogg "escaped from her bed with her infant, a few days old, to the cellar, and after secreting her infant, turned a large tub over herself; the cries of the child attracted the attention of the Indians, who immediately siezed it and dashed it against the wall. They afterward feasted upon the stores which they found in the cellar, sitting upon the tub which concealed the wretched mother. On their departure, they set fire to the dwelling. She rushed from the house, almost naked and, with bare feet, fled through the deep snow for two miles to the house then used as a fort." The youngest child of Martin Kellogg was Jonathan, b. 17 Dec., 1698, and, as recorded in the Hampshire County Recorder's book at Hatfield, he "was slain in the fort," which seems to dispose of the tradition of the infant, a few days old, carried to the cellar and secreted by his mother. How much truth there is in the rest of the tradition is unknown.
The father and his four children were separated, as the Indians, after their depredations, divided into as many parties, each taking a prisoner. It is not know when he returned. In Oct., 1705, eleven of the Deerfield captives came home; the names of only three are known... In 1706 forty-four English captive were returned from Canada. The names of but few of them are known. It is probable that in one of these parties Martin Kellogg, Sr., came."


From Unredeemed Captive:
"Early on the morning of February 29, 1704, before the settlers of Deerfield, Massachusetts, had stirred from their beds, a French and Indian war party opened fire, weilding hatchets and torches, on the lightly fortified town. The Kelloggs...had been major sufferers in the Deerfield massacre: a boy killed, the father (Martin, Sr.) and four other children (Martin, Jr., Joseph, Joanna, and Rebecca) taken prisoner, the mother "escaped." Martin, Sr. returned to New England in one of the first prisoner exchanges. Martin, Jr. fled (apparently from Kahnawake) with three other boys in 1705 and made his way back to Deerfield - only to be recaptured, and repatriated for good, in 1708. After the peace of 1713, he returned to Canada to retrieve his brother Joseph. And Joseph would subsequently undertake the same errand - several times- on behalf of his captive sisters. The latter, however, chose to remain; Joanna, indeed, would subsequently marry a Kahnawake chief."

Martin married Sarah Foote DICKINSON on 27 Feb 1690/91. Sarah (daughter of John DICKINSON and Frances FOOTE) was born about 1655; died on 11 Feb 1731/32. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Note:
From Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors: " When Deerfield was destroyed by the French and Indians, 29 Feb., 1704, he and four of his children, Martin, Joseph, Joanna and Rebecca, were taken prisoners and carried to Canada. His son, Jonathan, was killed. Mrs. Kellogg escaped. There is a tradition that at the time of the attack upon the house (which was at night), Mrs. Kellogg "escaped from her bed with her infant, a few days old, to the cellar, and after secreting her infant, turned a large tub over herself; the cries of the child attracted the attention of the Indians, who immediately siezed it and dashed it against the wall. They afterward feasted upon the stores which they found in the cellar, sitting upon the tub which concealed the wretched mother. On their departure, they set fire to the dwelling. She rushed from the house, almost naked and, with bare feet, fled through the deep snow for two miles to the house then used as a fort." The youngest child of Martin Kellogg was Jonathan, b. 17 Dec., 1698, and, as recorded in the Hampshire County Recorder's book at Hatfield, he "was slain in the fort," which seems to dispose of the tradition of the infant, a few days old, carried to the cellar and secreted by his mother. How much truth there is in the rest of the tradition is unknown.
The father and his four children were separated, as the Indians, after their depredations, divided into as many parties, each taking a prisoner. It is not know when he returned. In Oct., 1705, eleven of the Deerfield captives came home; the names of only three are known... In 1706 forty-four English captive were returned from Canada. The names of but few of them are known. It is probable that in one of these parties Martin Kellogg, Sr., came."


From Unredeemed Captive:
"Early on the morning of February 29, 1704, before the settlers of Deerfield, Massachusetts, had stirred from their beds, a French and Indian war party opened fire, weilding hatchets and torches, on the lightly fortified town. The Kelloggs...had been major sufferers in the Deerfield massacre: a boy killed, the father (Martin, Sr.) and four other children (Martin, Jr., Joseph, Joanna, and Rebecca) taken prisoner, the mother "escaped." Martin, Sr. returned to New England in one of the first prisoner exchanges. Martin, Jr. fled (apparently from Kahnawake) with three other boys in 1705 and made his way back to Deerfield - only to be recaptured, and repatriated for good, in 1708. After the peace of 1713, he returned to Canada to retrieve his brother Joseph. And Joseph would subsequently undertake the same errand - several times- on behalf of his captive sisters. The latter, however, chose to remain; Joanna, indeed, would subsequently marry a Kahnawake chief."

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• Residence: 1651
• Residence: 16 Oct 1659
• Residence: 1661, Hadley, Hampshire, MA
• Will: 27 Jun 1707, Hadley, Hampshire, MA
• Probate: 4 Feb 1708, Hadley, Hampshire, MA

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Note:
At Farmington, CT in 1651 and joined church there with his wife Oct 10, 1653. Moved about 1657 to Boston, MA where he purchased property Oct 16, 1659.Sold Boston property Jun 13, 1661 and moved to Hadley. Agreed to keep the ferry between Hadley and Northhampton in 1661, which he, son John and granson James operated until 1758. He was a selectman a number of times and served on various town committees. Joseph was named Sgt. of the military company (trainband) March 1663, Ensign in the Foot Co. May 9, 1678 and Lt. of same company Ovct. 7, 1678. He served as Lt. under Capt. AaronCook, Jr. until 1692. Was in charge of the Hadley troops at the Turners' Falls Fight on May 18, 1676.

Residence:
Joseph was in Farmington, Connecticut by this year where he was an early settler and served several terms as selectman. His home lot, consisting of four acres, was purchased from John Andrews, from whom he also bought a twelve-acre lot of plowing land curiously called "Nod Land." He sold this property in Feb. 1655.

Residence:
Purchased land from Peter Oliver and his wife. Their "dwelling house fronting to the street leading to Roxbury." They sold this land (now covered, in part, by the Advertiser Building on Washington Street) was sold to John Witherden on 13 Jun 1661.

Residence:
Joseph made an agreement with the town of Hadley to keep the ferry between Hadley and Northhampton. He and his son John and grandson, James Kellogg, kept this ferry until 1758, almost a century and Stephen Goodman, who married a daughter of James Kellogg,kept it still later, and from him it received its last name "Goodmans Ferry."

Lieutenant married Joanna FOOTE in 1650 in ENGLAND. Joanna was born about 1628; died on 14 Sep 1666 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1651
• Residence: 16 Oct 1659
• Residence: 1661, Hadley, Hampshire, MA

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Residence:
Joseph was in Farmington, Connecticut by this year where he was an early settler and served several terms as selectman. His home lot, consisting of four acres, was purchased from John Andrews, from whom he also bought a twelve-acre lot of plowing land curiously called "Nod Land." He sold this property in Feb. 1655.

Residence:
Purchased land from Peter Oliver and his wife. Their "dwelling house fronting to the street leading to Roxbury." They sold this land (now covered, in part, by the Advertiser Building on Washington Street) was sold to John Witherden on 13 Jun 1661.

Residence:
Joseph made an agreement with the town of Hadley to keep the ferry between Hadley and Northhampton. He and his son John and grandson, James Kellogg, kept this ferry until 1758, almost a century and Stephen Goodman, who married a daughter of James Kellogg,kept it still later, and from him it received its last name "Goodmans Ferry."

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• Residence: Hadley, Hampshire, MA

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Died:
King Phillips War

John married Frances FOOTE in 1648 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Frances (daughter of Nathaniel FOOTE and Elizabeth DEMING) was born in 1629 in ENGLAND; died on 3 Feb 1678 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Note:
The children and grandchildren of Frances Foote suffered very much from the Indians. Her oldest child, Hannah, married Samuel Gillet in 1668 and had 4 children. While they were all very small, Hannah's husband was killed in the great fight with the Indians at Turners Falls on the Connecticut River, May 19, 1676.
The next year Hannah married Stephen Jennings, and a few months later she was captured by the Indians and taken to Canada. The poor woman - soon to be a mother - left three little children at home, the oldest but six. (Her first baby had been burned to death). Hannah was rescued in a few months, then her baby was born and named Captivity. some years later they moved to Brookfield, Massachusetts.
One day in July Hannah's husband Mr. Jennings was in the meadow, with five other men, making hay, when some Indians sprang upon them suddenly and killed them.
The husband of her daughter Captivity was also slain by the Indians.
Another daughter of Frances Foote and John Dickinson, Sarah, who married Samuel Lane and had five children, also had a terrible experience. Less than a year after Samuel Lane's death in 1690, she married a widower, Martin Kellogg, with two small children, whose wife had died six months before. They had four more children. Three of the last children and one of the first wife's who was named Martin were captured by the Indians in Deerfield, February 29, 1704 and taken to Canada.
Martin Kellogg, Jr. the first wife's child, was rescued but was captured several times. He learned the Indian language and was often employed to interpret treaties with the Indians. He became a Captan and was remarkable even in that day of strong men for his great strength and firmness, and many tales are told of his exploits.
The three other children of Sarah Dickenson and Martin Kellogg, Sr. who were captured were; Joseph, 13; Joanna, 11; and Rebecca,9. Joseph learned the Indian language and on his return from captivity often acted as an interpreter. Joanna stayed with the Indians and finally married an Indian Chief and had a number of children. Once she came to visit her half brother, Martin Kellogg, Jr., bringing some of her children with her. He tried to persuade her to stay with him, but she would not and returned to her Indian home. Rebecca remained with the Indians until she was grown. Then she married Benjamin Ashley. Knowing the Indian language so well, she was often employed as an interpreter by the missionaries. At one time she went with one of them through the woods on a mission to the Indians and died in an Indian village.

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• Occupation: Weaver
• Note: 27 Mar 1654
• Will: 20 May 1671, Braintree, Essex, ENGLAND
• Probate: 20 Sep 1671, Braintree, Essex, ENGLAND

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Internet info shows 3 other children with no information about them. They are Jane, Kate and another Martin.

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In court proceedings, John, an orphan, in committed to the care of Martin Kellogg, his grandfather.

Will:
IN THE NAME OFF GOD AMEN this 20ty day of May in the yeare of our
Lord 1671 I, MARTIN KELLOCKE of Braintre in the county of Essex
Weauer beinge sicke in bodie but of a perfecte memorie praised be
god therfor doe make & ordaine this my last will & testamente in
writinge in manner and forme followinge that is to say First &
prinsepally I comend my soule into the hands of allmighty god my
maker trustinge in the allsufissiante merits of Jesus Christe my
Sauiour & redemer to obtaine Eternall Life and Salluation and my
bodie vnto the earth from whence it came to be decently buried by
my Executor which shall be herafter nomenated & appointed Item I
giue and bequeath unto Sarah my daughter the wife of William
Jacob fiue pounde lawfull money of England to be paide within one
yeare After my deceasse Item I giue vnto my grandchild John
Kellocke twenty shillings to be paid vnto him within two years
after my deceasse Item I giue & bequeath vnto my sone Joseph
Kellocke of new England twenty shillings to be paide to him
within on yeare after my deceasse Item I giue and bequeath vnto
my sone Daniell Kellocke of new England fiue pound law full monie
of England to be paid vnto him within on yeare after my deceasse
Item I giue vnto my sone Samuell Kellocke in new England fiue
pound like lawfull money of England to be paid vnto him within
two years after my deceasse Item I giue & bequeath vnto my sone
Nathanell Kellocke all my goods in my best chamber & my little
copper and all my wearinge apparrell to be deliuered to him
prsente After my deceasse Item I giue vnto my sone Martin
Kellocke my coppie holld housse wherin I now dwell with the yarde
and garden & with all and singuler the appurtenances therunto
belonginge & my coppie hold tennements wherein John Watts now
dwelleth with all the appurtenances therunto belonginge and my
parler that I now holld in my own handes whome I doe nominate &
appointe make and ordaine to be my wholle and sole executor to se
my will fullfilld & prformed accordinge to the tru meaninge &
intente of it and I doe make ordaine & declare this to be my very
last will and testemente Reuokinge all other wills for merly by me
made either in worde or writinge in witness wherof I herunto set
my hand & sealle the day & yeare first aboue written-The marke of
MARTIN M. KELLOCKE (LS) Read signed sealled published and
declared to be the last will & testament of the testat or in the
prsence of us-Signed JOHN D. DEWDAT Senor-DANIELL CLARKE.
Proved at Braintree 20th September 1671
Fos 7 OB.-HK.
OW.
I certify that this copy has been examined with
the original Will deposited in this Registry and
that it is a true copy thereof
A. MUSGRAVE
Registrar

Martin married Prudence BIRD on 22 Oct 1621 in St. Nichols, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, ENGLAND. Prudence (daughter of John BIRD and Prudence UNKNOWN) was born in ENGLAND; died before 20 May 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Hockerell, Bishop's Stortford, Hertford, ENGLAND

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Internet info shows 3 other children with no information about them. They are Jane, Kate and another Martin.

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• Emigration: 1630, Watertown, Middlesex, MA
• Note: 1633, Watertown, Middlesex, MA
• Residence: 1634
• Probate: 20 Nov 1644, Hartford, Hartford, CT

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Note:
Nathaniel Foote's name is in the Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, when he took the oath of freeman in 1633.

Residence:
In 1634 the first white settlement in the Connecticut Valley was made in Wethersfield, called by the Indians, "Pyquag" which means "The Dancing Place" or "Place for Games." Nathaniel Foote was one of the first ten who came to Wethersfield in 1636. It was a terrible journey. There was no road, only a narrow Indian trail through the savage wilderness. They walked, driving their cattle before them and were fourteen days on the way. They were in constant danger from wild beasts and Indians and were obliged to wade through streams and swamps, but no hardships caused them to turn back.
Their reasons for going a hundred miles west of other settlements were, so they might "better maintain their minister, find larger accomodations for their cattle and welcome more of their friends from England."
When the land in the valley was distributed, Nathaniel Foote was assigned a house lot of 10 acres, on the east side of what is now Broad Street. He gradually bought more till he owned about 400 acres.

Probate:
Nathaniel Foote died without a will, at a Particular Court in Hartford an inventory of his property and distribution of his real estate were exhibited and an order of court granting administration on his estate and directing a distribution to be made was passed.

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Nathaniel married Elizabeth DEMING in Jan 1615 in North Wheatley, Nottinghamshire, ENGLAND. Elizabeth (daughter of Jonathon DEMING and Elizabeth GILBERT) was born about 1596 in ENGLAND; died on 28 Jul 1683 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT; was buried in Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Probate: Aug 1683, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT

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Probate:
My fourteen acres of land in the great meadow, and thirty acres in the West field, I give unto my son Robert Foote...he paying for these lands 45 lbs. - to be payed to the children of my daughter Sarah Judson, deceased , and to my four daughters, my daughter Churchill, my daughter Goodrich, my daughter Barnard, and my daughter Smith. There were also sums left for the two sons and grandchildren of her deceased son Nathaniel.
In a codicil she takes back the money she willed to her son Nathaniel's two sons and divides it amongst her daughters, giving the two brothers instead the land she had formerly willed to her son Robert who had died.

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