John DUMBLETON

1650 - 1675  (25 years)

• Birth	2 Jan 1650	Springfield, Hampden, MA   [1, 2]
  Note	John Dumbleton was killed by Indians during King Philip's War. Soon after, the events so minutely described by the Rev. Edward Taylor took place. He says: -- 'but summer coming, (1675) opened a door unto yt desolating war, began by Philip Sachem of ye Pakaneket Indians, by which this handful was sorely pressed yet sovereignly preserved. But yet not so as that we should be wholly exempted from the fury of war, for our soil was moistened by the blood of three Springfield men, young Goodman (John) Dumbleton, who came to our mill and two sons of Goodman Brooks, who came here to look after ye iron on ye land he had lately bought of Mr. John Pynchon Esqr., who being persuaded by Springfield folk, went to accompany them, but (they) fell in the way by the first assault ye enemy made upon us, at wch time they burn'd Mr. Cornish's house to ashes and also John Sacket's, with his barn and what was in it, being ye first snowy day of winter (27 October); they also at this time lodged a bullet in George Granger's leg, wch was, the next morning taken out by Mr. Bulkly, and ye wound soon healed; It was judged that the enemy did receive some lose at this time, because in ye ashes of Mr. Cornish's house were found pieces of ye boanes of a man, lying about ye length of a man in ye ashes. Also in winter, some sculking Rascolds, upon a Lord's day, in ye time of or afternoon worship, fired Amb. Fowler's house and barn, and in ye week after, Walter Lee's barn; but in ye latter end and giving up of winter, ye last snowy day we had thereof, we discovering an end of Indians, did send out to make a full discovery of the same, designing onely three or four to go out, with order that they should not assalt them, but to or woe and smart, there going 10 or 12,not as scouts, but as assailants, rid furiously upon ye enemy, from whom they received a furious charge, whereby Moses Cook, an inhabitant, and Clemence Bates, a soldier, lost their lives; Clemence in ye place and Moses at night. Besides wch we lost none of the town, onely at ye Fall's fight at Deerfield, there going nine from or town, 3 Garison Souldiers fell. Thus tho' we lay in ye very rode of ye enemy, we were preserved, onely the war had so impoverisht us that many times were we ready to leave the place, and many did, yea many of those that were in full communion in other places, for their number in all being but nine, four of them removed.'
  Death	27 Oct 1675	Westfield, Hampden, MA   [1, 2]

  
  

  Father	John DUMBLETON,   b. Between 1620 and 1625, ENGLAND
  Mother	Mercy MARSHFIELD,   b. 1627, Exeter, Devonshire, ENGLAND d. 4 Jul 1704, Springfield, Hampden, MA (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F1859	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lydia LEONARD,   b. 20 Oct 1650, Springfield, Hampden, MA d. 18 Mar 1683 (Age 32 years)
  Marriage	18 Mar 1674/75	Springfield, Hampden, MA   [1, 2, 3]
  Family ID	F1068	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 2 Jan 1650 - Springfield, Hampden, MA Marriage - 18 Mar 1674/75 - Springfield, Hampden, MA Death - 27 Oct 1675 - Westfield, Hampden, MA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S34] Jacobus, Donald Lines & Waterman, Edgar Francis, Hale, House, (Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT, 1952), 34. [S42] Henry Dumbleton, 42. [S41] Pynchon's Marriage Records, 41.