Martin KELLOGG

1658 -

• Name	Martin KELLOGG
  Birth	22 Nov 1658	Boston, Suffolk, MA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Note	29 Feb 1704	Deerfield, Franklin, MA   [1, 2]
  	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."
  Person ID	I2332	MM
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2006

  
  

  Father	Lieutenant Lieutenant Joseph KELLOGG,   c. 1 Apr 1626, Great Leighs, ENGLAND d. Abt 1707, Hadley, Hampshire, MA (Age ~ 80 years)
  Mother	Joanna FOOTE,   b. Abt 1628   d. 14 Sep 1666, Hadley, Hampshire, MA (Age 38 years)
  Family ID	F1017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anna HINSDALE,   b. 22 Feb 1665/66   d. 19 Jul 1689, Hatfield, Hampshire, MA (Age 23 years)
  Marriage	10 Dec 1684	Hatfield, Hampshire, MA   [1, 3]
  Children	1. Martin KELLOGG,   b. 26 Oct 1686, Deerfield, Franklin, MA   2. Anna KELLOGG,   b. 14 Jul 1689, Deerfield, Franklin, MA
  Family ID	F1019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jul 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah Foote DICKINSON,   b. Abt 1655   d. 11 Feb 1731/32 (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	27 Feb 1690/91  [1, 4]
  Children	1. Joseph KELLOGG,   b. 8 Nov 1691   2. Joanna KELLOGG,   b. 8 Feb 1693   3. Rebecca KELLOGG,   b. 22 Dec 1695, Deerfield, Franklin, MA d. 1757, Ouaquaga Indian Village, Windsor, Broome, NY (Age 61 years)   4. Jonathan KELLOGG,   b. 17 Dec 1698   d. 29 Feb 1703/04, Deerfield, Franklin, MA (Age 5 years)
  Family ID	F1032	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jul 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 22 Nov 1658 - Boston, Suffolk, MA Marriage - 10 Dec 1684 - Hatfield, Hampshire, MA Note - 29 Feb 1704 - Deerfield, Franklin, MA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S163] Hopkins, Timothy, Kelloggs In The Old World and The New, (Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co., San Francisco, CA, 1903), 163. [S283] Demos, John, Unredeemed Captive, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994), 283. [S86] Mackenzie, George Nordbury, Colonial Families of the US, (Grafton Press, New York, 1907), Vol. 5, page 338., 86. [S179] Foote, Abram W., Foote Family, (Marble City Press, The Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1907-1932), 179.