Tragedy

Simon Mills II

Relation: 10th Great-Grandfather
Date: May 19th, 1661.
Location: Windsor, Connecticut, USA
Incident Type: Indian Raid
Event: Native Americans attacked the town of Windsor. Simon Mills II sprang to the defense, but was killed in the attack. Also killed was his father, Simon Mills and two of his children, twins, approximately 1 month old. Both twins were murdered in their crib by Indians. His wife, Mary and daughter, also Mary and my 9th Great-Grandmother, managed to flee to safety.

Daniel Allen

Relation: 5th Great-Grandfather
Date: 2 August 1837
Location: Allen, Union, Ohio, USA
Incident Type: Accident
Event: Fell off a wagon while unloading oats and broke his neck. The town of Allen, Ohio was named in his honor.

Joshua Lane

Captain Edward Hutchinson

Relation: 10th Great-Grandfather
Date: August 2nd, 1675
Location: New Braintree, MA, USA
Incident Type: Indian Ambush
Event: The Governor and Council of Massachusetts had sent Captain Edwards to Brookfield to treat with the Nipmuck Indians in hope of securing a peace with them. They arrived at Brookfield on August 1st, 1675. They found the spot designated for the meeting, but no Indians were present. They then rode towards the Chief Indian settlement. While enroute, between a steep hill and thick swamp, they were attacked by up to 300 indians. Captain Hutchinson was mortally wounded and died several days later.

Anne Hutchinson

Relation: 9th Great-Grandmother
Date: August1643
Location: New Netherland (Modern Bronx, NY)
Incident Type: Indian Massacre
Event: The Siwanoy warriors stampeded into the tiny settlement above Pelham Bay, prepared to burn down every house. The Siwanoy chief, Wampage, who had sent a warning, expected to find no settlers present. But at one house the men in animal skins encountered several children, young men and women, and a woman past middle age. One Siwanoy indicated that the Hutchinsons should restrain the family's dogs. Without apparent fear, one of the family tied up the dogs. As quickly as possible, the Siwanoy seized and scalped Francis Hutchinson, William Collins, several servants, the two Annes (mother and daughter), and the younger children—William, Katherine, Mary, and Zuriel. As the story was later recounted in Boston, one of the Hutchinsons' daughters, "seeking to escape," was caught "as she was getting over a hedge, and they drew her back again by the hair of the head to the stump of a tree, and there cut off her head with a hatchet."

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