Captain Lathrop and Men - South Deefield, MA
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N 42° 28.920 W 072° 36.231
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The grave of Capt. Lathrop and Men is on the front lawn of a private residence on 100 North Main Street in South Deerfield, MA
Waymark Code: WMTKHQ
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2016
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This historic grave site in South Deefield is on the front lawn of the house on 100 North Main Street. It dates back to the King Philip's War which was waged between the settlers and Indians in New England in 1675. Captain Lathrop and 76 men both soldiers and teamsters were killed at the Battle of Bloody Brook on September 18, 1675 and buried in a mass grave. This war had the most casualties, per capita, than any other war in American history. The a slate ground level slab is inscribed:
Grave
of
Capt. Lathrop
and
Men Slain
by the
Indians
1675
According to the inscription on the nearby monument describing the Battle of Bloody Brook:
On this Ground
Capt. THOMAS LATHROP
and eighty four men
under his command,
including eighteen
teamsters from Deer
field, conveying stores
from that town to
Hadley, were ambus
caded by about 700
Indians, and the Cap
tain and seventy six
men slain, September
18th 1675. (old style)
The soldiers who
fell, were described
by a contemporary
Historian, as “a choice
Company of young
men, the very flower
of the County of Essex
none of whom were
ashamed to speak with
the enemy in the gate.
"And Sanguinetto tells you
where the dead
Made the earth wet and turned
the unwilling waters red."
"The Same of the slain is
marked by a Stone slab,
21 rods southerly of this
monument.”
The two lines of poetry of the penultimate paragraph are from Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.
Various researchers have compiled a list of the men killed at the Battle of Bloody Brook and buried in the mass grave.
see: Link
They are:
Soldiers:
Capt. Thomas Laythrop
Sergt. Thomas Smith
Samuel Stevens
John Hobs
Daniel Button
John Harriman
Caleb Kemball
Thomas Hobs
Robert Homes
Edward Traske
Richard Lambert
Josiah Dodge
George Ropes
Joseph Kinge
Thomas Alexander
Francis Friende
Abel Osyer
John Litleale
Thomas Bayley
Ezekiel Sawier
Jacob Kilborne
Thomas Manninge
Jacob Waynwritt
Benjamin Roper
John Bennett
Thomas Mentor
Peter Woodberry
Joseph Bolch
Samuel Whitteridge
William Duy
Sergt Samuel Stevens
Samuel Crumpton
John Plum
Thomas Buckley
Samuel Hudson
Adam Clarke
Ephraim Farah
Robert Wilson
Steven Welman
Benjamin Farnell
Solomon Alley
John Merrit
Teamsters:
Robert Hinsdall
Samuel Hinsdall
Barnabas Hinsdall
John Hinsdall
Joseph Gillett
John Allin
Joshua Carter
John Barnard
James Tufts
Jonathan Plimpton
Philip Barsha
Thomas Weller
William Smeade
Zebadiah Williams
Eliakim Marshall
James Mudge
George Cole
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