Josiah Standish

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Capt. Josiah Standish, son of Capt.

Wampanoag chief, Metacomet to Mt. Hope, Rhode Island. Finding the chief hiding in a swamp, one of his men, an Indian named John Alderman shot Metacomet.[1]

He married first in 1656 Mary Dingley of Marshfield, MA who died 6 months later, second he married Sarah Allen (daughter of Samuel Allen) around 1660. Josiah and Sarah Standish children: Josiah, (Reverend, lived/died in Stafford, CT) Mary, Mehitable, Martha, Samuel, Israel, Lois, and Mercy Standish.

According to Mayflower Families Through Five Generations (2007), "Josiah Standish: born circa 1633; died at Preston CT, 19 March 1690; married 1) at Marshfield, 19 December 1654, Mary Dingley; they had no children. He married 2) after 7 March 1655/56, Sarah Allen and they had eight children: Mary, Martha, Myles, Josiah, Samuel, Israel, Lois and Mercy Standish."[2]


References

  1. ^ Robert Charles Anderson. "Pilgrim Village Families Sketch: Myles Standish" American Ancestors, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012
  2. ^ Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Myles Standish, vol. 14, by Russell L. Warner, ed. by Robert S. Wakefield, Plymouth, 2007.