General Notes

REF: "The Musket and the Cross", book by Walter D. Edmonds, Little, Brown & Co., Boston - Toronto, 1968, Library of Congress 68-11527. Tells of the Narragansett Swamp Fight that Abraham took part in as a Sargeant in King Philip's War. He was age 23 in the battle and wounded. They won a battle against the savages under tremendous hardship...they marched 14 miles without food or rest, fought an intense battle hand-to-hand, turned around without food or rest and marched out in a snow storm and through a swamp at night. "There was no question but that the Great Swamp Fight was the turning point in the King Philip's War". He was one of 300 men from Conn. under Major Robert Treat, in a total of 985 men in the battle under Josia Winslow. The first long march followed a camp in the snow without blankets to battle 3000 Indians in a fortified log fort in the swamp.

Abraham was a deputy to the General Court of Hartford for many years, a Justice of the Peace, and a Judge of the County Court, and also of the higher court. He was one of the most eminent men in town as well as one of the richest, with property of 500 acres and L1421 in money at death. He was a Captain in the Militia.