Henry Axtell 
Henry was born about October 15th, 1641 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England. Henry's father was Thomas Axtell and his mother was Mary Rice. His paternal grandparents were William Axtell and Thomasine; his maternal grandparents were Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost. He had a sister named Mary. He was the older of the two children. He died due to Slain by Indians - Wadsworth Indian Massacre on April 19th, 1676 in Massachusetts killed in King Phillip's War. He was buried in buried in a community grave.General Notes
b. in England and christened in Berkhamstead on October 15, 1641. He wasa boy of five when his father died. In 1660 a tract of land lying west of Sudbury was incorporated as a town by the name of Marlboro. Edmond Rice, before mentioned, was a prime mover in the formation of the new town.
Henry Axtell, then only nineteen, became one of the proprietors and received fifteen acres of land in the central part of the town as his portion for what was called "a house lot." Besides this, he probably had a portion of meadow and other out-lying land. On June 14, 1665, he married Hannah, the daughter
of George and Susan Merriam who came from Kent, England, in the ship "Castle" in 1638. She was born in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, July 14, 1645. In the spring of 1676 the Indians, led by King Phillip of Mount Hope, Rhode Island, made a general war on the white settlements. They attacked several of the smaller places in the interior of Massachusetts and killed many of the settlers; among those from Marlboro was Henry Axtell. The inventory of his property is dated April 1, 1676. The famous Sudbury fight, when the captain and his men were caught in ambush by the Indians and many of them were slain, took place three weeks after the death of Henry Axtell. His widow married Will Taylor July 16, 1677.
He married Hannah Marriam on 14 Jun 1665. Hannah Marriam was born on 14 Jul 1645 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
They had the following children:
i. Samuel AXTELL was born on 27 Mar 1666. of whom we have no further information.
ii. Hannah AXTELL was born on 18 Nov 1667.
iii. Mary AXTELL
iv. Thomas AXTELL
v. Daniel AXTELL
vi. Sarah AXTELL was born on 28 Sep 1675.
From the notes of his son Daniel "My Father Henry Axtell was Slayne by the Indians the 19th day of April, in the year 1676 between Marlboro and Sudsbury." sic
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1521 in Gatasden, Herfordshire, England d.1561 in England
- b.~ 1541 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England d.1568 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England
- b.~ 1565
- b.~ 1565 in Bovington, England d.~21 May 1584 in Bovington, Hertfordshire. Engalnd
- b.1587 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England d.23 May 1638 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England
- b.26 Jan 1619 in Greater Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England d.06 Mar 1646 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- b.~ 1595 in England d.1638 in England
- b.~15 Oct 1641 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England d.19 Apr 1676 in Massachusetts killed in King Phillip's War
- b.1508 in Newton, Llandyfeusant, Carmarthenshire d.04 Jan 1532 in Tower Hill, London, England
- b.~ 1522 in Newton, Llandyfeusant, Carmarthenshire, Wales d.1588 in Bures?, England
- b.~ 1500 in Ashwell, Thorpe, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1555 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England d.Nov 1621 in England
- b.~ 1500 in Little Farnsham, Norfolk, England
- b.1524 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England d.> 1568 in England
- b.~ 1503 in Little Farnsham, Norfolk, England
- b.15 Oct 1594 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, Suffolk, England d.03 May 1663 in Marlborugh, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- b.~ 1444 in Yorkshire, England d.21 May 1524 in Farmington Castl, Norfolk, England
- b.1510 in Effingham, Surrey, England d.11 Jan 1572 in Hampton Court, Herefordshire, England
- b. in Yorkshire, England d.09 Nov 1545
- b.~ 1546 in Lambeth, Surrey, England d.22 Sep 1598
- b.~ 1515 in Coity, Glamorganshire, Wales d.01 May 1581 in Ryegate, , Surrey, England
- b.<23 Aug 1619 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England d.< 1659 in Massachusetts
- b.~ 1508 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.BET 5 JUL AND 15 SEP 1549 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England
- b.08 Jan 1539 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England d.09 Feb 1609 in Hartest, Suffolk, England
- b.1498 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.<20 Jan 1556 in Lidgate, Suffolk, England
- b.13 Mar 1561 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.13 Aug 1616 in Stanstead, Suffolk County, England
- b.1500 in , Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.Feb 1565 in , Glemsford, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1538 in Bradfield St. George, Suffolk County, England d.30 Jul 1588 in Bradfield St. George, Suffolk County, England
- b.1510 in , Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.<23 Aug 1556
- b.18 Mar 1591 in Hertfordshire, Suffolk, England d.13 Jun 1654 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- b.~ 1509 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.~ 1584 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1530 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.12 Feb 1591 in Leverington (Isle of Ely), Cambridgeshire, England
- b.1513 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.~ 1583 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England
- b.11 Aug 1560 in Stanstead, Suffolk County, England d.13 Jun 1653 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- b.1508 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.<22 Apr 1591 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1536 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.14 Aug 1577 in Leverington (Isle of Ely), Cambridgeshire, England
- b.1512 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England d.<18 Aug 1578 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England
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Henry and Hannah were married in a religious ceremony on June 14th, 1665 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. They had a son named Thomas.
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Children
Thomas Axtell
Thomas was born on August 8th, 1672 in Marlboro, Massachusetts. He died at the age of 78 on December 18th, 1750 in Grafton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
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