A Rabble in Arms: Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s WarWhile it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip’s War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire’s most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip’s War marked the first time that Massachusetts had to mobilize mass numbers of ordinary, local men to fight. In this exhaustive social history and community study of Essex County, Massachusetts’s militia, Kyle F. Zelner boldly challenges traditional interpretations of who was called to serve during this period. |
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Contents
Southern New England in 1675 | 3 |
A Note on Method | 15 |
Essex County Towns during King Philips War | 16 |
Figures | 21 |
The Massachusetts Bay Militia and the Practice | 40 |
Salem committee of militias impressment report | 56 |
Major General Gookins report of draft evasion in | 62 |
Town Rankings of Rowley Soldiers Based on Tax Rates | 86 |
Soldiers Marriage Status by Company or Unit | 151 |
Soldiers Family Status by Town | 152 |
Increase Mather by John van der Spriett 1688 | 156 |
Soldiers Occupations by Category | 159 |
Soldiers Occupations by Towns | 163 |
Soldiers Negative Impressment Factors by Town | 165 |
Broadside entitled At a Council held at Boston | 172 |
Soldiers Negative Impressment Factors by Company or Unit | 178 |
Impressment Factors in Topsfield 16751676 | 99 |
Top Families in Andover and Their Sons during | 113 |
Ranking of Andover Soldiers Serving with Captain Gardner | 114 |
Birthorder Status for Andover Soldiers in | 117 |
Gardners Company 1675 | 127 |
Wenham Tax List with Soldiers Families Highlighted 1659 | 137 |
Soldiers Families and Town Rank in Wenham 16591675 | 138 |
Overview of Soldiers Ages | 143 |
Soldiers Ages by Town | 144 |
Soldiers Ages by Company or Unit | 145 |
Soldiers Birth Order by Town | 147 |
Soldiers Marriage Status by Town | 149 |
Rank of Soldiers Negative Impressment Factors by Town | 179 |
John Leverett attributed to Sir Peter Lely c 1655 | 190 |
Major Thomas Savage attributed to Thomas Smith 1679 | 197 |
Soldiers Killed and Wounded in Action by Town | 203 |
Reconstructed seventeenthcentury Puritan meetinghouse | 208 |
Veterans Marrying in the Postwar Period | 212 |
The Soldiers of Essex County | 219 |
Ranked by Family with Soldiers Families Highlighted | 233 |
Selected Bibliography | 297 |
Permissions | 313 |