King Philip’s War. 1675.
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he war with Philip, son of Massasoit, broke out atSwansea July 14, 1675, and quickly spread over the wholeNew England Frontier. The Narragansett tribe favoredPhilip’s cause and would have joined him had they notbeen exterminated in an attack on their stronghold orderedby the Colonial Commissioners Nov. 2, 1675. Edward Lar-kin took part in this war and probably in this expedition.Bodge in his “Soldiers of King Philip’s War’ states that as a reward to the Connecticut Volunteers, Narragansett 3 Township (now Voluntown) was given them. <A list ofthose who took part in the war and received Voluntown lotsincludes Stantons, Pembletons, Griswolds, Babcocks andEdward Larkin who received lot 176, and lot 155 in the“Cedar Swamp.”
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