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Mercy Freeborn was born in November 1692 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. Thomas Coggeshall and she were married on 11 March 1708 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. She died on 26 May 1777 at age 84 in Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Richard George was born in 1615 in London, England. He died on 1 January 1706 at age ~91 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Elizabeth Taylor was born on 29 August 1619 in Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.

Mary Boomer was born in 1657 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. Gideon Freeborn and she were married on 3 January 1678 in Newport County, Rhode Island. She died in 1715 at age ~58 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Matthew Boomer was born about 1610 in Gravesend, Kent, England. He was married about 1640. He and Hannah Church were married on 27 June 1688. He died in 1692 at age ~82 in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Hannah Church was born on 26 December 1668. Matthew Boomer and she were married on 27 June 1688.

Joshua Boomer was born in 1578 in Gravesend, Kent, England.

William Randall was born in 1609. He died on 13 October 1693 at age ~84 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Barstow was born in 1613 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. She died in 1672 at age ~59.

Bethia Carpenter was born in 1693 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts. William Salisbury and she were married in 1709. She died on 17 March 1722 at age ~29 in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island.

If she really died in 1722, she couldn't have three more children, including Levi. Recheck date.

William Salisbury was born on 14 August 1659 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He died on 3 April 1728 at age 68 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Ann Cole was born on 14 December 1664 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. She died on 23 January 1704 at age 39 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Daniel Carpenter was born on 8 October 1669 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Bethia Bliss were married on 15 April 1685 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Elizabeth Butterworth were married on 30 March 1704 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He died on 14 September 1721 at age 51 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Bethia Bliss was born in August 1671 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Daniel Carpenter and she were married on 15 April 1685 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. She died on 27 February 1703 at age 31 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

William Salisbury was born on 12 May 1622 in Lleweni Hall, Denbighshire, Wales. He and Mary Ormsby were married. He died on 24 June 1675 at age 53 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

William Salisbury seems to have the dubious honor of the man who started King Phillip's War (1675-1676). The following is a passage from "Plymouth Colony, its History & People 1620-1691" describing the events of June 23 & 24 of 1675
"The Indians were looting various deserted houses when two white men, an old man and a boy, appeared on the scene. Seeing three Indians run out of a house, the old man told the boy to shoot, which he did. One Indian was hit, but got away. Later some Indians came to the garrison and asked why they shot the Indian, letting them know that he had died. The boy said it was no matter. Some of the others tried to let the Indians know that they did not feel so callous about the death, but the Indians went away in haste. Easton wrote that the next day, 24 June, Indians returned and killed the boy who had shot the Indian, his father, and five other white men. A contemporary letter from an unidentified Boston merchant to a friend in London reported something similar, saying that a man at Swansea, his wife, and his son of about twenty were shot by the Indians. The wife was defiled by the Indians, who also "skinned her head, as also the son." Richard LeBaron Bowen, in his history of Rehoboth, noted that the records showed only one father and son killed, William and John Salisbury, on 24 June. Thus, Bowen concluded that John Salisbury started the war, prompted by his father, whom Bowen called "a third rank inhabitant of Swansea." However, as is shown by her appearance in later records, Mrs. Salisbury did not die in this fight, which brings into question whether Bowen's supposition was correct. Benjamin Church later recalled that on a march of 30 June past the buned houses south of Swansea, the English troops witnessed this gruesome sight: "And soon after, eight more at Mattapoiset, upon whose bodies they [the Indians] exercised more than brutish barbarities, beheading, dismembering, and mangling them and exposing them in the most inhuman manner, which gashed and ghostly objects struck a damp on all beholders....They marched until they came to the narrow of the neck, at a place called Keekkauit, where they took down the heads of eight Englishmen that were killed at the head of Metapoiset Neck and set upon poles, after the barbarous manner of the savages." Vital records sent to Plymouth by Nicholas Tanner, Swansea Town Clerk, showed that nine males were buried at Swansea on 24 [sic] June: Gershom Cobb, Joseph Lewis, John Salisbury, John Jones, John Fall, Nehemiah Allen, Robert Jones, William Lohum, and William Salisbury (a thenth, William Hamon, was killed later, and buried on 29 June).

Susannah Cotton was born in 1624 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. She died on 16 September 1684 at age ~60 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Hugh Cole was born in June 1626 in London, England. He and Mary Foxwell were married about 1655. He died on 22 January 1699 at age 72 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Jonathan Bliss was born on 11 March 1626 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England. He and Miriam Harmon were married in 1648 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Rachel Puffer were married before 5 February 1649/50. He died on 11 June 1687 at age 61 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Jonathan Bliss was born before 2 April 1626 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.