John Field1

#29730, (8 December 1673 - February 1718)
Relationship1st cousin 7 times removed of William David Lewis
Father*Zechariah Field Jr.1 (c 1645 - 1674)
Mother*Sarah Webb1 (c 1647 - 1704)

Family

Mary Bennett b. 1674
Children 1.Mary Field7 (1697 - )
 2.John Field Jr.7 (1700 - )
 3.Sarah Field7 (1703 - 1704)
 4.Pedajah Field7 (1707 - )
 5.Bennett Field7 (1709 - )
 6.Sarah Field7 (1712 - )
Birth*8 December 1673He was born on 8 December 1673 at Deerfield, Massachusetts.1 
Marriage*9 November 1696He married Mary Bennett on 9 November 1696 at Northampton, Massachusetts.2 
29 February 1703/4He fought in the Deerfield Indian Raid on 29 February 1703/4 at Massachusetts; Deerfield French and Indian raid.3,4,5,6 
Death*February 1718He died in February 1718 at Coventry (or Stafford), Connecticut, at age 44.7 

Citations

  1. [S322] William Richard Cutter, compiler, New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, Volume II (1916) (New York: The American Historical Society, 1916), p. 719.
  2. [S1020] Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Northampton 1620/1650–1893/1988, unknown repository, unknown repository address, Vol. 1, imgs. 418 (p. 103), 646 (p. 107) and 499 (p. 107) / 2680. John Field and Mary Bennet [sic], marr. 9 Nov 1696. Hereinafter cited as Mass. Town and Vital Records: Northampton.
  3. [S1512] John Williams, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Boston: Samuel Hall, 1795). Reprinted Springfield, Mass.: H. R. Huntting Co., 1908, pp. 171-172. Hereinafter cited as Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion.
  4. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (Greenfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall and Co., 1895), 308, 309. Has Henry Nims as age 12. He was 22.
  5. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
  6. [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).
  7. [S761] Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy (Volume I) (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 137.