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Persoonlijke gegevens WILLIAM GAYMER (MA 1642) TURNER CAPT. 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1623 in Dartmouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom.
• Hij is overleden op 19 mei 1676 in Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States of America, hij was toen 53 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden in het jaar 1676, hij was toen 53 jaar oud.
• Een kind van HUMPHREY LEACHLAND TURNER en LYDIA MASON GAYMER
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 3 mei 2024.

Gezin van WILLIAM GAYMER (MA 1642) TURNER CAPT.

(1) Hij is getrouwd met MARY (MA) ALSOP.

Marriage
Date: 16 Feb 1675
Place: New England, USA

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1642 te Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, hij was toen 19 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. James Thomas Alsop Turner  1645-1748 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met MARY (MA) UNKNOWN.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Notities over WILLIAM GAYMER (MA 1642) TURNER CAPT.

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CPT William Turner VVeteran
Birth: 1623 Dartmouth, South Hams District, Devon, England
Death: 19 May 1676 (aged 52œ53) Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial: Falls Fight Gravesite, Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
Memorial #: 37313358
Bio: William Turner was born about 1623 in England. He married three times, 1) Frances ____, by whom he had eight children; 2) Mary _____ Pratt, widow of John Pratt; and 3) Mary_____, widow of Key Alsop. He emigrated to America on the ship 'Fortitude' in 1642. Turner settled in Dorchester, MA, and was appointed bailiff there in 1661. Later he moved to Boston, where he was persecuted for his Baptist beliefs and jailed. With the outbreak of King Philip's War there was a shortage of officers and soldiers. The governor released Turner in return for his recruitment of a company of men to fight the Indians. Turner was made captain of the company. In March, 1676, Capt. Turner and his men helped repel the Indian attack on Northampton, MA. This was one of several Indian raids on colonial settlements in March. Indian forces at Peskeompsut held a number of colonial captives and were planning the new spring offensive.

On 19 May 1676 Capt. Turner led 50 garrison troops, supplemented by 100 untrained local volunteers, on a daring dawn attack on the main Indian camps at Peskeompsut. They killed Sancumachu, the Pocumtuck sachem, and about two hundred other Indians of all ages. They also destroyed food supplies and forges the Indians needed for repairing weapons.
During a disorganized retreat Turner and thirty-six of his men were killed by the Indians. Click Falls Fight Gravesite,' above for a list of those who died and were buried there, which include the following: Capt. William Turner, William Allis, Jr., John Ashdown, James Bennett, George Buckley, Jacob Burton, John Church, John Colfax, Samuel Crow, John Dickinson, Jabez Dunkin, Thomas Elgar, John Foster, Joseph Fowler, Peter Gerin, Samuel Gillett, John Hadlock, Isaac Harrison, George Hewes, Experience Hinsdale, Edward Hodgeman, William Howard, John Langbury, Thomas Lyon, Josaih Mann, John Miller, Joseph Pike, Samuel Rainsford, Thomas Roberts, George Ruggles, Nathaniel Sutcliffe, John Syms, John Taylor, Samuel Veazie, John Walker, John Watson, and John Whitteridge.

Among the 100+ survivors of Falls Fight were: Samuel Ball, John Hitchcock, Luke Hitchcock, Thomas Reed, Benjamin Waite, William Arms, Hope Atherton, Timothy Baker, Robert Bardwell, Elnathan Beers, Samuel Boltwood, John Bradshaw, John Colby, Joseph Crowfoot, Nehemiah Dickinson, Benjamin Edwards, Eleazur Hawks, John King, John Lee, John Lyman, Philip Mattoon, Cornelius Merry, Peter Montague, James Munn, John Munn, Godfrey Nims, Medad Pomeroy, John Preston, Robert Price, Ephraim Roper, William Scott, Joseph Selden, William Smead, John Smith, Benoni Stebbins, Isaiah Tay, Benjamin Thomas, Eleazer Weller, Jonathan Wells, Thomas Wells, Nicholas Worthington, and James Wright. For additional survivors click 'Samuel Holyoke' below. A memorial plaque at Nash's Mill, Greenfield, Franklin Co, MA, memorializes the event as follows: "Captain William Turner of Boston a soldier in King Philip's War was mortally killed while crossing the Pukcommeacon (Green) River and fell on the west bank May 19, 1676 on the retreat after the 'Falls Fight' at Peskeompsut (Turner's Falls) Forty men of his command fell that day Captain Samuel Holyoke with the survivors fought their way back to Hatfield."
The Peskeompsut battle (Turner's Falls Fight) was a major battle that was a turning point in the war.
Turner's descendants included many distinguished medical doctors. A cenotaph was erected for Turner in the Common Burying Ground, Newport County, Rhode Island, near where his grandson, William Turner, son of Thomas, was buried.

See Wikipedia's 'Battle of Turner's Falls.'
Family Members
Spouse
Mary Pratt Turner Unknown-1674
Children
Thomas Turner
Created by: GWC (46861802)
Added: 20 May 2009
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37313358/william-turner
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37313358/william-turner: accessed 07 December 2023), memorial page for CPT William Turner (1623œ19 May 1676), Find a Grave Memorial ID 37313358, citing Falls Fight Gravesite, Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by GWC (contributor 46861802).

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