Jonathan Kittredge

1697 - 1725

Excerpt from the History of Lovewell’s Expedition –

as it pertained to Jonathan Kittredge:

Sources: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston & Eastern Massachusetts by William Richard Cutter; further supported by the account of Lovewell's expedition found in sources; "Lovewell's Men" by Ezra Stearns, NEHG Register Vol. 63, July 1909. "The Adventure of Capt. Lovewell" by Frederic Kidder NEHG Register Vol. 7, Jan. 1853. "The Cummings Memorial" by George Mooar New York 1903. Pigwacket by George Evans, Conway, N.H. Historical Society 1939. The Indian Wars, by Robery Utley & Wilcomb Washburn, American Heritage Publishing 1977

Hassell's version of the fight with the Pequoket Indians was given to Col. Tyng and is as follows:

"About nine or ten of the o'clock in the morning, Capt. Lovewell saw an Indian on the opposite side of Sawco Pond, & then they immediately left their packs and went about two miles before they came to him; they coming within five or six rods before they saw the Indian, and the Indian made the first shot at them, and wounded Capt. Lovewell & Sam Whiting, and they immediately killed the Indian, & returning back to their packs came within forty or fifty rods of them; the Indians waylaid them under the banks of a little Brook Capt. Lovewell's men being between the brook and the pond, it being a Pine Plain, the Indians fired upon them both in the front and the rear, shouting & running towards them. Capt. Lovewell fell at the first volley the Indians shot, and groaned; this man (Hassell) being clost by him, and then he saw several of Capt. Lovewell's men get behind trees. Upon seeing such a great number of Indians, thought it best to return to some men they had left with a sick man at a Fort they had made, about thirty miles back, by Osipee Pond, and he got to the fort the next morning about nine of oclock."

Upon hearing the news of the fight, the men left the fort to return to Dunstable. Both Hassell and the men who left the fort were condemned by the Militia commanders and the governor. Gov. Dummer, in fact, called Hassell and the men who fled the fort cowardly deserters.

Colonel Tyng led a releif party to the scene of the fight. His men found and buried; Capt. John Lovewell, Ensign Jonathan Woods, Ensign John Harwood, and Robert Usher, of Dunstable; Jacob Fullam of Weston; Jacob Farrar and Josiah Davis, of Concord; Thomas Woods, Daniel Woods, and John Teffts, of Groton; Ichabod Johnson of Woburn; and Jonathan Kittredge of Billerica.

Jonathan was killed by Indians while in military service during Lovewell's expedition. Middlesex County Probate record #13375 indicates that his brother, Dr. John, settled his brother's estate on June 17, 1726.

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FRYEBURG, MAINE INDIAN WARS,
CAPT.LOVEWEL

To mark the field of Lovewell's fight on the 8th day of May 1725 between a company of Mass. rangers of 34 men and 80 warriors of the Pequawket tribe led by Paugus in a contest lasting from early morning until after sunset the Indians were repulsed and their chief killed.

To the memory of:

>Capt. John Lovewell of Dunstable
>Lieut. Jonathan Robbins "
>Ens. John Harwood "
>Robert Usher "
>Serjt. Jacob Fulham Weston
>Jacob Farrar Concord
>Josiah Davis "
>Thomas Woods Groton
>Daniel Woods "
>John Jefts "
>Ichabod Johnson Woburn
Jonathan Kittredge Billerica

These 12 killed on the field of battle were found and buried by Col. Tyng
Lieut. Josiah Farwell of Dunstable
Jonathan Frye, Chaplain of Andover

Elias Barrow of Groton were wounded and died by the way and 9 others were wounded.
The survivors led by Ens. Seth Wyman began the homeward march after midnight.

"Erected by the Soc. of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Mass. 17 June 1904”

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