Benjamin Soule1

M, b. circa 1634, d. 26 March 1676
FatherGeorge Soule b. c 1600, d. b 22 Jan 1679/80
MotherMary Becket d. 1677
     Benjamin was born circa 1634 at the Plymouth Colony. It is not known whether he was married. If he did have a family, they or their descendants may be the family who went to South Carolina.ok alluded to above. "He was killed by the Indians before Pawtucket, 26 March, 1676, leaving no issue so far as known."2

Citations

  1. [S848] G. T. Ridlon, A Contribution to the history, biography, and genealogy of the Soule families, page 208.
  2. [S848] G. T. Ridlon, A Contribution to the history, biography, and genealogy of the Soule families, He was one of the "impressed soldiers" called out by the Plymouth Colony on 8 February 1675/1676, and under the command of Captain Michael Pierce, was engaged in the ill-fated battle against outnumbering Indians who out-generaled him, led him with his men into a cunningly arranged ambuscade and hewed them in pieces. From the town of Scituate fifteen were slain; from Marshfield, nine were slain; from Duxbury, four were killed, among them Benjamin Soule. From a letter written by Rev. Noah Newman the day after the battle, now much decayed and partly illegible, we find the names of those killed in this battle.