About Josiah Standish
Capt. Josiah Standish, son of Capt. Myles Standish, and Barbara Standish (1588-1659). He was born about 1633 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. He died on 19 March 1690 in Preston, New London County, Connecticut. A captain in the Plymouth Colony militia who participated in King Philip's War, Standish, along with Captain Benjamin Church, led a raiding party that tracked the Wampanoag chief, Metacomet to Mt. Hope, Rhode Island. Finding the chief hiding in a swamp, one of his men, an Indian named John Alderman shot Metacomet.
- Born
- 1633
- Died
- 1690
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