From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 16 04:51:41 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6GApfjb030064; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:51:41 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6GApaOG015956 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:51:36 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6G8E5FI017511 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:14:05 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6G8E57s017510 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:14:05 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6G1i8FI016327 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:44:08 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6G4LUdx025285 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:21:30 -0600 X-Envelope-From: dean.scribner@juno.com Sat Jul 15 22:21:30 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6G4LUjb025276 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:21:30 -0600 Received: from m09.lax.untd.com (m09.lax.untd.com [64.136.30.72]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k6G4LQQZ017092 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:21:27 -0600 Received: from m09.lax.untd.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m09.lax.untd.com with SMTP id AABCMVRYQA38LEES for (sender ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:21:34 -0700 (PDT) X-UNTD-OriginStamp: M+80QjSznsSmyHjF3ygxsczyK96hk59xbfw7c6CeQ5rJr4HIvter3XJ2NL/RArHy Received: (from dean.scribner@juno.com) by m09.lax.untd.com (jqueuemail) id LVDF5TW7; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:21:27 PDT To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:18:21 -0700 Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Ages of soldiers in colonial wars? Message-ID: <20060715.212011.1800.4.dean.scribner@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 5.0.33 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 2-25 From: Dean Scribner X-ContentStamp: 8:4:3637409165 X-MAIL-INFO: 1aa005690d3531c14dc18989903031b0e1557939f941c1c199 X-UNTD-Peer-Info: 127.0.0.1|localhost|m09.lax.untd.com|dean.scribner@juno.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com To serve in the militia, your man was probably between the ages of 16 and 64, which doesn't really narrow it down much, but it leaves open a lot of possibilities. Carol Botteron wrote: If a Massachusetts man was a soldier in 1676 (presumably in a militia), can we assume that he was within a certain age range at the time? Walter HICKSON of Hatfield, Mass., was a soldier in Turner's company in April 1676. In 1679 he married Sarah White Taylor Hinsdale, who had been widowed twice. She was 16 in March 1657/8 so she was born about 1642. I'm hoping to narrow down Walter's age a bit. Wondering if he could be old enough to have a child born about 1660 (by a previous marriage, although I haven't found one). The child in question is my ancestor Richard Hixson (spelling was flexible then), who was apparently dropped from an alien spaceship just in time for his marriage in 1686 in Milton, Mass., to Margaret Watkins. They named their third son Walter. So I wonder how old Walter Hickson could have been in 1676. Any info or pointers welcome. adTHANKSvance! Carol Botteron (that's French Swiss)