Benjamin Soule was born circa 1651 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts to George Soule (c1593-1678) and Mary Buckett (1602-1676) and died 26 March 1676 Battle of Pawtucket of unspecified causes.
Biography
Early Life in Duxbury
George Soule (c1593-1678) and wife Mary had nine known children, eight of which were born by 1650. This is reflected in the 1650 Journal of William Bradford by the entry "George Soule is still living and hath 8 children."
The ninth child, Benjamin, was born approximately one year later in 1651, but died unmarried in 1676 at Pawtucket, RI, a combatant and casualty of the King Philip's War with the Massaquoit Indians.
1676 Battle of Pawtucket
Benjamin Soule is on the fatality list of 50 Englishmen killed in battle with indians at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
On Sunday, March 26, 1676, Capt. Michael Pierce of Scituate, Mass. and Lieut. Samuel Fuller of Barnstable, Mass., along with 51 other Englishmen in their company, engaged an overwhelming force of enemy Indians along the west bank of the Blackstone River north of present-day Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Fifty of the Englishmen were killed in the battle; 41 were killed at the site of the battle while nine escaped northward to Cumberland only to be captured by the enemy Indians and tortured to death.
The separate "Nine Men's Misery" cairn at Cumberland memorializes those nine men. Two of the Englishmen believed to have been killed in the battle were later found living after the war. Thomas Man of the company, from Scituate, Mass., escaped to tell the story of the battle.
Siblings
References
- Pierce Park and Riverwalk - Pawtucket Battle Memorial - List of English Casualties.