Individual Details

Joshua Tefft

(Abt, 1650 - January 18, 1676)

'Tefft was a troubling example of what happened to a man when the Puritan's god and culture were stripped away and Native savagery was allowed to take over'. Nathaniel Philbrick The Mayflower

'his farm was adjacent to the Great Swamp, some records say he helped build the indian fortress there which was part of the great swamp fight
no records for younger Joshua Tefft, maybe because of a slight he suffered, unknown early in life, that caused him to join up with the Indian tribe?'

Events

BirthAbt, 1650Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Marriage1672Rhode Island, United States - Sarah Unknown Tefft
DeathJanuary 18, 1676Hanging - Rhode Island, United States
CivilTreason
Burial

Families

SpouseSarah Unknown Tefft (1635 - 1672)
ChildPeter Tefft (1672 - 1725)
FatherJohn Tefft (1615 - 1676)
MotherMary Barber (1618 - 1679)
SiblingSamuel Tefft (1643 - 1725)
SiblingTabitha Tefft (1652 - 1722)
SiblingMary Tefft (1642 - 1674)

Notes

Civil

Tried for treason, "The fact that he was known not to have attended church, a considerable offense to the strict Puritan sensibility of the United Colonials, was also used against him at his trial."

Endnotes

1. , "FindAGrave.com," online database, Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), .

2. (1896). || Page 16.

3. Ancestry.com, Index New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com, n.d.).

4. Ancestry.com, Index New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com, n.d.).

5. , "FindAGrave.com," online database, Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), .

6. Ancestry.com, Index New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com, n.d.).

7. (1896). || Page 16.

8. Samuel G. Drake, Editor (1862). || Page 108.

9. (1882–91). || Volume 3 Page 164 - 169.

10. (1913). || Page 67 and a note on page 58.

11. (1904). || Page 6, 7.

12. , "FindAGrave.com," online database, Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), .