Individual Details

Military

Daniel served under Captain Manning in King Phillips War

Marriage

Name: Daniel Goble
Spouse's Name: Hannah Brewer
Event Date: 25 Feb 1663
Event Place: Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Death

King Philip's War, 1675–76, the most devastating war between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England. The war is named for King Philip, the son of Massasoit and chief of the Wampanoag. Upon the death (1662) of his brother, Alexander (Wamsutta), whom the Native Americans suspected the English of murdering, Philip became sachem and maintained peace with the colonists for a number of years. Hostility eventually developed over the steady succession of land sales forced on the Native Americans by their growing dependence on English goods. Suspicious of Philip, the English colonists in 1671 questioned and fined him and demanded that the Wampanoag surrender their arms, which they did. In 1675 a Christian Native American who had been acting as an informer to the English was murdered, probably at Philip's instigation. This started the King Philip's War.
Daniel Goble fought against the Indians in Captain Manning's company; his brother Thomas Goble fought in Captain Prentice's company; and Stephen Goble fought in Captain Wheeler's company. Captain Manning commanded a contingent in the Battle of Great Swamp Fort on December 19, 1675. It was the most massive military action initiated by the colonists during the war. Villages were burned and many people were captured or scalped. As the battles continued, great losses were accounted for by the English and the Indians.
After the war ended, the colonists feared the killing of Indians would throw them back into fierce fighting. The court records of 1676 state: Daniel Goble, Stephen Goble, Nathaniel Wilde, and Daniel Hoare were indicted, tried and found guilty for the "wanton" murders of three Indian women and three Indian children - all of whom were Christian. The killings took place on or about August 7, 1676. This was just five days before King Philip's war ended.
Daniel pleaded "not guilty", but the Goble men were yeomen (farmers) and both received the prescribed punishment. Daniel Hoare and Nathaniel Wilde, being from more affluent families and having connections with the clergy, presented a petition to the court begging pardon for their lives, which the court granted. The court fined them and they were discharged.
Daniel Goble (age 35) and Stephen Goble were hanged.