Josiah Standish

Who was Josiah Standish?

Capt. Josiah Standish, son of Capt. Myles Standish, was born abt 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.

He married first in 1656 Mary Dingley of Marshfield, MA who died 6 months later, second he married Sarah Allen around 1660. Josiah and Sarah Standish children: Josiah, Mary, Mehitable, Martha, Samuel, Israel, Lois and Mercy Standish.