Notable Officers and Native Chiefs
- Captain James Avery
- Major William Bradford
- Canonchet
- Benjamin Church
- Captain Isaac Johnson
- Captain Samuel Marshall, Windsor Horse Troop (killed in action)
- Captain Joseph Gardner (Salem Company)
- Captain Nathaniel Seeley (killed in action, age 48) oldest son of Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritan settler Robert Seeley.
- John Gorham I, whom Gorham, Maine is named after and who is the great grandfather of John Gorham 4th.
- Chief Metacomet
- Chief Uncas
- Governor Josiah Winslow
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