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Medfield Massachusetts, February 21, 1676. Alerted by the sound of gunfire, Henry Adams carefully approached the door to his house. King Philip’s War had been raging since the previous year and there was reason for caution.  Other settlements, like Mendon and Lancaster, had been attacked, emptied and torched by the warring tribes of New England.Continue reading “The Medfield Massacre”