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rouble to the Massachusetts settlers; but on the 24th of June of the latter year they opened the terrible King Philip's war by attacking the town of Swanzey. August 22, 1675, the first attack was made upon Lancaster, in which William Flagg, probably the son of Thomas Flagg Thomas Flagg was the proprietor in 1644 of two lots, one being 20 acres in the 1st Great Dividend, next to the Beaver Brook Plowlands. He was eight times chosen one of the Selectmen of the town previous to and including 1687. He lost his left eye by a gunshot accident. Probably the ancestor of all bearing that name in this country.—Bond. of Watertown, was slain. Less than a month later, September 10th, John Ball, His son and grandson, both named John, were among the town officers chosen at the first town meeting in Waltham. who removed from Watertown to Lancaster in 1665, was killed at the same place by Indians. September 1st, the Indians fell upon Deerfield, and the next day upon Northfield. While the I