Career
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 Mountain. Hope, Rhode Island. Finding the chief hiding in a swamp, one of his men, an Indian named John Alderman shot Metacomet.
Josiah and Sarah Standish children: Josiah, (Reverend, lived/died in Stafford, Connecticut) Mary, Mehitable, Martha, Samuel, Israel, Lois and Mercy Standish (Mercy, m Rev Eleazer Wheelock, b 1711,of Windham, Connecticut, who founded Dartmouth College).