page_title: Sudbury Fight
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Sudbury Fight / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Marker commemorating the Attack on Sudbury, Massachusetts, during King Philip's War.
context_page_description: The Sudbury Fight was a battle of King Philip's War, fought in what is today Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts, when approximately five hundred Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Narragansett Native Americans raided the frontier settlement of Sudbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Disparate companies of English militiamen from nearby settlements marched to the town's defense, two of which were drawn into Native ambushes and suffered heavy losses. The battle was the last major Native American victory in King Philip's War before their final defeat in southern New England in August 1676.
context_section_description: In 1730, Samuel Wadsworth's son Benjamin (then president of Harvard College) dedicated a memorial stone over the mass grave where his father had been buried alongside his men. In 1852, the remains of Wadsworth's militia were excavated and reinterred fifty feet north to the site of a new monument near the base of Green Hill.
  Both memorials incorrectly date the battle to April 18, likely an error of Hubbard's that was subsequently reprinted. The date is April 21 in Mather's contemporary chronicle, and a letter dated April 21, 1676 from the colonial government of Massachusetts Bay to Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow states, "This day we have intelligence in the general that Sudbury was this morning assaulted and many houses burnt down." 
  A handful of other monuments and markers in Sudbury and Wayland commemorate the Sudbury Fight, most of which were erected in the 1930s to celebrate Massachusetts's tricentennial. The battlefield around Goodman's Hill and Green Hill is now the site of an affluent residential neighborhood.
caption: Marker commemorating the battle
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