53 ANCESTORS IN 53 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 1 :SAMUEL WOODS OF GROTON, MA.

My 9x great grandparents Samuel Woods and Alice Rushton were also among the origimal settlers of Groton, Ma. and as such were witnesses to events in the Indian Wars. William Richard Cutter gives some information on this in his New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial...volume 3:

(I) Samuel Woods, the progenitor of this family, was in Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as 1653, and afterward lived in Cambridge, where he married, September 28, 1659, Alice Rushton. In 1662 he came to Groton, Massachusetts, of which he was one of the original proprietors, owning an eleven acre right, and there resided until the destruction of the town in King Philip's war, 1675-76, when he returned to Watertown. In 1677 he signed the agreement made at Concord to resettle Groton, and in the following year returned thither. He died at Groton about January, 1718, and his wife died April 17, 1712. Both he and his wife were born in 1636, according to their deposition. Children: Samuel, born at Cambridge, January 3, 1660-61; Thomas, at Groton, March 9, 1663; Elizabeth, September 17, 1665; Nathaniel, mentioned below; Mary, August 2, 1670; Abigail, August 19, 1672; Hannah, September 18, 1674; John, at Watertown, March 4, 1676-77. pp1348-1349 

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 3  Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1914 -

And I found this record of Samuel and Alice testifying about an incident during King Phillip's War
in Samuel Abbott Green's An Account of the Early Land-grants of Groton, Massachusetts:

Alse Woods aged forty years testifieth and saith that at Grooton upon the day that the most of the town was burnt by Indians: she heard severall say, that Daniell Adams had killed an Indian: and she went presently into Mr. Willards Garrit and saw two Indians stand over a dead Indian, about halfe an hour, and then they carried him away, and further saith not.
The mark O of Alsk Woods. -p80

Samuell Woodes of Grotten aged about forty years of age witnis that he saw tooe indens standing upon Captine parker*s iland at grotten and danill adams shot at tham, and one of them falle doune and the other ran away.
17 day of 2, month 1676, the mark [~ of Samuel Woodes.-p81

An Account of the Early Land-grants of Groton, Massachusetts ,  University Press, John Wilson & Sons, Cambridge, Ma 1879

While Thomas and Alice Woods seem to have escaped the wars physically unscathed, the emotional toll of the deaths of their Longley relatives and the kidnapping of their Tarbell grandchildren must have been great.