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Joe English was a friendly Indian who in early times did 

 many good turns for the white settlers ; and he probably 

 acquired his name from close association with them. While 

 acting as a guard to Lieutenant Butterfield and wife, he was 

 killed by hostile Indians between Dunstable and Chelmsford, 

 in what is now Tyngsborough, on July 27, 1706. Joe English 

 Hill in New Boston, N. H., the scene of some of his adven- 

 tures, takes its name from him. 



