John Kettell

[2] After Sarah's death, John married Elizabeth Ward of Ipswich and had more children, including Jonathan, possibly James, and another daughter.

"[7] Today in Stow off the easterly side Maple Road on Stiles Farm Road, "there is...a large granite marker (1883) for John Kettell and family on Maple Street (near the Hudson/Bolton line), a[n]...early family who 'escaped' to the Lancaster Garrison during the Indians raids.

"[8][1] A public right of way reserved by the town exists along Stiles Farm Road to visit the monument.

[1] There is also a source that mentions a John Kettell of Gloucester who died in Salem, Massachusetts on 12 October 1685 with probate records showing he owned 300 acres of land at Nashaway (likely including the monument site in what is now Stow on what was referred to later as Kettell farm), but this John was about eighteen years older than the John born in Charlestown; it doesn't seem like he would have been the Mr. Kettle living on Joslin's land if he had his own large farm.

Hale engaged in an influential published debate in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register regarding genealogical methodology, specifically using original documents (Clark) versus tradition (Hale), and the subject of their debate was life and death of John Kettell, the cooper from Charlestown, and his family and the inaccurate monument.