THE CHILDREN OF STEPHEN WING, OSEAH DILLINGHAM
& SARAH BRIGGS

Stephen Wing would marry twice like his two older brothers. He had
possibly four children by Oseah Dillingham and seven children by
Sarah Briggs.  

1. Nathaniel Wing  was the only child of Stephen Wing and Oseth
Dillingham to survive to adulthood. Because of Nathaniel, Oseth
Dillingham's blood line would flourish through many descendants.
Nathaniel, born before March 2, 1646/47, at Sandwich,
Massachusetts, his birth betrayed the fact that Stephen Wing and
Oseth Dillingham had recklessly enjoyed each other before marriage.
Speaking for myself, it seems to make Stephen and Oseth more
human. Nathaniel married Sarah Hatch. Nathaniel moved to
Falmouth, Plymouth Co., MA, about sixteen miles from Sandwich (as
the crow flies)

If George Barlow (Beulah Wing & Moses Barlow, Hannah Wing and
Moses Barlow, daughters of Daniel Wing and Hannah Swift) was our
family tree villain then it is apt to say that Jonathan Hatch, Sarah
Hatch Wing's father, was our hero. He was our Daniel Boone, John
Wayne and James Dean all wrapped up in one man. There is so much
to share about Jonathan Hatch and his family that it remains a work
in progress.

2. Ephraim Wing, born April 2, 1649 at the Wing Fort House in
Sandwich, Massachusetts. (From the Sandwich Register of Births).
Ephraim was buried December 10, 1649 according to the Sandwich
Register of Marriages and Burials.

3. Mercy Wing, born November 13, 1650 at the Wing Fort House in
Sandwich, Massachusetts. (From the Sandwich Register of Births,
1650). There is no further record of Mercy, therefore it is believed
that she died in infancy.

4. Deborah Wing, born about 1653 at the Wing Fort House in
Sandwich, Massachusetts. (not proven)

5.  Stephen Wing, the oldest child of Stephen Wing and Sarah Briggs,
born September 2, 1656. Of Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA...died in
the King Philip War. Stephen Wing was born September 2, 1656 in
Sandwich, Plymouth Colony to Stephen Wing and Sarah Briggs.
Stephen was certainly born in the Old Fort House...the homestead of
Stephen Wing and his family.
Stephen, the oldest child born to this union, would be the first Wing
to lose his life in this country, in a battle that was described fierce
and horrible...The King Phillips War of 1675. Stephen would go to his
death unmarried and without issue. It seems natural to assume that
his death is what caused his brother Nathaniel Wing to enlist in the
war himself, joining Captain John Gorham's company (the same
company Ananias Wing joined). We shall leave Stephen here, the
young man who died prematurely in a war that he probably thought
was so right...but like most wars, it only served to offer up our
youngest and finest and it really didn't solve anything. Nonetheless,
Stephen, we honor you here,  for your sacrifice and for your belief
that you were fighting to protect those you loved.

6. Sarah Wing, born February 5, 1657/58 at Sandwich,
Massachusetts. Sarah Wing married Robert Gifford;Lived and died at
Dartmouth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, about twenty-eight miles
from Sandwich (as the crow flies)

7. John Wing, born September 25, 1661 at Sandwich. John Wing was
married three times; (1) Mary Perry, (2) Mary Banister, (3) Mary
Mowry Coggeshall. Of Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA, about
twenty-eight miles from Sandwich (as the crow flies)

8. Abigail Wing, born May 1, 1664 at Sandwich, Massachusetts. Not
much is known about Abigail. She never married and it is believed
that she kept house for her father after her mother, Sarah Briggs
died in 1689. Abigail is mentioned in her father's will of September 2,
1700, where he left her twenty shillings. There is no known record of
Abigail Wing's death.

9. Elisha Wing, born December 2, 1668. Elisha married Mehitable
Butler. Of Rochester, Plymouth Co., MA, seventeen  miles from
Sandwich (as the crow flies)

10. Ebenezer Wing, born November 5, 1671, Ebenezer married
Elizabeth Backus on February 23, 1698/99 at Sandwich. Of Sandwich,
Barnstable Co., MA, died at the Wing Fort House

11. Matthew Wing, born January 1, 1673/74, born twenty-seven
years after his oldest half-brother, Nathaniel Wing. Matthew married
Elizabeth Mott Ricketson on September 4, 1696.