# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josiah-standish
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:58.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josiah-standish"
name: "Josiah Standish"
slug: "josiah-standish"
description: "Capt. Josiah Standish, son of Capt. Myles Standish, and Barbara Standish (1588-1659). He was born about 1633 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. He died on 19 March 1690 in Preston, New London County, Connecticut. A captain in the Plymouth Colony militia who participated in King Philip's War, Standish, along with Captain Benjamin Church, led a raiding party that tracked the Wampanoag chief, Metacomet to Mt. Hope, Rhode Island. Finding the chief hiding in a swamp, one of his men, an Indian named John Alderman shot Metacomet.\nHe married first in 1656 Mary Dingley of Marshfield, Massachusetts, who died 6 months later. Second, he married Sarah Allen around 1660. Josiah and Sarah Standish's children were: Josiah, Mary, Mehitable, Martha, Samuel, Israel, Lois, and Mercy Standish."
tagline: "American colonial"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1633"
deathDate: "1690"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.07
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           1.537617333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  19
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Standish"
    title: "Josiah Standish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6290631"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations