Charles Frost (military officer)

Major Charles Frost (1631-1697) was stationed in Kittery, Maine (present-day Eliot, Maine) and was the highest-ranking military leader in Maine during King William's War until he was assassinated by Indians. (Reportedly natives killed him because he worked with Richard Waldron during King Philips War.)

On 4 July 1897, the people of Kittery, Maine held a commemoration ceremony to mark the 200th anniversary of the natives murder of Frost.^[1]

Legacy

• namesake of Frost Hill, Eliot, Maine (Natives dug up Mr. Frost's body and hoisted it upon a pole at the top of Frost's Hill)^[2]
• namesake of Ambush Rock; which covers his grave with a plaque in his memory^[3]

See also

• Winthrop Hilton
• Richard Waldron

References

Texts

• Exercises Of The Eliot Historical Society On Monday The Fifth Of July, 1897: In Commemoration Of Major Charles Frost On The Two Hundredth Anniversary Of His Massacre By The Indians, Sunday, July Fourth, 1697
• Memoir of Charles Frost (1888)
• "Old Eliot: a monthly magazine of the history and biography of the Upper Parish of Kittery, now Eliot" Vol. II., 249-262; X., 30; XII., 139 and 258
• "Maine Wills;" Maine Hist. Soc.