Raid on Haverhill (1697)

Raid on Haverhill (1697) Part of King William's War Date March 15, 1697 Location Haverhill, Province of Massachusetts Bay Result French and native victory Belligerents  British colonists  French colonists  Algonquin Commanders and leaders Chief Nescambious Strength approximately 20 Casualties and losses 27 colonists killed 13 captured unknown

Nine Years' War: North America Hudson Bay Hudson Bay (1686) 1st Fort Albany 2nd Fort Albany York Factory Hudson Bay (1697) Quebec and New York Lachine Schenectady Quebec La Prairie Mohawk Valley New England, Acadia and Newfoundland Dover 1st Pemaquid Salmon Falls Port Royal Falmouth Chedabucto 1st St. John York Wells Oyster River Groton 2nd St. John 2nd Pemaquid Chignecto Fort Nashwaak Newfoundland Haverhill

The Raid on Haverhill was a military engagement that took place on March 15, 1697 during King William's War. French, Algonquin, and Abenaki warriors descended on Haverhill, then a small frontier community in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. In the surprise attack, the Abenaki killed 27 colonists and took 13 captive. The natives burned six homes. The raid became famous in the nineteenth century because of Hannah Dustin's captivity narrative as a result of the raid.^[1]

Afterward

The last battle of the war was on September 9, the Battle of Damariscotta, in which Captain John March killed 25 native men.^[2]

Even after the war was officially ended, Abenaki raids on the English colonists continued. On March 4, 1698 Pigwacket Abenaki Chief, Escumbuit led a group of 30 Indians in a raid on Andover, Massachusetts, the last and most severe Indian raid on this town. There was also another raid by the Natives of Acadia on Hatfield, Massachusetts in 1688, where they killed two settlers.^[3]

Legacy

• Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Duston Family." The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, (1836)
• John Greenleaf Whittier in his short story "The Mother’s Revenge" (1831)
• Cotton Mather Magnalia Christi Americana (orig. pub. 1702).

See also

• Dustin House

References

Texts

• Caverly, Robert B. Heroism of Hannah Duston: Together With the Indian Wars of New England (orig. pub. 1875). Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1990. ISBN 1-55613-301-4
• Samuel Drake. The Border Wars of New England
• Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana (orig. pub. 1702). New York: Russell & Russell (Atheneum House), 1967. ASIN B0007DLZGI
• Namias, June. White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier. University of North Carolina Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8078-4408-X
• Sayre, Gordon M., ed. American Captivity Narratives. Houghton Mifflin, 2000. ISBN 0-395-98073-9

Endnotes

External links

• Images - Raid on Haverhill/ Dustin Family