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| Notes for Josiah WALLIS | ||||||||||
| Josiah was absent during the Indian raid of 1703, and John must have hidden, because he later deposed that he and his father escaped and his Josiah was carried a great distance by his father. 726In 1702, a war between France and England broke out. To prevent a calamity, Gov. Dudley, in the summer of 1703, visited the coast as far east as Pemaquid, and held conference with the Indians. On the 20th of June, a grand council was assembled at the Fort in New Casco, attended by the chiefs of the Norridgewocks, Penobscots, Pennacooks, Amariscoggin and Pequakett tribes; the chiefs were well armed, and generally painted with a variety of colors; those of the Amariscoggin tribe were accompanied by about two hundred and fifty men in sixty-five canoes. The meeting was conducted in the most friendly manner; the natives assuring the Governor that they aimed at nothing more than peace: and that as high as the sun was above the earth, so far distant should their designs be of making the least breach between each other. As a pledge of their sincerity, they presented him with a belt of wampum, and, in testimony of their amicable arrangements, each party added a great number of stones to two pillars, called "THE TWO BROTHERS," which had been erected at a former treaty. After this ceremony, several volleys were fired on each side, and the Indians expressed their satisfaction by singing, dancing, and loud acclamations of joy. Two months from that date the whole eastern country was a conflagration; no house was left standing nor garrison unattacked. In August, 1703, the enemy, consisting of five hundred French and Indians, invaded our eastern frontier, and, dividing into small parties, unexpectedly attacked all the settlements from Casco to Wells. The inhabitants of Purpooduck were the most severe sufferers in this sudden onset; there were nine families then settled upon and near the Point, who were not protected by any garrison. The Indians came suddenly upon these defenceless hamlets while the men were absent, killed twenty-five persons, and took several prisoners. Among the killed were Thomas Lovitt and his family, Joel Madeford or Madiver, and the wives of Josiah and Benjamin Wallis and Michael Webber; the wife of Joseph Wallis was taken captive; Josiah Wallis made his escape to Black Point with his son John, then seven years old, part of the way upon his back. Spurwink, principally occupied by the Jordan family, was attacked at the same time, and twenty-two persons by the name of Jordan were killed or taken prisoners. Dominicus, the 3d son of Rev. Robert Jordan, was among the killed, and his wife and six children were carried captives to Canada. | ||||||||||
| Notes for Mary (Spouse 2) | ||||||||||
| Mary Stanford, born circa 1664, died 10 August 1703, during the Indian raid on Purpooduck Point, Cape Elizabeth, ME (the raid on this settlement was one of the more tragic events of Queen Anne's War. There is a pretty good account in Jordan's "History of Cape Elizabeth.") | ||||||||||
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