King Philip's War 1675 King William's War 1689-97 Queen Ann's War 1702-13 King George's War 1744-48 French & Indian Wars 1754-63

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King Philip's Indian Name was Metacomet. He became Sachem after his brother Alexander died from possible food poisoning while visiting the colonists.

The early Pilgrims treated the Wampanoags harshly. King Philip was made to confess that he broke treaties. The Indians were forced to surrender all their arms. The settlers took their land and killed their food source. King Philip rallied together the Nipmucks and the Narragansetts to join the Wampanoags against the settlers for the wrongs his people had suffered.

The bloody battles had little effect on New Hampshire. Most raids took place in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

King Philip was betrayed by an Indian. He was hunted down in a swamp and shot in the heart. They quartered his body and hung it in the trees. His head was shipped to Plymouth and displayed on a pole in the village common.

During the war, 600+ men were killed and forty towns were severely damaged. King Philip's son and mother were captured and enslaved.

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The King William's War was started by the English and the French. They declared war against each other four times. It involved Indians, too. The King William's War started in 1689. The war involved the attacks at Salmon Falls, Exeter, Durham, Portsmouth Plains, and other coastal places.

This war included the Cocheco Massacre at Dover, the Brackett Lane Massacre at Rye, and the Hannah Dustin exploit.

by William S.

Cocheco Massacre (Dover)

by Laura L.

The Indian War between France with their Indian friends and Great Britain was for the take over of North America. In 1689, a French-Indian war party came into Dover, N.H. and almost completely destroyed it. Those who were not killed were taken captive to Canada, and only a few were ever lucky enough to return to their homes. Some escaped by hiding in the bushes and other secret places. In Dover, N.H., 23 were killed and 29 were captured. it was a revenge attack by native Indian warriors. In one afternoon, 50 years of peace between the Penacook tribe and colonists ended. Dover's biggest landowner, Richard Waldron, Sr. assumed the role of local leader. On September 6, 1689, in what is today a drugstore parking lot, Cocheco and Boston militia surrounded the Indians and separated the local natives from the Massachusetts warriors. 200 natives were marched to Boston where some were hanged and some were sold as slaves. Advance word of Penacooks massing for battle on Cocheco was known as far away as Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

The Brackett Lane Massacre had 20 victims. Ten were killed, three were burned in their homes, and seven were captured and taken to Canada. On September 29, 1691, the settlers of Sandy Beach at Saltwater Brook were doing their normal chores when about 20 to 40 Indians came up the coast from York, Maine. They landed on the shore. The Indians were familiar with the land and they avoided the garrison houses. As the men were busy cutting hay in the salt marsh, the Indians were able to attack in small groups the homes along Brackett Lane before the settlers became suspicious. Anthony Brackett was killed, several of his children were captured, and his home was burned during this raid.

Miss Bernice Remick and her sister, Mrs. Francis Tucker, sold the land and deed of 42 acres on April 12, 1973 to the Rye Conservation Commission. It is now a public site and can be visited at 605 Brackett Road, Rye, N.H.

by William S.

Hannah Dustin was captured in Haverhill, Massachusetts by Pennacook Indians in 1697. They took her to Concord, N.H. where they made her a slave. The family of her Indian master had two men, three women, and seven children. The women had only been with the Indians for a few days.A few months after she was captured, Hannah killed her master, and Hannah's husband, Thomas Dustin scalped the Indian that taught him how to scalp people.

When Hannah left the Indian village with Thomas Dustin and Samuel Lennardson, she took a gun and the tomahawk that she killed her master with. She started the long journey home. The long journey was by canoe. They had to travel quietly and wisely to not be seen by the Indians. When they got home, everybody was shocked because they thought they were dead. After they rested from the trip,they headed for Boston, and the Dustins arrived on the 21st of April.

by Kendra F.

The Indian attack on Salmon Falls was at Dover,N.H. These attacks meant sorrow and affliction for the early settlers. This attack in March, 1690, resulted in thirty-four settlers being killed and fifty-four people being taken captive. There were frequent attacks on the settlement outskirts during the years 1692 and 1693. During this period of time the settlers remain close to the towns with block and garrison houses for protection against the Indians.

On June 26, 1696, the Indians attacked the settlement at Portsmouth Plains. The Indians killed fourteen people, burned five houses and nine barns, and took several captives. The previous day, the Indians had attacked Dover. The settlers awoke to sounds of warhoops and the light of burning barns. The settlers were over powered by the Indians and tried to escape to the garrison house. The Indians intercepted them. After the men returned with arms, the Indians had vanished but bodies were scattered all around.

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by Anthony C.

The Queen Anne's War was fought between France and England in the West Indies, Carolina and New England frontiers from 1702 to 1713. This was the second Indian War that took place in New Hampshire around 1703. The Indians were incited by the French in Canada to attack the frontier towns of New Hampshire. The Oyster River Massacre was one of the minor forays.

At the close of the Queen Anne's War the Pennacooks were absorbed into the Abenaki tribe. By 1726 only a single village of Pennacooks lived near Concord. They were called the "Last of the Pennacook" and they saved some of the colonists from starving that winter.

by Thomas Z.

At dawn on July 18, 1694, Chief Bomazeen's tribal band waged an attack on the residents of Durham, N.H. This was known as "The Oyster River Massacre." The raiding party consisted of 140 Indians and 14 Frenchmen. Bomazeen was the chief that controlled the Indian raids. The Indians took 3 garrisons that were deserted and not defended, killed and carried away 94 persons and burnt 13 houses.

The fight began at "Newtown", north to Turtle Pond and extending to the upper part of Oyster River and towards Wheelwright's Pond. Families killed, captured and homes burned were Dean, Donis, Jenkins, and Burnhams.

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The King George War started in 1744 and ended in 1747. It lasted 4 years. King George's War started because The British and French both wanted control of North America. The French were nicer to the Sokoki, a branch on the Abenaki Indians. The British treated the Indians poorly so the Indians joined the French during the war. King George's War was the third out of nine wars in New Hampshire. The war ended in 1747 but the Indians didn't sign The Treaty of Aix-la-Chopelle. They continued a different war that ended in 1747.

Fort Number Four was an important defense against the Indians along the Connecticut River frontier of New Hampshire during the colonial period. Fort number Four is located at Charleston on the Connecticut River. The Indians and French attacked Fort #4 in 1747. The battle came to a standstill after three days. Captain Stevens and his thirty men fought and drove off the French and Indians. This convinced them that the British and the Colonists were here to stay.

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The French and Indian War took place between 1754 and 1763. The was started in the town called Charlestown. It started when some Indians entered the and burst into the home of Captain James Johnson. the night before the attack, some people were eating at the Johnson's. That night, Mr. Johnson was awakened by a loud knock on the door. When he opened the door, he was surrounded by Indians. The Indians tied up the Johnsons and took them as captives. They brought them to Canada. The Indians knew that the neighbors were alarmed, so they hurried to Canada.

This was the last and largest of the Wars. The war ended after General Wolfe captured Quebec and Montreal with the surrender of the French. The French were expelled from Canada and the treaty, the Peace of Paris was signed in 1763.

During the French and Indian War, Maj. Robert Roger's gathered up 200 woodsmen. They soon became known as Roger's Rangers. Lieutenant John Stark was a member of Roger's Rangers. In 1758, the British put Rogers in charge of all the Ranger groups. Rogers Rangers were famous because of their involvement with the St. Francis Indians. He marched on their village because the Indians had killed 600 colonists. the Rangers wiped out the village in one day.

Captain John Lovewell was born on October 14, 1689 in Dunstable, Massachusetts, which later became Nashua, New Hampshire. Lovewell conducted three expeditions hunting down Indians and being paid for their scalps. In February, 1725, with 87 men, Lovewell hiked along the Merrimack River, past Lake Winnipesaukee, and into the White Mountains. they killed 10 sleeping Indians. They brought back the scalps and collected 1,000 pounds sterling. On the third trip, Lovewell and his men fought the Pequawkets near Fryeburg, Maine, and at Lake Ossipee. The Paris Treaty ended the French control in Canada. The French gave Canada to Great Britain. France gave all its land that was east and west of the Mississippi to the British, and Spain gave Florida to the British. As a result of winning the war, the British government increased its national debt and bought more land than they could control. They unfairly taxed the colonies. This taxation without representation irritated the colonists, which soon was the start of the Revolutionary War.