Raid on York (24 January 1692)
Date:
24 Jan 1692
[unknown]
Location: York, Maine
Surname/tag: Banks Dummer Heard Littlefield Moulton Parsons Payne Sayward
Location: York, Maine
Surname/tag: Banks Dummer Heard Littlefield Moulton Parsons Payne Sayward
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- Historical event: 24 January 1692 at York, Maine
- Epoch: King William's War (1688-1697)
- Who was there: Category:Raid on York
- Belligerents:
- Village of York
- Chief Madockawando and allied forces
- Outcome:
- Village of York and its homes destroyed
- About 50 villagers killed
- About 80 captured and force marched to Canada
- The Raid on York, also known as the Candlemas Massacre of 1692, took place on 24 January 1692, during King William's War against the village of York, which was then in the District of Maine and was part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay; the area is now part of the state of Maine. Chief Madockawando and Father Louis-Pierre Thury led a raid of 150 Indian warriors on the village of York. Almost 50 people in the town were killed, and another almost 80 were taken prisoner, some of whom were force-marched to Canada. Most all of the houses in York were destroyed.
- Reverend Shubael Dummer was a Congregational Church Minister at York since 1662. He was killed, stripped, and mutilated at his own front door. His wife, Lydia (Alcock) Dummer and their son were captured and taken away with about 300 others. (For more, see their profiles.)
- Among those captured was a young girl named Ann Heard. [Her story to be summarized here] She was baptized into the Catholic religion and adopted into a French family, becaming Ann Prévost. She married; first, Sebastien Cholet dit LaViolette at Notre-Dame in Montreal, with whom she had many children, though few survived; and second, Claude (Sansart) Sansart dit le petit Picard, at St-Joachim in Pointe-Claire. She lived out her life in Pointe-Claire on the island of Montreal. (For more, see their profiles.)
- Mary Beth Norton's "In the Devil's Snare" brings our attention to this event, as a signal precipitant to a madness that infected the village of Salem shortly thereafter.
- More detail and references to be added.
- Resources
- King William's War on Wikipedia
- Raid on York on Wikipedia
- Chief Madockawando
- Father Louis-Pierre_Thury
- Banks, Charles Edward, History of York, Maine, successively known as Bristol (1632), Agamentious (1641), Gorgeana (1642), and York (1652), published 1967. Reference Volume 1, pages 287+
- "The 1692 Indian Massacre at York Maine" Maine Genealogy Massacre at York Maine
- "Casualties of the Candlemas Day Massacre in York, Maine" Maine Genealogy Casualties and Known Captives
- Mary Beth Norton. "In the Devil's Snare". Chapter 3, entitled "Pannick at the Eastward". Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 18, 2007. pp. 15, 21, 41, 43, 111, 131, 185, 190. (Available at library or Amazon.) (Accessed 22 Oct 2022) Internet Archive
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