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Bertha Frost (Cadwalla)

Also Known As: "Bertha Cadawalles", "Cadewaller"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Tavistock, Devon, England
Death: July 04, 1650 (40)
Sturgeon Creek, Kittery, York, Maine (Bertha and her daughter Anna were captured and killed by Indians)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Cadwalla and Gwenedd Cadwalla
Wife of Nicholas Frost
Mother of Maj. Charles Frost; Captain John Frost; Anna Frost; Elizabeth Gowen alias Smith; Nicholas Frost, Jr. and 1 other

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About Bertha Frost

Nicholas Frost born: April 25, 1585 in Tiverton, Devonshire, England died: July 20, 1663 in Kittery, York, Maine married: January 1, 1630 in Devonshire, England to Bertha Cadwalla born: Feburary 14, 1610 in Tavistock, Devon, England died: July 4, 1650 in Sturgeon Creek, Kittery, York, Maine

The founder of Robert Frost's line in America was the Puritan, Nicholas Frost, who may have been on the lower coast of Maine as early as 1632, but who certainly landed with his Devonshire wife, Bertha Cadwalla Frost (b. 1610) and his two sons, John and Charles [ancestor of Robert Frost] -- from "ye Shipp Wulfrana. Alwin Wellborn, Master from Plimouth, Devon" -- in June, 1634, at Little Harbor, now Rye, New Hampshire.

After his daughter, Anna, was born there in April, 1636, Nicholas pushed up to the head of Sturgeon Creek, acquired a goodly acreage of land, and settled for life in what is now Eliot, Maine. Despite the fact that he was for the most part illiterate -- he signed a petition to Oliver Cromwell with his mark, a combination of N and F -- he served as one of old Kittery's first selectmen.

On July 4, 1650, his wife and daughter were captured by Indians according to Norman S. Frost, whose Frost Genealogy in Five Families, together with Everett A. Stackpole's Old Kittery and Her Families, is the authoritative work on the genealogy of the Frosts on this side of the Atlantic -- "and taken to a camp at the mouth of Sturgeon Creek. Nicholas and his son, Charles, were at York at the time, and on their return, attempted to rescue them, but were unsuccessful. Charles, however, killed a chief and a brave. The next day Charles, his father, and some of the neighbors went back to the camp but were too late. The camp was deserted, only the bodies of Bertha and Anna were found there."

Nicholas died a natural death in 1663 . . .

- excerpt from Newdick's Season of Frost: an interrupted biography of Robert Frost http://books.google.com/bo

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Bertha Frost's Timeline

1610
February 14, 1610
Tavistock, Devon, England
1632
July 30, 1632
Tiverton, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
1633
August 7, 1633
Kittery, York, Maine, American Colonies
1635
April 17, 1635
New Hampshire
1637
December 25, 1637
Kittery, York, Province of Maine
1640
May 10, 1640
Kittery, York, Maine
1645
May 30, 1645
Bristol, Devon, England
1650
July 4, 1650
Age 40
Sturgeon Creek, Kittery, York, Maine

Slain with her daughter by murderous savages