Lt. Roger Plaisted

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31648997/roger-plaisted

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Christened: 1627, Mildenhal, Marlbourough, England

Migrated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1650

"About 1649 Roger Plaisted, his wife, Olive, and their son Roger II, emigrated to America, landing in Boston. On 20 February 1654, he witnessed a deed for Nason in Berwick, Maine, which was then known as Newichewannock, or Quamphegan. There is a record of a note due him for 42 pounds before September 1656. He was one of the 15 associates of the Province of Maine, from Kittery, and he was a Representative to the General Court from1663 to 1667. He was a magistrate in the York County Court in 1664, a grand juror in 1667, and he was a Selectman of the Town of Berwick.

Plaisted had an original grant of land when he went to Berwick. In 1659 the town of Berwick granted him 100 acres of land at Salmon Falls, on the Nechiwannock River. He was subsequently granted 264 additional acres.

About 1660, Roger rented from the Hutchinsons the sawmill property known as the Great Works. it subsequently was owned by John Plaisted, his son. In 1707, Ichabod Plaisted, another son, purchased 200 acres adjacent to Roger's Salmon Falls grant. The Plaisted family accumulated a considerable amount of propery in the Kittery area. Roger built a Garrision House on his 1659 grant.

He was a Lieutenant in the military forces under the command of Captain Charles Frost. On October 16, 1675, the Indians attacked Kittery with a force of about 100 men. They burned Richard Tozier's house and killed 4 men. Roger Plaisted led a group of men to recover the bodies. He and his son, Roger Plaisted, Jr., were both killed. On the day the he was killed, he and George Broughton sent a letter requesting assistance which ended as follows: 'Sirs: If ever you have any love for us and for the country, now show yourselves with men to help us, or else we are all in great danger to be slain unless our God wonderfully appears for our deliverance. They that cannot fight let them pray. Nothing else but rest yours to serve.'

Following the death of Roger Plaisted, his widow, Olive, married John Wincoll. Articles of agreement were signed September 16 1682, between Olive Wincoll, William Plaisted, James Plaisted, John Plaisted, Elisha Plaisted, Ichabod Plaisted, Elizabeth Plaisted, and Mehitable Plaisted, regarding the estate.

At one time there was a gravestone near the site in Berwick where Roger Plaisted and his son died, with this inscription: 'Here lies interred the body of Samuel Plaisted, Esq., who departed this life March 20, 1731-2, aged 36; near this place lies buried the body of Roger Plaisted who was killed by the Indians, October 16, 1675, age 48, also the body of his son, Mr. Roger Plaisted, Jr., who was killed at the same time."

(from "Simons and Thompson Lines: The Ancestors of James Everett Simons and Allied Lines with Some Lines Carried to the Present", pp. 267-8)

King Phillips War: when Indians attacked Kittery, ME Lieut, R. Playstead

Dispatched this message:

Salmon Falls

Oct. 16, 1675

Mr. Richard Waldern and Lieut. Coffin:

These are to inform you that just now the Indians are engaging us with at least one hundred men, and have slain four of our men already-***

Sir, if you have any love of us, and the Country, now show yourself with men to help us, or else we are all in great danger to be slain, unless our God wonderfully appears for our deliverance. They that cannot fight, let them pray, nought else, but I rest

Yours to serve you

Roger Playstead

George Broughton

No one knows what answer was sent, but apparently no relief was sent. Roger Playstead, determined to give his dead friends a proper burial, ventured forth from the fort with twenty soldiers, but was set upon by 100 to 150 Indians who had been hiding in the woods. Roger Playstead was killed by these Indians, though one man said that the Indians had just wanted to hold him for ransom. Playstead's eldest son and another man were also killed, and another of Playstead's sons was injured so badly that he later died.

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The first overseas settler of the family was Roger Plaisted (1624-1675) born at Dunford Mill, near Mildenhall and Chilton Foliat, who married Olive Coleman of Preshute, Wilts. His uncles John and Robert had been prominent in the affairs of that district when Sir John Popham of Chilton Foliat, Old Chief Justice of England, launched an enterprise to develop the Northern part of Virginia, which afterwards became New England.

This expedition to the New World was dispatched under the auspices of the Plymouth Virginia Co., for which the money and the men had been got together by Sir John Popham, set sail with two vessels under the command of Capt. George Popham, on 31st May, and reached its destination on 11th August, 1607. The winter proved so severe that all people save 45 were retuned from a region which they described as "a cold, barren, mountainous, rocky desert."

In year about 1649, a year marked by the execution of Charles I, and birth of the new Commonwealth, Roger left England accompanied by Olive, and their son Roger, the younger. Roger would have gone by road to Portsmouth, and there taken passage by on of the ships as the "Angel Gabriel" or "The James". He lande at Boston. About 1654 he proceeded to Kittery. (Maine)

The inhabitants of Saco, Cape Corpus, Wells, York and Kittery, numbering 71 souls addressed a petition to Oliver Cromwell, praying to be placed under the Govt. of Mass., alleging they were a people few in number. One of the petitioners on that occasion was Roger Plaisted, whose activities were largely devoted to the welfare of Maine.

possibly came over with two brothers: John and Thomas (John appearing in list of taxpayers in Boston 1681, and Thomas a merchant in Salem, Massachusetts in 1690) (from "Lieut. Roger Plaisted...")

As Hubbard narrates the tale of a subsequent attack on the nearby settlement of Newichawannock (South Berwick), the viewer has the uneasy feeling of having shared adventures with these archetypical characters before. Here a brave maiden was just able to close the door of her house before the attackers drove their arrows and axes into the door's paneling. Other inhabitants having escaped out the back door toward a nearby garrison, the brave "virago" (Hubbard's word, then of nobler meaning than now) held the door closed as long as she could. But finally it fell beneath the ax blows and she was knocked on the head as the enemy charged through the house in pursuit of the rest of the family. They succeeded in catching two little girls, one of whom was killed, the other taken captive. As for the heroine, she lived to give Hubbard and other narrators the terrifying details of her ordeal.

A few weeks later, Newichawannock was again surrounded by a large force of attackers; this time they seemed determined to besiege the town until it capitulated. The nearest fortified point to which the settlers could appeal was Dover, on the banks of the Piscataqua River, which divides Maine from New Hampshire. To Dover, five miles away, a messenger was sent on October 14th with the following plea:

To Mr. Richard Waldron and Lieutenant Coffin: These are to inform you that the Indians are just now engaging us with at least one hundred men and have slain four of our men already - Richard Tozier, James Barron, Isaac Botts, and Tozier's son - and have burnt Benony Hodsdon's house. Sirs, if you ever have any love for us and the country, now show yourselves with men to help us, or else we are all in great danger to be slain, unless our God wonderfully appears for our deliverance. They that cannot fight, let them pray. Nothing else, but rest yours to serve.

Roger Plaisted

George Broughton

Plaisted and his sons were killed in the action that followed. But ultimately, just before help arrived from the town of Eliot, the attackers abandoned their seige.

from The Red King's Rebellion by Russell Bourne (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 218 - 219.

He built “The Garrison House” or Upper Garrison on his 1659 grant on the North side of Salmon Falls Brook, and until killed in an ambush by Indians, led a useful public life. He was on the Grand Jury in 1660, trial jury in 1666, 1667 (foreman), a town comr. and selectman.

Age on gravestone after son Samuel died gives age as 70 in 1675.

Widow Olive and eldest son William were administrators on 30 Nov 1675. Son James added 5 July 1675.

10/16/1675 - killed by Indians

Deputy from Kittery to the General Court

Associate Judge of York County

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ROGER PLAISTED ...... Birth: 1627 Death: Oct. 16, 1675

Near this place lies the body of Roger Plaisted who was killed by the Indians Oct. 16, 1675, age 48 years. Also the body of his son, Roger Plaisted, who was killed at the same time.

They were killed during a battle with the Saco tribe of Indians who attacked the Plaisted garrison in revenge for an act of injury committed by some white sailors.

Children:

• Roger Plaisted (____ - 1675)

Calculated relationship*

Note: Slab is worn and becoming difficult to read.

Burial: Plaisted Cemetery South Berwick York County Maine, USA

• Created by: Alice & Franklyn Vosburg Record added: Nov 23, 2008
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