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About Phoebe Heard
The Life Summary of Phoebe
When Phoebe Littlefield was born in 1670, in Wells, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Francis Littlefield, was 51 and her mother, Rebecca Rust, was 40. She married John Heard on 27 April 1690, in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 4 July 1697, in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 27, and was buried in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
Phoebe - On Sunday afternoon, 4 july 1697 the Indians ambushed Maj Frost, his wife and two sons, John Heard and his wife, Phebe and Dennis Downing were returning from Sunday meeting. A mile from the garrison a party of Indians had formed an ambush near a large rock at the side of the road.When the party approached they were fired upon. Maj FROST and DOWNING were killed, and Phebe (Littlefield) Heard was mortally wounded. John tried to put her on a horse, but she begged him to leave her and save the children at home. The rest of the party escaped. The site of this attack is now known as "AMBUSH ROCK". Its located near Eliot, Maine.
Ambush Rock. 786 Goodwin Rd. The marker commemorates the ambush of Major Charles Frost, his two sons Charles and John, Dennis Downing, and Phoebe Littlefield Heard and her husband John, as they were returning from worship at the meetinghouse on Old Fields Road in what is now South Berwick. On July 4, 1697, about a mile from their home/garrison, and were ambushed by Native peoples. Phoebe’s husband Capt. John and Charles Frost’s sons Charles and John escaped. A marble plaque was originally placed here as the first act of the newly formed Eliot Historical Society, on the anniversary of this event in 1897. Vandalized, it was replaced with a bronze plaque in 1915 by Ralph Sylvester Bartlett.
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Phoebe Heard's Timeline
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1670
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Wells, York County, Massachusetts
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| 1690 |
February 26, 1690
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Kittery, York, ME, USA
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January 15, 1692
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Kittery, York, ME, USA
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January 25, 1694
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Maine, United States
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January 21, 1696
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Kittery, York, ME, USA
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July 4, 1697
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Ambush Rock, Kittery, York County, Massachusetts
From "History of Dover, NH, p445 (under the HEARD family): It states that
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