Thomas Hiscock, of Damariscotta

Thomas was the second son of William Hiscock (immigrant) who married a woman from the Wawenock tribe in Damariscotta, Maine. His father stayed with the tribe, and Thomas was raised there. He married a Wawenock woman c 1688 and had the following children:

• Richard 1689
• Samuel 1690
• William 1700
• Nathan 1706

The 10 year gap between Samuel and William may be explained by Thomas' involvement in wars between the colonists and Native Americans. Or it's possible that his first wife died and his last 2 children had another mother (likely another Wawenoc woman).

NOT the son of Richard Hitchcock, of Saco. Richard's son Thomas Hiscock, died young born in 1655 and died in 1671 at age 16. He is NOT this Thomas.
Early Vital Records of Saco and Biddeford Maine
https://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2008/12/early-vital-records-of-...
"Imprimus Richard Hichkox ... [son] Thomas Hichkox borne: 11: month 20: day 1655"
"Thomas Hichkox buryd decem: 23 — 1671"

NOT the son of Rev. William Hiscox, of RI

NOT the same as Deacon Thomas Hiscox of RI

https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/259785/?offset=0#...
(Last entry on page)
https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000082474695717

Thomas b. about 1660, only son of progenitor [William, not Richard -see above], has son Richard who settled in Nobleboro near the Waldoboro Cem.

William Hiscox came to Damariscotta, Maine about 1650. William, Thomas' father:

• Birth: 1636 in Ireland [?]
• As far as we know he Landed in Dramascotta Ma. [sic]
• He was killed in a battle between the English and the Wawanoc Indians along with one of his sons. It would appear that the Hiscocks were on the side of the Indians and lost the fight.
• He had two sons one of which survived and who also had married an Indian.
• Once when talking to Ethan Nathan Hescock (Bn 1875.), he had made reference to hearing Indian stories when he was a child, but he forgot to say that the stories he heard was about his own family.

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http://cody-family.org/history/thejazzage/wyoming/fjhiscock/fjhisco...

"Before we tell F.J. Hiscock's own story, we'll trace his lineage and show evidence of his relationship to our Cody family. We find his Hiscock pedigree to be;

Joseph Jesse "Fay" Hiscock (1873-1951) ↑
Levitus Hiscock (1832-1901) & Minerva Jane Barney (1839-1907) ↑
Alanson Hiscock (1797-1839) & Betsy Cross (1803-1889) ↑
Isaac Hiscock (1769-1848) & Phebe Crandall (1776-1869) ↑
James Hiscock Sr. (1730-1775) & Anna Kimball (1729-1823) ↑
Samuel Hiscock Sr. (1690-?) & Mary (~1695-?) ↑
Thomas Hiscock (1660-1747) & Wawenock Abenaki ↑
William Hiscock, the Immigrant (~1636-1689) & Wawenock Abenaki "

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/discover_history_explore_nature/hi...

"As a point of contact and conflict with the French and the Native Americans who often joined them, Pemaquid [now Damariscotta] was subject to several devastations. The first occurred in 1676, when the Abenaki Indians burned the village during a King Philip's War regional uprising. Fort Charles, a wooden fortification, was constructed the following year, but it and the rebuilt village were demolished in a 1689 attack. In 1692, Fort William Henry, probably New England's first stone fortification, was erected by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Within four years it too was leveled by the combined efforts of the French and Wabanakis, and the Pemaquid settlement was abandoned for 30 years."

His father and brother were killed in the Battle of Damariscotta Sep 9, 1697. They had married Wawenoc Abenaki maidens and lived at the Wawenoc settlement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damariscotta,_Maine
"The last battle of King William's War was on September 9, the Battle of Damariscotta, in which Captain John March killed 25 native men." (Among the 25 were Wm. Hiscock and his son Wm)

https://archive.org/details/ancientdominions00sewa/page/216/mode/1u...
1697
"... early in the Sept. 9. autumnal month of the first year of his command, heading a small detachment of his troops, [Major] March entered the waters of the Damariscotta, which happened to fall in the line of his coast range. Ever on the alert, the Indians descried the fleet of whaleboats from the heights of Walpole and the fleet-footed runners had correctly detailed the progress of March up the river, and learned the point of his debarkation, near which an ambuscade was arranged.

On touching the shore, springing suddenly from their covert, the tall-grown forests far and near echoing the fatal death-cry, the Indians poured on March and his men a shower of leaden hail, whose fire flashed the white man's death-welcome on every side. But the undaunted March immediately rallied his wavering troops, and led them to the charge in the face of the murderous fire. With fixed bayonets his men plunged into the thickets, routing the savages at every point, who retreated to the woods and to their canoes, leaving their dead behind them ! It was a bloody and desperate encounter. Twenty-five men lay dead or wounded in their track at the place of debarkation, showing the unerring certainty with which each warrior marked his man, while the gory body of the fallen brave, torn by the white man's steel, was left to the gaze of his foe, in attestation of the terrific death-struggle by which the intrepid March and his devoted band had won the day."