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==The Raid on Hatfield At eleven o’clock on the bright fall morning of September 19th, 1677, a group of about fifty natives attacked the north end of the frontier town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Even though the colonists had built a defensive stockade the year before, they were caught off guard. The men were helping to frame a new house or working in the fields south of the palisade. The nativ...
==Turner Falls Massacre Captain William Turner and 150 militia volunteers attacked a fishing Indian camp at present-day Turners Falls, Massachusetts. At least 100 women and children were murdered in the attack.===SummaryFrom Turner’s Falls Project >The Native American community known as Peskeompskut-Wissatinnewag was located in the vicinity of current day Turners Falls and is the location of a ...
Return to Parker Name Study, USA === Go to Parker Name Study, Texas === The Fort Parker massacre was an event in May 1836 in which members of the pioneer Parker family were killed in a raid by Native Americans. In this raid, a 9-year-old girl, Cynthia Ann Parker , was captured and spent most of the rest of her life with the Comanche, marrying a Chief, Peta Nocona , and giving birth to a son, ...
The Big Bottom massacre occurred on January 2, 1791, near present-day Stockport now in Morgan County, Ohio, United States. It is considered part of the Northwest Indian Wars, in which aboriginal Americans in the Ohio Country confronted American settlers, regular soldiers and militia, seeking to expel them from their territory.Following the American Revolutionary War, the United States governmen...
The Zimmer massacre was the massacre of four settlers by Native Americans in Mifflin Township, Ashland County, Ohio in September, 1812. Althgouh the exact motive for the attack is unknown, the end result was that four settlers were killed, further increasing the distrust between Native Americans and settlers at the beginning of the War of 1812.
[ Indian Massacre of 1622 took place in the English Colony of Virginia, in what now belongs to the United States, on Friday, 22 March 1622, Captain John Smith, though he had not been in Virginia since 1609 and was not a firsthand eyewitness, related in his History of Virginia that his braves of the Powhatan Confederacy "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other pr...