
==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...
From Wikipedia The Raid on Haverhill was a military engagement that took place on March 15, 1697 during King William's War. French, Algonquin, and Abenaki warriors descended on Haverhill, then a small frontier community in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. In the surprise attack, the Abenaki killed 27 colonists and took 13 captive. The natives burned six homes. The raid became famous in the ni...