QUEEN ANNE'S WAR, 1702-1713 -- PART II
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Anthony Crosby John French John Hobbs Christopher Palmer Jonathan Philbrick Christopher Pottle John Wedgwood June 1 to June 15 June 15 to June 29 June 29 to July 13 July 13 to July 27 July 27 to August 10 |
Samuel Palmer Stephen Palmer August 10 to August 24 Thomas Batchelder John Garland Samuel Melcher David Moulton Joseph Palmer Thomas Philbrick August 24 to September 7 September 7 to September 21 September 21 to October 5 October 5 to October 19 October 6 to October 19 October 19 to November 1 |
In the summer of 1710, the Indians killed Col. Winthrop Hilton and others of his party; and on the 16th of August, a company of ninety-one men, of whom at least thirty were of Hampton, went in pursuit, under Capt. John Gilman, and were out five days.
Of the situation in 1712, Dr. Belknap writes: "The frontiers were well guarded; one half of the militia did duty at the garrisons and were ready to march at a minute's warning; a scout of forty men kept ranging on the heads of the towns; and the like care was taken by sea, spy-boats being employed in coasting from Cape Neddock to the Great Boar's Head."
Of this scout of forty men, eleven were of Hampton, as follows:
| Daniel Bean Joseph Brown Samuel Clifford Jonathan Dearborn Henry Dow |
Joseph Dow Israel Folsom John Garland John Prescott Robert Rowe |
News of the Treaty of Utrecht, which terminated the war in Europe, was brought to this country in the autumn of 1712, and on the 29th of October the suspension of arms was sproclaimed at Portsmouth. The following summer, a treaty of peace was concluded with the Indians.