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Abt 1754 - 1756 (~ 1 years)
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Name |
MEANS Robert |
Birth |
Abt Nov 1754 [1] |
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Gender |
Male |
_UID |
DF7A0E3181EB3349B70BA788A91D8012C9AF |
Death |
10 May 1756 |
North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] [2] |
- (killed by Indians in the arms of his mother the same day his father was killed.)
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Person ID |
I35589 |
Old North Yarmouth, Maine |
Last Modified |
24 Dec 2007 |
Father |
Captain MEANS Thomas, b. Abt 1722/3 d. 10 May 1756, North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] (Age ~ 33 years) |
Mother |
PHINEY Alice, b. 1728 d. 1807 (Age 79 years) |
Marriage |
Aft 26 Sep 1749 |
Biddeford, York, Massachusetts [Maine] [3] |
Notes |
- A large party of Indians appeared at Topsham, where they separated, one party to go to New Meadows, and the other to North Yarmouth. The latter party, at day-break, on Sabbath morning assaulted the house of Mr. Thomas Maines, at Flying Point, which though well fortified they finally entered. John Martin was in the chamber of the house, with a loaded gun; but not being able in the darkness to find it kept himself concealed. Mr. Maines, his wife and children, and a sister of Mrs. Maines, were dragged from the house, near to which Mr. Maines was shot; meanwhile Mrs. Maines and the children succeeded in regaining the house and fastening the door. A ball from a gun of the Indians entered the house and was fatal to an infant in the arms of Mrs. Maines, and at length the Indians again entered the dwelling, but Martin pointing his gun which he had found, through the chamber floor, and dropped one of them in the entry with a shot; retaining the sister of Mrs. Maines and bearing away with them their wounded man, they hastily departed. Mr. Maines and the infant, Robert, were buried near the old meeting house in Brunswick. The report of the guns was heard by Mr. Eaton at Harpswell, as also by Mr. Babble, on Cousins Island, who hastened to the assistance of the excited and afflicted survivors of the Maines family. [4]
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Family ID |
F2161 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Death - 10 May 1756 - North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] |
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Sources |
- [S1911] Book-Freeport-Three Centuries in Freeport, p.35.
- [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.99, ME 974.1 CO.
- [S199] Correspondence-Postal-Theodora Sawyer, 23 Mar 2000.
- [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, ME 974.1 CO.
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