dummer's

Updated: May 7, 2025

There was nobody in New England that knew anything about sieges or any other regular fighting. The only persons at all acquainted with warlike business were a few elderly men, who had hunted Indians through the underbrush of the forest in old Governor Dummer's War.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Grandfather's Chair

For sixty years Indian wars followed in rapid succession. They are known in history as King William's war, Queen Anne's war, Lovewell's or Dummer's war and King George's war. In nearly every instance the Indian raids were instigated or encouraged by their French allies, who feared that otherwise the English would win them and thereby gain the country.

W. O. (William Odber) Raymond - Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784