1. ROGER1 PLAISTED. He married OLIVE COLEMAN March 23, 1744/45.
Notes for ROGER PLAISTED:
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Old Kittery and Her Families by Everett S. Stackpole
A man and two boys were shot at Berwick 7 Oct. 1675. On the sixteenth of the
same month the house of Richard Tozier was again assailed by a band of one
hundred Indians and was burned to the ground. Tozier was killed and his son
Thomas was either killed or carried off captive. Lieut. Roger Plaisted, who was
in command of the small force at the garrison house, sent nine men to
reconnoitre. They walked into an ambuscade, and three were shot. The next day
a cart drawn by oxen was sent out to bring in the dead bodies, escorted by
twenty men. No precautions seem to have been taken against the wiles of a foe
known to be crafty. While the first body was being placed in the cart the Indians
fired upon Plaisted and his men from behind a stone wall, logs and bushes. A
few of the men escaped. Plaisted disdained to fly and threw away his life in a
vain effort to fight almost alone against a hundred or more. He was cut down by
a tomahawk. A son, Roger, was slain at the same time, and another son, whose
name is unknown, is said to have been mortally wounded. Just before the
encounter Plaisted and John Broughton had sent a dispatch for aid as follows:
"These are to inform you that the Indians are just now engaging us with at least a
hundred men, and have slain four of our men already. Sirs, if ever you have any
love for us and the country, now show yourselves with men to help us, or else
we are all in great danger to be slain, unless our God wonderfully appears for
our deliverance."
The hill that slopes down to the river just north of the railroad bridge at Salmon
Falls is on the old Plaisted estate. A few paces east of the road that runs over
that hill, and near the hilltop, is a marble slab that commemorates Plaisted and
his sons. The peaceful surroundings are in beautiful contrast with the terror and
excitement of that day in which men were falling,
