ADAMS, Sarah

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Killed during the Candlemas Massacre
• Web Address: https://mainegenealogy.com/york/casualties-of-the-candlemas-day-massacre-in-york-maine.htm
• Residence: 1655, York, York, Maine, USA

Notes:

On Jan 24, 1692 the Abenakee Indians from Canada attacked the village of York, Maine. Killing , plundering and burning the town. Most accounts put the dead at around 48 and 80 taken prisoner. Amoung the dead were Philip Adams age 60 and his 15 year old son Nathaniel. A local poet expesses the horror of the day

Hundreds were murdered in their beds, Wiyhout shame or remorse; And soon the floors and roads were strewed, With many a bleeding corpse. The village soon began to blaze, To heighten misery's woe; But, Oh! I scarce can bear to tell The issues of that blow! They threw the infants on the fire; The men they did not spare; But kill-ed all which they could find, Though aged or though fair.

Another of our g grandfathers was also killed in this attack. John Parker, the Father of Hannah Parker who married Thomas Adams , was killed.

Candlemas Massacre
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An early incendiary attack
The Candlemas Massacre took place in early 1692 during King William's War, when an estimated 150 Abenakis commanded by officers of New France entered the town of York, Maine, killing about 100 of the English settlers and burning down buildings, taking another estimated 80 villagers hostage, on a forced walk to Canada,[1] where they were ransomed by Capt. John Alden of Boston (son of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the Plymouth Colony), who would soon be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials. The Indians set fire to all undefended houses on the north side of the York River, the principal route for trade and around which the town had grown. After the settlement was reduced to ashes, however, it was rebuilt on higher ground at what is today York Village.

Although often referred to as the "Candlemas Massacre," Candlemas is traditionally celebrated by the Catholic Church on February 2, forty days after Christmas (or by the Church of England on that day or the Sunday between January 28 and February 3), the attack is reported in the diary of Samuel Sewall as having taken place on January 25 or 26:

"Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1691/2.... This day...news was brought of an Attack made by the Indians on York."[2]
Today the event is commemorated annually in York, with historical re-enactments and lectures, events presented by the Old York Historical Society and sponsored in part by the Maine Humanities Council.

References
History of York, Maine (1886)
^ Portsmouth Herald Maine News: York commemorates Candlemas Raid
^ The Diary of Samuel Sewall: Vol. 1, 1674-1708, Farrar, Straus & Girous: New York, 1973, p. 287

Died:
Killed in the Candlemas Massacre

Philip married TURPIN, Elizabeth Jane in 1648 in York, York, Maine, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of TURPIN, Thomas and WAIMAN, Jane Agnes) was born in 1627 in Wells, Somerset, England; died on 18 Oct 1710 in York, York, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married STONE, Alice on 10 Jul 1623 in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. Alice was born in 1602 in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England; died in 1653 in York, York, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: accused of beig a witch - is this how he drowned?
• Witch Trials Connection: Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; accused of beig a witch - is this how he drowned?
• Birth: 1602, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA
• Death: 29 Oct 1649, York, York, Maine, USA

Notes:

Referring to a dilapidated house in the South End of Porthsmouth, NH

The superstitious were therefore very careful about passing such houses by night, especially in dark and stormy weather, when, as many believed in those days, the witches would sally out from the house and, if successful in casting a horse's bridle over the head of any person passing by, would immediately transform the victim into a horse, and after having him shod with iron shoes, would ride the animal till it became tired, and just before daylight would turn it loose in the street. The persons thus afflicted would the next day find prints of the horse nails on their hands.”

That's where you get the term hag-ridden Baker says without a pause. His mind is an encyclopedia of the Dark Arts. The term reminds him of a major outbreak of witchcraft in the Piscataqua region in 1656. That’s when Eunice Cole and Jane Walford and William Ham and Thomas Turpin were accused of witchery.

Died:
Drowned

Thomas married WAIMAN, Jane Agnes in 1625 in Kittery, York, Maine, USA. Jane was born in 1616 in Somerset, England; died in 1661 in York, York, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]