Category: French + Indian Wars

• Fake Raid (Peterborough, 1754) (GUEST POST)

  

  Peterborough resident Liam draws a practical joke from the French-Indian War era:

  Marek

  27 August, 2015

  1700-1799, 1750s, colonial, French + Indian Wars, guest artist, Peterborough

  Captain Morrison, Ella Gertrude Kinscella, Fort Richter, Hazel Gertrude Kinscella, indians, joke, Peterborough, raid

• Milk of War (Keene)

  

  The fort’s surrounded, but the babies need milk… What’s to be done?!

  Marek

  5 December, 2012

  1750s, cows, death, dogs, French + Indian Wars, Keene, milk, SOURCE=Griffin

  John Colony, Keene, milk

• John Colony (Keene)

  

  John Colony leaves his native Ireland to fight Indians (& French) in the New England…

  Marek

  1 December, 2012

  1730s, 1740s, 1750s, 1760s, French + Indian Wars, Keene, Maine, marriage, Massachusetts, Robert Rogers, SOURCE=Griffin, Vermont

  Fort Edward, Ichabod Fisher, Ireland, Israel Putnam, John Colony, Keene, Kilkenny, MA, ME, Melatiah Colony, Robert Rogers, Saxton’s River, VT, Wrentham