Joseph  MOULTON

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Joseph MOULTON was born abt. 1648 in Hampton, New Hampshire, New England

Joseph MOULTON was the child of Thomas MOULTON   and   Martha UNKNOWN and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Robert MOULTON and Mary SMYTHE (SMITH)

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Joseph  married  Hannah LITTLEFIELD abt. 1678 .  The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Hannah LITTLEFIELD  was born 5 January 1652 in Wells, Maine, USA.  Hannah died 24 January 1692 in York, Maine, USA (Cape Neddick) (York Beach). 

Joseph MOULTON died January 1692 in Maine, New England.





Joseph was a victim of the Candlemas Masacre in York, Maine. His wife was killed by Abenaki Indians. Joseph was captured and died en route to Canada.

The Raid on York (also known as the Candlemas Massacre) took place on 24 January 1692 during King William's War, when Chief Madockawando and Father Louis-Pierre Thury led 200-300 natives into the town of York (then in the District of Maine and part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, now in the state of Maine), killing about 100 of the English settlers and burning down buildings, taking another estimated 80 villagers hostage. The villagers were forced to walk to Canada, New France, where they were ransomed by Capt. John Alden Jr. of Boston (son of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the Plymouth Colony). One of those taken Captive was a young Jeremiah Moulton, who would later gain notoriety during the Father Rale's War.

Capt. Floyd wrote that "the houses are all burned and rifled except the half dozen or thereabout"...later in the same letter he adds: "there is about seventeen or eighteen houses burned". Forty-eight people were buried by Capt. Floyd, and the remaining number were young children whose names never appeared on the existing town records...

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