Charles Frost (military officer)
Major Charles Frost (1631-1697) was born in Tiverton, Devon, England. He married Mary Bolles in 1660[1]who gave birth to a daughter, Sarah Frost, in 1666.[2].
Frost was stationed in Kittery, Maine (present-day Eliot, Maine) and was the highest-ranking military leader in Maine during King William's War until he was killed by Indians along with a number of other local residents at Ambush Rock. He was reportedly killed for his role in Richard Waldron's subterfuge against several hundred Indians during King Philips War.[citation needed]
Aggrieved natives never forgot. According to Everett Stackpole's "Old Kittery and Her Families":
"The night after Frost's burial the Indians opened his grave, took out the body, carried it to the top of Frost's hill and suspended it upon a stake. His resting place was marked some years later with a flat stone, on which is a rudely chiseled inscription, "Here lyeth intrrd ye body of Mj. Charles Frost ager 65 years Decd July ye 4th 1697." The spot where he was slain is near a large boulder, on which is a suitable inscription. It is known as Ambush Rock."[3]
On 4 July 1897, the newly formed Eliot Historical Society[1] held a commemoration ceremony to mark the 200th anniversary of the natives murder of Frost as their first public event.[4]
Legacy
- Namesake of Frost Hill, Eliot, Maine (Natives dug up Mr. Frost's body and hoisted it upon a pole at the top of Frost's Hill)[5]
- Honored on a plaque at Ambush Rock in Eliot, where he died in an Indian attack[6]
See also
- Winthrop Hilton
- Richard Waldron
References
^ http://search.ancestry.com/cgibin/sse.dlldb=genepool&h=255919&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t73330136_p42404854129_ktidz0q3d73330136z0q26pidz0q3d42404854129z0q26pgz0q3d32842z0q26pgplz0q3dtidz0q257cpidz0q26pgpsz0q3d42404854129_h83694167800
^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7348682&ref=acom
^ Stackpole, Everett Old Kittery and Her Families", 1903
^ http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081783759;view=1up;seq=61
^ http://trees.ancestry.com/view/Military.aspx?pid=380750462&tid=1296466
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Texts
- Exercises Of The Eliot Historical Society On Monday The Fifth Of July, 1897: In Commemoration Of Major Charles Frost On The Two Hundredth Anniversary Of His Massacre By The Indians, Sunday, July Fourth, 1697
- Memoir of Charles Frost (1888)
- "Old Eliot: a monthly magazine of the history and biography of the Upper Parish of Kittery, now Eliot" Vol. II., 249-262; X., 30; XII., 139 and 258
- "Maine Wills;" Maine Hist. Soc.
- Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families, p. 414 (1903)
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