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





  1. ^ http://search.ancestry.com/cgibin/sse.dlldb=genepool&h=255919&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t73330136_p42404854129_ktidz0q3d73330136z0q26pidz0q3d42404854129z0q26pgz0q3d32842z0q26pgplz0q3dtidz0q257cpidz0q26pgpsz0q3d42404854129_h83694167800


  2. ^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7348682&ref=acom


  3. ^ Stackpole, Everett Old Kittery and Her Families", 1903


  4. ^ http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081783759;view=1up;seq=61


  5. ^ http://trees.ancestry.com/view/Military.aspx?pid=380750462&tid=1296466


  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2014-10-19.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link).mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}



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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