Editing Abenaki (section)

===Abenaki wars===
{{Main|French and Indian Wars}}

When the [[Wampanoag]] under King Philip ([[Metacomet]]) fought the English colonists in New England in 1675 in [[King Philip's War]], the Abenaki joined the Wampanoag. For three years they fought along the Maine frontier in the [[First Abenaki War]]. The Abenaki pushed back the line of white settlement through devastating raids on scattered farmhouses and small villages. The war was settled by a peace treaty in 1678, with the Wampanoag more than decimated and many native survivors having been sold into slavery in Bermuda.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peters |first=Paula |date=July 14, 2002 |title=Worlds rejoined |url=https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2002/07/14/worlds-rejoined/50967035007/ |access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=[[Cape Cod Times]] }}</ref>

During [[Queen Anne's War]] in 1702, the Abenaki were allied with the French; they raided numerous English colonial settlements in Maine, from [[Wells, Maine|Wells]] to [[Portland, Maine|Casco]], killing about 300 settlers over ten years. They also occasionally raided into Massachusetts, for instance in [[Groton, Massachusetts|Groton]] and [[Deerfield, Massachusetts|Deerfield]] in 1704. The raids stopped when the war ended. Some [[Captives in American Indian Wars|captives]] were adopted into the [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]] and Abenaki tribes; older captives were generally ransomed, and the colonies carried on a brisk trade.<ref>Kenneth Morrison, ''The Embattled Northeast: the Elusive Ideal of Alliance in Abenaki-Euramerican Relations'' (1984)</ref>

The Third Abenaki War (1722–25), called the [[Dummer's War]] or Father Rale's War, erupted when the French [[Jesuits|Jesuit]] missionary [[Sébastien Rale]] (or Rasles, ~1657?-1724) encouraged the Abenaki to halt the spread of Yankee settlements. When the Massachusetts militia tried to seize Rale, the Abenaki raided the settlements at [[Brunswick, Maine|Brunswick]], [[Arrowsic, Maine|Arrowsick]], and [[Merrymeeting Bay|Merry-Meeting Bay]]. The Massachusetts government then declared war and bloody battles were fought at [[Norridgewock]] (1724), where Rale was killed, and at [[Battle of Pequawket|a daylong battle]] at the Indian village near present-day [[Fryeburg, Maine]], on the upper [[Saco River]] (1725). [[Peace conference]]s at Boston and [[Casco Bay]] brought an end to the war. After Rale died, the Abenaki moved to a settlement on the [[Saint Francis River (Canada–United States)|St. Francis River]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Spencer C. Tucker |display-editors=et al. |title=The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political, Social, and Military History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JsM4A0GSO34C&pg=PA249|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=249|isbn=9781851096978}}</ref>

The Abenaki from St. Francois continued to raid British settlements in their former homelands along the New England frontier during [[Father Le Loutre's War]] (see [[Northeast Coast campaign (1750)]]) and the [[French and Indian War]].