Occurring in contested lands on the edge of the American frontier, the raid resulted in the massacre of the Abenaki inhabitants of Norridgewock by the militiamen.

As a result of the raid, New Englanders flooded into the lower Kennebec region, establishing settlements there in the wake of the war.

[8] For the first and only time, Wabanaki fought New Englanders and the British on their own terms and for their own reasons and not principally to defend French imperial interests.

[8] In response to Wabanaki hostilities toward the expansion, the Governor of Nova Scotia Richard Phillips built a fort in traditional Mi'kmaq territory at Canso, Nova Scotia in 1720, and Massachusetts Governor Samuel Shute built forts on traditional Abenaki territory at the mouth of the Kennebec River.

[10]: 49  As revenge for the first raid on Norridgewock, the Mi'kmaq laid siege to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia John Doucett in May 1722 at Annapolis Royal.

[10]: 47  On June 13, 1722, in present-day Maine, the tribe and allied groups burned Brunswick at the mouth of the Kennebec, taking hostages to exchange for those of their people held in Boston.

He had grown disgusted with the intransigent Assembly (which controlled funding) as it squabbled with the Governor's Council over which body should conduct the war.

Thereafter, the French and Indians claimed that the missionary died "a martyr" at the foot of a large cross set in the central square, drawing the soldiers' attention to himself to save his parishioners.

A Mohawk named Christian, who accompanied the troops, slipped back after they had departed and set the village and church ablaze.

In 1833, Bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick dedicated an 11-foot tall obelisk monument, erected by subscription, over his grave at what is today St. Sebastian's Cemetery at Old Point in Madison, Maine.