Means massacre

On May 10, 1756,[1][2] the Means family of North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay (today's Freeport, Maine), were attacked by Native Americans during the French and Indian War.

Although warning had been given about an Indian raid being in progress in the area, with the recommendation that outlying settlers should shelter in their nearest garrison house, the Means family decided to wait until the morning to go to Flying Point.

A few months later, Captain William McLellan, of Falmouth, Maine (now Portland), was in Quebec in charge of a group of prisoners for exchange.

[5] The Means massacre was the last act of resistance by the indigenous people to occur within the limits of North Yarmouth.

[8] Thomas Means was born in December 1756, a few months after the death of his father and brother, in the garrison house at Flying Point.

[10] A nearby one-room former schoolhouse is named the Thomas Means Club in memory of the family's patriarch.