The Raid on Haverhill was a military engagement that took place on March 15, 1697 during King William's War.
Ordered by Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France,[1] French, Algonquin, and Abenaki warriors descended on Haverhill, then a small frontier community in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
[3] Even after the war was officially ended, Abenaki raids on the English colonists continued.
On March 4, 1698 Pigwacket Abenaki Chief, Escumbuit led a group of 30 Indians in a raid on Andover, Massachusetts, the last and most severe Indian raid on this town.
There was also another raid by the Natives of Acadia on Hatfield, Massachusetts in 1688, where they killed two settlers.