The Raid on York (also known as the Candlemas Massacre) took place on 24 January 1692[5][6] during King William's War, when Chief Madockawando and Father Louis-Pierre Thury led 200-300 natives into the town of York (then in the District of Maine and part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, now in the state of Maine), killing about 100 of the English settlers and burning down buildings, taking another estimated 80 villagers hostage.

Floyd, and the remaining number were young children whose names never appeared on the existing town records.

[9] The Indians set fire to all undefended houses on the north side of the York River, the principal route for trade and around which the town had grown.

After the settlement was reduced to ashes, however, it was rebuilt on higher ground at what is today York Village.

John Flood, who had come with the militia from Portsmouth, found on his arrival that "the greatest part of the whole town was burned and robbed," with nearly 50 killed and another 100 captured.