Shadrach Walton (1658 – 3 October 1741) was a British colonial administrator and soldier in the Province of New Hampshire.
[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] In 1682 Walton's property and his father's inn were the victims of a "stone-throwing devil" that harassed them in a series of poltergeist-like events.
[10] During King William's War, Walton led an expedition in 1690 to relieve Fort Loyal, Maine under siege from a French and Wabanaki force, but arrived too late to save the inhabitants from the massacre of Falmouth.
[12] After the fall of Port Royal in 1710, Walton led a force from New Hampshire on a search and destroy mission against hostiles along the coast of Maine, and managed to kill a small number of Native Americans.
[13] In 1711 he led two companies in a similar operation against the Western Abenaki of today's Vermont, but failed to make contact with them.