Walter Gendall

There was a record held at the Trelawney Plantation on Richmond Island, off Cape Elizabeth, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now in Maine), that he was resident in the area.

[4] During King Philip's War, while at Fort Lyall in Falmouth in August 1676, Captain Gendall decided that the "furious natives" were of sufficient anger that he sent word to Boston for reinforcements.

Upon dropping anchor at Richmond Island in Saco Bay, a group of Abenaki Indians, led by Chief Mog of Cape Porpoise, captured the vessel and its crew.

Under Mog's orders, the ketch and its crew (minus Gendall) was sailed up the Sheepscot River and berthed for the winter.

One crew member died from injuries sustained during the capture; the others were divided amongst the Indians and taken, by canoe, to Penobscot Bay via Damariscotta.

[8] A bond was paid by Gendall's friend Nathaniel Fryer as part of an agreement with the court, and the incident came to a conclusion.

[9] Peace was reached with the Indians on August 12, 1678, when three English commissioners met chief Squanto and two other sagamores to sign a treaty.

[10] Three years later, he claimed all of the 2,000 acres (810 ha) owned by fellow Englishman, early settler George Felt.

[16] Gendall, "one of the bravest and foremost men of the early days",[10] died on September 19, 1688,[3] shortly after the outbreak of Second Indian War, having been shot by Indians near Callen Point while taking supplies to his troops building a fort on the southern side of the Royal River.

[18] A stone marker honoring Gendall stands to the north of 28 Lafayette Street in the area of Yarmouth that came to be known as Grantville.