Person:Roger Plaisted (1)

Roger held numerous public offices including grand juryman, town commissioner and selectman, associate and deputy. He was commissioned a lieutenant of the militia for Kittery 7 July 1668 under command of Capt. Charles Frost.

On 16 Oct. 1675, natives attacked the town of Berwick and burned Richard Tozier's house where the townspeople were garrisoned. A messenger was sent to the garrison at Dover (New Hampshire) with the following letter:

Salmon Falls

Oct. 16, 1675

Mr. Richard Waldern and Lieut. Coffin:

These are to inform you that just now the Indians are engaging us with at least one hundred men, and have slain four of our men already - Richard Tozier, James Barron, Isaac Botts, and Tozier's son - and have burnt Benony Hodsdon's house. Sir, if you have any love of us, and the Country, now show yourself with men to help us, or else we are all in great danger to be slain, unless our God wonderfully appears for our deliverance.

They that cannot fight, let them pray, nought else, but I rest Yours to serve you

Roger Playstead

George Broughton

Help came from Eliot, however, it did not arrive in time. Roger had gone out to recover the bodies of the dead men on 17 Oct. with a cart drawn by oxen and left the fort with 20 soldiers. While they were placing the first body in the cart the Indians fired from the brush. A few of the men escaped, however, Roger and his two sons Roger and Samuel were killed trying to fight off the attackers.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Web Site at rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mainegenie, authors Jeff & Pam Martin- York, Maine, USA.
2.   Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn. Old Kittery and her families. (Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States: Press of Lewiston journal company, 1903).