If your research is in York Maine or you have history from York Maine check out this news story

Comment by Donna R. Curtis-Binette on March 11, 2013 at 4:31pm

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20111109-NEWS-111090320

Just found out last week my 7x great uncle Thomas Curtis was in the Candelmas Massacre. 

Comment by Barbara Foster on March 11, 2013 at 5:54pm

Oh ya, please tell me more? 

Comment by Donna R. Curtis-Binette on March 11, 2013 at 6:03pm

Barbara, I Googled his name and found the story. I think  his sister Elizabeth found the same fate.

Comment by Barbara Foster on March 11, 2013 at 7:40pm

Wow I just looked at some of this on the web.  I will be trying to find out more about this story.  I had no Idea, can you imagine a forced march to Canada of 300 people, with some dying along the way.  People being killed in there homes and their homes distroyed.  Oh my, it was a very wild place, not all what we learned about history books in school and what a nice meal our ancesters had with the friendly Natives.  That is not to say at all that the Natives of this land were treated well by either. 

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