1724 – Natives attack Maine fishing posts taking 22 vessels and killing at least 22 men– >20

— ~20  Rowe. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Ship Building… 1948, p. 31-32.

Narrative Information

Rowe: “A more serious outrage occurred in 1724 [some vessels had been stolen in 1677]. Again the Indians appeared suddenly on the seacoast and seized all the vessels they could find. In a few weeks’ time they took twenty-two vessels – two shallops on the Isles of Shoals, eight fishing vessels taken in Fox Island Thoroughfare, one large schooner armed with two swivels, and twelve other craft surprised in various places. In these piratical attacks they killed twenty or more men and took many more prisoners. These latter were the masters and the more skillful seamen. [They were] compelled…to navigate this ill-assorted squadron. Then with the help of the Micmacs of Cape Sable they terrorized all who sailed along the eastern coast. Several under-armed expeditions were sent against them. It was not until three vessels manned by sailors and commanded by officers of the man-of-war Seahorse, then on the Boston Station, were sent out that the Indians tired of naval warfare and disappeared.”

Source

Rowe, William Hutchinson.  The Maritime History of Maine:  Three Centuries of Ship Building & Seafaring.  Gardiner, ME: Harpswell Press, 1948.