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Aaron Rawlings

1723

Killed with his family at Lamperele River, New England, 1723 — colonial newspaper report of an Indian raid, datelined Portsmouth, Aug. 30

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At-a-glance facts

Record type

Obituary

Date of death

1723

Place of death

at Lamperele River

The obituary

Inscription transcription

Portsmouth, in New England, Aug. 30.

LAST Monday Morning the Indians surprized one Aaron Rawlings, and his Family, at Lamperele River, killed and carry'd them all away, being six in Number. About the same time, they kill'd one Joseph Hain of Quochecha, and two of his Daughters, and took another, but she made her Escape from them. Likewise about the same time eight Men arm'd at Barwick fell into an Ambush of Indians, who shot one Man dead upon the Spot, and wounded another. Yesterday Morning 10 Indians were discover'd at Lamperele River, as they were crawling to waylay the Road, but being discover'd, and an Alarm made, they went off openly.

Transcribed from the photographed clipping; original eighteenth-century spellings kept (long-s rendered as modern s). The clipping is datelined only "Aug. 30" with no year — the year 1723 is taken from our archive's index entry for this record. The report says Rawlings and his family, six in number, were killed and carried away, and also names Joseph Hain of Quochecha and unnamed men at Barwick as victims of the same attacks; this record covers Aaron Rawlings, under whose name our archive filed the report.

People named in this record

  • Aaron RawlingsSubject
  • Joseph HainMentioned

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Source & citation

Source type
Photograph & transcription
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-07-06
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Transcribed from the photographed newspaper clipping in this record

Citation: Death record of Aaron Rawlings, killed with his family at Lamperele River, New England, 1723, from a colonial newspaper report datelined Portsmouth, in New England, Aug. 30. Photographed clipping preserved in the Ancestors at Rest archive. (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/obituaries/rawlings-aaron-1723/ : accessed [your access date]).

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