{"slug": "abenaki", "label": "Abenaki", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318806", "qid": "Q318806", "description": "Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the US", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1692, 1754], "span_label": ["1692 CE", "1754 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}], "related": [{"slug": "province-of-massachusetts-bay", "label": "Province of Massachusetts Bay", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "nova-scotia", "label": "Nova Scotia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-england", "label": "New England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-hampshire", "label": "New Hampshire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1692, "year_label": "1692 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 –King William's War – Candlemas Massacre: At least 75 residents of what is now York, Maine are killed by French soldiers, led by missionary Louis-Pierre Thury, along with a larger force of Abenaki and Penobscot Indians, under the command of Penobscot Chief Madockawando.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365636017#January–March", "title": "1692", "revid": 1365636017, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1698, "year_label": "1698 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – The Abenaki tribe and Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty, ending the conflict in New England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370144847#January–March", "title": "1698", "revid": 1370144847, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 15", "text": "December 15 – A treaty is signed by chiefs of four member tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy (the Abenaki, Pequawket, Mi'kmaq, Maliseet) and representatives of three British provinces in North America (Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire and Nova Scotia) and their allies, the Mohawk nation, bringing an end to Dummer's War, named for acting Massachusetts Bay Governor William Dummer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361335962#October–December", "title": "1725", "revid": 1361335962, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1745, "year_label": "1745 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – King George's War: A combined force of troops from the French Army and of the Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki and Penobscot tribes) destroys the British American settlement at Fort Saratoga (modern Schuylerville, New York), burning the fort and surrounding buildings to the ground, and killing 15 people. Another 103 survivors are taken prisoner.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353016128#October_–December", "title": "1745", "revid": 1353016128, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – At Falmouth, a part of the British Province of Massachusetts Bay that would later be the site of Portland, Maine, a peace treaty is signed between representatives of Massachusetts Bay and 19 sagamores and tribal chiefs of the Wabanaki Confederacy (encompassing the Penobscot, Kennebec, Odanak and Wôlinak tribes of the Abenaki Indians), temporarily settling territorial disputes in Maine during King George's War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360727483#October–December", "title": "1749", "revid": 1360727483, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1754, "year_label": "1754 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 30", "text": "August 30 – New Hampshire settlers Susannah Willard Johnson and her family are taken hostage by the Abenaki Indians during an attack near Charlestown. Nine months pregnant at the time of their capture, Johnson gives birth two days later to a child, whom she names Elizabeth Captive Johnson. For the next two years, the family is held for ransom in Canada before she is released. In 1796, she will recount the story in a popular memoir, A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360193273#July–September", "title": "1754", "revid": 1360193273, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}