Melvin, Eleazar, fl. 1725.

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Captain John Lovewell of New Hampshire was one of New England's most famous frontiersmen and scalp hunters.

During Dummer's War in the spring of 1725, Lovewell recruited forty-six men to raid the Indian town of Pigwacket, also a tribe of the Abenaki confederacy. Upon approaching Pigwacket on May 8, Lovewell and his men encountered a much larger Indian force than expected. Capt. Lovewell was mortally wounded at the first fire and only eighteen of his men survived the day-long battle.

From the description of Account : of Capt. Lovewell's fight at Pigwacket, 1725 May 8. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 38867900

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