Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-12-13
Fryeburg.

The death, last Saturday evening, of
Mrs. Mary Baker Clover Eddy recalls
the fact that her great-greatgrandfather,
Capt. John Lovewell of Dunstable,
Mass, THAT part of Dunstable which is
now included in the city OF Nashua,
N. H.,) met his death in this town and ID
buried here, though in an unknown
grave. Capt. Lovewell was famous
Indian fighter, and was killed in the
desperate battle since known as Love-
wells Fight, which on the Saturday,
May s, 1925, o. s. MAY 10, N. 81, was
fought betw the whites and Indians
ON the shore of Lovewell's Pond (Which
was so named in honor Of Capt. Love
welD, the scene of the battle being about
mile from Fryeburg Village: This
sanguinary death grapple in what was
then trackless wilderness began at
about 10 o'clock A. NJ, and lasted till
after sunset. Capt. Lovewell lost his
life in the early part of the battle, and
after his death the whites retired to the
edge of the pond, where, with the pond
( in their rear, the mouth of an unforda-
BILE brook ON their right, a rocky point
on their left, and ridge in front OF
them, and also having the shelter OF
some large pine trees, they succeeded IN
holding the savages at bay and in finally
forcing them to doggedly retire dis
comfited from the field and forego their
we'll nigh successful efforts to capture or
to completely annihilate their white an
tagonists. At about the hour OF mid
night the surviving members OF Capt.
Lovewell's valiant company who were
able to travel commenced retreat towards
the white settlements, but therelwere two
of their comrades who we're mortally
wounded, and these, together with the
bodies of 10 of their slain companions,
they were obliged to abandon and leave
behind on the eusanguined scene of car
mage, one of the 10 dead bodies thus
abandoned and left behind being that oil
Mrs. Eddy's at-great-grandfather
Capt. Lovewell. As soon as intelligence
of the battle reached the white settle
ments, Col. Eleazer Tying with COM
pany Of soldiers was sent to the scene
of the battle, and the bodies oil
Capt. Lovewell and his fellow com,
panions in death we're found and buried
on the field by Col Tying and his com
pany though at just what spot on the
battlefield the bodies were buried il
not known. If the Indians had had
knowledge as to where the bodies hao
been buried, it is probable that they
would have exhumed and scalped them
and perhaps have subjected them tt
other savage indignities, so Col. Tying and
his company, in burying the bodies, un
doubt, dly took care that as little trace al
possible was left as to the place of Their
sepulture. When, in the early part OF
the battle, the whites, as mentioned
above, retired to the shore of the pond
the bodies of Capt. Lovewell and the
others who had been slain were left
where they fell, but neither their
corpses nor the corpses OF those who
were afterwards killed in the battle anc
left on the battlefield when the surviv
ing members of Capt. Lovewelfs com
pany retreated to the white settlements
were scalped by the Indians, the failure
of the Indians to do this being exp!lca
BILE, apparently, on no other ground thar
that of their own great losses and ulti-
mate defeat in the battle. The genoa
logical line from Mrs. Eddy to Capt
L0vewell is as follows: Mrs. Eddy's ia
Their was Mark Baker; Mark Bakers ia
Their was Joseph Baker; Joseph Bakers
mother was Mrs. Hannah Baker, wife Of
Joseph Baker; Mrs. Hannah Baker wa:
the daughter of Capt. Lovewell. Mrs
Eddy's uncle, John Baker, brother to
the aforementioned Mark Baker, was
resident of the adjoining town of Con
way, N. H., and died there Dec. 20, 1892