page_title: Siege of Pemaquid (1689)
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Siege of Pemaquid (1689) / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque to the death of James Giles (John Gyles' brother), Dyce Head Lighthouse Rd., Castine, Maine
context_page_description: The Siege of Pemaquid was a successful attack by a large band of Abenaki Indians on the English fort at Pemaquid, Fort Charles, then the easternmost outpost of colonial Massachusetts. The French-Abenaki attack was led by Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin and Father Louis-Pierre Thury and Chief Moxus. The fall of Pemaquid was a significant setback to the English. It pushed the frontier back to Casco, Maine.
context_section_description: Massachusetts responded to the raid by sending out 600 men to the border region.  Led by Major Jeremiah Swaine of Reading, Massachusetts, the soldiers' met on August 28, 1689 and then scoured the region.  The natives killed 10 of Swaine's men at Falmouth.  Despite Swaine's presence, the natives attacked Oyster River (Durham, New Hampshire) and killed 21 and taking several captive. Swaine was then replaced by Major Benjamin Church.
  One of the captives the Maliseet took back to their main village Meductic, on the Saint John River was John Gyles, who created one of the few captivity narratives to come out of Nova Scotia/Acadia. John's other brother Thomas escaped the siege. John Gyles' third brother James was also captured at the same time by the Penobscot and eventually taken back to Fort Pentagouet (present-day Castine, Maine) where he was tortured and burned alive at the stake.
  The Fort at Pemaquid was rebuilt in stone in 1692–93 and renamed Fort William Henry.  Four years later d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin and the Wabanaki Confederacy captured it again.
caption: Sign at site of death of John Gyles' brother, Dyce Head Lighthouse Rd., Castine, Maine[7]
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