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Como se sospechaba que el sacerdote [[Sébastien Rale]] animaba a la tribu [[Norridgewock]] a hostigar a los colonos de Nueva Inglaterra, el gobernador de Massachusetts [[Joseph Dudley]] dio una recompensa por su cabeza. En el invierno de 1705, Massachusetts envió doscientos setente y cinco milicianos al mando del coronel Winthrop Hilton a apresar a Rale y a saquear el pueblo indio. El sacerdote fue avisado de la llegada del contingente enemigo y se refugió en los bosques con sus documentos; los milicianos prendieron fuego al pueblo, incluida la iglesia.<ref>{{cite DCB |title=Rale, Sébastien |first=Thomas |last=Charland |volume=2 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/rale_sebastien_2E.html}}</ref>

 

 

In May 1707, Governor Dudley organized an expedition to take Port Royal led by [[John March]]. However, 1,600 men failed to take the fort by [[Siege of Port Royal (1707)|siege]], and a follow-up expedition in August was also repulsed.<ref>Peckham, p. 67</ref> In response, the French developed an ambitious plan to raid most of the [[Province of New Hampshire|New Hampshire]] settlements on the [[Piscataqua River]]. However, much of the Indian support needed never materialized, and the Massachusetts town of [[Haverhill, Massachusetts|Haverhill]] [[Raid on Haverhill (1708)|was raided]] instead.<ref>Drake, pp. 238–247</ref> In 1709, [[New France]] governor [[Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil]] reported that two-thirds of the fields north of [[Boston]] were untended because of French and Indian raids. French-Indian war parties were returning without prisoners because the New England colonists stayed in their forts and would not come out.<ref>Eccles, p. 139</ref>