 The Raid on Haverhill was a military engagement that took place on August 29 , 1708 during Queen Anne 's War . French , Algonquin , and Abenaki warriors under the command of Jean @-@ Baptiste Hertel de Rouville descended on Haverhill , then a small frontier community in the Province of Massachusetts Bay . In the surprise attack , 16 people were killed and 11 captured. everybody was scared and the town was burned down.
French and their Native American allies had been raiding New England settlements for several years. The raid on Haverhill was the largest and most successful of these attacks.
On August 29, 