Raid on Oyster River

Raid on Oyster River
	Part of King William's War
	; Original historical marker about the raid
Date	July 18, 1694
Location	Oyster River, Province of New Hampshire (present-day Durham, New Hampshire)
Result	French and Wabanaki Confederacy victory
Belligerents
Province of New Hampshire	New France; Wabanaki Confederacy (Abenaki, Maliseet)
Commanders and leaders
Francis Drew; Thomas Pickford; John Woodman	Claude-Sébastien de Villieu; Louis-Pierre Thury; Bomazeen; Captain Nathaniel; Assacumbuit
Strength
Unknown	c. 250 Abenaki; unknown Maliseet
Casualties and losses
104 inhabitants were killed and 27 taken captive	Unknown

The Raid on Oyster River, also known as the Oyster River Massacre, happened during King William's War, on July 18, 1694, when a group of Abenaki and some Maliseet, directed by the French, attacked an English settlement at present-day Durham, New Hampshire. It was the second attack on the village in five years.

This was the most devastating of the many attacks on the Seacoast Region during the war with 104 settlers killed. It remains the third worst disaster to occur in New Hampshire. Other notable attacks were the Cochecho Massacre at Dover Point (1689), the Salmon Falls Raid at South Berwick (1690), and attacks at Sandy Beach (1691), York (1692), Oyster River Massacre (1694) and Portsmouth Plains (1696).