John Lovewell

John Lovewell (October 14, 1691 – May 8, 1725) is a famous ranger in the 18th century who fights during Father Rale's War (also known as Lovewell's War).

He lives in present-day Nashua, New Hampshire.

He fights in Father Rale's War as a militia captain, leading three expeditions against the Abenaki Indians.

John Lovewell becomes the most famous Ranger (i.e., scalp hunter) of the eighteenth century.

Although the outcome is a draw, Lovewell's Fight marks the end of hostilities between the English and the Abenakis of Maine.

This conflict is a turning point.

So important is it to western Maine, New Hampshire and even Massachusetts colonists that the Fight is celebrated in song and story, and its importance is not eclipsed until the American Revolution.

More than one hundred years later, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poem, "The Battle of Lovells Pond"), Nathaniel Hawthorne (story, "Roger Malvin's Burial") and Henry David Thoreau all write about Lovewell's Fight.

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