James McDuffee Family Burial Ground;

"Located on the east side of Rochester Neck Road at the intersection of Rochester Neck and Steele Roads... there is a single interment Indian Burial Mound here.... The Indian's name was Willanowit, who was a good friend of the McDuffee's and was known by the name of Blind Will....You can tell that it is an Indian Burial Mound because covering over a whole person's gravesite would be a small mound of dirt that is completely covered over with miscellaneous sizable rocks and stones. Waste Management has had a headstone made of black marble with his name facing the burial mound...."

excerpted (I need to return to the Rochester Library to copy the author's information)

"Blind Wills Neck: A point of land in the south-west part of Rochester, near the Dover line, formed by the junction of the Cocheco and Isinglass Rivers. It is here that a friendly indian sagamore named Blind Will was killed in March 1677, having been sent with a scouting party by Major Waldron to watch the movements of some hostile indians, who suddenly fell upon the party and killed the greater part."

excerpted from Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire, page 26

"Blind Wills Neck is formed by the confluence of the Cocheco and Isinglass Rivers. Sometime in March, 1677, a party of friendly indians, of which Blind Will was one, were all surprised together by a party of Mohawks, and two or three only escaped. Blind Will was dragged by his hair until he perished of his wounds on this neck of land which still bears his name,"

excerpted from Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire, page 86

"Of course, some Indians had more knowledge of trails than others, Blind Will, sagamore of the Newichwannock tribe, boasted that he knew every trail in New Hampshire. Major Waldron of Dover soon availed himself of this knowledge and often entrusted Blind Will with messages to the sachems of distant tribes. Unwittingly, Major Waldron sent Blind Will to his death when he directed him to locate some strange Indians who had been seen to the west of Dover. Accompanied by several tribesmen, Blind Will took the trail to what is now Barrington, where his little force was ambushed by a band of bloodthirsty Mohawk Indians from New York, mortal foes of Penacook and Abenaki tribes. Blind Will, forced to retreat, was overtaken and slain at the confluence of the Isinglass and Cocheco Rivers."

excerpted from The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England; Chester B Price, author; Chapter 16, page 155

"For when our forces were come within a few miles of the hither side of Casco Bay, some of our Natick indian scouts going in company with the Indians under Blind Will (a sagamore of the Piscataqua, who went in company with 8 of his men, supposed to be good pilots for the places more eastward,) met with some of the enemy, and laid hold of a couple of them; justice was done to one of them; the other, although he was led by two of them, made shift to go, escaping, got over a river, and gave notice to the Indians who were on the other side, who were heard but a little before threshing in a barn that belonged to one Anthony Bracket..."

excerpted from A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New England.. page 338

"Passaconaway, the sagacious sachem of the Penacooks, desirous of an ally against his troublesome neighbors....urged more English to come,,,
Passaconaway addressed his Indians, "Listen to your father. The white men are the sons of the morning. The Great Spirit is their father. Never war with them. If you light the fire, His breath will turn the flames upon you and destroy you....Blind Will, determined to heed Passaconaway's advice, and keep peace with the whites."

excerpted from History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Volume I, page 456