Dummer's War (c. 1724), also known as Lovewell's War was a series of battles between the English and French. The war was fought in Northern New England, which at the time was clamed by both England and France. The English had built Fort Dummer in 1724, named after Lieutenant Governor William Dummer, the acting governor of Massachusetts. The fort was near the site of present-day Brattleboro, Vermont. The French were located at Norridgewock, an Abnaki village on the Kennebec River in Maine. On August 23, 1724, Captain Jeremiah Moultan led eighty men of the Massachusetts-Bay militia and some Mohawk Indians on a raid on Norridgewock. They killed seven Abnaki chiefs, along with a Jesuit missionary named Sebastien Rasles . They lost two militia-men and one Mohawk. On February 20, 1725, Captain John Lovewell , who the war is also named for, was the leader of an attack by the New England militia on Indians near Wakefield, New Hampshire. This was also the first instance of taking Indian scalps and selling them for money, which was done with the scalps of the ten Indians they killed. Lovewell died during a battle at Fryeburg, Maine, on May 8, 1725.