Mog (c. 1663 – 23 August 1724) was an

Abenaki The Abenaki ( Abenaki: ''Wαpánahki'') are Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. They are an Algonquian-speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Eastern Abenaki language was pred ...

leader who resisted the expansion of the British

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onto his homeland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Born in about 1663, he was the son of an Abenaki leader also named Mog, who was killed in 1677. Mog fought in

King William's War King William's War (also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), also known as the War of the Grand Allian ...

and

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as an ally of

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, returning scalps of New England colonists to

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in exchange for payment. After the 1713

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, Mog was forced to capitulate, giving the New Englanders free passage through their territory. Peace was ended in 1722 when a few Abenaki men attacked the

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, which declared war on the Abenaki. Alongside Father Sebastien Rale, he was killed in the

Battle of Norridgewock The Battle of Norridgewock was a raid on the Abenaki settlement of Norridgewock by a group of colonial militiamen from the New England Colonies. Occurring in contested lands on the edge of the American frontier, the raid resulted in the massacr ...

on 23 August 1724 after being shot by a British-allied

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whose son narrowly escaped being killed by Mog's musket fire.

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1660s births 1724 deaths Abenaki people Native American leaders People of Dummer's War {{NorthAm-mil-bio-stub