French , Algonquin , and Abenaki warriors under the command of Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville descended on Motion_directional Haverhill , then a small frontier community in the Province of Massachusetts Bay .

The British colonists were supported Supporting at various times by the Iroquois , Catawba , and Cherokee tribes , and the French colonists were supported by Wabanaki Confederacy member tribes Abenaki and Mi'kmaq , and the Algonquin , Lenape , Ojibwa , Ottawa , Shawnee , and Wyandot tribes .

Typical of the small-scale frontier conflict Hostile_encounter in Queen Anne 's War , the French-led raid Attack relied on a coalition of French soldiers and a variety of about 300 Indian warriors , mostly Abenaki but including a number of Pocumtuc who had once lived in the Deerfield area .