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The 'Deerfield massacre' occurred during Queen Anne's War on February 29, 1704, when joint French and Native American forces under the command of Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville attacked the English Puritan settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts just before dawn, razing the town and killing fifty-six colonists. De Rouville's forces consisted of forty-seven French and French Canadian soldiers and two-hundred Native Americans, mostly Abenaki, Kanienkehaka and Wyandot, accompanied by a few Pocumtuck. Of the colonists killed, twenty-two were men, nine were women, and twenty-five were children.
One hundred and nine residents, including the women and children who had survived the attack, were taken captive and forced on a months-long, three-hundred-mile trek to Quebec in harsh winter conditions; twenty-one of them died along the way.[1] More than sixty of those who reached Quebec were eventually ransomed or otherwise managed to make their way back to New England, but a number of others, including Eunice Williams, the young daughter of Deerfield's pastor, chose to remain in French and Native communities, such as Wendake, Quebec, for the rest of their lives.[2]
1. Attack on Deerfield (paragraph #2)
2. Attack on Deerfield (paragraph #3)
★ Demos, John. "The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America", (New York, 1994)
★ Haefeli, Evan and Sweeney, John. "Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield", (Amherst, 2003)
★ Smith, Mary. "Boy Captive of Old Deerfield", (Aeonian, 1976)
★ Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
★ Digital Collection "Old Indian House" (photo) and (painting)
★ Frary House
★ Historic Deerfield Buys 1703 letter that predicts attack
★ Historic Deerfield museum
The 'Deerfield massacre' occurred during Queen Anne's War on February 29, 1704, when joint French and Native American forces under the command of Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville attacked the English Puritan settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts just before dawn, razing the town and killing fifty-six colonists. De Rouville's forces consisted of forty-seven French and French Canadian soldiers and two-hundred Native Americans, mostly Abenaki, Kanienkehaka and Wyandot, accompanied by a few Pocumtuck. Of the colonists killed, twenty-two were men, nine were women, and twenty-five were children.
One hundred and nine residents, including the women and children who had survived the attack, were taken captive and forced on a months-long, three-hundred-mile trek to Quebec in harsh winter conditions; twenty-one of them died along the way.[1] More than sixty of those who reached Quebec were eventually ransomed or otherwise managed to make their way back to New England, but a number of others, including Eunice Williams, the young daughter of Deerfield's pastor, chose to remain in French and Native communities, such as Wendake, Quebec, for the rest of their lives.[2]
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| Source notes |
| Further reading |
| External links |
Source notes
1. Attack on Deerfield (paragraph #2)
2. Attack on Deerfield (paragraph #3)
Further reading
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★ Demos, John. "The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America", (New York, 1994)
★ Haefeli, Evan and Sweeney, John. "Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield", (Amherst, 2003)
★ Smith, Mary. "Boy Captive of Old Deerfield", (Aeonian, 1976)
External links
★ Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
★ Digital Collection "Old Indian House" (photo) and (painting)
★ Frary House
★ Historic Deerfield Buys 1703 letter that predicts attack
★ Historic Deerfield museum
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