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Deerfield Captives

View a complete list of the 1704 Deerfield, Massachusetts raid captives and their fate.

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1704 Deerfield Raid Captives

 A complete list of the captives taken from Deerfield, Massachusetts during the 1704 raid by French and Indigenous forces, along with their fate. Click here for more information on the historical context behind the raid and the personal story of my ancestors. Click here to view photos of historic Deerfield.


  • Alexander, Joseph, 23, escaped while on the march

  • Alexander (née Weld), Mary, 36, returned to New England

  • Alexander, Mary, 2, killed while on the march

  • Allen, Marie Françoise (birth name unknown), abt. 12, stayed in New France

  • Allen, Sarah, 12, stayed in New France

  • Allis, Mary, 22, returned to New England

  • Baker, Thomas, 21, escaped from New France

  • Beamon (née Barnard), Hannah, 58, returned to New England

  • Beamon, Simon, 47, returned to New England

  • Belding (née Buel), Hepzibah, 54, killed while on the march

  • Bridgeman, James, 30, escaped on the march

  • Brooks (née Williams), Mary, 40, killed while on the march

  • Brooks, Mary, 7, likely stayed in New France

  • Brooks, Nathaniel, 39, returned to New England

  • Brooks, William, 6, fate unknown

  • Brown, Abigail, 25, returned to New England

  • Burt, Benjamin, 23, returned to New England

  • Burt, John, 21, returned to New England

  • Burt, Sarah (née Belding), 22, returned to New England

  • Carter, Ebenezer, 6, returned to New England

  • Carter (née Wheeler), Hannah, 29, killed while on the march

  • Carter, Hannah, 7 months, killed while on the march

  • Carter, John, 8, stayed in New France

  • Carter, Marah, 3, killed while on the march

  • Carter, Mercy, 10, remained in Kahnawake

  • Carter, Samuel Jr., 12, stayed in New France

  • Catlin, John, 7, returned to New England

  • Catlin, Ruth, 20, returned to New England

  • Corse (née Catlin), Elizabeth, abt. 32, killed while on the march

  • Corse, Elizabeth, 8, stayed in New France

  • Crowfoot, Daniel, 3, fate unknown

  • De Noyon (née Stebbins), Abigail, 20, stayed in New France

  • De Noyon, Jacques, 36, stayed in New France

  • Dickinson, Sarah, 24, returned to New England

  • Eastman, Joseph, 20, returned to New England

  • Field, John, 3, returned to New England

  • Field, Mary “Marguerite”, 3, stayed in New France

  • Field (née Bennett), Mary, 28, returned to New England

  • Field, Mary, 6, remained in Kahnawake

  • Frary (née Daniels), Mary, abt. 64, killed while on the march

  • French, Abigail, 6, remained in Kahnawake

  • French, Freedom, 11, stayed in New France

  • French, Martha, 8, stayed in New France

  • French (née Catlin), Mary, 40, killed while on the march

  • French, Mary, 17, returned to New England

  • French, Thomas, 47, returned to New England

  • French, Thomas Jr., 14, returned to New England

  • Harris, Mary, 9, remained in Kahnawake

  • Hastings, Samuel, 20, returned to New England

  • Hawks, Elizabeth, 6, killed while on the march

  • Hickson, Jacob, 21, died of starvation in Vermont while on the march

  • Hinsdale (née Rider), Mary, 23, returned to New England

  • Hinsdale, Mehuman, 31, returned to New England

  • Hoyt (née Cook), Abigail, 44, returned to New England

  • Hoyt, Abigail, 2, killed while on the march

  • Hoyt, David, 52, died of starvation in Vermont while on the march

  • Hoyt, Ebenezer, 8, killed while on the march

  • Hoyt, Jonathan, 15, returned to New England

  • Hoyt, Sarah, 17, returned to New England

  • Hull, Elizabeth, 15, returned to New England

  • Hurst, Benjamin, 2, killed while on the march

  • Hurst, Ebenezer, 5, returned to New England

  • Hurst, Elizabeth, 16, probably returned to New England

  • Hurst, Hannah, 8, remained with Iroquois of the Mountain

  • Hurst (née Jeffreys), Sarah, 40, returned to New England

  • Hurst, Sarah, 8, returned to New England

  • Hurst, Thomas, 12, stayed in New France

  • Kellogg, Joanna, 11, remained in Kahnawake

  • Kellogg, Joseph, 12, returned to New England

  • Kellogg, Martin, 45, returned to New England

  • Kellogg, Martin Jr., 17, escaped from New France

  • Kellogg, Rebecca, 8, returned to New England

  • Marsh, John, 24, returned to New England

  • Mattoon, Philip, 24, killed while on the march

  • Mattoon, Sarah, 17, returned to New England

  • Nims, Abigail, 3, stayed in New France

  • Nims, Ebenezer, 17, returned to New England

  • Nims (née Smead), Mehitable, 36, killed while on the march

  • Petty, Joseph, 31, escaped from New France

  • Petty (née Edwards), Sarah, 31, returned to New England

  • Pomroy (maiden name unknown), Esther, abt. 27, killed while on the march

  • Pomroy, Joshua, 28, returned to New England

  • Pomroy, Lydia, 20, returned to New England

  • Price, Samuel, 18, returned to New England

  • Richards, Jemima, 10, killed while on the march

  • Rising, Josiah, 9, stayed in New France

  • Sheldon, Ebenezer, 12, returned to New England

  • Sheldon (née Chapin), Hannah, 23, returned to New England

  • Sheldon, Mary, 16, returned to New England

  • Sheldon, Remembrance, 11, returned to New England

  • Stebbins (née Alexander), Dorothy, 42, returned to New England

  • Stebbins, Ebenezer, 9, probably stayed in New France

  • Stebbins, John, 56, returned to New England

  • Stebbins, John Jr., 19, returned to New England

  • Stebbins, Joseph, 4, stayed in New France

  • Stebbins, Samuel, 15, returned to New England

  • Stebbins, Thankful, 12, stayed in New France

  • Stevens (née Price), Elizabeth, 20, stayed in New France

  • Warner, Ebenezer, 27, returned to New England

  • Warner, Sarah, 4, returned to New England

  • Warner (née Smead), Waitstill, 24, killed while on the march

  • Warner, Waitstill, 2, fate unknown

  • Williams, Esther, 13, returned to New England

  • Williams (née Mather), Eunice, 39, killed while on the march

  • Williams, Eunice, 7, remained in Kahnawake

  • Williams, John, 39, returned to New England

  • Williams, Samuel, 15, returned to New England

  • Williams, Stephen, 10, returned to New England

  • Williams, Warham, 4, returned to New England

  • Wilton, John, 39, returned to New England

  • Wright, Judah, 26, returned to New England

  • [last name unknown], Frank, killed while on the march (enslaved African owned by Reverend John Williams)

  • [name unknown], stayed in New France (Frenchman)

  • [name unknown], stayed in New France (Frenchman)


To see short biographies on all of those involved in the 1704 Deerfield raid, visit http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/people/short_bios.jsp by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) / Memorial Hall Museum.


Sources and additional reading:

  • Baker, C. Alice, True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada during the Old French and Indian Wars, Greenfield, Mass.: Press of E. A. Hall & Co., 1897, 407 pages. Digitized by Google Books (https://play.google.com/books/).

  • Fournier, Marcel, De la Nouvelle-Angleterre à la Nouvelle-France : "L’histoire des captifs anglo-américains au Canada entre 1675 et 1760", Montréal, Québec : Société généalogique canadienne-française, 1992, 280 pages.   

  • Haefeli, Evan and Kevin Sweeney, Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid, Amherst and Boston, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006, 298 pages.

  • Historic Deerfield, Inc., The French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, February 29, 1704, Deerfield, Mass.: Historic Deerfield Publications, 2008, 62 pages.

  • Johnson, Clifton, An Unredeemed Captive: Being the Story of Eunice Williams, Holyoke, Mass.: Griffith, Axtell & Cady Company, 1897, 54 pages. Digitized by Google Books (https://play.google.com/books/).

  • Ontario Métis Family Records Center, “The Raizenne Legacy” (https://www.omfrc.org/2016/09/the-raizenne-legacy/ : accessed 17 Oct 2019), published Sep 2016.

  • Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) / Memorial Hall Museum, “Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704” (http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/home.do#).

  • Williams, John, The Redeemed Captive: A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Return of the Rev. John Williams, Minister of Deerfield, Massachusetts, who was Taken Prisoner by the Indians on the Destruction of the Town, A.D. 1704. New York, NY: S.W. Benedict & Company, 1833, 116 pages. Digitized by Google Books (https://play.google.com/books/).