Deerfield Captives
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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/).