The unredeemed captive : a family story from early America

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Summary: In the early morn of February 29, 1704, a French and Indian war party attacked the settlers of Deerfield, Mass. The episode achieved considerable notoriety in America and abroad, because the Indians managed to capture the eminent minister John Williams, his wife Eunice Mather Williams, and their five children. This Puritan family as well as more than a hundred of their good neighbors were now at the mercy of "savages:" French-speaking converts to Catholicism. Demos tells the story of the minister's captured daughter Eunice, who was seven years old at the time of the Deerfield incident and was adopted by a Mohawk family living at a Jesuit mission-fort near Montreal. Two and a half years later, when Reverend Williams was released and returned to Boston amid much public rejoicing, Eunice remained behind. And so began a decades-long effort, alternately hopeful and demoralizing for her kin, to retrieve her. Eventually, her father's worst fears were confirmed: Eunice was not being held against her will. On the contrary, she had forgotten how to speak English, had married a young Mohawk man, and could not be prevailed upon to return to Deerfield

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