Canada, on New England's release of he…
1707 CE
Canada, on New England's release of he French pirate Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste, arranges redemption of numerous Deerfield people, among them the minister John Williams, who writes a captivity narrative about his experience, which is published in 1707 and becomes well known.
Because of losses to war and disease, the Mohawk and other tribes often adopt younger captives into their tribes.
Such had been the case with Williams' daughter Eunice, eight years old when captured.
She will become thoroughly assimilated, marrying a Mohawk man at age sixteen.
Most of the Deerfield captives eventually return to New England.
Other captives during this period remain by choice in French and Native communities such as Kahnawake for the rest of their lives.