Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan

Villebon had made Baptiste captain of a small coast guard vessel and captain of the Port Royal militia.

Baptiste is protecting Acadian fishing interests off of Acadia when he is captured in 1702 and again imprisoned in Boston on the eve of Queen Anne's War.

During Queen Anne's War, Queen Anne is reported to have ordered that no prisoners are to be exchanged and that Baptiste is to be hanged, because he is an officer of the garrison of Port Royal who had been made prisoner during peacetime, and who had then failed to recover his freedom, on the ground of his being a pirate.

On hearing this, Governor of Plaisance (Placentia), Newfoundland Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan had sent an express messenger to Boston, to declare to the governor that the he will retaliate if Baptiste is killed.

This saves Baptiste's life.

Baptiste is kept in strict seclusion on Boston's Castle Island until December, 1706.

New France and Acadia have made significant diplomatic efforts to get him back, insisting that he be released as part of a prisoner exchange involving captives taken by French and native raiders in the 1704 Raid on Deerfield.

Difficulties in obtaining Baptiste's release have also lead to the delay in the return of another prominent prisoner, Acadian Noel Doiron.

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.

Baptiste had eventually returned to Acadia in 1706 and for the rest of Queen Anne's War will serve as port captain of the Acadian settlement of Beaubassin.

He is reported to have served with distinction in the first Siege of Port Royal in 1707.