The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion ; Or, A Faithful History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Captivity and Deliverance of Mr. John Williams, Minister of the Gospel in Deerfield, who in the Desolation that Befel that Plantation by an Incursion of the French and Indians, was by Them Carried Away, with His Family and His Neighbor-hood, Into Canada, Drawn Up by Himself

The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion ; Or, A Faithful History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Captivity and Deliverance of Mr. John Williams, Minister of the Gospel in Deerfield, who in the Desolation that Befel that Plantation by an Incursion of the French and Indians, was by Them Carried Away, with His Family and His Neighbor-hood, Into Canada, Drawn Up by Himself
Author: John Williams
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 193
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1557091188

When a party of French and Indians attacked Deerfield, Mass., in 1704, 49 people were killed, including Reverend Williams's wife and two of their children. Williams's life was spared but he was taken captive. This is the story of the massacre and William's eventual release in his own words.

An Indian Bibliography

An Indian Bibliography
Author: Warren Field Thomas Warren Field
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2009-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1429022620

The Unredeemed Captive

The Unredeemed Captive
Author: John Demos
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 030779069X

Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband. Out of this incident, The Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gilfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.