The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield

The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield
Author: Mary P. Wells Smith
Publisher: Gideon House Books
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1943133263

On the morning of February 29, 1704, a French and Indian force invaded Deerfield, MA, the northwesternmost outpost of the colonial frontier. During the raid, 47 residents of Deerfield were killed and 112 were taken captive by Indian raiders who forced their captives to March north in grueling conditions to Canada. "The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield" tells the story of 10-year-old Stephen Williams, one of the 112 residents taken captive in the raid. Smith describes Stephen’s transition from a boy terrorized by all that has happened to him and to those he loves to a boy who, over time, begins to adapt to the Indian way of life. Come follow Stephen as he battles starvation, learns to hunt, escapes dangerous situations and more. "The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield" is a true American classic that should be read by people of all ages interested in understanding the best and worst of early American frontier living.

The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield

The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield
Author: Mary Prudence Wells Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1904
Genre: Deerfield (Mass.)
ISBN:

An account of the experiences of a boy taken captive at Deerfield, Massachusetts, during the Indian raid of 1704.

The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield

The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield
Author: Mary Prudence Wells Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1921
Genre: Deerfield (Mass.)
ISBN:

An account of the experience of a boy taken captive at Deerfield, Massachusetts, during the Indian raid of 1704.

The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield

The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield
Author: Mary Prudence Wells Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1996
Genre: Deerfield (Mass.)
ISBN:

In the dead of winter in 1704, some 250 Frenchmen and Indians advance upong an unsuspecting English settlement and lead away a hundred and nine captives. The story is told through the eyes of Stephen Williams, the ten-year-old son of the village minister.

Captors and Captives

Captors and Captives
Author: Evan Haefeli
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

An account that explores the raid from the conflicting viewpoints of the raiders, both French-Canadian and Native American, and the Deerfield villagers.

Boy Captive of Old Deerfield

Boy Captive of Old Deerfield
Author: Mary P. Smith
Publisher: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assn
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1991-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780961287658

An account of the experiences of a boy taken captive at Deerfield, Massachusetts, during the Indian raid of 1704.

The Ransom of Mercy Carter

The Ransom of Mercy Carter
Author: Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-08-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375899235

Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada -- takes more than 40 days. At first Mercy's only hope is that the English government in Boston will send ransom for her and the other white settlers. But days turn into months and Mercy, who has become a Kahnawake daughter, thinks less and less of ransom, of Deerfield, and even of her "English" family. She slowly discovers that the "savages" have traditions and family life that soon become her own, and Mercy begins to wonder: If ransom comes, will she take it?

Massacre

Massacre
Author: Danielle Mead Skjelver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2004
Genre: Hadley (Mass.)
ISBN: 9780974862804

2011 National Historic Research and Preservation Award, Daughters of Colonial Wars. This novel, based on a true story, tells the long forgotten story of Hannah Hawks Scott, a woman whom Joseph Anderson called the most afflicted woman in all New England. Born to a soldier in King Philip's War, Hannah found herself caught in the inevitable clash of two cultures. Yet, she was not alone in her affliction. Drawing on many sources, the author weaves into Hannah's story the tale of a fictional Pequot boy whose life redefines the word "massacre." Spanning the 1637 attack on the Pequot Fort to the 1704 raid of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and through Queen Anne's War, this novel delivers a powerful examination of the conflict between Puritan colonists and the First Nations of North America. Follow the lives of Hannah and this young boy as they endure the nightmare of war ~ each struggling for family, each struggling for home.