The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion, Appendix 1
APPENDIX. Drawn up and ſent to the Rev. Mr. PRINCE, by the Rev. Mr. STEPHEN WILLIAMS, of Springfield, who on February 29th, 1703-4, was with his Rev. father, Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS, of Deerfield, carried captive into Canada, but returned, and was educated at Harvard College.
Names of thoſe perſons who were taken captive at Deerfield, Feb. 29th, 1703-4.
MARY Alexander, Mary Alexander, jun. Joſeph Alexander, ran away the firſt night, Sarah Allen, Mary Allis, Thomas Baker, Simon Beaumont, Hannah Beaumont, *Hepzibah Belding, John Bridgman, ran away in the meadow, Nathaniel Brooks, *Mary Brooks, † Mary Brooks, jun. †William Brooks, Abigail Brown, Benjamin Burt, John Burt, Sarah Burt, *Hannah Carter, *Hannah Carter, jun. †Mercy Carter, †Samuel Carter, †John Carter, Ebenezer Carter, *Marah Carter, John Catlin, Ruth Catlin, *Elizabeth Corſe, †Elizabeth Corſe, jun. †Daniel Crowfoot, † Abigail Denio, Sarah Dickinſon, Joſeph Eaſtman, Mary Field, John Field, †Mary Field, jun. *Mary Frary, Thomas French, *Mary French, Thomas French, jun. Mary French, jun. †Freedom French, †Martha French, † Abigail French, †Mary Harris, †Samuel Haſtings, *Elizabeth Hawks, Mehuman Hinſdale, Mary Hinſdale, Jacob Hix, died at Cowaſs, Deacon David Hoit, died at Cowaſs, Abigail Hoit, Jonathan Hoit, Sarah Hoit, †Ebenezer Hoit, *Abigail Hoit, jun. Elizabeth Hull, †Thomas Hurſt, †Ebenezer Hurſt, *Benoni Hurſt, Sarah Hurſt, Sarah Hurſt, jun. Elizabeth Hurſt, †Hannah Hurſt, Martin Kellogg, Martin Kellogg, jun. Joſeph Kellogg, †Joanna Kellogg, Rebecca Kellogg, John Marſh, Sarah Mattoon, *Philip Mattoon, *Frank, a negro. *Mehitable Nims, Ebenezer Nims, †Abigail Nims, Joſeph Petty, Sarah Petty, Lydia Pomroy, Joſhua Pomery, *Eſther Pomroy, Samuel Price, †Jemima Richards, †Joſiah Riſeing, Hannah Shelden, Ebenezer Shelden, Remembrance Shelden, Mary Shelden, John Stebbins, Dorothy Stebbins, John Stebbins, jun. Samuel Stebbins, †Ebenezer Stebbins, †Joſeph Stebbins, †Thankful Stebbins †Elizabeth Stevens, Ebenezer Warner, *Waitſtill Warner, †Waitſtill Warner, jun. Sarah Warner, Rev. John Williams, *Mrs. Eunice Williams, Samuel Williams, Stephen Williams, †Eunice Williams, jun. Eſther Williams, Warham Williams, John Weſton, Judah Wright.
Three Frenchmen who had lived in the town for ſome time, and came from Canada, were alſo taken.
NOTE. Where there is this ſign *againſt the perſon's name, it is to ſignify they were killed after they went out of town: And this mark † is to ſignify that they are ſtill abſent from their native country.
Names of thoſe who were ſlain at that time in or near the town.
SLAIN IN THE TOWN.
DAVID Alexander, Thomas Carter, John Catlin, Jonathan Catlin, Sarah Field, Samſon Frary, John French, Alice Hawks, John Hawks, jun. and his wife, Thankful Hawks, John Hawks, Martha Hawks, Samuel Hinſdale, Joſeph Ingerſol, Jonathan Kellogg, Philip Mattoon's wife and child, Parthena, a negro, Henry Nims, Mary Nims,* Mercy Nims,* Mehitabel Nims,* Sarah Price, Mercy Root, Thomas Shelden, Mrs. Shelden, Mercy Shelden, Samuel Smead's wife and two children, Elizabeth Smead, Martin Smith, Serg. Benoni Stebbins, Andrew Stevens, Mary Wells, John Williams, jun. Jeruſha Williams.
SLAIN IN THE MEADOW.
SAMUEL Allis, Serg. Boltwood, Robert Boltwood, Joſeph Catlin, Samuel Foot, David Hoit, jun. Jonathan Ingram, Serg. Benjamin Wait, Nathaniel Warner.
Theſe three it was ſuppoſed were burnt in the cellar.An account of the miſchief done by the enemy in Deerfield, from the beginning of its ſettlement to the death of the Rev. Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS, in June, 1729.
1. THE enemy beſet the place, and killed one James Egleſton, Sept. 1, 1675.
2. The Indians fell upon the people as they were going to public worſhip, on Sept. 12, 1675, and wounded one Samuel Harrington in the neck, but the wound did not prove mortal. One man was drove into the ſwamp, taken and killed.
3. Capt. Lethrop and company were ſlain at Muddy Brook (alias) Bloody Brook, on Sept. 18, 1675.
4. The Fall fight (as it is called,) was on May 18, 1676, when a great ſlaughter was made of the enemy, but Capt. Turner and 37 men were loſt. There were many remarkables, relating to this affair, (as related by Jonathan Wells, Eſq. who was preſent) which are not taken notice of by Mr. Hubbard, or Dr. Mather.
5. Sept. 19, 1677. John Root, was killed, and Serg. Plympton, Quintin Stockwell, and Benoni Stebbins, were taken captive, but Stebbins made his eſcape from them, and got home. This was after they began to ſettle the place a ſecond time; for upon Capt. Lethrop's loſs, the town was deſerted for ſome time; but this year, 1677, they began to build again. Serg. Plympton was accounted a gracious man; he was burnt by the Indians, and the Indians obliged one Dickinſon, taken at Hatfield, to lead him to the ſtake: The manner of burning was this; they covered him with dry bark, ſet it on fire, then they quenched the fire, and anon firing it again. He went cheerfully to the ſtake, &c. The town was deſerted for ſome time: In … they returned again to ſettle the town.
6. June, 1693. The widow Hepzibah Wells and her three daughters were knocked on the head and ſcalped, two of them died, but the other lived; at the ſame time Thomas Broughton was killed, and his wife, great with child, and three of their children.
7. On October 13, 1693, Martin Smith was taken, and carried to Canada, from whence he returned after ſome years.
8. Sept. 15, 1694. Monſieur Caſtreen, with a number of Indians, beſet the fort, but were beat off: Daniel Severance (a lad) was killed in the meadow; and John Beaumont, and Richard Lyman, ſoldiers in the fort, were wounded, but recovered. Mrs. Hannah Beaumont and ſome children who were her ſcholars, were remarkably preſerved: As they ran from the houſe to the fort, the enemy fired many ſhot at them, and the bullets whiſtled about their ears; but none of them were hurt, altho' ſome of the enemy were very near them.
9. Auguſt 18, 1695. Mr. Joſeph Barnard was fired upon by the enemy, and his horſe was ſhot down: He himſelf was wounded in the body, one wriſt ſhivered to pieces, his other hand wounded; but yet through the bravery of Godfry Nims, and others with him, he was brought into the town, and lived till September 6, and then died, greatly lamented, &c.
10. Sept. 16, 1696. John Gillet and John Smead, were hunting up green river; the Indians came upon them, and took Gillet, but Smead made his eſcape; the enemy left two or three men with Gillet, and the reſt came along to the town, and aſſaulted Daniel Belding's houſe, took Mr. Belding, his ſon Nathaniel, and daughter Eſther, captive: Killed his wife and three children, and wounded Samuel and Abigail, but they recovered, although Samuel had a hatchet ſtuck in his head, and ſome of his brains came out at the wound.
11. July, 1698. Nathaniel Pomroy was killed, being with a party of men that went up the river after ſome Indians that had done miſchief at Hatfield: At the ſame time Samuel Dickinſon, and one—Charly, were retaken from the enemy. This is related by Dr. Cotton Mather, in his hiſtory of the ten years war, &c.
12. October 8, 1703. Zebediah Williams and John Nims, were taken captive, and carried to Canada; Williams died there; Nims, with ſome others, made their eſcape, and got home to Deerfield, in 1705.
13. The town was taken Feb. 29, 1703-4.
14. May 11, 1704. John Allen and his wife were killed at a place called the Barrs.
15 Sergeant John Hawks, riding on the road, was fired at by the enemy, and wounded in the hand, but got off to Hatfield, and his wound was healed, &c. This was in the Summer of 1704.
16. July 19, 1704. Thomas Ruſſell was killed by the enemy, north of the town.
17. Auguſt, 1708. A ſcout went up to the White River, and as they returned, were fired upon by the enemy, and one man, whoſe name was Barber, was killed; and he killed the Indian that killed him. Martin Kellogg, jun. was taken captive, and the reſt eſcaped.
18. October 26, 1708. Ebenezer Field was killed near Muddy Brook.
19. Mehuman Hinſdale was taken captive as he was driving his team from Northampton. This was April 11, 1709: The ſecond time of his captivity: He was carried to Canada, and from thence to France, and got to England, and from thence home, &c.
20. May, 1709. Lieut. John Wells, and John Burt, were loſt in a ſkirmiſh with the enemy on the French river, after they had been, with others, as far as Lake Champlain, and killed ſome of the enemy.
21. Joſeph Cleſſon and John Arms were taken June 22, 1709, and the next day Jonathan Williams was killed, and Matthew Cleſſon mortally wounded; and Lieut. Thomas Taylor and Iſaac Mattoon were wounded but, recovered.
22. July 30, 1712. Sergeant Samuel Taylor, and others, were ſent out as a ſcout to the North River, they were attacked by the enemy, and Samuel Androſs was killed; Jonathan Barrett was wounded in the ſide, and then taken; one William Sanford was alſo taken, the reſt got home, &c. The priſoners were carried to Canada, where they met Lieut. Samuel Williams, (who was then at Canada with a flag of truce) who ranſomed them from the Indians, and brought them home▪ They were abſent but about two months.
23. June 27, 1724. Ebenezer Shelden, Thomas Colton, and Jeremiah Engliſh, (a friend Indian,) were killed on the road beyond the Green River houſes; and it was ſuppoſed the enemy received ſome damage from ſome of our forces, who came upon them ſpeedily, &c.
24. July 10, 1724. Lieut. Timothy Childs and Samuel Allen, were ſhot upon and wounded, as they were returning from their labour in the field, but they eſcaped, and were healed of their wounds.
25. Auguſt 25, 1725. Deacon Field, Deacon Childs, and others, were going up to Green River farms, and were ambuſhed by the Indians, but they diſcovered the Indians; and John Wells diſcharged his gun at an Indian, who fell: The Indians fired at them, and wounded deacon Samuel Field, the ball paſſing through the right hypocondria, cutting off three plaits of the Myſenteria, which hung out of the wound, in length almoſt two inches, which was cut off even with the body, the bullet paſſing between the loweſt and the next rib, cutting, at its going forth, the loweſt rib: His hand being cloſe to the body when the ball came forth, it entered at the root of the heel of the thumb, cutting the bone of the fore finger, and, reſting between the fore and ſecond finger, was cut out, and all the wounds were cured in leſs than five weeks, by Doctor Thomas Haſtings.