True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars

By C. Alice Baker

The gripping history of "Indian" attacks at Wells and York, Maine; Dover, New Hampshire; and Hatfield, Haverhill, and Deerfield, Massachusetts. Events leading up to the attacks and the attacks themselves are described in considerable detail. There is an emphasis on how those engagements affected specific people, especially those who were captured and removed to Canada.

Extensive genealogical and biographical information about the following families:

Baker
Nims
Otis
Plaisted
Rishworth
Rising
Sayward
Sheldon
Silver
Stockwell
Stebbins
Wheelwright
Williams

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Background

The book begins by briefly describing the early contacts between Europeans and First Nations inhabitants along the Atlantic coast from Cuba to Newfoundland prior to the establishment of permanent European settlements in North America.

The reader must take into consideration that this book, as is true with most published accounts of armed conflict, reports on the events from the perspective of one side. In this case the story is slanted toward a European/White point of view. That in mind, the writer provides very specific details of the attacks as they relate to the events and to specific individuals.

Details:

458 pages
6.5 X 9.25"
New index by Global Heritage Press, 2006 (nominal)
13 illustrations
Originally published by E. A. Hall & Co. Cambridge, USA, 1897
This edition by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2006 ISBN: 1-897210-98-1 (Hardcover)