A group of Indigenous people from Quebec, Canada, stopped in Greenfield and Deerfield, Massachusetts, for several nights in August and September of 1837. The residents of both towns were at first alarmed as to their purpose, but their fears were put to rest when they discovered the visitors were descendants of Eunice Williams, who had been taken during a 1704 raid on Deerfield. She was adopted into a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) family and never returned to her English family. Among the Kanien’kehaka family ties were important, despite past differences and the passage of time. The writer of the article notes that when local men tried to visit the group on a Sunday, they were sent away because it was the Sabbath. The group was then able to attend services at a local church.
Phelps and Ingersoll [editors]. “Civilization rebuked by the savage.” September 5, 1837. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l01-009/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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