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In the early morn of February 29, 1704, a French and Indian war party attacked the settlers of Deerfield, Mass. The episode achieved considerable notoriety in America and abroad, because the Indians managed to capture the eminent minister John Williams, his wife Eunice Mather Williams, and their five children. This Puritan family as well as more than a hundred of their good neighbors were now at the mercy of "savages:" French-speaking converts to...