title: Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Native Americans of the Northeast)
author:  Evan Haefeli 
description: "In Captors and Captives, historians Evan Haefeli of Tufts University and Kevin Sweeney of Amherst College have produced an impressive account that explores the raid from the conflicting viewpoints of the raiders, both French-Canadian and Native American, and the Deerfield villagersas well as its place in the century-long conflict between the two colonial empires." --<i>Boston Sunday Globe</i><br /><br />"A definitive new account of the raid. . . . The authors reconstruct the events surrounding the raid from multiple points of view. They also explore the motivations of the various players, from Paris to Boston." --<i>New York Times</i><br /><br />"In sum, Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney have written an exceptionally well-researched, engaging, and cogent book. Captors and Captives is sure to become the standard account of the 1704 raid, likely to withstand the scrutiny of antiquarians and professional historians alike. The authors' meticulous research has uncovered new insights about a story that has been told and retold for three centuries. They have also expertly situated Deerfield with the historiographies of New England, New France, and Native America, suggesting new directions for each of these vibrant and complex subfields. If Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville accomplished the extraordinary by approaching Deerfield with so formidable and diverse an arsenal, Haefeli and Sweeney's book is a fitting commemorative for the event, for they have done the same." --<i>Reviews in American History</i><br /><br />"Captors and Captives is highly engaging because it crosses so many geographical, social, and cultural boundaries and cuts across many of the specializations within the field of early American history. . . . With is clear prose and uncomplicated organizationthe book remains free of heavy theory while its authors confine a lot of the hard work of the social historian to appendixes and mapsCaptors and Captives should be accessible to undergraduates and a popular reading audience. This book, the end result of a partnership between two fine historians, is the definitive study of the 1704 French and Indian raid on Deerfield." --<i>American Indian Culture Research Journal</i><br /><br />"Captors and Captives is ethnohistory at its finesta detailed examiniation of all sides of the frontier and the connections that held them together." --<i>Journal of British Studies</i>
zlib_text: The Boy Captives An Incident of the Indian War of 1695
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  The Boy Captives
  An Incident of the Indian War of 1695
  by John Greenleaf Whittier
  
  The Boy Captives An Incident of the Indian War of 1695
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  THE township of Haverhill, even as late as the close of the
  seventeenth century, was a frontier settlement, occupying an advanced
  position in the great wilderness, which, unbroken by the clearing of a
  white man, extended from the Merrimac River to the French villages on
  the St. Francois.  A tract of twelve miles on the river and three or four
  northwardly was occupied by scattered settlers, while in the centre of the
  town a compact village had grown up.  In the immediate vicinity there
  were but few Indians, and these generally peaceful and inoffensive.  On
  the breaking out of the Narragansett War,(1) the inhabitants had erected
  fortifications, and taken other measures for defence; but, with the possible
  exception of one man who was found slain in the woods in 1676, none of
  the inhabitants were