The photos on this page are of
" Old Deerfield " cemetery, located on Old Albany Road or as it's called "Harrow's field".........this is a " town that time passed by"..............For serious Deerfield reseachers, there is a book: " Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1671; Susan McGowan & Amelia F.Miller, Pomcumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1996 which can be ordered through the on line Deerfield Museum Store...............this part of Deerfield, now called "OLD Deerfield" was attacked in 1704 by the French and Indians from Quebec,Canada.
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Many of the stones are hard to read, if anyone knows about the folks, email me and I will put your info up with your email for researchers.
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There is a site for South Deerfield which is a section of Deerfield. They are posted separately to keep folks from getting confused.
" Old Deerfield " cemetery, located on Old Albany Road or as it's called "Harrow's field".........this is a " town that time passed by"..............For serious Deerfield reseachers, there is a book: " Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1671; Susan McGowan & Amelia F.Miller, Pomcumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1996 which can be ordered through the on line Deerfield Museum Store...............this part of Deerfield, now called "OLD Deerfield" was attacked in 1704 by the French and Indians from Quebec,Canada.
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Many of the stones are hard to read, if anyone knows about the folks, email me and I will put your info up with your email for researchers.
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There is a site for South Deerfield which is a section of Deerfield. They are posted separately to keep folks from getting confused.
CARTER.....those killed: Hannah, wife of Samuel, aged 29........Thomas 4, Marah 3, and Hannah 7 mo......... the captured
children were: Samuel 12, Mercy 10, John 8, and Ebenezer 6......only Ebenezer returned, he was one of the early settlers of Canaan Parish now New Canaan , Conn.
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HAWKS.......Alice, wife of Sergt. John......John,jr 32 with wife, Thankful SMEAD,age 36 and their children: John 7, Martha 4, Thankful 2 , were smothered in a cellar............Elizabeth 6, dau of Sergt John, on the retreat......
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WILLIAMS.......Mrs.Eunice 39, John 6, Jerusha(infant), wife and children of Rev. JOHN WILLIAMS,40......first minister of Deerfield.
The "Redeemed Captive"....their children captured: Samuel 15, Esther 11, Stephen 10, Eunice 7, Warham 4....all returned except Eunice, who married June 1713, Amrusus, an Indian.
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SARAH FIELD aged 2.......Mary her mother, 28.....wife of John with children: Mary 6, and John 3...were captured. Mary adopted by an Indian was named Walahowey.......she married a savage and became one.
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photo permitted by the guides at Memorial Hall Museum.
children were: Samuel 12, Mercy 10, John 8, and Ebenezer 6......only Ebenezer returned, he was one of the early settlers of Canaan Parish now New Canaan , Conn.
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HAWKS.......Alice, wife of Sergt. John......John,jr 32 with wife, Thankful SMEAD,age 36 and their children: John 7, Martha 4, Thankful 2 , were smothered in a cellar............Elizabeth 6, dau of Sergt John, on the retreat......
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WILLIAMS.......Mrs.Eunice 39, John 6, Jerusha(infant), wife and children of Rev. JOHN WILLIAMS,40......first minister of Deerfield.
The "Redeemed Captive"....their children captured: Samuel 15, Esther 11, Stephen 10, Eunice 7, Warham 4....all returned except Eunice, who married June 1713, Amrusus, an Indian.
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SARAH FIELD aged 2.......Mary her mother, 28.....wife of John with children: Mary 6, and John 3...were captured. Mary adopted by an Indian was named Walahowey.......she married a savage and became one.
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photo permitted by the guides at Memorial Hall Museum.
CARTER.....those killed: Hannah, wife of Samuel, aged 29........Thomas 4, Marah 3, and Hannah 7 mo......... the captured
children were: Samuel 12, Mercy 10, John 8, and Ebenezer 6......only Ebenezer returned, he was one of the early settlers of Canaan Parish now New Canaan , Conn.
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HAWKS.......Alice, wife of Sergt. John......John,jr 32 with wife, Thankful SMEAD,age 36 and their children: John 7, Martha 4, Thankful 2 , were smothered in a cellar............Elizabeth 6, dau of Sergt John, on the retreat......
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WILLIAMS.......Mrs.Eunice 39, John 6, Jerusha(infant), wife and children of Rev. JOHN WILLIAMS,40......first minister of Deerfield.
The "Redeemed Captive"....their children captured: Samuel 15, Esther 11, Stephen 10, Eunice 7, Warham 4....all returned except Eunice, who married June 1713, Amrusus, an Indian.
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SARAH FIELD aged 2.......Mary her mother, 28.....wife of John with children: Mary 6, and John 3...were captured. Mary adopted by an Indian was named Walahowey.......she married a savage and became one.
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photo permitted by the guides at Memorial Hall Museum.
children were: Samuel 12, Mercy 10, John 8, and Ebenezer 6......only Ebenezer returned, he was one of the early settlers of Canaan Parish now New Canaan , Conn.
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HAWKS.......Alice, wife of Sergt. John......John,jr 32 with wife, Thankful SMEAD,age 36 and their children: John 7, Martha 4, Thankful 2 , were smothered in a cellar............Elizabeth 6, dau of Sergt John, on the retreat......
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WILLIAMS.......Mrs.Eunice 39, John 6, Jerusha(infant), wife and children of Rev. JOHN WILLIAMS,40......first minister of Deerfield.
The "Redeemed Captive"....their children captured: Samuel 15, Esther 11, Stephen 10, Eunice 7, Warham 4....all returned except Eunice, who married June 1713, Amrusus, an Indian.
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SARAH FIELD aged 2.......Mary her mother, 28.....wife of John with children: Mary 6, and John 3...were captured. Mary adopted by an Indian was named Walahowey.......she married a savage and became one.
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photo permitted by the guides at Memorial Hall Museum.
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