DEERFIELD MASSACRE]. WILLIAMS, JOHN (1664-1729), Clergyman, Pastor at Deerfield, Mass. . Autograph letter signed ("J Williams") to his son Stephen Williams, Pastor at Springfield, Deerfield, Mass., 26 March 1729. 1 page, small 4to, integral address leaf with panel in the writer's hand, small ink accession number , else fine. A letter written only three months before the death of the Harvard-trained pastor who figures prominently in the so-called Deerfield massacre, 1703. The subject is apprently a servant or laborer: "I...am glad to hear of your welfare & that you have secured Jonathan. I am in the mind (if you incline to it) that he may give us work...If I may have him in the first mowing & then for rowing[?] over the last crop. You spake something of a desire to have him yourself if he did not come hither....I wrote this to let you have your choice if it may be of any service to you. ...Your Br[other] has a son, born the day after the fast. We are all well, I send you a news paper by Mr Birch...I am your loving father..." Reverend Williams was the most eminent resident of Deerfield in February 1703, when a war party of French soldiers and Indian braves attacked and sacked the frontier village of Deerfield. Two of Williams' young children were killed, and he, along with some d ___ men, women and children, were taken hostage and marched overland through the dead of winter to Montreal. On this harrowing journey, Williams' wife was murdered. Many captives, including Williams and his son Stephen (to whom he writes here) were eventually ransomed and returned to Boston, but a young daughter, Eunice, converted to Catholicism, married an Iroquois and remained in French Canada. Williams' account of the "massacre" and captivity, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Boston, 1707) is a classic narrative; the event, its effects and Eunice's situation have been recently analyzed thoughtfully in John Demos The Unredeemed Captive 'A Family Story of Early America' . Williams' letters are very rare on the market; we can trace no example in ABPC back as far as 1976.
DEERFIELD MASSACRE]. WILLIAMS, JOHN (1664-1729), Clergyman, Pastor at Deerfield, Mass. . Autograph letter signed ("J Williams") to his son Stephen Williams, Pastor at Springfield, Deerfield, Mass., 26 March 1729. 1 page, small 4to, integral address leaf with panel in the writer's hand, small ink accession number , else fine. A letter written only three months before the death of the Harvard-trained pastor who figures prominently in the so-called Deerfield massacre, 1703. The subject is apprently a servant or laborer: "I...am glad to hear of your welfare & that you have secured Jonathan. I am in the mind (if you incline to it) that he may give us work...If I may have him in the first mowing & then for rowing[?] over the last crop. You spake something of a desire to have him yourself if he did not come hither....I wrote this to let you have your choice if it may be of any service to you. ...Your Br[other] has a son, born the day after the fast. We are all well, I send you a news paper by Mr Birch...I am your loving father..." Reverend Williams was the most eminent resident of Deerfield in February 1703, when a war party of French soldiers and Indian braves attacked and sacked the frontier village of Deerfield. Two of Williams' young children were killed, and he, along with some d ___ men, women and children, were taken hostage and marched overland through the dead of winter to Montreal. On this harrowing journey, Williams' wife was murdered. Many captives, including Williams and his son Stephen (to whom he writes here) were eventually ransomed and returned to Boston, but a young daughter, Eunice, converted to Catholicism, married an Iroquois and remained in French Canada. Williams' account of the "massacre" and captivity, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Boston, 1707) is a classic narrative; the event, its effects and Eunice's situation have been recently analyzed thoughtfully in John Demos The Unredeemed Captive 'A Family Story of Early America' . Williams' letters are very rare on the market; we can trace no example in ABPC back as far as 1976.
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