Footnotes/Further Reading

Footnote # 1

Yves F. Zoltvany, "Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, http://www.biographi.ca/EN/

Footnote # 2

Quoted in Gilles Havard, The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), page 127. Original source: Bacqueville de La Potherie, Histoire de l'Amerique septentrionale (Paris, Brocas, 1753), 4:200-5.

Footnote # 3

Quoted in John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), page 15. Original source: Letter of Vaudreuil to Pontchartain, 15 November 1703, in Archives des Colonies, XXI: 13.

Footnote # 4

Reverend John Williams, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Northampton, MA: Hopkins, Bridgman and Company, 1853), page 38.

Footnote # 5

Williams, page 34.

Footnote # 6

John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), page 112.

Footnote # 7

Demos, page 80.

Footnote # 8

Williams, pages 35-36.

Footnote # 9

John Stoddard's journal, quoted in Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), pages 212-213.

Further Reading

Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Haefeli, Evan and Sweeney, Kevin. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Havard, Gilles. The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Williams, John. The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion. Deerfield, MA: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1706.

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