112 men, women and children from Deerfield were captured and taken on a 300-mile forced march to Canada in harsh winter conditions. Some of the captives were later ransomed and returned to Deerfield, but a third chose to remain among their French and Native captors.
On February 29, 1704, an English colony located in the Pocumtuck lands in the middle of the Connecticut Valley became a crossroads of intercultural, interracial, and international conflict. The raid on Deerfield was one incident in an ongoing struggle between Europeans and northeastern indigenous communities who vied for control of indigenous lands and resources in the colonial northeast.
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