Mary Stevens

Not the daughter of Antoine Thomas Émery dit Coderre. Not the same as Mary Stevens

”Marie was born 1681 [SIC: 1678] in Maine, USA. Her parents were Nestius Stevens and Mary Meray ( Murrey). At age 8 during a raid on Pamaquid ( Woodwich,Me) near Fort William Henry, she was captured and carried off to Canada. In 1696, she was no longer with the Indians. Many captives were sold to French trapers. Prehapes this is how she came to be with Paquet! She married Aug 1, 1697, Jasques Paquet. He was about 22 or 23 and she was 16. She had no memory of her family in Maine. In fact, records show there's a good chance her first name was really katherine. She had no memory of even her name.This perhapes explains how woman from Englishh/American backgound up with a very French name. Don't, further research needed, but perhapes she was re names and baptisted Catholic in order to marry him. Whatever happened, they had 13 children.”

References

1. Millennium File: Nathaniel Stevens Nestyus (1645-1689). Spouse: Mary Meray Murray (1647 - 1678). Daughter: Katherine M. Stevens (1678 - Jun 6, 1741).
2. https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Nest... lists as Thomas Stephens-Stevens, wife Merry Caswell, daughter Marie-Francois Nestyns [formerly Katherine Stevens]
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Pemaquid_(1689) “ The siege of Pemaquid (August 2–3, 1689) was a successful attack by a large band of Abenaki Indians on the English fort at Pemaquid, Fort Charles, then the easternmost outpost of colonial Massachusetts (present-day Bristol, Maine). The French-Abenaki attack was led by Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin and Father Louis-Pierre Thury and Chief Moxus.[4] The fall of Pemaquid was a significant setback to the English. It pushed the frontier back to Casco (Falmouth), Maine. …”
4. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/214705888/marie-francoise-nesty... Marie-Francoise is the daughter of unknown Nestyus and Marie Meray. She was born in about 1678. She married Jacques Paquet dit Pasquier on 1 August 1697, in Notre-Dame-de-Québec. They are the parents of the following (verified with PRDH): …
5. List of Captives: List of Canada Prisoners 1600, taken from: New England Historical and Genealogical Registers, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Samuel G. Drake, Publisher, ©1847 Vol - 1 - 50 ( Jan 1852) as transcribed by C. Parziale, Mar 2001.(http://files.usgwarchives.net/nh/strafford/history/captives.txt) John Stephins, boy Pemaquid [John Stephens] …. Kattn Stephens, do. do. [Katherine Stephens]
   1. http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Jacqu...
6. Emma Lewis Coleman. New England Captives Carried to Canada Between 1677 and 1760. Heritage Books, 1989, p. 175. < GoogleBooks > Katherine, John and Samuel Stephens / Stevens, captured at Permaquid, were probably the children of Thomas, who was in Permaquid in 1685, and who later lived in Scituate and Boston.