Waitstill Warner

Rhe Indian Raid at Deerfield.

Biography

Waitstill Warner was born on March 5, 1679, in Deerfield, Franklin, MA. Her parents were William Smead, II and Elizabeth Smead (Lawrence). Waitstill married Ebenezer Warner on January 5, 1698, in Deerfield, Franklin, MA. Together they had the following children: Sarah Warner; Waitstill Warner.

She died in 1704 in Deerfield, Franklin, MA.

Biography

Waitstill Warner was born on March 5, 1679, in Deerfield, Franklin, MA. Her parents were William Smead, II and Elizabeth Smead (Lawrence).
Waitstill married Ebenezer Warner on January 5, 1698, in Deerfield,

www.babcock-acres.com/Misceallaneous/deerfield_captives_of_1704.htm

Captured in the 1704 Indian Massacre and Raid of Deerfield. Died en route to Canada.

Waitstill, pregnant, and with her 2 children,Sarah Warner; Waitstill Warner. and they were captured by the Indians during the raid on Deerfield and she died during the march to Canada. The exact date and/or place of death are unknown, as her burial place.

• The villagers who were captured were forced to march the 300-mile-long journey to Canada in the deep snow in the dead of winter. Those who could not keep up were killed.
• Chances of survival seemed to depend on the captive’s gender and age since infants and young children fared the worst and more adult men survived than adult women
• Of the more than 100 villagers who were captured, only 89 survived the journey to Canada.
• After reaching Canada, the Indians sold many of the captives to the French, who ransomed about 60 of them back to the English over a three-year period.
• Many of the younger captives assimilated and were adopted into the Indian tribes or French Canadian society. In fact, 36 Deerfield captives, mostly children and teenagers at the time of the raid, remained in Canada permanently, many of them marrying into French or Indian families.
• [https://historyofmassachusetts.org/raid-on-deerfield/]

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152343520/waitstill-warner

• **** Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Name: Waitstill Smeed Event Type: Birth Birth Date: 15 Mar 1679 Birth Place: Northampton, Massachusetts Father Name: William Smeed Mother Name: Elisabeth Smeed
  • *** Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

Name: Waitstill Smead

Event Type: Marriage

Marriage Date: 5 Jan 1698

Marriage Place: Deerfield, Massachusetts

Spouse Name: Ebenezer Warner

• **** Waitstill and her husband Ebenezer Warner were married January 5, 1698 and had two children, both born in Deerfield. Both children and there pregnant mother were captured by the Indians in 1704 and marched to Canada. Nothing was ever recorded of how or when any of them died.

1. Sarah Warner b: November 29, 1699

2. Waitstill Warner b: November 6, 1701