Waitstill Warner

Biography

Captured at age 3 and Remained in Canada, she was one of the children that were adopted by an Indian Family or a French Canadian Family. 

Waitstill Warner was born in 1701. Her parents were Ebenezer Warner and Waitstill Warner.

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Waitstill Warner, her sister Sarah, and mother, Waitstill Smead Warner (who was pregnant), were captured by Indians during the February 29, 1704 raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts. Her mother died during the march to Canada. Waitstill Warner's exact date and/or place of death are unknown, as is her burial place. [http://www.babcock-acres.com/Misceallaneous/deerfield_captives_of_1...

• 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.[https://historyofmassachusetts.org/raid-on-deerfield/[]]
• 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.