David Alexander1

#12513, (say 1675 - 29 February 1704)

Family

Mary Weld b. s 1680
Child 1.Mary Alexander8 (1702 - )
Birth*say 1675He was born say 1675.1 
Marriage*3 July 1701He married Mary Weld on 3 July 1701 at Deerfield, Massachusetts.2 
Death*29 February 1704He died on 29 February 1704 at Massachusetts.3 
29 February 1703/4He was killed in the Deerfield Raid and Massacre on 29 February 1703/4 at Massachusetts; Deerfield French and Indian raid.4,5,6,7 

Citations

  1. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Deerfield Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1920), p. 148: "David Alexander and Mary Welld."
  2. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, p. 148: "David Alexander and Mary Welld." David was killed in the Deerfield Indian Raid in 1704. His wife Mary, age 36, and their dau., Mary, were taken captive (Sheldon History of Deerfield I:308). The wife was later redeemed and married Samuel. Source: Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, Evan Haefeli, Kevin Sweeney (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
  3. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (Greenfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall and Co., 1895), I:308. David was killed "in or near the Town;" his wife Mary, age 36, and their dau., Mary Weld's husband, David, was killed in the Deerfield Raid. Mary, age 36, and their dau., Mary, were taken captive (Sheldon History of Deerfield I:308). The wife was later redeemed and married Samuel. Source: Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, Evan Haefeli, Kevin Sweeney (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
  4. [S1512] John Williams, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Boston: Samuel Hall, 1795). Reprinted Springfield, Mass.: H. R. Huntting Co., 1908, pp. 171-172. Hereinafter cited as Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion.
  5. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, 308, 309. Has Henry Nims as age 12. He was 22.
  6. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
  7. [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).
  8. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, p. 9.