Mary Catlin1
#2691, (circa 1664 - 1703/4)
| | Her married name was French. |
Birth* | circa 1664 | She was born circa 1664 at Wethersfield, Connecticut; by marr. date.1 |
Marriage* | 18 October 1683 | She married Thomas French, son of John French and Freedom Kingsley, on 18 October 1683.2 |
| 29 February 1703/4 | She was captured in the Deerfield Raid on 29 February 1703/4 at Deerfield, Massachusetts. She died enroute to Cnada; Deerfield French and Indian raid.3,4,5,6 |
Death* | 1703/4 | She died in 1703/4 at Massachusetts.2 |
| 4 February 1706/7 | In the settlement of the estate of John Catlin Jr, there is no mention of the children of his daughter Mary, who also died in the Indian raid and left children of her husband Thomas French. The surviving children were taken to Canada and not returned on 4 February 1706/7.7 |
Citations
- [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 2 (Deerfield: E.A. Hall and Co., 1896), p. 104-105.
- [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, p. 105.
- [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.
- [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (Greenfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall and Co., 1895), 308, 309. Has Henry Nims as age 12. He was 22.
- [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
- [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).
- [S520] VWH.
- [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, p. 167-8.