Ruth Catlin1

#2696, (circa 1684 - )
Relationship6th great-grandaunt of William David Lewis
Father*John Catlin Jr1 (bt 1638 - 1643 - 1704)
Mother*Mary Baldwin1 (c 1644 - 1704)
Birth*circa 1684She was born circa 1684 at Wethersfield, Connecticut.1 
29 February 1703/4She was captured in the Deerfield Raid on 29 February 1703/4 at Deerfield, Massachusetts, and returned in 1707; Deerfield French and Indian raid.2,3,4,5 
1707She was returned from capture in 1707.6 
Probate4 February 1706/7She is mentioned in the probate records of the estate of her father John Catlin Jr on 4 February 1706/7 at Hampshire (now Franklin) Co., MassachusettsG; (real estate division.)7 

Citations

  1. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 2 (Deerfield: E.A. Hall and Co., 1896), p. 104-105.
  2. [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.
  3. [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.
  4. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
  5. [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).
  6. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, p. 105.
  7. [S1693] Hampshire County Probate Records, 1660-1916; index, 1660-1971; (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971, 1988-1989), 93 microfilm reels, Vol. 1-4, Film 879184, img. 384/689, p. 166. Settlement and distribution of the Estate of John Catlin of Deerfield, division of real estate. To John Catlin, grandson; John Catlin, son; children of Elizabeth Corse, alias Catlin [dau.]; Thomas Bascomb, husb. of Hannah Bascomb, alias Catlin [dau.]; Michael Mitchell, husb. of Sarah Mitchell, alias Catlin [dau.]; Ebenezer Smead, husb. of Esther Smead, alias Catlin [dau.]; Ruth Catlin [dau.]. Settlement to be made by any three of Capt. Jonathan Wells, Daniel Beldin, Eliezer Hawkes, Edward Allin and Benonie Moor. Declared 4 Feb 1706/7 by Samuel Partridge, original records Hampshire County Courthouse, Northampton, Massachusetts.