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xvii acknowledgments T  is an outgrowth of the research that produced Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, which was published in 2003 by the University of Massachusetts Press. As with that volume, we owe a debt of gratitude to scholars, librarians, museum personnel, and other individuals who have studied the 1704 raid and participated in its commemoration in 2004. Like our earlier book, this volume builds on the work of Geoffrey E. Buerger, John Demos, and Rick Melvoin. In Deerfield, David Bosse, Sharmon Prouty, Penny Leveritt, Timothy Neumann, Martha Noblick, Joseph Peter Spang, and Phil Zea all made contributions to this project. In particular, the work of Angela Gobel Bain, Suzanne Flynt, Amanda Rivera Lopez, and Jessica Neuwirth, who were curators of the exhibition Remembering 1704: Context and Commemoration of the Deerfield Raid that was mounted in 2004 by Historic Deer- field, Inc., and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, helped shape this volume. At Kahnawake, Brian Deer provided invaluable assistance. Another member of the community at Kahnawake, Taiaiake Alfred, contributed directly to this volume by allowing us to reproduce part of a talk he gave in Deerfield in 1995. Marge Bruchac, an Abenaki scholar and storyteller, also provided an essay for this volume and helped us locate several sites mentioned in the texts. A number of institutions and individuals provided us with materials and allowed us to reproduce these materials. Historic Deerfield, Inc., the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Neville Public Museum of Brown County, and Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association granted permission to reproduce critical texts, several of them previously unpublished manuscripts that are included in this volume. Lynn Murphy provided us with a photograph of her grandmother Elizabeth Sadoques and a copy of the original version of the talk that her grandmother delivered in Deerfield in 1922 and gave us permission to use both of them in this volume. Members of the staffs at the Archives of the City of Montreal, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, the Canadian National Archives in Ottawa, the Chateau Ramezay in Montreal, Historic Deerfield, Inc., the McCord Museum in Montreal, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, and the Wisconsin Historical Society assisted us in obtaining images for the volume. Le Conseil de Fabrique Notre-Dame-de-Liesse de Rivière-Ouelle provided us with a photograph of their recently restored ex-voto painting and permission to use it. Finally, René Chartrand went beyond xviii   the usual bounds of scholarly courtesy and very promptly provided an illustration . Once again, we are fortunate to have maps produced by Kate Blackmer. She revised three maps that appeared in Captors and Captives and provided two new maps: one traces the routes of captives taken in 1677 and 1696 and the other plots the escape route taken by four captives in 1705. We are grateful to several people who read the book at various stages and moved the project forward. The series editors, Colin Calloway and Barry O’Connell, gave this volume their blessing and support. The comments from outside readers for the press provided both encouragement and helpful suggestions . Suzanne Flynt, the Curator of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association , read over the captions for the illustrations. Finally, Don Friary, the former Executive Director of Historic Deerfield, Inc., gave the book a close reading that sharpened our thinking in places and saved us from embarrassing errors. It was again a pleasure to work with the staff at the University of Massachusetts Press, who provided a degree of personalized professional service that has undoubtedly spoiled us. Our editor, Clark Dougan, gave us the encouragement and freedom that we needed to shape this volume. Carol Betsch, who appears to understand better than we do what we are trying to do, shepherded the book through the production process. Deborah Smith’s precise copyediting helped bring order to a disparate collection of texts and annotations. Our thanks to Nairn Chadwick for the excellent index. Financially, this project benefited from the support of our home institutions. A grant from Amherst College’s H. Axel Schupf ’57 Fund for Intellectual Life paid for Kate Blackmer’s maps and the other illustrations. Funds from Columbia University paid for the indexing. Finally, we appreciate our families’ willingness to put up with a couple more years of 1704. ...

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