Native American Letter To Family

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Dear Family, I know that you have been praying for and awaiting my return home. However, I must refuse your wish. I have chosen to stay with my new adopted life and refuse to return home. Growing up in Deerfield, I remember my simple life. I would play with the other village children, go to school, and go to church. I was quick in my studies and became a good reader which is why I memorized catechism early. I heard many stories about the Indians and wild creatures of the forest. When walking with father one day, I remember seeing a heavily-built garrison house with an overhanding upper story and loopholes from which guns might be fired near the church. I knew that in case the Indians attacked us and carried the palisade, we would all retreat…show more content…
A few years after John’s birth, I learned of father’s death in 1729. In 1736, I have my first daughter, Katherine and Marie three years after that. In 1740, I had an interview with my brother Stephan Williams for the first time in 36 years. During this meeting, I agreed to spend the summer with him in New England. I went with my husband and others in the tribe, all in Indian costume. It was all so distasteful to me. We had an interpreter to translate and I refused to sleep in the house of my relatives’. My tribe and I pitched our camp in the woods east of the parsonage. Everyone was friendly and tried to convince me to stay but I declined. The General Court even offered a grant of land on condition that my family would remain in New England. I refused considering it would endanger my soul. My family and habit bounded me to the North. Since the first visit, many had happened. I visited a few more times, my Mohawk adoptive mother had died, my family and I spent the winter in Massachusetts, I soon became a grandmother, and the death of my husband. The possibility of me leaving my Indian family became even more slim after I became a grandmother. I wrote to Stephan shortly before my 75th birthday in 1771. In the letter, I wrote that I wanted to hear about how he was doing and that we would probably never see each other again due to the fact that I had become too old to travel. We never saw each other after

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