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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Feb. 29, 1704
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:51:40 -0500 (EST)
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Yes, true Des, but Mathias was captured in Groton, MASS, not Deerfield. I am a descendant, my gr gr grandmother
was a Phaneuf. Linnie
In Groton, MA, on 11, August 1704, Matthias III Farnsworth, 14 yrs. of age, was taken prisoner by the Indians and carried into Canada, where he was delivered to the French. By the parish records of Montreal we see that he was babtized Jan. 10, 1706, into the Roman Catholic Church there, and the record as made in French, gives his name as Claude-Mathias Farneth. The name Claude was given to him by his godfather, Claude de Ramezay, Govenor of Montreal. The name Farneth, is the approximate spelling of Farnoth pronounced by the young prisoner. He was naturalized at Montreal, and he married, on the 2nd of October, 1713, Catherine Charpentier, by whom he had twelve children. From 1713 to 1754, all records give Fanef; from 1754 to 1800, Faneuf and Fanef; from 1800 to 1850 Faneuf, and from the latter, Faneuf and Phaneuf. His descendants under these transformations of the names are numerous, and some of them are to be found among the French-Canadian emigrants into the United States.
From: Dessaulles Beaudry Sent: Wed, Feb 29, 2012 1:44 pm
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Feb. 29, 1704
The evolution of the Farnsworth name to Phaneuf is a dramatic story of the
capture of a teenage ( Mathias Farnsworth) boy by Indians, who held him for
three years, and his purchase from the Indians by priests in Montreal.
And the establishment of the Phaneuf surname in the province of Quebec and
beyond.
Des Beaudry
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Subject: [Q-R] Feb. 29, 1704
February 29
1704 - The town of Deerfield, MA was raided on this day by French
Canadians and Indians who were trying to retrieve their church bell that
had been
shipped from France. The bell was to hang in the Canadian Indian’s village
church. Neither the raiders nor the residents of Deerfield were aware that
the bell had been stolen from the ship. The Deerfield folks had purchased
the bell from a privateer, unaware that it belonged to the Indian
congregation. Although 56 people were killed in the incident, we could say
that the
109 captured were saved by the bell.
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