Eunice Kanenstenhawi Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Native American captive
Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1696
Place of Birth: Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 26-Nov-1785
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Eunice Kanenstenhawi Williams
- Eunice Williams, also known as Marguerite Kanenstenhawi Arosen, (17 September 1696 – 26 November 1785) was an English colonist taken captive by French and Mohawk warriors from Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1704.
- Taken to Canada with more than 100 other captives, the seven-year-old girl was adopted by a recently converted Mohawk family at Kahnawake and was fully assimilated into Mohawk society.
- Baptized as a Catholic under the name "Marguerite" and renamed A'ongonte meaning "she has been planted as a person," she eventually married a Mohawk man, François-Xavier Arosen, had several children, and remained with the Mohawk for the rest of her life.
- While choosing not to return to her natal family, she, along with her children repeatedly made the trek to Deerfield to visit with her Puritan siblings over the course of her life.
- Her father, Rev.
- John Williams and her brother Samuel made numerous efforts to ransom her to no avail.
- Moreover, they failed to persuade her to return to Massachusetts and the bosom of her birth family.
- Hers was one of the more famous Indian captivity stories.
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