(1696-1785) Daughter of Puritan minister [John Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_\(New_England_minister\)) and granddaughter of Boston minister Richard Mather, captured at age seven or eight in a raid on [[Deerfield]] Massachusetts in 1704. Carried to Canada among 112 captives, Eunice assimilated into a [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Mohawk]] family at [Kahnawake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahnawake), a [[Native Americans|Native American]] village near Montreal. Her father and brother made numerous attempts over the years to ransom Eunice, but she had no interest in returning to Massachusetts. She converted to Catholicism, married a Mohawk man, and had three children. She took the name _Kanenstenhawi_ ("She who brings corn"), and although she eventually visited her brother in Massachusetts, she needed and interpreter, since she only spoke Mohawk and French. Although her husband died in 1765, she lived to age 89 in Kahnawake.