Person:Elizabeth Price (66)

Elizabeth Price married Andrew Stevens, a Christianized Indian, 6 Dec 1703 as recorded in the Deerfield Town Births^[5]. Her marriage was highly unusual--unheard of in all of new England at the time^[1]. Sheldon refers to him as "'Andrew Stevens ye Indian', of whom nothing more is known, save that he was killed 29 Feb 1704 in the Deerfield massacre. Elizabeth was taken captive and survived the march to Canada. One year after her capture she was living with the Sisters of the Congregation at Ville-Marie when on 25 Apr 1705 she was baptised in the chapel -- "an English woman named Elizabeth who had previously abjured in the Calvinistic hersy, who born at Northampton in New England the (13) 23 August 1683, of the marriage of Robert Price, Episcopal and of the late Sera Web, independent and widow of Andre Stevens, having been taken at Deerfield in New England the (29 Feb) 11 March 1704 and brought to Canada"^[1][2]. The name "Marie" was added to that of Elizabeth. On 3 Feb 1706 were married Jean Fourneau, aged 27 years, master shoemaker, son of Jaques Fourneau and of Marguerite Genillac, his wife and native of the town and diocese of Limoges, parish of Saint Michel, and Marie Elizabeth Price, aged twenty-two years and a half, daughter of Robert Price and the late Sara Web, his wife, the widow of Andre Stevens of Northampton in New England, by Monsieur Francois le Vachon de Belmonth, Bishop of Quebec and priest of the seminary of Villemarie^[2][4].

Elizabeth Marriage Record

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: the Times when and the People by whom it was Settled, Unsettled, and Resettled, with a Special Study of the Indian Wars in the Connecticut Valley; with Genealogies. (Greenfield, Mass.: Press of E. A. Hall & Co., 1895-1896)
   265, 292.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Deerfield Massachusetts Massacre.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan (Lansing, Michigan). Michigan's habitant heritage: journal of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan. (Lansing, Michigan: French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, c1980-).

   Manuscript by Susan Melanie Colby, p82, November 4, 2001

4. ↑ Coleman, Emma L. (Emma Lewis). New England captives carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760, during the French and Indian wars. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1925)
   Vol II, p 114.
5. ↑