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Abducted from Deerfield, MA on 3/11/1704 during the French and Indian raids and taken to Canada and did not return to Deerfield.
Godfather was Govenor Rigaud de Vandreuil, godmother was Marguerite Bonat, wife of Antoine Picaud who was Treasury clerk of the king.
Naturalized by Louis XIV of France May 1710.

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Sergeant in Tonty Company

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Was abducted from Deerfield, MA in 3/11/1704 during the French and Indian raids. He later returned to Deerfield.

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Was abducted from Deerfield, MA in 3/11/1704 during the French and Indian raids and taken to Canada. He later returned to Deerfield.

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Was abducted from Deerfield, MA in 3/11/1704 during the French and Indian raids and taken to Canada. She did not return to Deerfield.
Godparents were Francois Hartel of Perigny and Louise de la Valtrie.
Was naturalized by Louis XIV May 1710.
Died one week after her ninth child Veronique Legrain was born.

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Was naturalized by Louis XIV of France May 1710.

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Came to America about 1640 with his wife Beatrice and his children.
Signed session petition to separate Cambridge Village from Town of Cambridge in 1678

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Was still living in 1690.

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Came to the U.S. before 1640 and settled in Windsor, CT., bringing sons George, John and Thomas.

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On the 7th of March, 1679, John Stebbins of Northampton, died in an unusual manner, and a jury of inquest, composed of eleven Northampton men and Doct. Thomas Hastings of Hatfield, examined the body. They found "several hundred spots, small ones as if they had been shot with small shot, which were scraped and under them were holes into his body," and some other things not usual. There were suspicions of witchcraft. The county court met at Northampton, April 29, 1679, and Samuel Bartlett, brother of Stebbin's widow, was allowed to bring in such testimony as he could find. The court sent the testimonies to the Govenor and Magistrates, but no one was prosecuted. From "History of Hadley, MA., p.182
On 3/7/1678, Mary (Bliss) Parsons and her son John were accused of witch craft in the mysterious death of John Stebbins.The accusations were sent to Boston, but apparently no further action was taken. Unfortunately, Bartlett's evidence and records of the case have disappeared. ( From the University of Massachusetts site, thier timline for witchcraft accusations.)

John Stebbins aged 70 yeares, died the 4th of December 1681.
An who was his first wife lieth by him aged 50 yeares, died April y 3d 1680
(Inscriptions from the Old Burial Ground, Roxbury, Massachusetts)

Was an original proprietor of Pocumtuck (Deerfield) owning 20 cow commons, and drew house lot 13 (The History of Deerfield, George Sheldon)

His estate was taken 3/20/1678/9, came to L617-3-11

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Died from a fall from a horse.

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From New England Outpost : War & Society in Colonail Deerfield by Richard Melvoin
John and Abigail Stebbins daughter Hannah received some treasures upon her grandmother's Ann Bartlett's death : a "mohaire Pettecoate, a feather bolster, a dozen napkins, 2 feather pillows, curtains," Yards of different cloths, fine linens and a hat and case. p.173