New England Captives Carried to Canada, 1677-1760 , Vols. 1 and II.

Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925 First Edition, Two volumes complete. Hard cover in two volumes, red publisher's cloth with gilt design to top board, top edge red stained, other edges untrimmed, map end papers, 438 and 452 pp. with index, and many black and white illustrations. This work was the culmination of many years archival research by C. Alice Baker (1833-1909), a pioneering American female historian, and her research assistant, Emma Lewis Coleman to document the stories of individual American colonists, often women and children, kidnapped and marched to Canada by the French and their Indigenous allies during the intercolonial struggles known variously as [King ]Philip's War (1675-1678) , and the four "Intercolonial Wars." Baker died before the work was completed, and the book is dedicated to her. Her title "True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada" (1897) was the first attempt at this study. Of particular note is Cole's reportage of what happened at Deerfield, Massachusetts during the winter of 1704. This is a wide-ranging and important source of primary documents from this time, ranging across all the current New England States. First-hand original sources such as diaries, letters, county records and the like are reproduced. This is an important work for understanding the complex interactions between these groups. Condition: Very Good Minus. Vol. 2 has a glued repair to a closed tear on the spine. The frontispiece in Vol 2 has been re-attached on the verso with hinge tape. There is a ghost of old glue to the hinge edge of the ffep. where a book plate may have been removed at some point. Otherwise, the set is clean and lightly age-toned. **Emma Lewis Coleman (1853-1942)was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, which must have informed the passion for this research. She was also a photographer of note, and her collection of original glass -plate images are available through Historic New England. Scarce. OCLC 291178.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.