A'ongote (variously spelled)

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A'ongote (variously spelled) is the Native name given to Eunice Williams, a colonial New England girl captured in the 1704 Deerfield raid who was adopted into Mohawk society and remained there for the rest of her life.

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A'ongote (variously spelled) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American adoptee
historical figure
person
adoptedBy Mohawk family
linked to: Mohawk people
adoptedInto Kahnawake Mohawk community
Mohawk society
birthDate 1696
birthPlace Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony
capturedBy French and Native American raiders
Mohawk warriors
linked to: Iroquois warriors
capturedIn Raid on Deerfield (1704)
countryOfCitizenship Massachusetts Bay Colony
culture Mohawk
dateOfCapture 1704-02-29
deathDate 1785
deathPlace Kahnawake
linked to: Kahnawà:ke
ethnicity English colonist
Mohawk
family Eunice Mather Williams
linked to: Eunice Mather

John Williams
father John Williams
fatherOccupation Puritan minister
hasAlternativeName Aongote
Aonnetta
Aonnetta Williams
A’ongote
Eunice A'ongote
Eunice Kanenstenhawi Williams
Kanenstenhawi
hasGivenName Eunice Williams
historicalContext Queen Anne's War
knownFor being a Deerfield captive who chose to remain with the Mohawk
cross-cultural life between English Puritan and Mohawk Catholic worlds
language English
French
Mohawk
mother Eunice Mather Williams
linked to: Eunice Mather
notableEvent 1704 Raid on Deerfield
numberOfChildren 3
refusedReturnToBirthFamily true
religion Roman Catholicism
remainedInMohawkSociety true
residence Kahnawake, near Montreal
linked to: Kahnawà:ke

New France
siblingOf Stephen Williams
spouse François-Xavier Arosen
Mohawk man (Christian convert)
subjectOf The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
scholarly studies of captivity narratives
takenTo Canada
Kahnawake
linked to: Kahnawà:ke
visitedBirthFamily true
visitedDeerfield 1741

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Eunice Williams alsoKnownAs A'ongote (variously spelled)