Footnote # 1

Joseph-François Hertel, "Mémoires des services du Sr. Hertel père et de ses Enfants," Canadian Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal, 2nd ser., 1, no. 1 (July 1889): 6.

Footnote # 2

Quoted in Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), p. 52; quoted from Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, History and General Description of New France, trans. and ed. by John Gilmary Shea (1870; reprint, Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1962), 5:9.

Footnote # 3

Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), p. 40.

Footnote # 4

De Rouville is reported as exhorting his troops with these words before the 1708 attack he led on Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Quoted in Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), p. 112. Haefeli and Sweeney attribute the quote to Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, History and General Description of New France, trans. and ed. John Gilmary Shea (1870; reprint, Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1962), 5:206.

Footnote # 5

Quoted in C. Alice Baker, True Stories of New England Captives, reprint: Heritage Classic, pp. 315-316; quoted from E.B. O'Callaghan, ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons, 1853–1887), 9: 758-9.

Further Reading

Haefeli, Evan and Sweeney, Kevin. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Eccles, W.J. France in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada ? A Cultural History. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000.