Dee Spencer's Blog – September 2024 Archive (1)

My tree is more of a wreath.  Everyone is related to someone else in some way, even as my husband and I are 9th cousins once removed.  In that spirit, today I present a story from my tree that connects my French Canadian paternal side with my English maternal ancestry in Wells, Maine (US). This came about through an Indian massacre in Wells, ME, on 10 Aug 1703.  Not all were killed, and many women and children were kidnapped and taken north to the province of Quebec.  Sometimes these…