Our Ancestor -
Mary Baldwin Catlin
Born: Abt 1638
Father: Joseph Baldwin b: 1610 in Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Mother: Hannah Whitlocke b: 1613 or 1617
Marriage: John Catlin ( b: 1643) on 23 SEP 1662 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
Event: 29 FEB 1704 Deerfield, Massachusetts
Tradition states: The captives were taken to a house...and a Frenchman was brought in [wounded] and laid on the floor; He was in great distress and called for water; Mrs. Catlin fed him with water. Some one said to her, "How can you do that for your enemy?" she replied, "If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him water to drink." The Frenchman was taken and carried away, and the captives marched off. Some thought the kindness shown to the Frenchman was the reason of Mrs. Catlin's being left...
Event: 29 FEB 1704 Deerfield, Massachusetts
Tradition states: The captives were taken to a house...and a Frenchman was brought in [wounded] and laid on the floor; He was in great distress and called for water; Mrs. Catlin fed him with water. Some one said to her, "How can you do that for your enemy?" she replied, "If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him water to drink." The Frenchman was taken and carried away, and the captives marched off. Some thought the kindness shown to the Frenchman was the reason of Mrs. Catlin's being left...
From New England Captives' Stories:"...With the tender sympathy of a Christian woman, she had held the cup of cold water to the parched lips of the wounded French lieutenant, craving it with piteous appeal. In the hurry of departure, either by design or by accident, none had claimed her as his captive....
Death: 04 APR 1704 in , Deerfield, Franklin, MA
"...mourning for her children, and would not be comforted, she lingered a few weeks, and died from the shock of that day's horror...."
"...mourning for her children, and would not be comforted, she lingered a few weeks, and died from the shock of that day's horror...."
1 comment:
Cousin,
I have Hannah Whitlock born 14 Dec 1617 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England. My source is Connecticut Nutmegger, Dec 1997, Vol 30, p. 370, in an article by Eugenie Fellows, "How One Descendant of Baldwin, Catlin and Ward Became a Canadian."
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