Esther

By Julie Wheelwright,

Book cover of Esther: The Remarkable True Story Of Esther Wheelwright

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In 1703, a war party of French soldiers and Abenaki warriors raided the Puritan village of seven-year-old Esther Wheelwright, killing several men, women and children and taking twenty-two captives. That Esther managed to survive the 200-mile journey by foot through swamps and forests to a Jesuit mission in New France…

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In a time when nature, natives, and competing religions were feared by many European settlers, a little Puritan girl was captured by Abenaki warriors during an attack on her fort by French and Indian forces and thrust into the midst of everything her people feared most. When captives were later being repatriated, she chose to remain in New France, not only never seeing her parents again, but rising through the ranks of the Catholic church. One can only imagine what she experienced within the deep forest and little Jesuit chapel among the Abenaki during her formative years which left such…

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