Hi, again, While checking on my Otis ancestors who were victims of the Indian attack on Dover on 28 June 1689, I came across two Blanchard names in Emma Lewis Coleman's 1925 book "New England Captives Carried to Canada Between 1677 and 1760 During the French and Indian Wars." They were: Thomas BLANCHARD, b. August 1699, son of Thomas and Ruth (Adams) Blanchard. He and Nathan CROSS were captured at Dunstable on Saturday Sept. 4, 1724 "They were making turpentine in the forest on the north side of Nashua River where there were no houses and every night they crossed the river to sleep. On this Saturday when they did not come back from work an alarm was given and ten men went out to seek them. By certain marks on trees they knew that they had been captured and that it could not have been long before because the turpentine was still spreading over the ground, the barrel hoops having been cut. One of the pursuing party suggested following by a circuitous route to avoid an ambush, but his plan was rejected, which, alas! caused the death of all but the careful one. The Indians were waiting. "The N.E. Courant said: 'yesterday arrived an Express from Dunstable with Advice, that on Saturday last 2 men of that Town being missing and suppos'd to be taken by the Indians, a Scout of 11 men went in quest of them, who were fir'd upon by about 30 of the Enemy and 9 of them kill'd. The other two made their Escape tho' one of them was pretty much wounded'" "The Indians were ambushed at a brook near Thornton's Ferry in Merrimack. "The grave of the victims is in the old church-yard near the State Line and the stone in memory of Mr. Thomas Lund is inscribed" "'This man with seven more that lies in this grave was slew all in a day by the Indians. "Cross and Blanchard were taken to Canada and redeemed by their own exertions after one year's confinement. The historian of Dunstable says that they worked out their redemption by building a sawmill, as did Sawyer of Worcester and Hall of Exeter in 1706 and Huntoon and Gilman of Kingston in 1710." This incident occurred near the end of the Three Years' War or Dummers' War. William BLANCHARD was taken prisoner in King George's War and was confined in the Quebec prison, built of stone, two stories high and 150 feet long. Four Journals were written in that place, mostly records of suffering, sickness and death. The Journal of an anonymous mate of the English ship "Adventure," which had been captured by two French men-of -war, mentions William Blanchard as a captive. On 16 June 1748, between Hinsdale and Fort Dummer, William Blanchard of Dunstable, Henry Stevens Jr. of Chelmsford, Benjamin Osgood of Billerica, Joel Johnson of Woburn, Mark Perkins of Concord and Matthew Wyman of Lancaster were captured. The French account says that on July fifth (N.S.) three war parties brought in six prisoners and five scalps. They had united in striking a blow near Northfield. The six prisoners, soldiers of Captain Willard's company, were of a group who were marching toward Fort Dummer (the first English settlement in Vermont, built in 1724 near the site of Brattleborough). At their first camping-place, they were surprised, stripped of their arms and most of their clothing. Blanchard, Osgood, Johnson and Wyman apparently were held by the Indians for a longer time than the others before being turned over to the French. They were made to run the gauntlet. An account of sundry English prisoners brought from Louisbourg in Canada on Oct. 6, 1748, on the schooner "Britannicus," includes the names of Blanchard, Osgood, Perkins and Wyman. Osgood reached Billerica Oct. 15, but, exhausted by poor food and abuse, he soon died. The others were called "feeble, emaciated and unfit for labour," even comparatively short as was their captivity. Index: Thomas 1724 Ind cptv Dunstable, MA 1998 5 22 William 1748 Ind cptv Dunstable, MA 1998 5 22