Sarah Foote DICKINSON

Abt 1655 - 1732  (77 years)

• Name	Sarah Foote DICKINSON
  Birth	Abt 1655  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Note	29 Feb 1704	Deerfield, Franklin, MA   [2, 3]
  	From Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors: " When Deerfield was destroyed by the French and Indians, 29 Feb., 1704, he and four of his children, Martin, Joseph, Joanna and Rebecca, were taken prisoners and carried to Canada. His son, Jonathan, was killed. Mrs. Kellogg escaped. There is a tradition that at the time of the attack upon the house (which was at night), Mrs. Kellogg "escaped from her bed with her infant, a few days old, to the cellar, and after secreting her infant, turned a large tub over herself; the cries of the child attracted the attention of the Indians, who immediately siezed it and dashed it against the wall. They afterward feasted upon the stores which they found in the cellar, sitting upon the tub which concealed the wretched mother. On their departure, they set fire to the dwelling. She rushed from the house, almost naked and, with bare feet, fled through the deep snow for two miles to the house then used as a fort." The youngest child of Martin Kellogg was Jonathan, b. 17 Dec., 1698, and, as recorded in the Hampshire County Recorder's book at Hatfield, he "was slain in the fort," which seems to dispose of the tradition of the infant, a few days old, carried to the cellar and secreted by his mother. How much truth there is in the rest of the tradition is unknown. The father and his four children were separated, as the Indians, after their depredations, divided into as many parties, each taking a prisoner. It is not know when he returned. In Oct., 1705, eleven of the Deerfield captives came home; the names of only three are known... In 1706 forty-four English captive were returned from Canada. The names of but few of them are known. It is probable that in one of these parties Martin Kellogg, Sr., came." From Unredeemed Captive: "Early on the morning of February 29, 1704, before the settlers of Deerfield, Massachusetts, had stirred from their beds, a French and Indian war party opened fire, weilding hatchets and torches, on the lightly fortified town. The Kelloggs...had been major sufferers in the Deerfield massacre: a boy killed, the father (Martin, Sr.) and four other children (Martin, Jr., Joseph, Joanna, and Rebecca) taken prisoner, the mother "escaped." Martin, Sr. returned to New England in one of the first prisoner exchanges. Martin, Jr. fled (apparently from Kahnawake) with three other boys in 1705 and made his way back to Deerfield - only to be recaptured, and repatriated for good, in 1708. After the peace of 1713, he returned to Canada to retrieve his brother Joseph. And Joseph would subsequently undertake the same errand - several times- on behalf of his captive sisters. The latter, however, chose to remain; Joanna, indeed, would subsequently marry a Kahnawake chief."
  Death	11 Feb 1731/32  [3, 4]
  Person ID	I2351	MM
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2005

  
  

  Father	John DICKINSON,   b. 1630, Watertown, Middlesex, MA d. 19 May 1676, Hadley, Hampshire, MA (Age 46 years)
  Mother	Frances FOOTE,   b. 1629, ENGLAND d. 3 Feb 1678, Hatfield, Hampshire, MA (Age 49 years)
  Family ID	F1584	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Samuel LANE   d. 1690, Suffield, Hartford, CT
  Marriage	11 Dec 1677  [1, 3, 5]
  Children	1. Samuel LANE,   b. Abt 1680   2. Sarah LANE,   b. Abt 1682   3. Mary LANE,   b. 7 May 1684   4. John LANE,   b. 3 Apr 1686   5. Elizabeth LANE,   b. Abt 1689
  Family ID	F2211	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jul 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Martin KELLOGG,   b. 22 Nov 1658, Boston, Suffolk, MA
  Marriage	27 Feb 1690/91  [3, 5]
  Children	1. Joseph KELLOGG,   b. 8 Nov 1691   2. Joanna KELLOGG,   b. 8 Feb 1693   3. Rebecca KELLOGG,   b. 22 Dec 1695, Deerfield, Franklin, MA d. 1757, Ouaquaga Indian Village, Windsor, Broome, NY (Age 61 years)   4. Jonathan KELLOGG,   b. 17 Dec 1698   d. 29 Feb 1703/04, Deerfield, Franklin, MA (Age 5 years)
  Family ID	F1032	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jul 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Note - 29 Feb 1704 - Deerfield, Franklin, MA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S130] King, Mrs. James A. (Nellie Clark), Some New England Families, (J. B. Savage Co., Printers, Cleveland, Ohio, 1922), 130. [S283] Demos, John, Unredeemed Captive, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994), 283. [S163] Hopkins, Timothy, Kelloggs In The Old World and The New, (Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co., San Francisco, CA, 1903), 163. [S135] Brown, Rick, Rick Brown FGS, 135. [S179] Foote, Abram W., Foote Family, (Marble City Press, The Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1907-1932), 179.