Marguerite Kanenstenhawi Arosen - Good Read

Excellent Read!

I have read this amazing book The Unredeemed Captize .My 5th grt Grandfather Silas Rice and his brother Timothy @Nahor who was only 4 yrs old and not strong enough to travel was killed the day they were Abducted was Aug 8,1704 Silas was 9 yrs old @ Timothy Rice.was 7 yrs old.They were adopted into the community and Silas Name was changed to Jacques Tannhahorens @ Timothy name was changed to Jacques Osokeroton.The Mohawks of Caughnawaga were converted by Jesuit priests who kept excellent records of the baptism,marriage,@burials at the mission of St.Francis Xavier du Sault St Louis Caughnawaga(now Kahnawake Quebec Canada)which enables the tracing of decendents the parish records are excellent.Silas married Marie Tsiakohawi and i am so proud of my Rice name all my decendents were born in Cuaghnawaga Quebec reserve now known as Kahnawake Que and all are still Roman Catholic

Thank you Justin for starting this excellent discussion i appreciate all the hard work you do on Geni .Their is so much history to the Rice family name.

I recommend the Life of Te-ho-ra-gwa-ne alis Thomas Williams by his son Rev. Eleazar Williams, who was educated at Dartmouth. He wrote his book in 1859 and obviously knew his father and the details of his father's life. He does mention Marie's sister as Catherine, who became his adoptive mother when Marie died, and that Catherine married a Rice. His is the most contempororary account to the time. The Catholics had to do a lot of research, 50 y ears later to come up with some of the marriages, particularly that of Eunice Marguerite Williams, who Rev. Eleazar says married a war chief name DeRougers. His book is full of verifable facts as to where and who his father was fighting with during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.He calls out all the British Military and their operations, and also his father's trips to visit his American family and how Eleazar and his brother were finally separated because his mother was afraid if she did not give the Catholics one of her sons, they would be punished, so they gave Eleazar to the American family and John to the Catholics in Canada.