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The Deerfield attack was part of the decade-long Queen Anne"s War (the 1702-1713 War of Spanish Succession on the Continent). Rebecca was eight years old. Eunice Williams was captured in this same raid, as was her father, the Review
John Williams who wrote about his captive experience in The Redeemed Captive.
Like Eunice and several other children from Deerfield, Rebecca Kellogg was adopted by Haudenosaunee Mohawks in the town of Kahnawake. Unlike Eunice, Rebecca Kellogg returned to British colonial territory as an older woman.
Edwards expressed in many letters his admiration of her faith and of her interpretation skills. Rebecca Kellogg Ashley died in 1757 with the Oneida Haudenosaunee in Oquaga, New New York
She did not leave any writings that are known but her life is visible in the writings of the missionaries with whom she worked.
The Review Gideon Hawley wrote that the Haudenosaunee “greatly lamented” her death.
