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- In 1704 Elizabeth was taken captive back to Canada after the attack onDeerfield, along with her mother, who was killed on the way by theIndians. Elizabeth became a convert to Catholicism, married, hadchildren, and lived her life as a French subject in Canada. Sheappears in the French records as Elisabeth Casse. In 1706 , aged ten, she asked to become a citizen. In 1712 she had anillegitimate daughter by an unknown father. This daughter died veryyoung. It was later that year that she was married for the first time. After a marriage of almost seventeen years her firsthusband died. Elisabeth must have been an attractive widow, for inless than a year she married a man younger than herself. She marriedsecondly Pierre Monet, the older brother of one of her sons-in-law.This marriage took place at La Prairie on 16 January 1730. After aneventful life she passed away at the age of 70 and was buried on 30January 1766 at La Prairie.
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