Liberated by Colonel Henry Bouquet at the forks of the Muskingum River, she and Elizabeth Studebaker, another English colonist adopted by the Delaware, escaped from his custody on their way to Fort Pitt in Pittsburgh, and returned to the Delaware.
[4][5] United States historians such as Laurel Thatcher Ulrich incorrectly assumed that the younger children were when taken captive, the more likely they were to become assimilated to the tribe.
[citation needed] Girls and young women forced into tribal marriages often wanted to reunite with their birth families rather than adjust to the culture of their new communities.
[6][failed verification] This was the case with Eunice Williams, the daughter of John Williams, the minister of Deerfield, Massachusetts; after being taken to Canada and adopted by the Mohawk, she married a Mohawk husband at age 16 and never returned full-time to her New England family.
There she married American Revolutionary War soldier Thomas Robert Smiley.