The mystery for so many years has been "why?"
Nearly three centuries ago, Eunice Williams - as she was known before her abduction from Deerfield in 1704 by French and Indian raiders - uttered the short Mohawk phrase "jaght oghte," meaning "maybe not." It was a polite refusal to leave her captors and return home to her Puritan father in New England when offered the chance as a 16-year-old, nine years after she was taken.
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