I have read several books about children that were taken off the white people’s farms in Texas. Very interesting stories. Some never wanted to return to their former lives and many didn’t remember it. There is also the story about the woman that was taken in the late 1700s somewhere nearer the east coast and she walked back...800 miles. Very interesting reads.
They had one famous account: "Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America" and it is a remarkable story of a 51 year old woman taken captive during a raid where they brutally murdered 27 people. This is a summary from Google Books:
Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives, including thirty-nine-year-old Hannah Duston and her week-old daughter, Martha. A short distance from the village, one of the warriors murdered the squalling infant by dashing her head against a tree. After a forced march of nearly one hundred miles, Duston and two companions were transferred to a smaller band of Abenaki, who camped on a tiny island located at the junction of the Merrimack and Contoocook Rivers, several miles north of present day Concord, New Hampshire.
This was the height of King William’s War, both a war of terror and a religious contest, with English Protestantism vying for control of the New World with French Catholicism. After witnessing her infant’s murder, Duston resolved to get even. Two weeks into their captivity, Duston and her companions, a fifty-one-year-old woman and a twelve-year-old boy, moved among the sleeping Abenaki with tomahawks and knives, killing two men, two women, and six children. After returning to the bloody scene alone to scalp their victims, Duston and the others escaped down the Merrimack River in a stolen canoe. They braved treacherous waters and the constant threat of attack and recapture, returning to tell their story and collect a bounty for the scalps.
Just crazy that this woman was able to do this to escape and avenge the murder of her infant.