French, Mary (fl. 1703)
French, Mary (fl. 1703)
American poet. Born in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Captured by Native Americans in Massachusetts, was held prisoner in Canada by the French; addressed "A Poem Written by a Captive Damsel" (1706) to sister, which was 1st published in Cotton Mather's Good Fetch'd Out of Evil.
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