In 1704 a combined French/Native American raid on the village of Deerfield Massachusetts set the colonial world on edge. The surprise attack in the predawn light was vicious and violent. People and livestock murdered or taken. Homes looted and torched. Lives ruined or ended. For many, the Deerfield Raid was the end, for those taken it was only the beginning. The saga of the captives and the "Redeemed" became the viral story of its day.