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THE RANSOM OF MERCY CARTER!
Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts a English colonies. In is 1704, when the threat of an Indian attack is very actual. But the Deerfield towns man believed with the weather so bitterly cold not even Indians would brave the freezing temperatures. But the townspeople were wrong and didn't take into consideration that the French, with whom the English are at war, could and will aid the Indians.
During the night, with soldiers sleeping right in the houses with the Deerfield man, the Indians and French attack Deerfield, taking children away from their…