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<p ALIGN="CENTER"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase"><font size="2" face="Arial">Chronology
of Waite/Jennings Rescue Expedition</font></span></b></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">This map is designed to assist
researchers with geographic overview of the journey (i.e., modern state
demarcations may not have existed in 1667-78) as well as distances
traversed:</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Hatfield � September 19, 1677:
Indians attack fort, killing twelve and carrying off seventeen
women/children.</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> Waite/Jennings
gather information and approvals for pursuit across other
jurisdictions</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Waite obtains permission of
Massachusetts Bay Colony, while Jennings gains crucial information
from escaped captive, Benoni Stebbins</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">New York Colony permission is secured
with difficulty (British control of New York began only three years
earlier in 1664)</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Waite/Jennings move with Indian scout
north into Wilderness</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Indian scout abandons Waite/Jennings at
Lake George, but provides map and canoe</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">After crossing Lake George by canoe,
Waite/Jennings find Lake Champlain frozen and begin walking, later
forced to backtrack for canoe upon discovery of open water</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Waite/Jennings again encounter ice and
renew journey on foot at Grand Isle</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Blizzard nearly kills searchers on
January 2, 1678, but shelter is found</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Waite/Jennings stagger into Fort
Chambly, January 6, 1678</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">With French military escort,
Waite/Jennings find 18 captives still alive at wigwam in Sorel. Negotiations for
release begin</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Governor Frontenac receives
Waite/Jennings and agrees to front them ransom to pay Indians for
releasing captives, as well as providing larger military escort to
insure safe passage back to Albany</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">May 22, 1678: Waite/Jennings expedition
numbering over 30 (with French soldiers included) arrives
with great fanfare at Albany</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Hatfield families send jubilant advance
party with horses to greet expedition at Kinderhook and bring them
back to Massachusetts</font></li>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Stephen Jennings moves to Brookfield,
MA in 1690s and is killed while raking hay</font> <font face="Arial" size="2">in
1710. Benjamin Waite dies in French/Indian massacre at Deerfield in
1704.</font></li>
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<p align="center"><b><i>Jennings Heritage Project</i></b>
<p align="center"><b><a href="cornerstone_for_courage.htm"><font face="Arial" size="1">Cornerstone
for Courage: The Case of Stephen Jennings <br>
and The American Deliverance (1677-78)</font></a>
</b>
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Preservation</font></a></b>
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