Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies.
At first Mercy\'s only hope is t.
The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada -- takes more than 40 days.
Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking.
In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive.
Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies