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In 1835 The Rev. John Fessenden (1804-1881), minister of the Deerfield church, gave this sermon before, among others, a party of St. Francis Abenaki Native Americans. The Native people who "attended divine service on Sunday in a divine and orderly manner" claimed to be descendants of Eunice Williams. They came to Deerfield to visit the graves of Eunice's parents. The point of the sermon - that all people are of one blood descended from Adam and Eve - pointed out the important connection between the Williamses of Deerfield and their "cousins" in Canada, the descendants of Eunice and her husband, Arosen.