Frank and his wife, Parthena, were among those enslaved by the Reverend John Williams, the town’s first minister, who also performed their marriage. When Deerfield was attacked in a pre-dawn raid in February 1704 by French soldiers with their Indigenous allies, Parthena was killed, along with two of the Williams children. Frank and John Williams were among the 100 people who were captured and marched to Canada. In his book, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion, Williams wrote that on the first night of the march, the captors “killed my negro man.”