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Lydia was bartered immediately by her captors as they fled north along the Merrimack River: sold to the Pennacook Indians, whose settlement was located in what is today Concord, New Hampshire, probably in exchange for food. Later that year, she was carried up to the Pennacook winter home of Ville-Marie (Montreal), where she was ransomed by the wealthy Frenchman, Jacques Le Ber, who had a humanitarian bent toward freeing captives. In Canada, Lydia was influenced by the people who surrounded her, no doubt including Jeanne Le Ber, daughter of Jacques, who was herself a famous recluse and would a short time later enter the Congregation de Notre Dame as a nun. And so it was here that Lydia, less than two years after leaving her life in Puritan New England, would dive into her career as a Catholic nun. She was baptized and was named Lydia-Madeleine on 24 April 1696. She flourished in Canada, and though she may have had the opportunity to return to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, she never appeared inclined to do so. Very little is known about Lydia after she entered She lived in the community for 62 years, mainly in Montreal, later in Sainte-Famille, Île d’Orléans, where she was the superior of the mission. Later in life she wrote to her brother John, who had returned from his captivity and re-established his life in Groton, asking that he abjure his "heretical" faith and join with her in following Roman Catholic ways.