esther wheelwright was born in maine.n 1703, during the war of the spanish succession, she was taken captive by a group of indians who are allies of the french. they adopted her into their family and they eventually would allow the french governor to pay them a price and reclaim her. he adopted her. she lived for several years in the early 1700's in the home of the french governor. eventually, they decided to put her in the convent, and she is able then to learn french. she becomes catholic. and she becomes very well-versed in the politics and the religious agendas of the ursuline order. as we talked about before, this includes a lot of social and political involvement. a lot of the efforts to educate. a lot of the efforts to take care of the poor and the indigent. a lot of efforts to take care of social services, broadly speaking. they were performed by these nuns and they operated largely independently. do you remember a story we told about martinique, when the ursulines were suspected of being part of the slave conspir