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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (also known as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God) is a 1682 memoir written by Mary (White) Rowlandson, a married English colonist and mother who was captured in 1675 in an attack by Native Americans during King Philip's War. She was held by them for ransom for 11 weeks and 5 ...
Rowlandson's 6-year-old daughter, Sarah, died from her wounds after a week of captivity. Lancaster raid site on Main Street in Lancaster For more than 11 weeks, [ 4 ] Rowlandson and her remaining children were forced to accompany the Native Americans as they travelled through the wilderness to carry out other raids and to elude the English militia.
On May 2, after eleven weeks in captivity, Rowlandson was released to Hoar for a £20 ransom at the glacial stone outcropping known today as Redemption Rock. Rowlandson would go on to write a famous narrative of her experience as a captive, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary ...
Mary Rowlandson's memoir, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, (1682) is a classic example of the genre. According to Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse, Rowlandson's captivity narrative was "one of the most popular captivity narratives on both sides of the Atlantic."
Weetamoo/Wattimore appears in Mary Rowlandson's The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. In 1676, Weetamoo and her husband Quinnapin, the sachem of Narragansett, attacked a colonial settlement in Lancaster, Massachusetts in which they took Rowlandson as captive [ 17 ] It was during her captivity that Rowlandson interacted with ...
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In 1676 Quanopen and Weetamoo held Mary Rowlandson captive for a period before she was redeemed. [ 2 ] In June 1675 Quinnapin, Quaiapen , and other Narragansett leaders met with colonial authorities at Worden Pond and agreed not to join with King Philip . [ 3 ]