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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 ...
Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott (c. 1637 – January 5, 1711), was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans [1] [2] in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed.
Title page of A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, First edition London 1682.. John Hoar (1622 – April 2, 1704) was a militia leader and liaison with Native Americans in colonial Massachusetts during King Philip's War.
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."
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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 ]
In 1676, during King Philip's War, the release of Mary Rowlandson (the wife of a Puritan minister) from her Native American captors was negotiated atop a granite ledge. [1] The 0.25-acre (0.10 ha) parcel upon which the rock stands was acquired by the land conservation non-profit organization The Trustees of Reservations in 1953, and is open to ...
Samson Occom's work can be compared to Mary Rowlandson's A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1683). Although Occom's was written after Rowlandson's, they have several similarities. Rowlandson wrote about being taken as a captive among the Indians due to the Indians' trying to regain their land from King Philip ...