Mary Rowlandson
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Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott, was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. In 1682
Site of Rowlandson's capture (Lancaster, Massachusetts)
Lancaster raid site on Main Street in Lancaster
Original caption "Mary Rowlandson Captured by the Indians" (Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836–1909)
London edition (1682) title page of Rowlandson's narrative
John Williams was a New England Puritan minister who was the noted pastor of Deerfield from 1688 to his death. He and most of his family were taken captive in the Raid on Deerfield in 1704 during Quee
Mary Rowlandson
…Monoco, Nashaway tribe sachem John Williams (New England minister), who wrote a captivity narrative after being captured in the 1704 Raid on Deerfield Works by Mary White Rowlandson at Project Gutenberg…
Portrait believed to be of John Williams, c. 1707