The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
with Related DocumentsSecond Edition ©2018
Mary Rowlandson’s The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, first published in 1682, is an English Puritan woman’s account of her captivity among Native Americans during King Philip’s, or Metacom’s, War (1675-76) in southeastern New England. In this new edition, 21 related documents support Row...
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Mary Rowlandson’s The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, first published in 1682, is an English Puritan woman’s account of her captivity among Native Americans during King Philip’s, or Metacom’s, War (1675-76) in southeastern New England. In this new edition, 21 related documents support Rowlandsons text, which is reprinted from the earliest surviving edition of the narrative. Neal Salisbury’s revised introduction reflects the changes in scholars’ understandings of issues relating to Rowlandson’s captivity and her narrative that have occurred in the twenty years since the publication of the first edition. Five new related documents include a little-known narrative of Muslim captivity by a Puritan contemporary of Rowlandson’s, a treaty that exhibits the motives of both English and Native American signers, an account of the forced removal of Christian Indians to Deer Island during Metacom’s War, and two visual documents. The volume’s document headnotes, footnotes, and appendices have been thoroughly revised in light of recent research and interpretations.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
List of Maps and Illustrations
Part One
Introduction: Mary Rowlandson in a World of Removes
The Setting: "King Philip’s War" (1675-1676)
Mary Rowlandson and Her Narrative
From England to New England
The Anglo-Indian Frontier
Two Towns Called Nashaway
Lancaster and the Rowlandsons
Worlds Upended
Total War, 1675-76
Captives and Captors
Redemption
War’s Terrifying End
Reordering and remembering
Postwar Diasporas
Interpreting War and Captivity
Publicizing Captivity
Mary Rowlandson’s Legacies
Part Two: The Document
The Preface to the Readers
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Part Three: Related Documents
English Expansion and Nashaway
1. Massachusetts General Court, Treaty with Five Indian Communities, 1644
Philip on The Causes of the Anglo-Indian War
2. John Easton, Excerpt from "A Relacion of the Indyan Warre," 1675
The Perils of War
3. Daniel Gookin Excerpt from "An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England," 1677
4. The Examination and Relation of James Quannapaquait, January 24, 1676
5. Job Kattananit, Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, February 14, 1767
6. Town of Lancaster, Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, March 11, 1675
7. Indian’s Letter to English Troops at Medfield, 1676
Mary Rowlandson’s Release from Captivity
8. John Levertt, Letter to "Indian Sagamores," March 31, 1676
9. Shoshanim "Sam Sachem" et al.
10. James Printer et al., Letter to John Leverett et al., ca. April 1676
11. Massachusetts Governor’s Councils Letter to "Indian Sachems" April 28, 1676
English Justice
12. Andrew Pittimee et al. Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, June 1676
13. Massachusetts Council to James Quanapohit et al., 1676
14. Shoshanim ("Sam Sachem") et al., Letter to John Leverett et al., July 6, 1676
15. Daniel Gookin, A Memorandum of Indian Children Put Forth into Service to the English, August 10, 1676
16. John Hull, Excerpt from John Hull’s Journal August 24, 1676
17. Daniel Gookin, Account of the Disposall of the Indians, Our Friends, November 10, 1676
A New England Narrative of Muslim Captivity
18. Joshua Gee, Excerpt from "Narrative of Joshua Gee," 1680-87
The Captivity of Hannah Dustin
19. Cotton Mather, Excerpt from Decennium Luctousum, 1699
Revolutionary Remembering
20. Image of Mary Rowlandson, 1770
21. Paul Revere, Philip. King of Mount Hope, 1772
Appendices
A Rowlandson Chronology
Questions for Consideration
Selected Biography
Index
Authors
Neal Salisbury
Neal Salisbury (Ph.D., UCLA) is Professor Emeritus of History at Smith College and specializes in Native American and colonial American history, particularly in New England. He is the author of “Spiritual Giants, Worldly Empires: Indigenous Peoples and New England to the 1680s,” in The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook (2017), “The Atlantic Northeast,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History (2014), and Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (1982). He coauthored The People: A History of Native America (2007). He coedited Reinterpreting New England Indian History and the Colonial Experience, with Colin G. Calloway (2003) and Companion to American Indian History, with Philip J. Deloria (2002).
Mary Rowlandson
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