The Sovereignty and Goodness of God with

Mary Rowlandson'sThe Sovereignty and Goodness of God, first published in 1682, is an English Puritan woman's account of her captivity among Native Americans during Metacom's War (1675-76) in southeastern New England. In this volume, 17 related documents support Rowlandson's text, which is reprinted from the earliest surviving edition of the narrative.

Neal Salisbury (Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles) is a professor of history at Smith College and specializes in the history of American Indians and colonial New England. He is author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (1982) and The Indians of New England: A Critical Bibliography (1982) and is coauthor of The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (1990). His most recent article, "The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans," appeared in the July 1996 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly.

Foreword

v

Preface

vii

List of Illustrations

xv

PART ONE Introduction: Mary Rowlandson and Her Removes

1

(60)

The Setting: Metacom's War (1675-1676)

1

(4)

Mary Rowlandson and Her Narrative

5

(2)

The Great Migration

7

(3)

The Anglo-Indian Frontier

10

(11)

A World Upended

21

(14)

Reordering and Remembering

35

(26)

PART TWO The Document

61

(52)

The Preface to the Reader

63

(5)

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of

68

(45)

Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

PART THREE Related Documents

113

(64)

Metacom on the Causes of Anglo-Indian War

115

(3)

Excerpt from ``A Relacion of the Indyan Warre,'' 1675

115

(3)

John Easton

The Perils of War

118

(14)

The Examination and Relation of James Quannapaquait, January 24, 1675

118

(10)

Town of Lancaster, Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, March 11, 1675

128

(2)

Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, February 14, 1675

130

(1)

Job Kattananit

Indians' Letter to English Troops at Medfield, 1675

131

(1)

The Redemption of Mary Rowlandson

132

(5)

Letter to ``Indian Sagamores,'' March 31, 1676

132

(1)

John Leverett

Sam et al., Letter to John Leverett, April 12, 1676

133

(2)

James Printer et al., Letter to John Leverett et al., ca. April 1676

135

(1)

Letter from Massachusetts Governor's Council to ``Indian Sachems,'' April 28, 1676

136

(1)

Postwar Justice

137

(12)

Andrew Pittimee et al., Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, June 1676

137

(2)

Massachusetts Council to James Quanapohit et al., 1676

139

(1)

Mattamuck et al., Letter to John Leverett et al., July 6, 1676

140

(1)

A Memorandum of Indian Children Put Forth into Service to the English, August 10, 1676

141

(4)

Excerpt from John Hull's Journal, August 24, 1676

145

(2)

John Hull

An Account of the Disposall of the Indians, Our Friends, November 10, 1676

147

(2)

Daniel Gookin

Joseph Rowlandon's Final Sermon

149

(15)

``The Possibility of God's Forsaking a people, That have been visibly near & dear to him,'' November 21, 1678

149

(15)

Joseph Rowlandson

The Captivity of Hannah Dustin

164

(13)

Excerpt from Decennium Luctousum, 1699

164

(5)

Cotton Mather

APPENDICES

A Rowlandson Chronology

169

(3)

Questions for Consideration

172

(1)

Selected Bibliography

173

(4)

Index

177

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