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A true history of the captivity & restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, a minister's wife in New-England. : Wherein is set forth the cruel and inhumane usage she underwent amongst the heathens, for eleven weeks time: and her deliverance from them.

by: Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711

Publication date: 1682

Topics: Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711, Narragansett Indians, Indian captivities -- Massachusetts, Fast-day sermons -- Massachusetts -- Lancaster, Sermons -- Massachusetts -- Lancaster, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Imprint 1682

Publisher: [London] : Printed first at New-England, and re-printed at London, and sold by Joseph Poole, at the Blue Bowl in the Long-Walk, by Christs-Church Hospital

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

[6], 46 p. ; 21 cm. (4to)

First published in Cambridge, Mass., 1682 with title: The soveraignty & goodness of God, together, displayed; being a narrative of the captivity and restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

"A sermon preached at Weathersfield, Nov. 21, 1678, by Mr. Joseph Rowlandson, it being a day of fasting and humiliation", p. 35-46, has separate caption title. It was also published separately in the same year as: The possibility of God's forsaking a people that have been visibly near & dear to him (Wing R2091)

In 1676, near the end of King Philip's War, a group of Nipmunk and Narragansett Indians attacked Lancaster, burned the town and captured many of the settlers, among them Mary White Rowlandson and her three living children

Signatures: A-F⁴ (A1 verso blank) G²

Errors in paging: p. 27, 30, 31, and 34 misnumbered 29, 32, 33, and 36

Title page printed within ornamental woodcut border

Purchase; 0528

Purchase; 05717