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B09906	The soveraignty & goodness of God, together, with the faithfulness of his promises displayed; being a narrative of the captivity and restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Commended by her, to all that desires to know the Lords doing to, and dealings with her. Especially to her dear children and relations, / written by her own hand for her private use, and now made publick at the earnest desire of some friends, and for the benefit of the afflicted.	Rowlandson, Mary White, ca. 1635-ca. 1678.	1682 (1682)	Wing R2093; Evans 332; ESTC R213983	44,718	86

which hate thee which persecuted thee Thus hath the Lord brought me and mine out of that horrible pit and hath set us in the midst of tender-hearted and compassionate Christians It is the desire of my soul that we may walk worthy of the mercies received and which we are receiving Our Family being now gathered together those of us that were living the South Church in Boston hired an House for us Then were moved from Mr. Shepards those cordial Friends and went to Boston where we continued about three quarters of a year Still the Lord went along with us and provided graciously for us I thought it somewhat strange to fet up House keeping with bare walls but as Solomon sayes Mony answers all things and that we had through the benevolence of christian-Christian-friends some in this Town and some in that and others And some from England that in a little time we might look and see the House furnished with love The Lord hath been exceeding good ●o us in our low estate in that when we had neither house nor home nor other necessaries the Lord so moved the hearts of these and those to wards us that we wanted neither food nor raiment for our selves or ours Prov. 18.24 There is a Friend which sticketh closer than a Brother And how many such Friends have we found and now living amongst And truly such a Friend have we found him to be unto us in whose house we lived viz. Mr. James Whitcomb a Friend unto us near hand and afar off I can remember the time when I used to sleep quietly without workings in my thoughts whole nights together but now it is other wayes with me When all are fast about me and no eye open but his who ever waketh my thoughts are upon things past upon the awfull dispensation of the Lord towards us upon his wonderfull power and might in carrying of us through so many difficulties in returning us in safety and suffering none to hurt us I remember in the night season how the other day I was in the midst of thousands of enemies nothing but death before me It 〈◊〉 then hard work to perswade my self that ever I should be satisfied with bread again But now we are fed with the finest of the Wheat and as I may say With honey out of the rcok In stead of the Husk we have the fatted Calf The thoughts of these things in the particulars of them and of the love and goodness of God towards us make it true of me what David said of himself Psal 6.6 I watered my Couch with my tears Oh! the wonderfull power of God that mine eyes have seen affording matter enough for my thoughts to run in that when others are sleeping mine eyes are weeping I have seen the extrem vanity of this World One hour I have been in health and wealth wanting nothing But the next hour in sickness and wounds and death having nothing but sorrow and affliction Before I knew what affliction meant I was ready sometimes to wish for it When I lived in prosperity having the comforts of the World about me my relations by me my Heart chearfull and taking little care for any thing and yet seeing many whom I preferred before my self under many tryals and afflictions in sickness weakness poverty losses crosses and cares of the World I should be sometimes jealous least I should have my portion in this life and that Scripture would come to my mind Heb. 12.6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth But now I see the Lord had his time to scourge and chasten me The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops now one drop and then another but the dregs of the Cup the Wine of astonishment like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food did the Lord prepare to be my portion Affliction I wanted and affliction I had full measure I thought pressed down and running over yet I see when God calls a Person to any thing and through never so many difficulties yet he is fully able to carry them through and make them see and say they have been gainers thereby And I hope I can say in some measure As David did It is good for me that I have been afflicted The Lord hath shewed me the vanity of these outward things That they are the Vanity of vanities and vexation of spirit that they are but a shadow a blast a bubble and things of no continuance That we must rely on God himself and our whole dependance must be upon him If trouble from smallar matters begin to arise in me I have something at hand to check my self with and say why am I troubled It was but the other day that if I had had the world I would have given it for my freedom or to have been a Servant to a Christian I have learned to look beyond present and smaller troubles and to be quieted under them as Mosis said Exod. 14.13 Stand still and ses the salvation of the Lord. FINIS

of publick view and altogether unmeet that such works of God should be hid from present and future Generations And therefore though this Gentlewomans modesty would not thrust it into the Press yet her gratitude unto God made her not hardly perswadable to let it pass that God might have his due glory and others benefit by it as well as her self I hope by this time none will cast any reflection upon this Gentlewoman on the score of this publication of her affliction and deliverance If any should doubtless they may be reckoned with the nine lepers of whom it is said Were there not ten cleansed where are the nine but one returning to give God thanks Let such further know that this was a dispensation of publick note and of universall concernment and so much the more by how much the nearer this Gentlewoman stood related to that faithfull Servant of God whose capacity and employment was publick in the house of God and his name on that account of a very sweet savour in the Churches of Christ who is there of a true Christian spirit that did not look upon himself much concerned in this bereavment this Captivity in the time thereof and in his deliverance when it came yea more then in many others and how many are there to whom so concerned it will doubtless be a very acceptable thing to see the way of God with this Gentlewoman in the aforesaid dispensation thus laid out and pourtrayed before their eyes To conclude whatever any coy phantasies may deem yet it highly concerns those that have so deeply tasted how good the Lord is to enquire with David What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me Psal 116.12 He thinks nothing too great yea being sensible of his own disproportion to the due praises of God he cals in help Oh magnifie the Lord with me let us exalt his Name together Psal 34.3 And it is but reason that out praises should hold proportion with our prayers and that as many hath helped together by prayer for the obtaining of his Mercy so praises should be returned by many on this behalf And forasmuch as not the generall but particular knowledge of things makes deepest impression upon the affections this Narrative particularizing the several passages of this providence will nor a little conduce thereunto And therefore holy David in order to the attainment of that end accounts himself concerned to declare what God had done for his soul Psal 66.16 Come and hear a●l ye that fear God and I will declare what God hath done for my soul i. e. for his life see v. 9 10. He holdeth our soul in life and suffers not our feet to be moved for thou our God hast proved us thou hast tryed us as silver is tryed Life-mercies are heart-affecting-mercies of great impression and force to enlarge pious hearts in the praises of God so that such know not how but to talk of Gods acts and to speak of and publish his wonderfull works Deep troubles when the waters come in unto thy soul are wont to produce vowes vowes must be paid It is better not vow than vow and not to pay I may say that as none knows what it is to fight and pursue such an enemy as this but they that have fought and pursued them so none can imagine what it is to be captivated and enslaved to such atheisticall proud wild cruel barbarous bruitish in one word diabolicall creatures as these the worst of the heathen nor what difficulties hardships hazards sorrows anxieties and perplexities do unavoidably wait upon such a condition but those that have tryed it No serieus spirit then especialiy knowing any thing of this Gentlewomans piety can imagine but that the vows of God are upon her Excuse her then if she come thus into publick to pay those vows Come and hear what she hath to say I am confident that no Friend of diviné Providence will ever repent his time and pains spent in reading over these sheets but will judg them worth perusing again and again Hear Reader you may see an instance of the Soveraignty of God who doth what he will with his own as well as others and who may say to him What dofl thou Here you may see an instance of the faith and patience of the Saints under the most heart-sinking tryals here you may see the promises are breasts full of consolation when all the world besides is empty and gives nothing but sorrow That God is indeed the supream Lord of the world ruling the most unruly weakening the most cruel and salvage granting hir People mercy in the sight of the unmercifull curbing the lusts of the most filthy holding the hands of the violent delivering the prey from the mighty and gathering together the out casts of Israel Once and again you have heard but hear you may see that power belongeth unto God that our God is the God of Salvation and to him belong the issues from Death That our God is in the Heavens and doth what ever pleases him Here you have Sampson Riddle examplified and that great promise Rom. 8.28 verified Out of the Eater comes forth meat and sweetness out of the strong The worst of evils working together for the best good How evident is it that the Lord hath made this Gentlewoman a gainer by all this affliction that she can say 't is good for her yea better that she hath been then that she should not have been thus afflicted Ob how doth God shine forth in such things as these Reader if thou gettest no good by such a Declaration as this the fault must needs be tbine own Read therefore Peruse Ponder and from hence lay up something from the experience of another against thine own turn comes that so thou also through patience and consolation of the Scripture mayest have hope PER AMICAM A Narrative of the CAPTIVITY AND REST AVRATION OF Mrs. Mary Rowlandson ON the tenth of February 1675. Came the Indians with great numbers upon Lancaster Their first coming was about Sun-rising hearing the noise of some Guns we looked out several Houses were burning and the Smoke ascending to Heaven There were five persons taken in one house the Father and the Mother and a sucking Child they knockt on the head the other two they took and carried away alive Their were two others who being out of their Garison upon some occasion were set upon one was knockt on the head the other escaped Another their was who running a●ong was shot and wounded and sell down he pegged of them his life promising them Money as they told me but they would not hearken to him but knockt him in head and stript him naked and split open his Bowels Another seeing many of the Indians about his Barn ventured and went out but was quickly shot down There were three others belonging to the same Garison who were killed the Indians getting up upon the roof of the Barn had

has now given me power over it surely there are many who may be better imployed than to ly sucking a stinking Tobacco-pipe Now the Indians gather their Forces to go against North-Hampton over-night one went about yelling and hooting to give notice of the design Whereupon they fell to boyling of Ground-nuts and parching of Corn as many as had it for their Provision and in the morning away they went During my abode in this place Philip spake to me to make a shirt for his boy which I did for which he gave me a shilling I offered the mony to my master but he bade me keep it and with it J bought a piece of Horse flesh Afterwards he asked me to make a Cap for his boy for which he invited me to Dinner J went and he gave me a Pancake about as big as two fingers it was made of parched wheat beaten and fryed in Bears grease but I though I never tasted pleasanter meat in my life There was a Squaw who spake to me to make a shirt for her Sannup for which she gave me a piece of Bear Another asked me to knit a pair of Stockins for which she gave me a quart of Pease J boyled my Pease and Bear together and invited my master and mistriss to dinner but the proud Gossip be cause J served them both in one Dish would eat nothing except on bit that he gave her upon the point of his knife Hearing that my son was come to this place J went to see him and found him lying flat upon the ground J asked him how he could sleep so he answered me That he was not asleep but at Prayer and lay so that they might not observe what he was doing J pray God he may remember these things now he is returned in safety At this Place the Sun now getting higher what with the beams and heat of the Sun and the smoak of the Wigwams J thought I should have been blind I could scarce discern one Wigwam from another There was here one Mary Thurston of Medfield who seeing how it was with me lent me a Hat to wear but as soon as I was gone the Squaw who owned that Mary Thurston came running after me and got it away again Here was the Squaw that gave me one spoonfull of Meal I put it in my Pocket to keep it safe yet notwithstanding some body stole it but put five Indian Corns in the room of it which Corns were the greatest Provisions J had in my travel for one day The Indians returning from North-Hamptom brought with them some Horses and Sheep and other things which they had taken J desired them that they would carry me to Albany upon one of those Horses and sell me for Powder for so they had sometimes discoursed J was utterly hopless of getting home on foot the way that I came I could hardly bear to think of the many weary sheps J had taken to come to this place The ninth Remove But in stead of going either to Albany or homeward we must go five miles up the River and then go over it Here we abode a while Here lived a sorry Indian who spoke to me to make him a shirt when I had done it he would pay we nothing But he living by the River side where I often went to setch water I would often be putting of him in mind and calling for my pay at last he told me if I would make another shirt for a Papoos not yet born he would give me a knife which he did when I had done it I carried the knife in and my master asked me to give it him and I was not a little glad that I had any thing that they would accept of and be pleased with When we were at this place my Masters maid came home she had been gone three weeks into the Narrhaganset Country to fetch Corn where they had stored up some in the ground she brought home about a peck and half of Corn. This was about the time that their great Captain Naananto was killed in the Narrhaganset Countrey My Son being now about a mile from me I asked liberty to go and see him they bade me go and away I went but quickly lost my self travelling over Hills and thorough Swamps and could not find the way to him And I cannot but admire at the wonderfull power and goodness of God to me in that though I was gone from home and met with all sorts of Indian and those I had no knowledge of and there being no Christian soul near me yet not one of them offered the least imaginable miscarriage to me I turned homeward again and met with my master he shewed me the way to my Son When I came to him I found him not well and withall he had a boyl on his side which much troubled him We bemoaned one another while as the Lord helped us and then I returned again When I was returned I found my self as unsatisfied as I was before I went up and down mourning and lamenting and my spirit was ready to sink with the thoughts of my poor Children my Son was ill and I could not but think of his mournfull looks and no christian-Christian-Friend was near him to do any office of love for him either for Soul or Body And my poor Girl I knew not where she was nor whither she was sick or well or alive or dead J repaired under these thoughts to my Bible my great comfort in that time and that Scripture came to my hand Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee Psal 55.22 But I was fain to go and look after something to fatisfie my hunger and going among the Wigwams J went into one and there found a Squaw who shewed her self very kind to me and gave me a piece of Bear J put it into my pocket and came home but could not find an opportunity to broil it for fear they would get it from me and there it lay all that day and night in my stinking pocket In the morning J went to the same Squaw who had a Kettle of Ground nuts boyling J asked her to let me boyle my piece of Bear in her Kettle which she did and gave me some Ground-nuts to eat with it and J cannot but think how pleasant it was to me J have sometime seen Bear bake very handsomly among the English and some liked it but the thoughts that it was Bear made me tremble but now that was savoury to me that one would think was enough to turn the stomacn of a bruit Creature One bitter cold day j could find no room to sit down before the fire I went out and could not tell what to do but I went in to another Wigwam where they were also sitting round the fire but the Squaw laid a skin for me and bid me sit down and gave me some Ground-nuts and bade me come again and told me they would buy me if they were able and yet these

occasions I hope it is not too much to say with Job Have pitty upon me have pitty upon me O ye my Friends for the Hand of the Lord has touched me And here I cannot but remember how many times sitting in their Wigwams and musing on things past I should suddenly leap up and run out as if I had been at home forgetting where I was and what my condition was But when I was without and saw nothing but Wilderness and Woods and a company of barbarous heathens my mind quickly returned to me which made me think of that spoken concerning Sampson who said I will go out and shake myself as at other times but he wist not that the Lord was departed from him About this time I began to think that all my hopes of Restoration would come to nothing I thought of the English Army and hoped for their coming and being taken by them but that failed I hoped to be carried to Albany at the Indians had discoursed before but that failed also I thought of being sold to my Husband as my master spake but in stead of that my master himself was gone and j left behind so that my Spirit was now quite réady to sink J asked them to let me go out and pick up some sticks that j might get alone And poure out my heart unto the Lord. Then also j took my Bible to read but j found no comfort here neither which many times j was went to find So easie a thing it is with God to dry up the Streames of Scripture-comfort from us Yet j can say that in all my sorrows and afflictions God did not leave me to have my impatience work towards himself as if his wayes were unrighteous But I knew that he laid upon me less then j deserved Afterward before this dolefull time ended with me I was turning the leaves of my Bible and the Lord brought to me some Scriptures which did a little revive me as that Isai 55.8 For my thoughts are not your thougts neither are your wayes my ways saith the Lord. And also that Psal 37.5 Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shal bring it to pass About this time they came yelping from Hadly where they had killed three English men and brought one Captive with them viz. Thomas Read They all gathered about the poor Man asking him many Questions I desired-also to go and see him and when I came he was crying bitterly supposing they would quickly kill him Whereupon j asked one of them whether they intended to kill him he answered me they would not He being a little cheared with that I asked him about the wel-fare of my Husthand he told me he saw him such a time in the Bay and he was well but very melancholly By which I certainly understood though I suspected it before that whatsoever the Indians told me respecting him was vanity and lies Some of them told me he was dead and they had killed him some said he was Married again and that the Governour wished him to Marry and told him he should have his choice and that all perswaded I was dead So like were these barbarous creatures to him who was a lyar from the beginning As I was sitting once in the Wigwam here Phillps Maid came in with the Child in her arms and asked me to give het a piece of my Apron to make a flap for it I told her I would not then my Mist riss bad me give it but still I said no the maid told me if I would not give her a piece she would tear a piece off it I told her I would tear her Coat then with that my Mistriss rises up and takes up a stick big enough to have killed me and struck at me with it but J stept out and she struck the stick into the Mat of the Wigwam But while she was pulling of it out j ran to the Maid and gave her all my Apron and so that storm went over Hearing that my Son was come to this place I went to see him and told him his Father was well but very melancholly he told me he was as much grieved for his Father as for himself I wondred at his speech for I thought I had enough upon my spirit in reference to my self to make me mindless of my Husband and every one else they being safe among their Friends He told me also that a while before his Master together with other Indians where going to the French for Powder but by the way the Mohawks met with them and killed four of their Company which made the rest turn back again for which I desire that myself and he may bless the Lord for it might have been worse with him had he been sold to the French than it proved to be in his remaining with the Indians I went to see an English Youth in this place one John Gilberd of Spring field J found him lying without dores upon to ground j asked him how he did he told me he was very sick of a flux with eating so much blood They had turned him out of the Wigwam and with him an indian Papoos almost dead whose Parents had been killed in a bitter cold day without fire or clothes the young man himself had nothing on but his shirt wastcoat This sight was enough to melt a heart of flint There they lay quivering in the Cold the youth round like a dog the Papoos stretcht out with his eyes and nose and mouth full of dirt and yet alive and groaning j advised John to go and get to some fire he told me he could not stand but ● perswaded him still left he shouldly there and die and with much adoe j got him to a fire and went my self home As soon as j was got home his Masters Daughter came after me to know what j had done with the English man j told her j had got him to a fire in such a place Now had j need to pray Pauls Prayer 2 Thess 3.2 That we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men For her satisfaction j went along with her and brought her to him but before j got home again it was noised about that j was running away and getting the English youth along with me that as soon as I came in they began to rant and domineer asking me where j had been and what j had been doing and saying they would knock him on the head I told them j had been seeing the English Youth and that I would not run away they told me I lyed and taking up a Hatchet they came to me and said they would knock me down if I stirred out again and so confined me to the Wigwam Now may J say with David 2 Sam. 24.14 I am in a great strait If I keep in I must dy with hunger and if I go out I must be knockt in head This distressed condition held that day and half the next And then the Lord

them one and another after a little while he turned in staggering as he went with his Armes stretched out in either hand a Gun As soon as he came in they all sang and rejoyced exceedingly a while And then he opened the Deer-skin made another speech unto which they all assented in a rejoicing manner and so they ended their business and forthwith went to Sudbury fight To my thinking they went without any scruple but that they should prosper and gain the victory And they went out not so rejoycing but they came home with as great a Victory For they said they had killed two Captains and almost an hundred men One English-man they brought along with them and he said it was too true for they had made sad work at Sudbury as indeed it proved Yet they came home without that rejoycing and triumphing over their victory which they were wont to shew at other times but rather like Dogs as they say which have lost their cars Yet I could not pereceive that it was for their own loss of men They said they had not lost above five or six and I missed none excep in one Wigwam When they went they acted as if the Devil had told them that they should gain the victory and now they acted as if the Devil had told them they should have a fall Whither it were so or no I cannot tell but so it proved for quickly they began to fall and so held on that Summer till they came to utter ruine They came home on a Sabbath day and the Powaw that kneeled upon the Deer-skin came home I may say without abule as black as the Devil When my master came home be came to me and bid me make a shirt for his Papoos of a hollandlaced Pillowbeer About that time there came an Indian to me and bid me come to his Wigwam at night and he would give me some Pork Ground nuts Which I did and as I was eating another Indian said to me he seems to be your good Friend but he killed two Englishmen at Sudbury and there ly their Cloaths behind you I looked behind me and there I saw bloody Cloaths with Bullet holes in them yet the Lord suffered not this wretch to do me any hurt Yea instead of that he many times refresht me five or six times did he and his Squaw refresh my feeble carcass If J went to their Wigwam a● any time they would alwayes give me something and yet they were strangers that I never saw before Another Squaw gave me a piece of fresh Pork and a little Salt with it and lent me her Panto Fry it in and I cannot but remember what a sweet pleasant and delightfull relish that bit had to me to this day So little do we prize common mercies when we have them to the full The twentieth Remove It was their usual manner to remove when they bad done any mischief lest they should be found out and so they did at this time We went about three or four miles and there they built a great Wigwam big enough to hold an hundred Indians which they did in preparation to a great day of Dancing They would say now amongst themselves that the Governour would be so angry for his loss at Sudbury that he would send no more about the Captives which made me grieve and tremble My Sister being not sar from the place where we now were and hearing that I was here desired her master to let her come and see me and he was willing to it and would go with her but she being ready before him told him she wonld go before and was come within a Mile or two of the place Then he overtook her and began to rant as if he had been mad and made her go back again in the Rain so that I never saw her till j saw her in Charlestown But the Lord requited many of their ill doings for this Indian her Master was hanged afterward at Boston The Indians now began to come from all quarters against their merry dancing day Among some of them came one Good wife Kettle I told her my heart was so heavy that it was ready to break so is mine too said she but yet said I hope we shall hear some good news shortly I could hear how earnestly my Sister desired to see me I as earnestly desired to see her and yet neither of us could get an opportunity My Daughter was also now about a mile off and I had not seen her in nine or ten weeks as I had not seen my Sister since our first taking I earnestly desired them to let me go and see them yea I intreated begged and perswaded them but to let me see my Daughter and yet so hard hearred were they that they would not suffer it They made use of their tyrannical power whilst they had it but through the Lords wonderfull mercy their time was now but short On a Sabbath day the Sun being about an hour high in the afternoon came Mr. John Hoar the Council permitting him and his own foreward spirit inclining him together with the two forementioned Indians Tom and Peter with their third Letter from the Council When they came near I was abroad though I saw them not they presently called me in and bade me sit down and not stir Then they catched up their Guns and away they ran as if an Enemy had been at hand and the Guns went off apace I manifested some great trouble and they asked me what was the matter I told them I thought they had killed the English-man for they had in the mean time informed me that an English-man was come they said No They shot over his Horse and under and before his Horse and they pusht him this way and that way at their pleasure shewing what they conld do Then they let them come to their Wigwams I begged of them to let me see the English man but they would not But there was I fain to sit their pleasure When they had talked their fill with him they suffered me to go to him We asked each other of our welfare and how my Husband did and all my Friends He told me they were all well and would be glad to see me Amongst other things which my Husband sent me there came a pound of Tobacco which I sold for nine shillings in Money for many of the Indians for want of Tobacco smoaked Hemlock and Ground-Ivy it was a great mistake in any who thought I sent for Tobacco for through the savour of God that desire was overcome I now asked them whither I should go home with Mr. Hoar They answered No one and another of them and it being night we lay down with that answer in the morning Mr Hoar invited the Saggamores to Dinner but when we went to get it ready we fond that they had stollen the greatest part of the Provision Mr. Hoar had brought our of his Bags in the night And we may see