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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

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

who had been gone from us three weeks After many weary steps we came to Wachuset where he was and glad I was to see him He asked me When J washt me J told him not this month then he fetcht me some water himself and bid me wash and gave me the Glass to see how j lookt and bid his Squaw give me something to eat so she gave me a mess of Beans and meat and a little Ground-nut Cake I was wonderfully revived with this favour shewed me Psal 106.46 He made them also to be pittied of all those that carried them Captives My master had three Squaws living sometimes with one and sometimes with another one this old Squaw at whose Wigwan j was and with whom my Master had been those three weeks Another was Wettimore with whom I had lived and served all this while A severe and proud Dame she was bestowing every day in dressing her self neat as much time as any of the Gentry of the land powdering her hair and painting her face going with Neck-laces with Jewels in her ears and Bracelets upon her hands When she had dressed her self her work was to make Girdles of Wampom and Biads The third Squaw was a younger one by whom he had two Papooses By that time I was refresht by the old Squaw with whom my master was Wettimores Maid came to call me home at which I fell a weeping Then the old Squaw told me to encourage me that if I wanted victuals j should come to her and that j shouldly there in her Wigwam Then j went with the maid and quickly came again and lodged there The Squaw laid a Mat under me and a good Rugg over me the first time J had any such kindness showed me J understood that Wettimore thought that if she should let me go and serve with the old Squaw she would be in danger to loose not only my service but the redemptionpay also And j was not a little glad to hear this being by it raised in my hopes that in Gods due time there would be an end of this sorrowfull hour Then came an Indians and asked me to knit him three pair of Stockins for which j had a Hat and a silk handkerchief Then another asked me to mak her a shift for which she gave me an Apron Then came Tom and Peter with the second Letter from the Council about the Captives Though they were Indians j gat them by the hand and burst out into tears my heart was so full that J could not speak to them but recovering my self j asked them how my husband did all my friends and acquainiance they said They are all very well but melancohly They brought me two Biskets and a pound of Tobacco The Tobacco j quickly gave away when it was all gone one asked me to give him a pipe of Tobacco I told him it was all gone then began be to rant and threaten I told him when my Husband camel would give him some Hang him Rogne sayes be I will knock out his brains if he comes here And then again in the same breath they would say That if there should come an hunddred without Guns they would do them no hurt So unstable and like mad men they were So that fearing the worst I durst not send to my Husband though there were some thoughts of his coming to Redeem and setch me not knowing what might follow For there was little more trust to them then to the master they served When the Letter was come the Saggamores met to consult about the Captives and called me to them to enquire how much my husband would give to redeem me when I came I sate down among them as J was wont to do as their manner is Then they bade me stand up and said they were the General Court They bid me speak what I thought he would give Now knowing that all we had was destroyed by the Indians I was in a great strait I thought if I should speak of but a little it would be slighted and hinder the matter if of a great sum I knew not where is would be procured yet at a venture I said Twenty pounds yet desired them to take less but they would not hear of that but sent that message to Boston that for Twenty pound I should be redeemed It was a Praying Indian that wrote their Letter for them There was another Praying Indian who told me that he had a brother that would not eat Horse his conscience was so tender and scrupulous though as large as hell forthe dedestruction of poor Christians Then he said he read that Scripture to him 2 Kings 6.25 There was a samine in Samatia and behold they besieged it untill an Asses head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver and the fourth part of a Kab of Doves dung for five pieces of silver He expounded this place to his brother and shewed him that it was lawfull to eat that in a Famine which is not at another time And now sayes he he will eat Horse with any Indian of them all There was another Praying Indian who when he bad done all the mischief that he could betrayed his own Father into the English hands thereby to purchase his own life Another Praying Indian was at Sudbury-fight though as he deserved he was afterward hanged for it There was another Praying Indian so wicked and cruel as to wear a string about his neck strung with Christians fingers Another Praying Indian when they went to Sudbury-fight went with them and his Squaw also with him with her Papoos at her back Before they went to that fight they got a company together to Powaw the manner was as followeth There was one that kneeled upon a Deer-skin with the company round him in a ring who kneeled and striking upon the ground with their hands and with sticks and muttering or humming with their mouths besides him who kneeled in the ring there also stood one with a Gun in his hand Then he one the Deer-skin made a speech and all manifested assent to it and so they did many times together Then they bade him with the Gun go out of the ring which he did but when he was out they called him in again but he seemed to make a stand then they called the more earnestly till he returned again Then they all sang Then they gave him two Guns in either hand one And so he on the Deer-skin began again and at the end of every sentence in his speaking they all assented humming or muttering with their mouthes and striking upon the ground with their hands Then they bade him with the two Guns go out of the ring again which he did a little way Then they called him in again but he made a stand so they called him with greater earnestness but he stood reeling and wavering as if he knew not whither he should stand or fall or which way to go Then they called him with exceeding great vehemency all of

and before us there was a great Brook with ice on it some waded throgh it up to the knees higher but others went till they came to a Beaver-dam and I amongst them where through the good providence of God I did not wet my foot I went along that day mourning and lamenting leaving farther my own Country and travelling into the vast and howling Wilderness and I understood something of Lot's Wife's Temptation when she looked back we came that day to a great Swamp by the side of which we took up our lodging that night When I came to the brow of the hil that looked toward the Swamp I thought we had been come to a great Indian Town though there were none but our own Company The Indians were as thick as the trees it seemd as if there had been a thousand Hatchets going at once if one looked before one there was nothing but Indians and behind one nothing but Indians and so on either hand I my self in the midst and no Christian soul near me and yet how hath the Lord preserved me insafety Oh the experience that I have had of the goodness of God to me and mine The seventh Remove After a restless and hungry night there we had a wearisome time of it the next day The Swamp by which we lay was as it were a deep Dungeon and an exceeding high and steep hill before it Before I got to the top of the hill I thought my heart and legs and all would have broken and failed me What through faintness and soreness of body it was a grievous day of travel to me As we went along I saw a place where English Cattle had been that was comfort to me such as it was quickly after that we came to an English Path which so took with me that I thought I could have freely lyan down and dyed That day a little after noon we came to Squaukheag where the Indians quickly spread themselves over the deserted English Fields gleaning what they could find some pickt up ears of Wheat that were crickled down some found ears of Indian Corn some found Ground-nuts and others sheaves of Wheat that were frozen together in the shock went to threshing of them out My self got two ears of Indian Corn and whilst I did but turn my back one of them was stolen from 〈◊〉 which much troubled me There came an Indian to them at that time with a basket of Horse-liver I asked him to give me a piece What sayes 〈◊〉 can you eat Horse-liver I told him I would try if he would give a piece which he did and I laid it on the coals to rost but before it was half ready they got half of it away from me so that I was fain to take the rest and eat it as it was with the blood about my mouth and yet a savoury bit it was to me For to the hungry Soul every bitter thing is sweet A solemn sight methought it was to see Fields of wheat and Indian Corn forsaken and spoiled and the remainders of them to be food for our merciless Enemies That night we had a mess of wheat for our Supper The eight Remove On the morrow morning we must go over the River i. e. Connecticot to meet with King Philip two Cannoos full they had carried over the next Turn j my self was to go but as my foot was upon the Cannoo to step in there was a sudden out-cry among them and j must step back and instead of going over the River j must go four or five miles up the River farther Northward Some of the jndians ran one way and some another The cause of this rout was as j thought their espying some English Scouts who were thereabout In this travel up the River about noon the Company made a stop and sate down some to eat and others to rest them As I sate amongst them musing of things past my Son Joseph unexpectedly came to me we asked of each others welfare bemoaning our dolefull condition and the change that had come upon us We had Husbands and Father and Children and Sisters and Friends and Relations and House and Home and many Comforts of this Life but now we may say as Job Naked came I out of my Mothers Womb and naked shall I return The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the Name of the Lord. I asked him whither he would read he told me he earnestly desired it J gave him my Bible and he lighted upon that comfortable Scripture Psal 18.17 18. I shall not dy but live and declare the works of the Lord the Lord hath chastened me sore yet he hath not given me over to death Look here Mother sayes he did you read this And here I may take occasion to mention one principall ground of my setting forth these Lines even as the Psalmist sayes To dealare the Works of the Lord and his wonderfull Power in carrying us along preserving us in the Wilderness while under the Enemies hand and returning of us in safety again And His goodness in bringing to my hand so many comfortable and suitable Scriptures in my distress But to Return We travelled on till night and in the morning we must go over the River to Philip's Crew When I was in the Cannoo I could not but be amazed at the numerous crew of Pagans that were on the Bank on the other side When J came ashore they gathered all about me I sitting alone in the midst I observed they asked one another questions and laughed and rejoyced over their Gains and Victories Then my heart began to fail and I fell a weeping which was the first time to my remembrance that J wept before them Although J had met with so much Affliction and my heart was many times ready to break yet could J not shed one tear in their sight but rather had been all this while in a maze and like one astonished but now J may say as Psal 137.1 By the Rivers of Babylon there we sate down yea we wept when we remembred Zion There one of them asked me why J wept J could hardly tell what to say yet J answered they would kill me No said he none will hurt you Then came one of them and gave me two spoon-fulls of Meal to comfort me and another gave me half a pint of Pease which was more worth than many Bushels at another time Then J went to see King Philip he bade me come in and sit down and asked me whether J would smoke it a usual Complement now adayes amongst Saints and Sinners but this no way suited me For though I had formerly used Tobacco yet I had left it ever since I was first taken It seems to be a Bait the Devil layes to make men loose their precious time J remember with shame how formerly when J had taken two or three pipes J was presently ready for another such a bewitching thing it is But J thank God he

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