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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

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

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

the Indians told me they would kill him as he came homeward my Children gone my Relations and Friends gone our House and home and all our comforts within door and without all was gone except my life and I knew not but the next moment that might go too There remained nothing to me but one poor wounded 〈◊〉 and it seemed at present worse than death that it was in such a pitiful condition bespeaking Compassion and I had an refreshing for it nor suitable things to revive it Little do many think what is the savageness and bruitishness of this barbarous Enemy even those that seem to profess more than others among them when the English have fallen into their hands Those seven that were killed at Lancaster the summer before upon a Sabbath day and the one that was afterward killed upon a week day were stain and mangled in a barbarous manner by one-ey'd John and Marlborough's Praying Indians which Capt. Mosely brought to Boston as the Indians told me The second Remove But now the next morning I must turn my back upon the Town and travel with them into the vast and isolate Wilderness I knew not whether It is not 〈◊〉 tongue or pen can express the sorrows of my heart and bitterness of my spirit that I had at this departure but God was with me in a wonderfull manner carrying me along and bearing up my spirit that it did not quite fail One of the indians carried my poor wounded Babe upon a horse it went moaning all along I shall dy I shall dy 〈◊〉 went on foot after it with sorrow that cannot be exprest At length I took it off the horse and ●●●●ed it in my armes till my strength sailed and I fell down with it Then they set me upon a horse with my wounded Child in my lap and there being no furnitunre upon the horse back as we were going down a steep hill we both fell over the horses head at which they like inhumane creatures laught and rejoyced to see it though I thought we should there have ended our dayes as overcome with so many difficulties But the Lord renewed my strength still and carried me along that I might see more of his Power yea so much that I could never have thought of had I not experienced it After this it quickly began to snow and when night came on they stopt and now down I must sit in the snow by a little fire and a few boughs behind me with my sick Child in my lap and calling much for water being now through the wound fallen into a violent Fever My own wound also growing so stiff that I could scarce sit down or rise up yet so it must be that I must sit all this cold winter night upon the cold snowy ground with my sick Child in my armes looking that every hour would be the last of its life and having no Christian friend near me either to comfort or help me Oh I may see the wonderfull power of God that my Spirit did not utterly sink under my affliction still the Lord upheld me with his gracious and mercifull Spirit and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning The third remove The morning being come they prepared to go their way One of the Indians got up upon a horse and they set me up behind him with my poor sick Babe in my lap A very wearisome and tedious day I had of it what with my own wound and my Childs being so exceeding sick and in a lamentable condition with her wound It may be easily judged what a poor feeble condition we were in there being not the least crumb of refreshing that came within either of our mouths from Wednesday night to Saturday night except only a little cold water This day in the afternoon about an hour by Sun we came to the place where they intendded viz. an Indian Town called Wenimesset Norward of Quabaug When we were come Oh the number of Pagans now merciless enemies that there came about me that I may say as David Psal 27.13 I had fainted unless I had believed c. The next day was the Sabbath I then remembred how careless I had been of Gods holy time how many Sabbaths I had lost and mispent and how evily I had walked in Gods sight which lay so closs unto my spirit that it was easie for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the threed of my life and cast me out of his presence for ever Yet the Lord still shewed mercy to me and upheld me and as he wounded me with one hand so he healed me with the other This day there came to me one Robbert Pepper a man belonging to Roxbury who was taken in Captain Beers his Fight and had been now a considerable time with the Indians and up with them almost as far as Albany to see king Philip as he told me and was now very lately come into these parts Hearing I say that I was in this Indian Town he obtained leave to come and see me He told me he himself was wounded in the leg at Captain Beers his Fight and was not able some time to go but as they carried him and as he took Oaken leaves and laid to his wound and through the blessing of God he was able to travel again Then I took Oaken leaves and laid to my side and with the blessing of God it cured me also yet before the cure was wrought I may say as it is in Psal 38.5 6. My wounds stink and are corrupt I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long I sat much alone with a poor wounded Child in my lap which moaned night and day having nothing to revive the body or cheer the spirits of her but in stead of that sometimes one Indian would come and tell me one hour that your Master will knock your Child in the head and then a second and then a third your Master will quickly knock your Child in the head This was the comfort I had from them miserable comforters are ye all as he said Thus nine dayes I sat upon my knees with my Babe in my lap till my flesh was raw again my Child being even ready to depart this sorrowfull world they bade me carry it out to another Wigwam I suppose because they would not be troubled with such spectacles Whither I went with a very heavy heart and down I sat with the picture of death in my lap About two houtes in the night my sweet Babe like a Lambe departed this life on Feb. 18. 1675. It being about six yeares and five months old It was nine dayes from the first wounding in this miserable condition without any refreshing of one nature or other except a little cold water I cannot but take notice how at another time I could not bear to be in the room where any dead person was but now the case is changed I must

were strangers to me that I never saw before The tenth Remove That day a small part of the Company removed about three quarters of a mile intending further the next day When they came to the place where they intended to lodge and bad pitched their wigwams being hungry J went again back to the place we were before at to get something to eat being encouraged by the Squaws kindness who bade me come again when J was there there came an Indian to look after me who when he had found me kickt me all along J went home and found Venison roasting that night but they would not give me one bit of it Sometimes J met with favour and sometimes with nothing but frowns The eleventh Remove The next day in the morning they took their Travel intending a dayes journey up the River j took my load at my back and quickly we came to wade over the River and passed over tiresome and we arisome hills One hill was so steep that J was fain to creep up upon my knees and to hold by the twiggs and bushes to keep my self from falling backward My head also was so light that J usually reeled as J went but J hope all these wearisome steps that j have taken are but a forewarning of me to the heavenly rest I know O Lord that thy Judgements are right and that thou in faithfulness ●ast afflicted me Psal 119 71. The twelfth Remove It was upon a Sabbath-day-morning that they prepared for their Travel This morning j asked my master whither he would sell me to my Husband he answered me Nux which did much rejoyce my spirit My mistriss before we went was gone to the burial of a Papoos and returning she found me sitting and reading in my Bible she snatched it hastily out of my hand and threw it out of doors I ran out and catcht it up and put it into my pocket and never let her see it afterward Then they packed up their things to be gone and gave me my load I complained it was too heavy whereupon she gave me a slap in the face and bade me go I lifted up my heart to God hoping that Redemption was not far off and the rather because their insolency grew worse and worse But the thoughts of my going homeward for we bent our course much cheared my Spirit and made my burden seem light and almost nothing at all But to my amazment and great perplexity the scale was soon turned for when we had gone a little way on a sudden my mistriss gives out she would go no further but turn back again and said I must go back again with her and she called her Sannup and would have had him gone back also but he would not but said He would go on and come to us again in three dayes My Spirit was upon this I confess very impatient and almost outragious I thought I could as well have dyed as went back I cannot declare the trouble that I was in about it but yet back again I must go As soon as I had an opportunity I took my Bible to read and that quieting Scripture came to my hand Psal 46.10 Be still and know that I am God Which stilled my spirit for the present But a sore time of tryal I concluded J had to go through My master being gone who seemed to me the best friend that I had of an Indian both in cold and hunger and quickly so it proved Down I sat with my heart as full as it could hold and yet so hungry that I could not sit neither but going out to see what I could find and walking among the Trees I found six Acrons and two Ches-nuts which were some refreshment to me Towards Night I gathered me some sticks for my own comfort that I might not ly a-cold but when we came to ly down they bade me go out and ly some-where-else for they had company they said come in more than their own I told them I could not tell where to go they bade me go look I told them if I went to another Wigwam they would be angry and send m● home again Then one of the Company drew his sword and told me he would run me thorough if I did not go presently Then was I fain to stoop to this ●ude fellow and to go out in the night J knew not whither Mine eyes have seen that fellow afterwards walking up and down Boston under the appearance of a Friend-Indian and severall others of the like Cut. I went to one Wigwam and they told me they had no room Then I went to another and they said the same at last an old Indian bade me come to him and his Squaw give me some Ground-nuts she gave me also something to lay under my head and a good fire we had and through the good providence of God I had a comfortable lodging that night In the morning another Indian bade me come at night and he would give me six Ground nuts which I did We were at this place and time about two miles from Connecticut River We went in the morning to gather Ground nuts to the River and went back again that night I went with a good load at my back for they when they went though but a little way would carry all their trumpery with them I told them the skin was off my back but J had no other comforting answer from them than this That i● would be no matter if myhead were off too The thirteenth Remove Instead of going toward the Bay which was that I desired I must go with them five or six miles down the River into a mighty Thicket of Brush where we abode almost a fortnight Here one asked me to make a shirt for her Papoos for which she gave me a mess of Broth which was thickened with meal made of the Bark of a Tree and to make it the better she had put into it about a handfull of Pease and a sew roasted Ground-nuts J had not seen my son a pritty while and here was an Indian of whom J made inquiry after him and asked him when he saw him he answered me that such a time his master roasted him and that himself did eat a piece of him as big as his two fingers and that he was very good meat But the Lord upheld my Spirit under this discouragement and I considered their horrible addictedness to lying and that there is not one of them that makes the least conscience of speaking of truth In this place on a cold night as I lay by the fire J removed a stick that kept the heat from me a Squaw moved it down again at which I lookt up and she threw a handfull of ashes in mine eyes J thought J should have been quite blinded and have never seen more but lying down the water run out of my eyes and carried the dirt with it that by the morning I recovered my sight again Yet upon this and the like

bury her and knew it not she being shot down by the house was partly burnt so that those who were at Boston at the desolation of the Town and came back afterward and buried the dead did not know her Yet I ws not without sorrow to think how many were looking and longing and my own Chilren amongst the rest to enioy that deliverance that I had now received and I did not know whither ever I should see them again Being recruited with food and raiment we went to Boston that day where I met with my dear Husband but the thoughts of our dear Children one being dead and the other we could not ●●ll where abated our comfort each to other I was not before so much hem'd in with the merciless and cruel Heathen but now as much with pittiful sender-hearted and compssionate Christians In that poor and destressed and beggerly condition I was received in I was kindly entertained in severall Houses so much love I received from several some of whom I knew and others I knew not that I am not capable to declare it But the Lord knows them all by name The Lord reward them seven fold into their bosoms of his spirituals for their temporals The twenty pounds the price of my redemption was raised by some Boston Gentlemen and Ms. Vsher whose bounty and religious charity I would not forget to make mention of Then Mr. Thomas Shepard of Charlstown received us into his House where we continued eleven weeks and a Father and Mother they were to us And many more tender-hearted Friends we met with in that place We were now in the midst of love yet not without much and frequent heaviness of heart for our poor Children and other Relations who were still in affliction The week following after my coming in the Governour and Gouncil sent forth to the Indians again and that not without saccess for they brought in my Sister and Good-wife Kectle Their not knowing where our Children were was a sore tryal to us still and yet we were not without secret hopes that we should see them again That which was dead lay heavier upon my spirit than those which were alive and amongst the Heathen thinking how it suffered with its wounds and I was no way able to relieve it and how it was buried by the Heathen in the Wilderness from among all Christians We were hurried up and down in our thoughts sometime we should hear a report that they were gone this way and sometimes that and that they were come in in this place or that We kept enquiring and listning to hear concerning them but no certain news as yet About this time the Council had ordered a day of publick Thanks-giving though I thought I had still cause of mourning and being unsettled in our minds we thought we would ride toward the Eastward to see if we could hear any thing concerning our Children And as we were riding along God is the wise disposer of all things between Ipswich and Rowly we met with Mr. William Hubbard who told us that our Son Joseph was come in to Major Waldrens and another with him which was my Sisters Son I asked him how he knew it He said the Major himself told him so So along we went till we came to Newbury and their Minister being absent they desired my Husband to Preach the Thanks giving for them but he was not willing to stay there that night but would go over to Salisbury to hear further and come again in the morning which he did and Preached there that day At night when he had done one came and told him that his Daughter was come in at Providence Here was mercy on both hands Now hath God fulsiled that precious Scripture which was such a comfort to me in my distressed condition When my heart was ready to sink into the Earth my Children being gone I could not tell whither and my knees trembled under me And I was walking thorough the valley of the shadow of Death Then the Lord brought and now has fulsilled that reviving word unto me Thus saith the Lord Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears for thy Work shall be rewarded saith the Lord and they shall come again from the Land of the Enemy Now we were between them the one on the East and the other on the West Our Son being nearest we went to him first to Portsmouth where we met with him and with the Major also who told us he had done what he could but could not redeem him under siven ponnds which the good People thereabouts were pleased to pay The Lord reward the Major and all the rest though unknown so me for their labour of Love My Sitters Son was redeemed for four pounds which the Council gave order for the payment of Having now received one of our Children we hastened toward the other going back through Newbury my Husband Preached there on the Sabbath-day for which they rewarded him many fold On Mund ay we came to Charlstown where we heard that the Governour of Road-Island had sent over for our Daughter to take care of her being now within his Jurisdiction which should not pass without our acknowledgments But she being nearer Rehoboth than Road-Island Mr. Newman went over and took care of her and brought her to his own House And the goodness of God was admirable to us in our low estate in that he raised up passionate Friends on every side to us when we had nothing to recompance any for their love The Indians were now gone that way that it was apprehended dangerous to go to her But the Carts which carried Provision to the English Army being guarded brought her with them to Dorchester where we received her safe blessed be the Lord sor it For great is his Power and he can do whatsoever seemeth him good Her coming in was aster this manner She was travelling one day with the Indians with her basket at her back the company of Indians were got before her and gone out of sight all except one Squaw she followed the Squaw till night and then both of them lay down having nothing over them but the heavens and under them but the earth Thus she travelled three dayes together not knowing whither she was going having nothing to eat or drink but water and green Hirtle-berries At last they came into Providence where she was kindly entertained by several of that Town The Indians often said that I should never have her under twenty pounds But now the Lord hath brought her in upon free-cost and given her to me the second time The Lord make us a blessing indeed each to others Now have I seen that Scripture also fulfilled Deut. 30 4 7. If any of thine be driven out to the outmost parts of heaven from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee and from thence will he fetch thee And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on them