The Sovereignty and Goodness of God with Related Documents

by Rowlandson, Mary; Salisbury, Neal

• ISBN13: 9780312111519
• ISBN10: 0312111517
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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