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Captivity and Restoration

by Mary White Rowlandson · 1682

Biography & Memoir · ranked #34 in category

In February 1676, during King Philip's War, the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was attacked by a party of Nipmuck Indians and completely destroyed. As relief from Concord approached, th

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Category
Biography & Memoir
First published
1682 · 1680s
Author
Mary White Rowlandson
Standing
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