Mary rowlandson biography

A New Literary History of America

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Born around in Somerset, England, Mary White was the sixth of ten children. Her family immigrated to New England when she was very young, settling first in Salem and later in the frontier town of Lancaster in the Massachusetts Colony. In , Mary married Joseph Rowlandson, the Harvard-educated Puritan minister of Lancaster, and for the next twenty years she occupied the role of a Puritan wife, tending to her home and raising children.

Captured by the Narrangansett
While her husband was away in Boston trying to convince the Colony&#;s leaders to provide military protection for the town, Mary Rowlandson&#;s life was radically disrupted on February 10, , when a contingent of Narraganset Indians attacked and burned Lancaster.

They killed seventeen people and took twenty-four others captive, including Rowlandson and her three children. Her six year old daughter Sarah was mortally wounded during the surrender. The captives were then taken west and north to what is now

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Rowlandson, Mary (c. –after )

Colonial American whose memoirs of her years in captivity with the Narragansett tribe were published in Born Mary White Rowlandson around in Somersetshire, England; died after in Wethersfield, Connecticut; daughter of John White and Joane West White; married Reverend namn Rowlandson, in , in Lancaster, Massachusetts; children: Joseph (b. ); Mary (b. ); Sarah (–).

Mary Rowlandson is known for the memoirs she composed after being held captive by Narragansett Indians. She was born in Somersetshire, England, around , but as a child she traveled with her Puritan family to the colony of Massachusetts. About age 21, she married a minister, Joseph Rowlandson of Lancaster, Massachusetts, then had three surviving children. In February , Lancaster was attacked and burned by a party of Narragansett Indians during the Native American uprising against the English colonists known as King Philip's War. Joseph was away at the time. Mary tried to shelter many o