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Attack and Capture of Mary Rowlandson
Mary Rowlandson was the wife of a Minister and a colonial woman who as captures by the
Native Americans of the country during King Phillip’s war in the country. She was held
hostage for a period of eleven days in the country before demanding of the ransom for the
release of the Rowlandson at the price of twenty pounds. The whole incident of her capture as
well as her release from her captors is well recorded in the book that was written by her
called The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson.
Lancaster, the area in the Massachusetts where Rowlandson and her husband had been living
came under the attacks from that of the Narragansett, Wampanoag as well as the
Nashaway/Nipmuc Indians which was led by their leader named Monoco. The native Indians
killed and captured a large number of people who were taken captive by them which included
Mary Rowlandson as well as her four children. As stated by Rowlandson (55), it was while in
the captivity of the Native Indians that Sarah, the four year old daughter of Mary
Rowlandson, died from the wounds that she received during the attack and the capture by the
Native Indians. Ii is known from the texts itself that both Rowlandson as well as her children
were forced by the Indians to accompany them to the other areas so that themselves could
escape from the English soldiers themselves. The texts also tell the readers about the extreme
conditions that she had suffered at the hands of the Indians and the ransom that was
demanded by the Indians in order to release her and her children so that they could go back to
their families. The ransom of 20 pounds were raised by the women of Boston while the
ransom was paid to the Indians by John Hoar of Concord (Rowlandson: 50).
Thus, it is from the essay itself that the that the readers get to know the facts about Mary
Rowlandson and the way in which she was captured by the Indians and the way in which she

Attack and Capture of Mary Rowlandson

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