Puritans among the Indians
Subtitle: accounts of captivity and redemption, 1676-1724
By: edited by Alden T. Vaughan & Edward W. Clark.
Contributors: Vaughan, Alden T., 1929-; Clark, Edward W., 1943-
Series: John Harvard library
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Indian captivities -- New England; Puritans -- New England -- Biography; Captivity narratives -- New England; New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Description: Contains primary source material.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 247-267.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Cups of common calamity: Puritan captivity narratives as literature and history.; title: Rowlandson, M. The sovereignty and goodness of God.; title: Mather, I. Quentin Stockwell's relation of his captivity and redemption.; title: Gyles, J. Memoirs of odd adventures, strange deliverances, etc.; title: Mather, C. New assaults from the Indians and The condition of the captives.; title: Mather, C. A narrative of Hannah Swarton containing wonderful passages relating to her captivity and deliverance.; title: Mather, C. A narrative of Hannah Dustan's notable deliverance from captivity.; title: Williams, J. The redeemed captive returning to Zion.; title: Hanson, E. God's mercy surmounting man's cruelty.