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Title	Puritans among the Indians : accounts of captivity and redemption, 1676-1724 / edited by Alden T. Vaughan & Edward W. Clark.
Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1981.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	974 P	IN LIBRARY

Description	x, 275 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series	John Harvard library
Note	Includes index.
Bibliography	Bibliography: p. 247-267.
Contents	Cups of common calamity : Puritan captivity narratives as literature and history -- The sovereignty and goodness of God / Mary Rowlandson -- Quentin Stockwell's relation of his captivity and redemption / Increase Mather -- Memoirs of odd adventures, strange deliverances, etc. / John Gyles -- New assaults from the Indians and the condition of the captives / Cotton Mather -- A narrative of Hannah Swarton containing wonderful passages relating to her captivity and deliverance / Cotton Mather -- A narrative of Hannah Dustan's notable deliverance from captivity / Cotton Mather -- The redeemed captive returning to Zion / John Williams -- God's mercy surmounting man's cruelty / Elizabeth Hanson.
Subject	Indian captivities -- New England.
	Puritans -- Biography.
	New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Added Author	Vaughan, Alden T., 1929-
	Clark, Edward W., 1943-
ISBN	0674739019

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