THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE RETURNING TO ZION: OR, A FAITHFUL HISTORY OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES IN THE CAPTIVITY AND DELIVERANCE OF MR. JOHN WILLIAMS, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL IN DEERFIELD;: WHO, IN THE DESOLUTION WHICH BEFEL THAT PLANTATION, BY AN INCURSION OF FRENCH AND INDIANS, WAS BY THEM CARRIED AWAY, WITH HIS FAMILY AND HIS NEIGHBORHOOD, INTO CANADA. DRAWN UP BY HIMSELF. ANNEXED TO WHICH IS A SERMON, PREACHED BY HIM UPON HIS RETURN. ALSO, AN APPENDIX, BY THE REV. MR. WILLIAMS OF SPRINGFIELD. LIKEWISE, AN APPENDIX, BY THE REV. MR. TAYLOR, OF DEERFIELD. WITH A CONCLUSION TO THE WHOLE BY THE REV. MR. PRINCE, OF BOSTON.
New Haven: Printed by William W. Morse, 1802. 12mo., vi, 188 pp. Small chip, with no loss to the first leaf of text; p. 179 printed to the lower margin with slight loss; chip to the margin of the last leaf with slight loss of text. Newly bound in full calf with spine label titled in gilt. Very good. Item #50731
Howes W-461. Later printing of the captivity from 1707. "One of the most famous and most popular captivity narratives. Williams, a Harvard graduate, in charge of the church at Greenfield when it was attacked by Indians, in 1703, was taken, with other, to Canada, his wife and two of his children being tomahawked on the way. As a powerful picture of Indian cruelty, ranks next to the Rowlandson captivity narrative, published in 1682". Ayer Collection No. 311.
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