Foreword Preface List of Maps and Illustrations Part One Introduction: Mary Rowlandson in a World of Removes The Setting: King Philip's War (1675-1676) Mary Rowlandson and Her Narrative From England to New England The Anglo-Indian Frontier Two Towns Called Nashaway Lancaster and the Rowlandsons Worlds Upended Total War, 1675-76 Captives and Captors Redemption War's Terrifying End Reordering and remembering Postwar Diasporas Interpreting War and Captivity Publicizing Captivity Mary Rowlandson's Legacies Part Two: The Document The Preface to the Readers A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Part Three: Related Documents English Expansion and Nashaway 1. Massachusetts General Court, Treaty with Five Indian Communities, 1644 Philip on The Causes of the Anglo-Indian War 2. John Easton, Excerpt from A Relacion of the Indyan Warre, 1675 The Perils of War 3. Daniel Gookin Excerpt from An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England, 1677 4. The Examination and Relation of James Quannapaquait , January 24, 1676 5. Job Kattananit, Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts , February 14, 1767 6. Town of Lancaster, Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, March 11, 1675 7.
Indian's Letter to English Troops at Medfield, 1676 Mary Rowlandson's Release from Captivity 8. John Levertt, Letter to Indian Sagamores, March 31, 1676 9. Shoshanim Sam Sachem et al. 10. James Printer et al., Letter to John Leverett et al., ca. April 1676 11.
Massachusetts Governor's Councils Letter to Indian Sachems April 28, 1676 English Justice 12. Andrew Pittimee et al. Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts , June 1676 13. Massachusetts Council to James Quanapohit et al., 1676 14. Shoshanim (Sam Sachem) et al., Letter to John Leverett et al., July 6, 1676 15.
Daniel Gookin, A Memorandum of Indian Children Put Forth into Service to the English, August 10, 1676 16. John Hull, Excerpt from John Hull's Journal August 24, 1676 17. Daniel Gookin, Account of the Disposall of the Indians, Our Friends , November 10, 1676 A New England Narrative of Muslim Captivity 18. Joshua Gee, Excerpt from Narrative of Joshua Gee, 1680-87 The Captivity of Hannah Dustin 19. Cotton Mather, Excerpt from Decennium Luctousum, 1699 Revolutionary Remembering 20. Image of Mary Rowlandson, 1770 21. Paul Revere, Philip. King of Mount Hope, 1772 Appendices A Rowlandson Chronology Questions for Consideration Selected Biography Index.