Description: $$$ EXTREMELY VALUABLE $$$ EARLY COLONIAL AMERICAN INDIAN CAPTIVITY! "The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion: Or, a Faithful History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Captivity and Deliverance of Mr. John Williams" New Haven: Printed by William W. Morse, 1802. 12mo., vi, 188 pp. Original Leather Binding! John Williams was a Puritan minister in Deerfield, Massachusetts, at a time of intense hostility between English settlers and the local Indian tribes. Throughout the 1690s the young clergyman was continually called upon to encourage and comfort his parishioners as members of the community were killed or captured by Indians. On February 29, 1703, Williams himself became a victim when a French and Indian raiding party sacked Deerfield. Two of his children were murdered outside his house, but he, his wife and their five other children were kidnapped and marched - with over a hundred captured prisoners - to Montreal. His wife, as well as many others who were too weak or infirm for the arduous journey, was killed along the way. He spent two and a half years as a captive in Quebec. Williams wrote his autobiographical account of the ordeal in 176, the year he was released, and it remained for many years one of the most populart among numerous Indian captivity accounts. NOTE: The Grey Spot in the middle of the pictures / pages is from the Camera, it is not on the paper! (I need a new Camera!) !!!ATTENTION!!! I AM SELLING HUNDREDS OF RARE ANTIQUES FROM THE 1600s-1800s! .. EVERYTHING MUST GO! SEE MY OTHER RARE PATRIOTIC ANTIQUES BEING AUCTIONED RIGHT NOW AND MAKE ME AN OFFER! Payment is requested at the End of the Auction, Thank you and God Bless America!
Price: 495 USD
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Year Printed: 1802
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Indian Wars
Binding: Leather
Subject: Americana
Language: English
