Raynors HCA 2016-03
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Booklet, “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 Desolation which befell that Plantation, by an Incursion of the French and Indians, Was by them Carried Away, With his Family and his Neighborhood, Into Canada,” 70pp., 4-/34” x 7-1/2”, 1774, Boston, John Boyle, rebound with blue paper covers. This is one of the most famous and most popular captivity narratives. John Williams, a Harvard graduate in charge of the church at Greenfield, MA when it was attacked by Indians in 1703, was taken with others to Canada. His wife and two of his children were tomahawked on the way. As a powerful picture of Indian cruelty.
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