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Mary Rowlandson

 “Mary (White) Rowlandson was born in England between 1635 and 1637. She was the daughter of John White, an early settler in Lancaster. She married the Reverend Joseph Rowlandson in Lancaster around 1656, just three years after the Town of Lancaster was incorporated (1653). She spent twenty-three of the first thirty-eight years of her life in Lancaster.

The early colonists hoped to convert the Indians to Christianity. The colonists supported missionaries and trained willing converts in their faith. Often Christian Indians lived among the colonists, electing their own leaders. However, not all of the Indians were willing to accept the faith of Christ or the government of the English colonies. Many Indians did not want their customs and way of life to come to an end. Although several tribes remained loyal to the English, the Wampanoag Sachem (leader), Philip, was able to persuade many other tribes to revolt against the English colonists” (Mrs. Ogborn, Librarian at Mary Rowlandson Elementary School).
        
              
                                                
Here is her story: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/851/851-h/851-h.htm

                  





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