Hannah SwartonHannah Swarton (1651 - 12 October 1708), née Joana Hibbert/Hibbard, was a New England colonial pioneer who was captured by Abenaki Indians and held prisoner for 5+1⁄2 years, first in an Abenaki community and later in the home of a French family in Quebec. She was eventually freed and told her story to Cotton Mather, who used it as a moral lesson in several of his works.
Jonathan DickinsonJonathan Dickinson (1663–1722) was a merchant from Port Royal, Jamaica, who was shipwrecked on the southeast coast of Florida in 1696, along with his family and the other passengers and crew members of the ship. He wrote about their experiences. The party was held captive by Jaega or "Jobe" ("Hoe-bay") Indians for several days, and then was allowed to travel by small boat and on foot the 230 miles up the coast to Saint Augustine.
Hannah DustonHannah Duston (also spelled Dustin, Dustan, Durstan, Dustun, Dunstun, or Durstun) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 – March 6, 1736, 1737 or 1738) was a colonial MassachusettsPuritan woman who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William's War, with her first newborn daughter, during the 1697 raid on Haverhill, in which 27 colonists, 15 of them children, were killed.
Mary RowlandsonMary Rowlandson, néeWhite, later Mary Talcott (c. 1637 – January 5, 1711), was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. In 1682, six years after her ordeal, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was published.
King William's WarBelligerentsFranceNew FranceWabanakiaAlgonquinKahnawakeEnglandNew EnglandNew YorkIroquoiaMohicansCommanders and leadersCount FrontenacPierre Le Moyne d'IbervilleClaude-Sébastien de VillieuJoseph-François Hertel de la FresnièreFather Louis-Pierre ThuryFather Sébastien RaleFather Jean BaudoinChief Madockawando Sir William PhipsBenjamin ChurchPieter SchuylerKing William's War was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697).
Ann Eliza BleeckerAnn Eliza Bleecker (October 1752 – November 23, 1783) was an American poet and correspondent. Following a New York upbringing, Bleecker married John James Bleecker, a New Rochelle lawyer, in 1769. He encouraged her writings, and helped her publish a periodical containing her works. The American Revolution saw John join the New York Militia, while Ann fled with their two daughters.
Cotton MatherCotton Mather (; February 12, 1663 – February 15, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he joined his father Increase Mather as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House in Boston, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he preached for the rest of his life.
James Riley (captain)James Riley (October 27, 1777 – March 13, 1840) was the captain of the United States merchant ship Commerce.
King Philip's WarKing Philip's War (1675–1678) was a colonial war in which a coalition of Algonquian tribes of the Northeastern Woodlands—the Wampanoags, the Pocomtucs, the Nipmucs, and the Narragansetts—fought against the Puritan settlers of the New England Colonies and their Indian allies—the Mohegans, the Pequots, and Christian Indians. The war continued in the most northern reaches of New England until the signing of the Treaty of Casco Bay on April 12, 1678.
James R. Lewis (scholar)James Roger Lewis (November 3, 1949 – October 11, 2022) was an American philosophy professor at Wuhan University. He was a religious studies scholar, sociologist of religion, and writer, who specialized in the academic study of new religious movements, and New Age. Lewis received his B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Appalachian State University, going on to study at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a master's degree.David G. BromleyDavid G. Bromley (born 1941) is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, specialized in sociology of religion and the academic study of new religious movements. He has written extensively about cults, new religious movements, apostasy, and the anti-cult movement. Education and careerBromley received his B.A. in sociology (1963) from Colby College.
Barbary corsairsThe Barbary corsairs, also known as the Barbary pirates, Ottoman corsairs, or naval mujahideen (in Muslim sources), were mainly Muslim corsairs and privateers who operated from the North African coast, known in Europe as the Barbary Coast.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.