In 1676, during King Philip’s War, Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711) and her three children were captured by Native Americans. Held for eleven weeks, she was ransomed at Redemption Rock in Princeton, Massachusetts using funds raised by the women of Boston in a public subscription. Six years following her captivity, Rowlandson wrote and published, A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, A Minister’s Wife in New England. Popular in both the New England Colonies and England, the book is considered a seminal work in the literary genre of captivity narratives and one of the earliest American “best sellers.”