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The Captive's Lament

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Mary Rowlandson’s Removes and Weetamoo’s Path 

This map highlights the Native trails, waterways, towns and territories through which the Wampanoag leader Weetamoo and the English captive Mary Rowlandson traveled in the winter and spring of 1676, as described in The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682). Readers may also view an interactive storymap of Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, with contemporary images of key locations. Follow the pages in this path for more images and information on the places that Mary Rowlandson described as “removes” — travel that took her farther from her home and deeper into Native space. At any time, you can return to this map by clicking "The Captive's Lament" Path at the top of the page.

This page has paths:

  1. Navigate by Path Cassandra Hradil

Contents of this path:

  1. The town of Lancaster, the territory of Nashaway
  2. Remove 1: George Hill
  3. Remove 2: The trail to Menimesit
  4. Remove 3: Menimesit
  5. Remove 4: Nichewaug
  6. Remove 5: Paquaug River crossing
  7. Remove 6: Beaver dam crossing and Sokoki Swamp
  8. Remove 7: Squakeag/Northfield
  9. Remove 8: Coasset
  10. Remove 9: Kwinitekw (Connecticut River)
  11. Remove 10: Ashuelot Crossing
  12. Remove 11: Wantastegok
  13. Remove 12: Turning back, “Two miles from the Connecticut River”
  14. Remove 13: Kwinitekw, including alternative route south
  15. Removes 19 & 20: Wachusett

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