Rev. Joseph Rowlandson

 Rev. Joseph Rowlandson was born about 1631 in England. He was the son of Thomas Rowlandson and Bridget Bradstreet. Rev. Joseph Rowlandson graduated in 1652 from in Harvard College, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, the only graduate that year.1 In 1659 Joseph, married Mary White, daughter of John White and Joane West. Rev. Joseph Rowlandson died on Wednesday, 23 November 1678 in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut.

Children of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson and Mary White

1. Mary (15 Jan 1657/58 - 20 Jan 1660)
2. Joseph (7 Mar 1661/62 - )
3. Mary (again) (12 Aug 1665 - )
4. Sarah (15 Sep 1669 - 18 Feb 1675/76)

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At sunrise on February 10, 1675, during King Philip's War, Lancaster came under attack by Narragansett, Wampanoag and Nashaway/Nipmuc Indians.

Mary Rowlandson and her three children, Joseph, Mary, and Sarah, were among the hostages taken. For more than 11 weeks and five days, she and her children were forced to accompany the Indians as they fled through the wilderness to elude the colonial militia. Years later, she recounted the severe conditions during her captivity for all parties. On May 2, 1676, Rowlandson was ransomed for £20 raised by the women of Boston in a public subscription, and paid by John Hoar of Concord at Redemption Rock in Princeton, Massachusetts.

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Rev. Joseph Rowlandson

Born about 1631 in England [uncertain]

Son of Thomas Rowlandson and Bridget (Kerley) Rowlandson

Brother of Martha (Rowlandson) Kerley, Thomas Rowlandson, Elizabeth (Rowlandson) Harris and Mary (Rowlandson) Whitcomb

Husband of Mary (White) Talcott — married 1656 (to 23 Nov 1678) in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts

Father of Joseph Rowlandson Jr.

Died 23 Nov 1678 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Profile last modified 1 Nov 2018 | Created 22 Feb 2010

The Birth Date is a rough estimate. See the text for details. Biography

Sources

Henry S. Nourse. Early Records of Lancaster Massachusetts 1643-1725. Lancaster, 1884. Ancestral File Number: 2JZ0-3N William Richard Cutter. Genealogical & Family History of Western New York. Entry from Colonial families of the United States of America: "Rev. Joseph Rowlandson". Goodwin, Nathaniel. The Foote Family (Case, Tiffany and Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1849) Page xxxix

notes

At sunrise on February 10, 1675, during King Philip's War, Lancaster came under attack by Narragansett, Wampanoag and Nashaway/Nipmuc Indians.

Mary Rowlandson and her three children, Joseph, Mary, and Sarah, were among the hostages taken. For more than 11 weeks and five days, she and her children were forced to accompany the Indians as they fled through the wilderness to elude the colonial militia. Years later, she recounted the severe conditions during her captivity for all parties. On May 2, 1676, Rowlandson was ransomed for £20 raised by the women of Boston in a public subscription, and paid by John Hoar of Concord at Redemption Rock in Princeton, Massachusetts.

In 1677, Reverend Rowlandson moved his family to Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he was installed as pastor in April of that year. He died in Wethersfield in November 1678. Church officials granted his widow a pension of £30 per year.

She wrote an account of her captivity that became "the first American bestseller."

Links

• Wikipedia
• http://www.theroyfamily.com/p4715.htm

Citations

1. Taylor, Ellery Kirke. Descendants of Stephen Flanders of Salisbury, Mass., 1646 being a Genealogy of the Flanders Family. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company, 1932.
2. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. "Lancaster Records", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XVI (1862).

Sources

1. Waldrup, Carole Chandler (1999), Colonial Women: 23 Europeans