New England suffered from the fighting with the Indians during King Philip's war in 1675. King Philip gathered the Indians to initiate a war for cultural and national survival. In February 1676 the Indians attacked Lancaster, Massachusetts and took many captives, among whom was Mary Rowlandson, daughter of one of the town's founders and the wife of a clergy man. She was ransomed shortly before the war ended and her captivity contiued for eleven months. After her return to the family, about a year or two, Mary Rowlandson recorded her experiences but they were not published until 1682.' (1)