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"THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE RETURNING TO ZION. A FAITHFUL HISTORY OF REMARKABLE OCCURENCES IN THE CAPTIVITY AND DELIVERENCE OF MR. JOHN WILLIAMS, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL IN DEERFIELD, WHO, IN THE DESOLATION WHICH BEFEL THAT PLANTATION, BY AN INCURSION OF THE FRENCH AND INDIANS, WAS BY THEM CARRIED AWAY, WITH HIS FAMILY, AND HIS NEIGHBOURHOOD, UNTO CANADA" ...... "WHERETO THERE IS ANNEXED, A SERMON PREACHED BY HIM, UPON HIS RETURN, AT THE LECTURE IN BOSTON, DECEMBER 5, 1706, ON THOSE WORDS, LUKE 8:39." ......... "AS ALSO AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THOSE TAKEN CAPTIVE AT DEERFIELD, FEB. 29, 1703-4 OF THOSE KILLED AFTER THEY WENT OUT OF TOWN...." ..... "WITH A CONCLUSION TO THE WHOLE BY THE REV. MR. WILLIAMS OF SPRINGFIELD, AND THE REV. MR. PRINCE OF BOSTON." By John Williams. Boston: Printed and sold by John Boyle, next door to the Three Doves in Marlborough Street. 1774. Containing 70, [1] pages. (COMPLETE) 8vo, never bound, whipstiched and stitched together at an early date; first and last leaves with marginal tissue-repairs only affecting a few letters on last ad leaf. light foxing; early owner's signature on the title. Boston, 1774. The fifth edition. First published in 1707, All pre-Revolution editions are profoundly scarce and uncommon. This 1774 pre-Revolution edition includes an Appendix listing the names of those captured and killed. Also of note is the terminal leaf, which contains a publisher's ad for a new edition of Mary Rowlandson's captivity. "One of the most famous and most popular captivity narratives. Williams, Harvard graduate, in charge of the church at Deerfield when it was attacked by Indians, in 1703, was taken, with others, to Canada, his wife and two of his children being tomahawked on the way"--Howes W462; Evans 13773; Ayer 309.