Redemption Rock is a relic from a war that people have never heard of - or have forgotten. Yet, it’s the bloodiest war ever fought on this soil of this place we now call New England.
This new entry in my series of short presentations focused on individual features of interest turns to the forgotten history behind Princeton, Massachusetts' Redemption Rock, where Indigenous forces returned a colonial captive back in 1676, during King Philip's War.
Redemption Rock is under the stewardship of The Trustees of Reservations. More information on them at TheTrustees.org.
These Ancient Stone Mysteries of New England - Feature Focus presentations give you a look at stonework and related subjects in short but informed doses filled with footage, photos and briefly related facts and speculation. These are new creations, compilations using both seen and previously unseen work from my archives.
This one required some new writing and research, and then editing and rewriting. Then, more editing, attempting to condense a bunch of history down into a a quickly and easily digestible nugget. Even after my narration was recorded, more editing choices were made and details left out in the final cut editing.
My original footage and photos of Redemption Rock are from a December 2021 visit. There are also public domain illustrations in the video. Credits for those follow, because even though they’re free to use, if I can give credit, I like to do so. Aside from these, most everything else is my work, except for the music, which, per usual, is by Kevin MacLeod, with official credits below. This installment features a new-to-us theme by Kevin MacLeod, "Journey To Ascend".
This presentation includes new writing and research and newly acquired Public Domain material. You can see more of the original footage and photos and even more Public Domain work in the original Experience video:
Thanks for watching!
Music Credits:
"Journey To Ascend" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Spirit of the Girl by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4407-spirit-of-the-girl
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Healing by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3860-healing
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Public Domain Images:
Front Page of Mary Rowlandson's "A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, a Minister's Wife in New-England", First edition London 1682.
From the Special Collections of the University of Pennsylvania Library.
Wikimedia Commons
Mary Rowlandson in Captivity
From: Our Greater Country (1901)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
The Library of Congress
King Philips War - The Battle of Bloody Brook, 1675
By F.O.C. Darley 19th century
World History Encyclopedia
Great Swamp Massacre
A depiction of colonists capturing a native fort during King Philip's War
From: Page 33 of Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. LXXXV. - June, 1857. - Vol. XV
The Library of Congress
Wikimedia Commons
New England 1665 AD
Map of New England printed by John Seller John in 1675 CE, based on William Reed's original survey of 1665 CE. Original image by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.
Wikimedia Commons
King Philip illustration
From "Indian history, biography and genealogy: pertaining to the good sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe, and his descendants"
by Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver, 1822-1903;
Mitchell, Zerviah Gould, b. 1807, pub
Publication date 1878
Publisher North Abington, Mass., Z.G. Mitchell
King Philip's War - Capture of Brookfield, Massachusetts
Unknown artist
Date: 19th century
Wikimedia Commons
Death of Father Rale in Dummers War
"Death of Father Sebastian Rale of the Society of Jesus. Killed by the English and Mohawks at Norridgewock, Aug. 23, 1724;"
Frontispiece: Indian Good Book (1856)
by Eugene Vetromile (1819-1880)
Collection of the Maine Historical Society, Portland, Maine
Wikimedia Commons
George Washington as Captain in the French and Indian War - painting
By Junius Brutus Stearns (1810–1886)
Oil on canvas, circa 1849-1856
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Wikimedia Commons
Depiction of the Boston Massacre engraved by Paul Revere (1735-1818)
Date: 18th century
Wikimedia Commons
Weetamoo
By John Frost
From: Frost's Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities (1873), p. 48.
Wikimedia Commons
“The Indian Ambush”
By Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot 1805-1877)
Publisher: New York : Harper 1900
Rutgers University Libraries/Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
Wikimedia Commons
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