Redemption Rock in Princeton, Massachusetts

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

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