In her diary The Narrative of the Captivity and the restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1982), Mary Rowlandson an American colonist, mother of three and a wife living in Lancaster becomes a captive after the Native American raid on the town. She was separated from her two oldest children and husband (which he was not captured). Mary was lucky to be captured and not separated from her family. Mary and her offspring’s were held captive and ransomed for 11 weeks. During those weeks her daughter Sarah died from a wound caused during the attack in Lancaster. Mary was sold to another native, but was allowed to see her other offspring’s in which either lived in another tribe or was owned by another Native. At one point the Native Americans gave her