Redemption Rock is a site from a war that people have never heard of – or have forgotten – King Philip’s War, the bloodiest war ever fought on this soil! Click here for a nine-minute video by Stone Site Investigator Mike Luoma from a December 2021 visit and posted on August 11, 2024.

This new entry in Stone Site Investigator Mike Luoma’s series of short presentations focuses on the forgotten history behind Princeton, Massachusetts’ Redemption Rock, where Indigenous forces returned a colonial captive back in 1676, during King Philip’s War.

The story of a married English colonist and mother who was captured in 1675 in an attack by Native Americans during the War is described in Mary Rowlandson’s 1682 first-hand account.

Rowlandson was held for ransom for 11 weeks and 5 days and was finally released at the site of what is known as Redempton Rock by Sachem Weetamoo as described by Author Lisa Brooks.