The site of the former 17th-century garrison house of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson and his family is wonderfully bucolic, set beneath a canopy of shade trees and tucked behind a handsome low stone wall. But the scene was much different during King Philip’s War. It was from this place on February 10, 1676, that Mary Rowlandson and three of her children, Joseph, Mary, and Sarah, were kidnapped during an attack by members of the Narragansett, Wampanoag, and Nashaway/Nipmuc. Such raids were not uncommon, as Native Americans often clashed with colonists. For…
