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In 1682, James Printer was hard at work on the campus of Harvard College, setting the type for a text that would eventually become a classic of American literature (see Figure 1). In a rare moment of synchronicity, James encountered himself in the words he was printing. He was not only the printer of The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, but also a character within it, a participant in the shaping of Mary Rowlandson's destiny, as well as his own.1 ... Both the Nipmuc printer and the Puritan mistress were survivors of a recent conflict that had upended their lives; both had experienced forms of “captivity” and “restoration.” In August 1675, James, a Native scholar and Christian convert, had been arrested by English forces and falsely accused of participating in a raid—on Rowlandson's town of Lancaster. Although he ultimately averted conviction, having established that he was in church during the raid, James was imprisoned for a month in a Boston jail and “barely escaped lynching” by an English mob (Lepore 126 #). Five months later, James's brother, Job Kattenanit, risked his life in an attempt to prevent a raid on Lancaster, traveling rapidly over 80 miles on snowshoes to deliver words of warning to the ministers at Cambridge. However, Massachusetts military leaders did not act quickly enough, and, in February 1676, Rowlandson was captured by Narragansett warriors during the planned winter raid. She was carried to the Nipmuc stronghold of Menimesit, where she encountered James and his extended family, held in captivity, according to missionary Daniel Gookin, by their own relations.2
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