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column was topped by an eagle. The monument was erected on June 1, 1861, at the site of Duston's capture, but it was never fully paid for. Some subscribers were upset that the monument was in the middle of farmland on the outskirts of town instead of
Haverhill Common. After successfully suing the association, the builders quietly removed the monument in August 1865, erased the inscription, engraved a new one, and resold it to the town of
571:), the Haverhill Historical Society possesses a letter dated May 17, 1724, addressed to the elders of the church, declaring her desire to be admitted as a full member of the church so that she might take communion with the other congregants, and offering a confession. It seems likely to have been composed from dictation by her minister. In reference to her captivity, the letter states simply:
640:(1847) in which Stearns, for reasons that remain unclear, depicted Samuel Lennardson as a woman. The Indian children Duston killed are omitted. A second painting, showing Hannah's husband fleeing with her children, is now lost. Violent revenge against Native Americans was another popular subject of literature and theater, as in
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town square (now Grand Army Park), where it still stands on the site of the
Haverhill Center Congregational Church, of which Hannah Duston became a member in 1724. It depicts Hannah wearing only one shoe, per Haverhill tradition. On October 31, 1934, the statue's hatchet was stolen, but it was later
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which a few months ago, have entitled the actors unto considerable recompense from the
Publick. That tho the of that good Law no claims to any such consideration from the publick, yet your petitioner humbly that the merit of the action still remains the same; & it seems a matter of universal
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Petition of Thomas Durstan of Haverhill Sheweth That the wife of ye petitioner (with one Mary Neff) hath in her Late captivity among the Barbarous Indians, been disposed & assisted by heaven to do an extraordinary action, in the just slaughter of so many of the Barbarians, as would by
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April 29...is signalized by the achievement of Hannah Dustun, Mary Neff, and Samuel
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Vote for allowing fifty pounds to Thomas Dustun in behalf of his wife Hannah, and to Mary Neff, and Samuel
Leonardson, captives escaped from the Indians, for their service in slaying their captors. Voted, in concurrence with the representatives, that there be allowed and ordered, out of the public
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At the latter end of this month two women and a young lad that had been taken captive from
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column that would cost about $ 1,350, and by 1861 the necessary funds had been raised. On its base was a shield, surrounded by a musket, bow, arrows, tomahawk, and scalping knife. Engravings on its sides told the story of the "barbarous" murder of Duston's baby and her "remarkable exploit;" the
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About 19 or 20 Indians now led these away, with about half a score of other English captives, but ere they had gone many steps, they dash'd out the brains of the infant against a tree, and several of the other captives, as they began to tire in the sad journey, were soon sent unto their long
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Following her return, Hannah gave birth to a daughter, Lydia, on October 4, 1698. Her neighbor Hannah Heath Bradley, who had also been abducted in the 1697 raid (and two of her children killed), was held for nearly two years before she was ransomed, returning to Haverhill in 1699. During
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they had taken from the Indians. Although New Hampshire had become a colony in its own right in 1680, the Merrimack River and its adjacent territories were considered part of Massachusetts; therefore, Hannah and the other former captives applied to the Massachusetts Government for the
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rock was pulled out of Bradley Brook where it emptied into the Merrimack, near where Hannah landed her canoe after her escape, and placed on the site of Hannah's son Jonathan's home in Haverhill, where Hannah had lived during her final years. Hannah Duston died at this location
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Mr. Roulandson at Lancaster...The single man shewed the night before, to Saml Lenarson, how he used to knock Englishmen on the head and take off their Scalps; little thinking that the Captives would make some of their first experiment upon himself. Sam. Lenarson kill'd him.
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H. D. Kilgore says the letter was found "behind an old gallery pew" in the Center Congregational Church of Haverhill in March of 1929; another source says it was found in a church vault, and others state that it was given to the Haverhill Historical Society in
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treasury, unto Thomas Dunston of Haverhill, on behalf of Hannah his wife, the sum of twenty-five pounds; to Mary Neffe, the sum of twelve pounds ten shillings; and to Samuel Leonardson, the sum of twelve pounds ten shillings...as a reward for their service.
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From the 1820s until the 1870s, Duston's story was included in nearly all books about American history, as well as many biographies, children's books, and magazine articles. The story was popular among white Americans when the country was engaged in the
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March 15: The Indians fell upon some part of Haverhill, about 7 in the morning, killed and carried away 39 or 40 persons -- two of these Captive women, viz. Dunstan & Neff (with another young man), slew ten of the Indians & returned home wth ye
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On Thanksgiving Day, 2021, the statue was again vandalized with either red spray-paint or with splashes of red paint. To prevent further vandalism, city workers draped the statue in a blue plastic tarp, pending cleaning by the highway department.
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recovered and welded back into place. On July 10, 2020, the words "Haverhill's own monument to genocide" were found written on the statue's base in pink chalk. The statue was vandalized again on August 28, 2020, with splashes of red paint.
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of warlike Indians. A city council subcommittee was assigned to consider the possibility of moving the statue to another location after a period of public discussion. It has been suggested that the statue be moved to the
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at that time in colonial New England, so her husband petitioned the Legislature on behalf of Hannah Duston, requesting that the bounties for the scalps be paid, even though the law providing for them had been repealed:
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until late in life, for reasons that are unclear. In May 1724 she asked to be formally admitted to the Haverhill Center Congregational Church. Her husband had made a similar petition in January of that year.
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these Indians took one of the women captive when she had lain in childbed but a few days, and knocked her child in head before her eyes, which woman killed and scalped that very Indian.
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Corliss), set fire to Hannah's home, and forced the two women to march into the wilderness, Hannah carrying her newborn daughter, Martha. According to the account Hannah gave to
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about Duston, focusing on the cultural context of Duston's capture and the history of Native Americans in New Hampshire, was being produced by leaders of the Cowasuck Band.
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groups living in places where settlers wanted to live. In the 1830s and later, the story was partially sanitized by not mentioning the six children that Duston killed.
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through the whole army of Indians." The group included Samuel Lennardson (1683–1718, also spelled Leonardson, Lenorson or Lennarson), a 14-year-old boy captured in
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Weis, Ann-Marie (1998). "The Murderous Mother and the Solicitous Father: Violence, Jacksonian Family Values, and Hannah Duston's Captivity".
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voted to give them a reward for killing their captors; Hannah Duston received 25 pounds, and Neff and Lennardson split another 25 pounds:
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The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay: To which are Prefixed the Charters of the Province.
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Ann-Marie Weis, "The Murderous Mother and the Solicitous Father: Violence, Jacksonian Family Values, and Hannah Duston's Captivity."
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Barbara Cutter, "The Female Indian Killer Memorialized: Hannah Duston and the Nineteenth–Century Feminization of American Violence,"
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History of Essex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Vol. 2)
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Mary Steurer, "Changes in the works for NH site honoring Hannah Duston, woman known for killing Native Americans,"
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Magnalia Christi Americana: Or the Ecclesiastical History of New England from 1620 – 1698, vol. II, book four
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desire thro the whole Province that it should not pass unrecompensed... Your Petitioner, Thomas Durstun
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WHAV Staff, "Haverhill's Native American Task Force Hears Ideas for Balancing Hannah Duston Legend,"
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The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England,
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Allison Corneau, "Hannah Duston statue vandalized again as debate over violence, racism continues,"
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Allison Corneau, "Hannah Duston statue vandalized with words 'Haverhill's own monument to genocide'
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2590:"Haverhill City Council Backs Keeping Statue of Hannah Duston at GAR Park"
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748:
The Heroism of Hannah Duston, Together with the Indian Wars of New England
2250:
Robert D. Arner. "The Story Of Hannah Duston: Cotton Mather To Thoreau,"
2100:
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum,
2074:, Collections of the Mass. Hist. Soc., vol. 5, pp. 452-453. Boston. 1878.
201:
3211:
1786:
Heroism of Hannah Duston: Together with the Indian Wars of New England,
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629:
628:
along with other tales of violent murder perpetrated by women, sold as
261:
Hannah and Mary were assigned to a family group of 12 people (probably
237:
3097:
Heroism of Hannah Duston: Together with the Indian Wars of New England
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2117:
p. 18. Green, Samuel A., ed. Cambridge: John Wilson & Sons, 1900.
1880:"Hannah Dustin of Haverhill: Her Capture and Famous Exploit Recounted"
726:
880:
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430:
330:
262:
176:
3167:
American Captivity Narratives: Selected Narratives with Introduction
2830:
Lesson Plan: Western Expansion and the Depiction of Native Americans
2551:
Mike LaBella, "Haverhill woman wants Hannah Duston monument moved,"
2113:
Extracts from John Marshall's Diary, January, 1689 – December, 1711
1950:. New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. November 2, 2018.
759:
The war whoop, tomahawk, faggot & infanticides were at Haverhill
1004:
953:
775:
568:
314:
180:
161:
1898:
Beyond the Land of Gold: The Life & Times of Perry A. Burgess,
616:
Hawthorne, clearly horrified, pauses in his retelling to exclaim:
2960:
Margaret Bruchac, "Reconsidering Hannah Duston and the Abenaki,"
2780:"Town near Boston hatches plan to name school for 'hatchet lady'"
2706:
Then & Now: Davis Tower/Lake Park, Coburn Avenue in Worcester
2571:
2427:""Hannah Duston memorial statue in Boscawen hit with red paint,"
1492:
A. W. Thayer, Haverhill, MA. Collection: UMass Amherst Libraries.
782:
270:
229:
137:
133:
3044:
Kevin Cullen, "How to expand, rather than obliterate, history,"
2977:. Eagletribune.com. Associated Press. 2008-07-29. Archived from
383:
Indians raided Haverhill again in 1704 and 1707. In yet another
3116:
Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast
1426:
Dustin Griffin (2014). "Cotton Mather and the Emerson Family,"
1032:
706:
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333:
233:
141:
976:
Other commemorations, all in the city of Haverhill, include:
3323:, A documentary on Hannah Dustin by a Haverhill, MA filmmaker
3149:
White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier
688:
310:
2874:"Proposed Hannah Duston Day appalls American Indian leaders"
1085:
H. D. Kilgore, "The Story of Hannah Duston" (June 1940), in
2009:
The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America,
1200:
Robertson's Book of Firsts: Who Did What for the First Time
721:
714:, where it stands to this day as a memorial to that town's
506:
3221:"The Mass Marketing of the Colonial Captive Hannah Duston"
2749:
Development of the American Axe – Part 1: The Biscayne Axe
2385:"Finding the Hannah Duston Memorial State Historic Site,"
2204:
The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge
1993:" In: Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter (ed.):
967:
house at 665 Hilldale Avenue in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
306:
wounded Abenaki woman also managed to escape the attack.
265:) and taken north, "unto a rendezvous...somewhere beyond
208:, were accused of practicing witchcraft and tried at the
1570:
Ellery B. Crane, "The Kidnapping of Samuel Leonard," in
849:
on a small plot of land at Allds and Fifield streets in
734:, where Hannah killed her captors and escaped down river
1316:
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
1089:
Edmund T. Mazur and Garth Clark Dawson. iUniverse, 2008
604:. Thoreau's version adheres to information provided in
466:(1702) in which he published Hannah Duston's narrative.
1997:
Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY 2001; pp. 193–209.
1087:
Here's Fifty: The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest,
1747:
Hannah Duston's Captured Dutch Trade Flintlock Musket
886:
2684:
Volumes 45-46, Harvard University, 1913; pp. 207-212
746:. An attorney named Robert Boody Caverly, author of
545:, who wrote the following entry for April 29, 1697:
497:(1702). Mather titled the story "A Notable Exploit:
3151:. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
3118:. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
2653:"Historical Markers – DAR Matthew Thornton Chapter"
1490:
The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1807-1892,
1169:
Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing
317:the dead as proof of the incident and to collect a
2855:"'Hatchet lady' stirs controversy for school name"
1592:Volume 1, 1926. Reprinted by Heritage Books, 2008.
1572:Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity,
1504:
1488:John Greenleaf Whittier, Benjamin L Mirick, 1832,
1282:
1224:
673:(1875). Haverhill tradition, recorded in Mirick's
289:The captives were taken north to an island in the
3273:Original Documents Related to "The Duston Family"
2910:. Haverhill, MA: Eagletribune.com. Archived from
1511:. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp.
1318:. New York: Henry Holt and Company. p. 313.
1106:
789:
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1602:Known today as Sugar Ball Island and located at
1202:(1st U.S. ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
1136:. University of Cambridge Press. pp. 40–41.
798:Hannah Duston Monument, by Calvin H. Weeks, 1879
3307:Smithsonian Institution – Hannah Dustin Statues
1995:A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America.
1713:
1173:. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. p.
395:killed sixteen, including the town's minister.
2238:A Week on the Concord and the Merrimack Rivers
1389:. University of Southern Maine. Archived from
391:and Abenaki Indians led by the French officer
196:Hannah Emerson was born December 23, 1657, in
1538:
1536:
1534:
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1260:. Lanham, MD; Toronto: AltaMira. p. 63.
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179:and the "mother of the American tradition of
2680:E. W. B. Taylor, "Hannah Duston Memorials,"
2351:
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528:Hannah's story also appears in the diary of
470:The event became well known, due in part to
240:. Hannah's husband Thomas, who was building
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2084:Hawthorne in Salem: The Hannah Dustin Story
1886:, Vol. XLIII No. 6 (June 1911) p. 177, 182.
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1107:Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle (1998).
971:
845:In 1902 a third memorial was placed by the
479:: The Ecclesiastical History of New England
3312:Gene Fontaine (Contributor) (2013-01-16).
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1111:. New York: Penguin Classics. p. 55.
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740:Hannah Duston Memorial State Historic Site
689:Aborted first memorial (erected 1861–1865)
685:There are six memorials to Hannah Duston.
309:The former captives immediately left in a
29:
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2720:University of Toronto Press, 2018, p. 85.
2675:
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2302:Vol. 36, No. 1 (February 1998), pp. 46-65
2189:
2071:Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674–1729, vol. 1
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1387:"The Life and Death of Elizabeth Emerson"
1197:
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2102:Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 90-93.
1978:Evans Early American Imprint Collection.
1933:
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1289:. Gretna, La.: Pelican Pub. Co. p.
1258:Women and Museums: A Comprehensive Guide
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722:First successful memorial (erected 1874)
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148:, with her newborn daughter, during the
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487:Humiliations follow'd with Deliverances
96:Michael Emerson, Hannah Webster Emerson
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2411:"Hannah Duston Massacre Site Statue,"
2052:University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
1828:
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837:," which means "our land" in Abenaki.
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2786:. Associated Press. November 29, 1997
2244:
1846:
1556:
1370:. J. W. Lewis & Company. p.
16:Colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother
3382:People from Haverhill, Massachusetts
3197:
2183:Travels in New-England and New York,
2171:Lebanon Graphics, Haverhill MA, 1978
2169:The Starshine of Mrs. Hannah Dustin,
1957:from the original on 27 January 2013
1896:Rebecca Valentine, Travis Thompson,
1726:from the original on 15 October 2018
1714:Allitt, Patrick (December 9, 2007).
1363:
1343:. Infobase Publishing. p. 231.
985:National Register of Historic Places
847:Daughters of the American Revolution
658:, which increased conflict with the
3225:Canadian Review of American Studies
2241:pp. 400-404 (1854; reprinted 1911).
1384:
1109:Women's Indian Captivity Narratives
586:Travels in New England and New York
579:
448:
13:
3367:Colonial American women in warfare
3362:People from colonial Massachusetts
3315:Savage: The Hannah Dustin Massacre
2758:Brant & Cochran, Jun 13, 2017.
2252:American Transcendental Quarterly,
1941:"List of Markers by Marker Number"
1764:The Gettysburg Historical Journal,
1463:from the original on 15 April 2018
1432:doi:10.5224/masshistrevi.16.1.0001
887:Fifth memorial (inscribed in 1908)
88:Thomas Duston Jr. (1652 – c. 1724)
14:
3393:
3266:
2933:"Of Time and the Merrimack River"
2806:"Hannah Duston Healthcare Center"
2600:from the original on 5 July 2020.
2207:vol. II, no. 9, p. 395. May 1836.
2127:"Journal of the Rev. John Pike,"
1231:. New York: Basic Books. p.
943:
938:Wentworth Location, New Hampshire
638:Hannah Duston Killing the Indians
608:, whereas Whittier describes her
509:in the Old Testament, and to the
36:Hannah Duston Killing the Indians
2579:from the original on 9 Aug 2020.
1451:Cutter, Barbara (9 April 2018).
1428:Massachusetts Historical Review,
393:Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville
3095:Caverly, Robert Boodey (1990).
3055:
3021:
2992:
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2880:. Haverhill, MA. Archived from
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2853:Associated Press (1997-11-29).
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669:, as in Robert Boody Caverly's
435:New Hampshire historical marker
281:, Massachusetts, in late 1695.
136:woman who was taken captive by
3200:American Studies International
3099:. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books.
3062:Atkinson, Jay (October 2015).
2872:Perriello, Brad (2006-08-27).
2287:Volume 28, Issue 3, pp. 76-103
1274:
1249:
1223:Elshtain, Jean Bethke (1987).
1216:
1191:
1158:
1154:vol. 20, no. 2, 2008; pp 10–33
1125:
1100:
997:
952:. The Duston hatchet is not a
918:Worcester Society of Antiquity
790:Second memorial (erected 1879)
462:Title page of Cotton Mather's
420:General Court of New Hampshire
1:
3377:Women in 17th-century warfare
3031:Volume 69, No. 1, Summer 2015
2836:, Colby College Museum of Art
2827:Beasley, Erin; Lessing, Uri,
2641:WHAV News, September 16, 2022
2555:North Andover, MA July 5 2020
2317:F.J. Huntington, 1836; p. 39.
2185:1821. New Haven: S. Converse.
2129:Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings,
1364:Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1888).
1061:
373:
191:
3357:Captives of Native Americans
2474:Oct 4, 2017 eagletribune.com
2254:18 (1973). 19-23, quoted by
2011:Henry Holt and Company, 2007
680:
630:cheap works of short fiction
215:
186:
7:
3352:17th-century American women
3066:. 2015, 2017: Lyons Press.
2902:Regan, Shawn (2006-10-08).
1285:Margaret, Friend of Orphans
1256:Danilov, Victor J. (2005).
1198:Robertson, Patrick (2011).
1152:Journal of Women's History,
558:), in the following entry:
410:Samuel Lennardson moved to
362:Massachusetts General Court
68:March 6, 1736, 1737 or 1738
10:
3398:
2861:. Lawrence, KS. p. 3.
2219:Whittier, John Greenleaf,
1339:Purvis, Thomas L. (1999).
1165:Tauber, Alfred I. (2001).
904:Leonardson Memorial (1910)
495:Magnalia Christi Americana
477:Magnalia Christi Americana
464:Magnalia Christi Americana
3114:Martino, Gina M. (2018).
3029:Historical New Hampshire,
2808:. Whittier Health Network
2614:97.9 WHAV FM Wavelengths,
1788:Russell, 1875; pp. 38-39.
1281:Widmer, Mary Lou (1996).
922:Worcester Sunday Telegram
425:
324:
92:
84:
76:
64:
46:
28:
21:
3219:Humphreys, Sara (2011).
3086:: CS1 maint: location (
2964:Haverhill, MA, 8/28/2006
2572:97.9 WHAV FM Wavelengths
2371:"Hannah Duston Marker,"
2221:"The Mother's Revenge,"
1918:Delores Bird Carpenter,
1697:Eleanor Bradley Peters,
1503:Peckham, Howard (1964).
1341:Colonial America to 1763
1017:
1010:As of September 2023, a
972:Commemorative structures
859:Dunstable, New Hampshire
730:Statue on the island in
671:Heroism of Hannah Duston
385:raid on Haverhill (1708)
198:Haverhill, Massachusetts
71:Haverhill, Massachusetts
58:Haverhill, Massachusetts
3004:Concord, NH 11/27/2016"
2768:Hannah Dustin's Hatchet
1784:Robert Boodey Caverly,
752:Boscawen, New Hampshire
732:Boscawen, New Hampshire
636:' historical painting,
624:Duston's story entered
598:John Greenleaf Whittier
517:(captured in 1690) and
228:by a group of about 30
158:Boscawen, New Hampshire
80:Escaping from captivity
3189:: CS1 maint: others (
2937:New Hampshire Magazine
2859:Lawrence Journal-World
2682:Granite State Monthly,
2235:Thoreau, Henry David,
2223:Legends of New England
2200:Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
1864:George Wingate Chase,
1766:2007:Vol. 6, Article 4
1314:Faludi, Susan (2013).
1132:Grenier, John (2005).
968:
913:
875:Fourth memorial (1902)
872:
799:
786:across to the island.
765:
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642:Robert Montgomery Bird
622:
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360:On June 16, 1697, the
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303:
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150:1697 raid on Haverhill
131:colonial Massachusetts
3237:10.1353/crv.2011.0014
3147:Namias, June (1993).
2594:97.9 WHAV Wavelengths
2202:"The Duston Family,"
1878:Taylor, E.W.B.
1704:Heritage Books, 1915.
1621:43.28778°N 71.59111°W
1385:Kearney, Peg Goggin.
962:
911:
863:
851:Nashua, New Hampshire
841:Third memorial (1902)
825:Dustin Garrison house
797:
756:
744:Lowell, Massachusetts
729:
696:
634:Junius Brutus Stearns
618:
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543:Quincy, Massachusetts
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461:
454:Contemporary accounts
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366:
348:
299:
254:
40:Junius Brutus Stearns
2048:Teresa A. Toulouse,
1991:Decennium Luctuosum.
1900:Thompson Media, 2010
1588:Emma Lewis Coleman,
1134:The First Way of War
712:Barre, Massachusetts
699:Barre, Massachusetts
675:History of Haverhill
511:captivity narratives
412:Preston, Connecticut
293:at the mouth of the
3301:Nathaniel Hawthorne
2738:Biscayne Trade Axes
1884:The Granite Monthly
1626:43.28778; -71.59111
1617: /
1552:. pp. 550–552.
879:In December 1902 a
816:harmful stereotypes
626:popular imagination
602:Henry David Thoreau
594:Nathaniel Hawthorne
491:Decennium Luctuosum
285:Massacre and escape
173:captivity narrative
3295:2005-02-07 at the
3278:2018-12-02 at the
2962:The Eagle-Tribune,
2754:2018-10-15 at the
2553:The Eagle-Tribune,
2538:The Eagle Tribune,
2256:Hawthorne in Salem
2163:2006-04-30 at the
969:
950:Buttonwoods Museum
914:
821:Buttonwoods Museum
800:
736:
703:
656:westward expansion
499:Dux Faemina Facti,
468:
446:
222:King William's War
210:Salem witch trials
146:King William's War
3372:American Puritans
3176:978-0-395-98073-6
3158:978-0-8078-2079-7
3106:978-1-55613-301-5
3048:September 3, 2023
2908:The Eagle-Tribune
2878:The Eagle-Tribune
2616:November 28, 2021
2540:November 29, 2021
2522:November 30, 2021
2387:Visit Concord NH,
2358:WHAV Wavelengths,
2181:Dwight, Timothy,
2167:Helen deN. Ford,
2031:, Cotton (1702).
1522:978-0-226-65314-3
1507:The Colonial Wars
1350:978-1-4381-0799-8
1325:978-1-4299-2212-8
1300:978-1-56554-211-2
1267:978-0-7591-0855-4
1242:978-0-465-09216-1
1209:978-1-60819-738-5
1184:978-0-520-22527-5
1118:978-0-14-043671-6
926:Lake Quinsigamond
870:Chapter, DAR 1902
857:'s home (part of
853:, at the site of
738:Now known as the
647:Nick of the Woods
590:Timothy Dwight IV
160:, she killed and
100:
99:
54:December 23, 1657
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