Hannah Duston
Colonial Massachusetts Puritan · Writers · Lived 1657 to 1736 · aged 79
Hannah Duston was a colonial Massachusetts Puritan woman who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William's War, with her first newborn daughter, during the 1697 raid on Haverhill, in which 27 colonists, 15 of them children, were killed.
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![New Hampshire historical marker (number 49) in Boscawen[36]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Hannahdustinmarker.JPG/1280px-Hannahdustinmarker.JPG)
New Hampshire historical marker (number 49) in Boscawen[36]
Title page of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana (1702) in which he published Hannah Duston's narrative.
The original monument to Hannah Duston, which was later removed and converted into a monument dedicated to the Civil War soldiers of Barre, Massachusetts.
Statue on the island in Boscawen, New Hampshire, where Hannah killed her captors and escaped down the river.
Hannah Duston Monument, by Calvin H. Weeks, 1879
Hannah Duston and Mary Neff being abducted by Indians, as depicted on the base of the Hannah Duston statue by Calvin H. Weeks.
The Dustin House or Dustin Garrison House, built about in 1700, is a historic First Period house at 665 Hilldale Avenue in Haverhill, Massachusetts.About this person
In her account given to Cotton Mather, it is stated that the Abenakis killed her newborn baby and several other captives soon after the raid. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped ten of the Abenaki family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives.
