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Massacre on the Merrimack : Hannah Duston's captivity and revenge in colonial America / Jay Atkinson.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Atkinson, Jay, 1957-
Other title:Hannah Duston's captivity and revenge in colonial America.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
Subjects:
Duston, Hannah Emerson, > 1657- > Captivity.
Indian captivities > New England.
Indian captivities > Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.)
Women murderers > Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) > Biography.
Abenaki Indians > Wars.
United States > History > King William's War, 1689-1697.
Indians of North America > Northeastern States > History > 17th century.
Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) > History > 17th century.
Haverhill (Mass.) > Biography.
Duston, Hannah Emerson, > 1657-
Captivity.
Indian captivities.
Indians of North America.
Women murderers.
Massachusetts > Haverhill.
New England.
Northeastern States.
United States.
United States > Merrimack River Valley.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The raid
  • Dispossessed
  • The settlement
  • A forced march
  • Count Frontenac and the reign of terror
  • The tomahawk and the knife
  • The fate of other captives
  • Escape from Sugar Ball Island
  • Samuel Sewall, Cotton Mather, and the General Court of Massachusetts.

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