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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-303) and index

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individual biography

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Massacre on the Merrimack

Nature of contents

bibliography

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903080356

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Jay Atkinson

Sub title

Hannah Duston's captivity and revenge in colonial America

Summary

True story of murder, captivity, revenge, and escape, set against the fiery backdrop of the French and Indian war. Examines the period in American history when French Catholicism vied for control of the frontier with English Protestantism, and the bloody deeds of Hannah Duston--who escaped her Native American captors and returned to her settlement of Haverhill, Massachusetts, with a collection of scalps--passed into legend

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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Hannah Duston's captivity and revenge in colonial America

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