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Text of The Thomas and Hannah Dustin Story From
"Letter XXXIX" in
Timothy
Dwight’s Travels in New England and New York, 1821-22.
Text of John Greenleaf Whittier,"The
Mother’s Revenge" From Legends of New England (1831)
Text of
H. D. Thoreau’s Retelling
of the Hannah Dustin Story [From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, "Thursday" section, 1849]
Text of On the Duston Family Name From The Cheney
Genealogy by Rev. Charles Henry Pope, 1897.
Text of John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807-1892) From Legends of New England (1831) "The Indian's
Tale"
Text of John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807-1892) From Legends of New England (1831) "Metacom"
Text
of "Lovewell's Fight," Anonymous Captain John Lovewell
(some spell it Lovell) was a well-known Indian fighter and the leader of
a company of men who attacked Indian villages along the New England frontier.
Lovewell was killed and most of his men shot down during an ambush while
raiding the Piggwackett Indians on May 8th, 1725. Lovewell's defeat became
the subject of narratives, sermons, and a popular ballad. "Lovewell's
Fight" was written shortly after the Battle of May 8th. Capt. Lovewell
lived at Dunstable, now part of Nashua, New Hampshire, and it was here that
Hannah Duston, Mary Neff, and Samuel Lenorson spent their first night after
escaping from Contoocook Island on March 30, 1697. Hawthorne, in 1832, used
Lovewell's Fight in his story "Roger Malvin's Burial." The characters,
Reuben Bourne and Roger Malvin, are both wounded in the famous fight. Malvin
dies from his wounds and remains unburied by the younger Bourne, who is
left haunted and guilt-ridden.
Text of Thoreau’s Reflections
on the Indians and White Settlement From A
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, "Sunday" section, 1849
Text of Hawthorne's Farewell Note as Editor
of The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge,
August 1836.
Petition of Hannah and Thomas Duston, Mary
Neff and Samuel Leonardson to the General Court of Massachusetts, from
Whitford, Kathryn. “Hannah Dustin: The Judgement of History.” Essex
Institute Historical Collections. Vol. CVIII, No. 4 (October 1972),
308-09. Used with permission.
Hannah Bradley’s Captivity Account. Like
Hannah Duston, Hannah Bradley was taken captive by the Indians during
the Haverhill Raid of 1697. She was in the Indian camp where the Native
woman wounded by Duston on Contoocook Island sought refuge. This is her
account of her experience.
“Such Was the Tumultation These Women Made”: The Women of Marblehead Wreak Revenge Upon Indian Captors,
1677 by Robert Roules of Marblehead.
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