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HANNAG EMERSON DUSTIN    Born  1657

Hannah Emerson Dustin has a monument erected in the center of Haverhill, Massachusetts commemorating the extensive ordeal she  endured when she was captured by Indians on March 15, 1697. They killed her 1 week old daughter Martha, and forced her to walk for days until they arrived at an island in the middle of the Merrimack river about 6 miles north of Concord, NH. There she met Samuel Lennardson, a young English boy who had been there about one year. They became friends and plotted to find a way of escape. They were soon informed that they were to start traveling again to a distant Indian settlement, so they determined to escape before the journey. On the 31st, they got up around midnight and killed the ten Indians and escaped down the river to Hudson, NH with their scalps to prove their story and collect a bounty.