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Category Archives: 1690s

Frontier Quarrels

Five reasons for the raid…

Posted byMarek10 January, 201710 January, 2017Posted in1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:1697, abenaki, corn, cotton mather, cows, fish, Hannah Dustin, hannah dustonLeave a comment on Frontier Quarrels

Hannah Dustin in the Snow

A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre…

Posted byMarek5 December, 201610 January, 2017Posted in1600-1699, 1690s, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:Hannah Dustin, highway, history, markers, Penacook, truth2 Comments on Hannah Dustin in the Snow

Hannah Dustin (1697)

“Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)

Posted byMarek4 December, 201610 January, 2017Posted in1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:1697, abenaki, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston, haverhill, Massachusetts, massacre, raid2 Comments on Hannah Dustin (1697)

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