Tag: hannah duston

• Frontier Quarrels

  

  Five reasons for the raid…

  Marek

  10 January, 2017

  1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, corn, cotton mather, cows, fish, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston

• Hannah Dustin (1697)

  

  “Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)

  Marek

  4 December, 2016

  1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston, haverhill, Massachusetts, massacre, raid

• The Great Witch of Weare

  

  What lively places these NH towns must have been, back in the early days with the witches and ghosts!

  Marek

  29 October, 2012

  1700-1799, SOURCE=Little, Weare, witches

  axe, dustin, hannah duston, ill, Mrs. Dustin, superstition, Thomas Gray, urine, weare, witch