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Massacre on the Merrimack : Hannah Duston's captivity and revenge in Colonial America

text Massacre on the Merrimack : Hannah Duston's captivity and revenge in Colonial America

Atkinson, Jay

Summary
Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives, i... Read more
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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Description
x, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher
LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2015
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