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Dustin, Hannah (1657-?1736)
Biography
Colonial heroine, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA. She married Thomas Dustin, a bricklayer and farmer, and they had 12 children. In 1697, during King William's War, Indian raiders captured Hannah, her youngest child, and a nurse. Fearing what their fate might be, Hannah and a captive boy killed 10 sleeping Indians with hatchets. She scalped the Indians, and the former captives returned to Haverhill where they received a bounty for the scalps. She left many descendants through her nine surviving children, and two monuments were later erected in her memory (1874, 1879). |
