Hannah EMERSON

Notes:

From Descendants of John Webster: This is the famous Hannah Dustin, who having been captured and carried away by the Indians, her infant child murdered before her eyes, arose in the night, and with the assistance of her nurse, Mary Corliss Neff, who had been made captive at the same time, and a small captive boy named Samuel Leonardson, slew ten of the Indians with tomahawks; having scalped them, she made her escape in a canoe down the Merrimac river to her home in Haverhill. To the governor of Massachusetts Mrs. Dustin presented a tomahawk and a gun together with ten scalps, as an evidence of her victory. The general court accorded her and the boy, Samuel, $250 each, and named the eventful place Dustin's Island, where a granite monument has been erected commemorating the event. She had twelve children, five sons, and seven daughters besides the infant killed by the Indians. She has a numerous posterity.

Hannah married Thomas DUSTIN on 03 Dec 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cordwinder
• Will: 18 Jul 1709

Notes:

Excerpt from "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Vol. III": "Mihill" Emerson was a witness in the Ipswich Quarterly Court in a Rowley case, Sept., 1651. His name, spelled both "Myghill" and "Michael", appears again in that court in July, 1657. He received land in Haverhill in the "fourth division," Feb., 1661; and his name appears in the Old NOrfolk Co. deeds as owning land in Hv. in 1659 and 1667, buying and selling real estate, 1672-1673 and later. In 1675 he ws chosen "to view and seal all leather," probaby the first one to hold that office in that town; and he continued to hold it till 1702.

Michael married Hannah WEBSTER on 01 Apr 1657 in Haverhill, Essex Co., MA. Hannah (daughter of John WEBSTER and Mary SHATSWELL) was born about 1635 in Newbury, Or Ipswich, Essex,Mass.; died after 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]