Hannah EMERSON

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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]