The Controversial Legacy Of Hannah Duston, The Colonist Who Killed 10 Native Americans

All That's Interesting ^ | December 7, 2021 | Genevieve Carlton

[CheshireTheCat]

After being kidnapped by Native Americans in 1697, Hannah Duston brutally killed her captors with a tomahawk — including six children.

In 1861, a small new England town erected a monument to Hannah Duston — possibly the first in the U.S. to honor a woman. But not everyone thinks Duston was a hero.

Almost 200 years earlier, Duston had been kidnapped by Native Americans from her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and placed with a Native American family. In the dead of night, she picked up a tomahawk and bludgeoned six sleeping children and four sleeping adults to death....

[wildcard_redneck]

Lesson to learn - don’t kill a woman’s baby and then go to sleep with her in your home... the Indian family they placed her with probably didn’t know that her infant was murdered in front of her.

[mrmeyer]

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[jmaroneps37]

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Almost 200 years earlier, Duston had been kidnapped by Native Americans from her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and placed with a Native American family. In the dead of night, she picked up a tomahawk and bludgeoned six sleeping children and four sleeping adults to death....”
And? Your point here is what, she should have remained a captive gotten into a “fair fight” to win back her freedom?
Go away.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Codeine, not cocaine.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You kidnap someone, they are going to try to escape. Any blood shed after that point is solely on the kidnappers.

[maro]

Why else was her child killed? Bludgeoning that many people to death would have been difficult. She must have been in a rage after everything she suffered.

[chajin]

Codeine, not cocaine.

That's right, Hoffmann (Mr. Bayer) was trying to create something not as addictive as codeine by methylating morphine, but the result was the opposite. IIRC it was called heroin because Hoffmann had his staff try it and they said it made them feel like heroes. (Imagine Big Pharma asking its workers to take the jab to see how it worked before offering it to the public.)

I need to stop trying to type messages in the middle of an online educational testing shift🙄

[CheshireTheCat]

Meant “ever” not “every.” I need a nap.

[Organic Panic]

The myth of “the noble savage” is just that. A myth.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Wow. Who knew Indians were such sound sleepers?

[lastchance]

I am proud to root for her. My husband was a direct descendant of Hannah and I am a direct descendant of her sister Abigail. So go Hannah!

[desertsolitaire]

“Like wax paper. They’re dead..they’re all messed up.”

[lastchance]

Thanks for pointing that out!

[metmom]

Sounds like a normal reaction to a situation like that, in my book.

Stories about what happened to captives in those situations makes hers a reasonable response.

[Reno89519]

A hero should always be respected as a hero.

[desertsolitaire]

Do you think that indian family, in that time and situation, would have given a damn about a kidnapped slave white woman’s baby’s fate?

[Verginius Rufus]

Not sure about monuments but there are towns, counties, and states named for women—Virginia for Queen Elizabeth, Maryland for Queen Henrietta Maria, Charlottesville and Charlotte after Queen Charlotte, a county in Virginia named for Princess Anne, etc.

[nicollo]

it would only be better if Hannah had raised a Military Force and returned to the field to Exterminate any other members of the savage group that kidnapped, imprisoned and enslaved her and her community.

While he didn't participate in any retaliation for the Dustin capture, this man exacted plenty of damage to and revenge upon the French and their Algonquian allies before and after the Dustin raid, especially during the various Wars, called King Phillip's, King William's and Queen Anne's:


Benjamin Church (ranger), 1639-1718

The Dustin raid was one of many, many such raids for hostages to hold for ransom or slaves (called by our academic betters "adoption" when it comes to Indian slaving) conducted by the indians, frequently at the instigation of the French

[wildcard_redneck]

"Do you think that indian family, in that time and situation, would have given a damn about a kidnapped slave white woman’s baby’s fate?"

Not at all. The woman did what she had to do and her chapters got what they deserved. That being said, growing up in Montana where my high school is 40% northern Cheyenne Indian, I do have some feeling many Native American tribes are due for some federal redress for last wrongs.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

an online educational testing shift

If that's anything like the online training stuff I had to do before I retired, well, you have to do something to keep from being bored to death.