Posted on 06/08/2024 1:33:03 PM PDT by 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....
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Actually indians took lots of little children, toddlers, and infants, many they killed at the home like you pointed out but they took many to keep or to ransom, it was common for children that little to cry too much, or become a problem, or perhaps to annoy the mother, the indians or a single member of the group would decide to murder them, often cruelly, and sometimes even with torture, and they would scalp the little ones also and bother the mother and/or siblings with the wet and bloody scalps if they were alive.
My family lost someone in King Philip’s War.
Good. My own family was affected by this sort of thing.
No quarter.
Thank you.
They would have known of the heroic deeds of the courageous raid, and that group also tortured her.
“Hannah and Mary were assigned to a family group of 12 people (probably Pennacooks) and taken north, “unto a rendezvous...somewhere beyond Penacook; and they still told these poor women that when they came to this town, they must be stript, and scourg’d, and run the gauntlet through the whole army of Indians.”
God bless her.
“Actually indians took lots of little children, toddlers, and infants, many they killed at the home like you pointed out but they took many to keep”
From my neck of the woods in western NY, there’s a story about Mary Jemison who was kidnapped by Indians down in PA, and then was walked to NY. Her parents and siblings were murdered.
There are books written, “Indian Captive” being one. An autobiography, too. She married a chief (I think it was a chief), lived a long life, and became very wealthy.
The little log house where she lived is not far from our family homestead, and we visit it sometimes.
I love how they call the savages “Native Americans”, when there was no America - and America was founded exclusively by whites ONLY. There was the physical North American continent - a mass of land but no nation called AMERICA. Thatbwas founded by and for descendants of British and European settlers. By definition THEY are the Native Americans. The savages roaming the land not only weren’t American, they were foreigners brutally fighting the creation of America!
They savagely murdered the American colonists, then themselves got what was coming to them.
And these are the same wampanoag that begged the puritans to go to war with the Iroquois when the puritans first stepped off the boat.
By far the ultimate collection on indian captives and sex slaves, and indian slavery and psychopathic murder and cruelty is the book “Fate worse Than Death”.
There is a reason that married soldiers with low pay would try to afford a small pistol for their wives to suicide.
After speaking to women who had been rescued or ransomed from sex slavery and barbaric slave work, starvation, and scarring and maiming, Custer instructed his officers to never let his wife be taken alive.
No, the savages would never rape a captive woman; that would be immoral! /s
No it cannot and should not be. Doing that judgement btw has a term applied to it among historians of any professional ethical level.
It is called: PRESENTISM. Presentism. Applying mores or judgements of the present day to years ago in history.
Wonder if these lib weirdos would “judge” the horrific human sacrifices to various gods in Toltec Pre-Columbian days. Horrific mass sacrifice of their enemy tribes.
"Church inspected the body of the fallen sachem and in disgust called him a doleful, great, naked, dirty beast. The captain’s men let out a loud cheer. Then Church ordered the body to be hacked to pieces, butchered in the manner of the standard English punishment for treason.
from KING PHILIP’S WAR: INDIAN CHIEFTAIN’S WAR AGAINST THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
Actually I have read enough history of the Indian wars in the East, specifically in Pennsylvania, to know that what I posted was accurate. My own geneaology studies as well as many many many histories written in the 19th century, even with some survivors. Replete with anecdotal cases. Including my own family in Western PA that was taken by the Seneca. Infant brained at the outset, older child enslaved for 6 years until someone recognized she was a white child, though her Indian owner had stained her skin dark, bought her for whiskey, and restored her to family. Parents taken to Niagara. Sold to British who ransomed them back to family. This is also where scalps were sold to the British army.
I doubt an infant would even be worth scalping if you read how it was done and what scalps were used for.
And for that the modern wokester pantywaists must excoriate, berate and belittle her.
“History cannot be judged in the rear view mirror.”
Unless you are a retarded wokester prog who applies their simpering modern mores to the past. They do that intentionally to erase the past because the Party has commanded: “Who controls the past controls the future: Who controls the present controls the past.”
LOL, I assumed you would figure out that scalping the little ones would be the children with hair, also you are too rigid in your thinking, indians did change their minds and would murder captives that they had already made captive.
It was not a situation of either they killed you during the attack or else you were good to go and would not be killed.
How did you know?
Missing from the story:
a colonial Massachusetts Puritan woman who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William’s War, with her newborn daughter, during the 1697 raid on Haverhill, in which 27 colonists, 15 of them children, were killed
Hannah was a heroine, no doubt about it.
Essex County, MA is loaded with history.
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