The Most Infamous Kidnapping in Colonial History: The Brutal True Story of Hannah Duston
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- March 15, 1697 Haverhill, MA - Hannah Duston, a 40 year old Puritan mother of nine is kidnapped along with her newborn daughter and her nurse Mary Neff by a raiding party of Abenaki Warriors.
Hannah knows not the fate of her husband and eight children that frantically dashed away from the house towards a garrison a mile and a half uphill.
All she knows is the tip of an Abenaki spear is digging into her spine any time the pace at which she travels forth away from Haverhill does not satisfy the hastily moving natives that now command her.
The English settlers killed and captured in Haverhill that late winter's day found themselves caught up in the throes of King William’s War, the beginning of the centuries long struggle for North America between the British and French Empires,
New France Governor Frontenac has placed a bounty on the heads of every English settler in New England; men, women and children alike. The ones who survive the arduous march north will be thrown into slavery and subjugated for the rest of their natural born lives.
Hannah faces a crisis of her own mortality, and morality. If she is to endure these unimaginable hardships and return home to her family, she’ll have to go to hell and back to get there..
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1. "Massacre On The Merrimack : Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America" by Jay Atkinson. a.co/d/5nXhE86
How on earth could she be a "polarizing" figure? That could only exist if there was someone who thought she did something wrong, and people like that should be ignored or ridiculed. I think after what they did, even the tribe that captured her and murdered her baby would have to say, "Yeah, well, we had that coming. Touche."
Yeah, sadly there are people who think she was in the wrong.
People who werent wearing her shoes in such a situation shouldnt be JUDGING
The campus radicals would disagree with you lol
Trucking through Vermont right now. I would not want to hike this country bare foot in the winter.
Excellent portrayal of a difficult struggle to survive.
Now, THIS is a worthy tale of uplifting inspiration, featuring a truly worthy & inspirational woman of admiral grit and inspirational bravery; in the face of despairing hopelessness during captivity, in enemy territory, all while enduring the tortures & taunts of captivity's humiliation.
In order to understand the present, know the past.
Definitely listening to this a second time.
Thomas and Hannah are my ancestors. When I tell people I come from a long line of tough women they don’t fully realize the depth of that statement.
Not to steal your thunder. We all come from hard stock. Weaker people died off as did their kin.
turns out that about half the people in the comments are related to them
Oh, yeah. She beat them at their own game playing by their own rules...and that canoe trip back is just incredible ...
What a terrible, brutal life these people all lived. I am definitely thankful to live in the time period I do now! Another enthralling video, great stuff.
they killed here 6 day old girl and lied about eating here other 8 children got drunk and fell asleep wow did not see that coming
Asshat comment.
Hard times call for hard people …way ago Hannah
Wow…. Incredible. One of your best videos
Wow. What a story. The cliffhanger last time killed me was worth the wait for part 2.
What a woman!!
Wow, she went Viking berserker on them there injins!
Wow!! I don’t remember hearing this one before. Amazing. Thank you for telling it. Hannah is one heck of a lady.
My dog lives for these stories. So thankful.
Nice doggo 😊
Warrior woman.
Thanks for the excellent content. It makes the day go by.
This would make a great movie.
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Wouldn't it? But no major studio would touch it with a ten foot pole. Even though Hannah was far stronger than every one of the fake "strong female characters" they peddle today
A great story, once once again proof that history is stranger than fiction.
Another great story as usual.
Times were brutal back then both sides did horrible things just to survive, never forget that.
Her going back for the Scalps made me laugh though that was FD up 🤣🤣🤣👍
They were worth good money. That's why.
@@t.j.payeur5331 Naaaaahhhhhh regular people didn't scalp people, Native Warriors, European Soldiers & Militia did. Her Scalping them was most likely to make it look like they were attacked by Soldiers or another War Party, this would have discouraged any Abenaki war parties from searching for them. If they were rescued by Soldiers it would be a dangerous fight and many would die if they realized it was just the three of them who did it they'd be dead in a day. Also they didn't try to collect the money until at least a month after their escape, that doesn't sound to me like someone who “just wanted money."
£25 was a loooot of money back then. I'd guess something like a years household income. She believed at the time her children and husband had Been killed too....
5 stars ! Absolutely outstanding !!
Your stories are heartbreaking. I sometimes wonder, do i want to listen? The human spirit intriguee me❤ thanks for the reminder man hasnt changed.😢😢
We're certainly glad you listen! Hopefully we do these stories proper reverance and respect, thats our goal!
@historyattheokcorral you do brother, just man can be so cruel to his fellow man. I dig the stories though thanks !
For centuries man have laid their heads down to sleep pondering thoughts. Each had their own hopes and dreams.
I could just imagine my father volunteering to go fight. Were men tougher back then? All these brave men, that's the impression I get listening to you stories. Thank you 💛
Yeah, back then men were men and horses were horses.
My grandparents grew up in the depression and were tough as hell. Imagine the 17th century settlers now
Top Notch
Never F#ck with Mama Bear
Very enjoyable thanks ❤😊
Thanks for another story!
EXCELLENT ❤️👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿🇺🇸
Another great story.
Thanks for listening!
Duston off the old Hannah story 🤓
Nice storytelling 👍
Wow I was not expecting that! Gnarly!!!
Thanks!
Thank you!
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
This is a GREAT story! Pacifist converted to reality.
Glad you enjoyed it! Its a brutal story.
There are other versions of this story that are intended to create sympathy for the natives Hannah killed. They claim Hannah was a murderer. I think considering what she had endured and heard about her own family murderer is a little harsh. Avenger might be a better description. As for the natives, when you go to war, you have no complaints if you and your family end up dead.
Hell hath no fury...
A true heroine of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Told y'all women where meaner then men in the last video.
Hannah was one hell of a Puritan woman! 🫡
Hannah’s revenge needs a movie. 🎥
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Alexa, play "Revenga" by System of a Down
Only change is make to the video is during the narration you record you hitting a slab of beef with a hatchet when she was hacking the Indians.
She wasn't going to let them children grow up and fight her children or anybody else's children
Wow 😨
They took the WRONG captives.
Don't kidnap Puritans I guess!
Every people took the land from another people that came before. Study history.
Doesn't make it okay.
Thanks a lot for a delicious story, if it would be a movie, who plays Hannah? I take her as not so puritan more than Hagen von Tronje, the slayer of our country hero Siegfried. And the collecting of the scalps and to get the money for it kills me. Has anybody seen a movie about the Abenaki and their factions at this time in a movie ever? The alcohol works at least horrible for the Indians like it ever did, and I deeply feel with with her see again, that if you're fighting barbarians you have to fight like them. Monsieur le governor Frontenac was a kind of a sort, a jolly fellow who danced the scalps with his native allies in full color and the false hair before he got a listen up from the French king. As this time all the french Indians were officially catholic Christians..Best regards Ludwig.
I could have seen Nicole Kidman being good for the role, but she may have aged out of it now. Perhaps Charlize Theron would deliver on it today, Hannah was 40 when this went down after all...
Am I tripping or did they not used to use AI to voice the videos?
No thats our real, flesh and bone narrator.
Wife Material. Wish I had a girl like that.
I grew up above that island, say what you want, but the natives were fighting to get THIER lands back from the illegal immigrant invaders.
their land? they had titles?
No one owns Any land.No one. The Indians kidnapped her for money. And we were killing each other for a thousand years before the Europeans showed up.
And they lost. Boo hoo 😢
Virtue signal detected. Is that what your communist professors told you? Stunning ignorance
I thought asylum seekers were good people that just want a better life?