New Hampshire persons taken as captives by the Indians: Historical New Hampshire/ by New Hampshire Historical Society.
- Title:
- New Hampshire persons taken as captives by the Indians: Historical New Hampshire/ by New Hampshire Historical Society.
- Author:
- New Hampshire Historical Society.
- Call Number:
- 977.8 N5321h
- Publication Information:
- Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1952.
- Physical Description:
- p. 24-31.
- Source:
- Vol. 8, Issue 2 (October 1952). Historical New Hampshire
- Description:
- The article discusses individuals from New Hampshire who were taken as captives by Native Americans during the colonial period. The author notes that captives were purchased by French settlers in Canada in order to convert them to Catholicism and comments on the practice of ransoming captives. Captives discussed include Esther Wheelwright of Wells, Maine, Elizabeth Hanson and her children of Dover, New Hampshire, and James Johnson and his family of Charlestown, New Hampshire. The Abenaki and St. Francis Indian tribes were among those who took captives.
- Language:
- English.
- Subjects:
- Indian captivities -- United States , Indians of North America -- New Hampshire -- History , Whites -- Relations with Indians
- Locations:
- New Hampshire.
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