Dustin, Hannah (1657-1736)

Name:

Dustin, Hannah (1657-1736)

Other Names:

Emerson, Hannah
Duston / Dustan / Durston

Born:

12/23/1657

Birthplace:

Haverhill, MA

Died:

03/06/1736

Death Location:

Massachusetts

Residence:

Haverhill, MA

Nationality:

American

Father:

Emerson, Michael (c.1627-c.1715)

Mother:

Webster, Hannah

Relations:

Mary Corliss Neff -- 50-year-old nurse with Hannah when captured.
Samuel Leonardson -- 14-year-old English boy with Hannah when captured.
14 siblings; Hannah was the oldest.
Grandparents: Mary Shatswell and John Webster; Margaret Froe and Thomas Emerson, of England.

Spouse:

Duston, Thomas (c.1652-c.1732), December 3, 1677

Children:

Hannah, born August 22, 1679, Haverhill, MA; died November 27, 1732; m. Daniel Cheney; children; decendants donated the Hannah Dustin tankard, 1993.62
Elizabeth, May 7, 1680, Haverhill, MA; died 1746; m. Stephen Emerson, her cousin; res. Haverhill, MA; proprietor of Penacook/Concord, NH; children
Mary, born November 4, 1681; died October 18, 1696
Thomas, born January 5, 1683; died February 24, 1767, Haverhill, MA; m. Mary Ingalls; children
Nathaniel, born May 16, 1685
John, born February 5, 1686; died January 28, 1690, Haverhill
Sarah, born July 4, 1688; m. John Watts aka Dr. John Messer
Abigail, born October,1690; died 1727; Haverhill, MA; m. Samuel Watts, brother of John; children
Jonathan, born January 15, 1692
Timothy, born September 14, 1694
Mehitable, born September 14, 1694; died December 16, 1694, Haverhill, MA
Martha, born March 9, 1697; died March 15, 1697; said to have been killed by Indians during the capture of Hannah Dustin
Lydia, born October 4, 1698; Haverhill, MA; m. John Saunders Jr., proprietor of Penacook/Concord, NH; children

Notes:

From on-line biography: "Mrs. Dustin (age 39) was taken as a prisoner by Indians to an island at the junction of the Merrimack and Contoocook Rivers near where the city of Concord, NH, now stands. This is now called Dustin Island, and there is a granite monument there to her memory and that of Mary Neff, a nurse, and Samuel Leonardson, an English boy. Mrs. Dustin escaped by killing nine Indians as they slept, the English boy killing a tenth. She took their scalps as proof of her exploit. There is also a statue to Mrs. Dustin oppostie the City Hall in Haverhill (Mass.)."

Charles T. Hendrick, The Hendrick Genealogy. Daniel Hendrick of Haverhill, Mass. and His Descendants. (Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company, 1923), 391-398.

Laurel Thactcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. (New York: Vintage Books, 1980), 167-172, 183-185, 197, 205, 234-235.

The Story of Hannah Duston. Haverhill, MA: Duston-Dustin Family Association, 1959.

Pentucket Cemetery, Ipswich, MA