March 15, 1697 Haverhill, MA. Thomas Duston is busy at work on a hilltop just a half mile from his home, he is laboring away on the new house he is building for his ever growing family. Just six days prior, Thomas and his wife Hannah welcomed Martha to the clan, their twelfth child, and the ninth that had yet survived.
The Duston family were Puritan’s, a sect of the Church of England that sought to reform the church and dispel the Roman Catholic influence it was increasingly adopting. In the events leading up to the viciously bloody English Civil War, the Puritans endeavored to form their own colony, where they would be free to practice their faith far away from the ruling eye of King Charles and the Bishops.
From 1629 through 1640, over 21,000 Puritans migrated to New England, forming the Massachusetts Bay colony. While their arrival in this new world brought the religious freedom they desired, they had placed themselves in a very precarious position, face to face with the decentralized network of indigenous tribes that populated the northeast .
Adding to this clash of cultures was the leader of New France, just to the north in Quebec. Governor Frontenac instituted policies during King WIlliam’s War that rewarded the killing, capturing and enslavement of the Puritans, all in the service of securing the fertile lands of North America for the French Empire, and its Sun King, Louis XIV.
Caught up in the throes of this developing saga for control of North America, Thomas Duston found himself in the unenviable position of facing down a raiding party of Abenaki Warriors. With a band of bloodthirsty tribesmen zeroing in on his homestead, he must think fast, and attempt to deliver his family from the fires of this oncoming foe.
The story that follows would become the stuff of legend, a tall-tale that needs no exageration, it plays like a colonial version of “Kill Bill”, and the revenge delivered up is served as cold as the late New England winter where it takes place…
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