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
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