Random Notes on Early American History and Hannah Dustin

Watertown, New York: Hungerford-Holbrook Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 164 pages. Illustrated. Jacket has light shelf wear and edge creases. Interior contents clean. The majority of the book covers the biography and Indian captivity of Hannah Dustin.

Random illustrations include early Native Americans; the execution of Lady Jane Grey; photograph of Jesse James (dead); John Wilkes Booth; sinking of the Lusitania; etc.

From wikipedia: Hannah Duston (also spelled Dustin, Dustan, Durstan, Dustun, Dunstun, or Durstun) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 – March 6, 1736,[1] 1737 or 1738[2]) was a colonial Massachusetts Puritan woman who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William's War, with her first newborn daughter, during the 1697 raid on Haverhill, in which 27 colonists, 15 of them children, were killed. In her account she stated that the Abenakis killed her newborn baby soon after they were captured. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped ten of the Abenaki family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives.