This is the Hannah Duston Memorial on an island in the Merrimack River at the mouth of the Contoocook River near Penacook, New Hampshire. Hannah Duston was Massachusetts mother of eight who was taken captive by the Indians with her newborn daughter during the Raid on Haverhill in 1697.
This is the Hannah Duston Memorial on an island in the Merrimack River at the mouth of the Contoocook River near Penacook, New Hampshire. Hannah Duston was Massachusetts mother of eight who was taken captive by the Indians with her newborn daughter during the Raid on Haverhill in 1697.