Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Hannah Duston (Dustin, Dustan, and Durstan) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 – c. 1736) was a 40-year-old colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother of nine during King William's War who was taken captive with her newborn daughter during the Raid on Haverhill (1697). On March 15, 1697, Hannah witnessed the brutal killing of her baby and several of her neighbors. Later in her captivity, while detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she acquired the assistance of two other English captives and scalped ten of the Indian family members holding them hostage.Duston's captivity narrative became famous more than a hundred years after she died. Duston is the first woman honored in the United States with a statue. During the nineteenth century, she was referred to as "a folk hero" and the "mother of the American tradition of scalp hunting". At the same time, scholars assert Duston's story only became legend in the nineteenth century because America used her story to define its violence against native Americans as innocent, defensive and virtuous.. }
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- Hannah_Duston abstract "Hannah Duston (Dustin, Dustan, and Durstan) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 – c. 1736) was a 40-year-old colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother of nine during King William's War who was taken captive with her newborn daughter during the Raid on Haverhill (1697). On March 15, 1697, Hannah witnessed the brutal killing of her baby and several of her neighbors. Later in her captivity, while detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she acquired the assistance of two other English captives and scalped ten of the Indian family members holding them hostage.Duston's captivity narrative became famous more than a hundred years after she died. Duston is the first woman honored in the United States with a statue. During the nineteenth century, she was referred to as "a folk hero" and the "mother of the American tradition of scalp hunting". At the same time, scholars assert Duston's story only became legend in the nineteenth century because America used her story to define its violence against native Americans as innocent, defensive and virtuous.".