True story of murder, captivity, revenge, and escape, set against the fiery backdrop of the French and Indian war. Examines the period in American history when French Catholicism vied for control of the frontier with English Protestantism, and the bloody deeds of Hannah Duston--who escaped her Native American captors and returned to her settlement of Haverhill, Massachusetts, with a collection of scalps--passed into legend. Early on March 15, 1697,...

"On Monday, Jan. 11, at 6:30 p.m., Derry Public LIbrary presents Jay Atkinson leacturing on his new book, "Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America." In 1697, Abenaki raided Haverill, Mass., killed 27 and captures 13, including Duston and her week-old daughter, her baby was later murdered. After a nearly 100-mile forced march, Duston and two companions were transferred to an Abenaki band camped on an island...