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uldn t see us it was cloudy i was very sick with the sun pain my husband administered to me and i felt better after prayers we laid down but had but little sleep as we felt like watching in a very little while we heard firing and whooping at the house and were glad that we were hid my husband said lay still and pray children we all prayed silently they yelled and set the bloodhounds on our track but the lord preserved us from them we could see them loping around and heard the mob racing through the corn field in search of us the corn was hardly ripe and was not gathered we got up in the night and moved our bed in the hollow and then my husband and hymn went and leaned on the fence and watched proceedings when the mob dispersed they came back and went to bed the mob came about 10 p m and went away at 3 a m they had ranted around until then we were the only family in camp creek that was molested which we wondered at at last daylight came and my husband got up bidding us to lie quietly until he came back and he would see if the mob was completely gone the november night was gone and the sun was up before he got back he found the house still standing but the windows were broken the tracks of horses feet were all around the house he came back and told us we could get up and come to the house we went back and my grown daughters commenced picking up the hidden things i wanted to get breakfast and sent my fourth child my second son asa to the beautiful large spring that was under the porch of the milk house the spring ran off into the milk house where we kept milk and butter pans chum etc asa went down for water he brought the water to the house but said he believed the spring was poisoned as there was a glistening green scum on the water he poked it away and got another pail full and it was the same 1 felt that the child was inspired by god and as the water stood the scum rose again mary sent one of the children to another home to obtain water nahum then put some of the first water into a bottle so that doctor willard richards and others in nauvoo could analyze it they later said that it contained four ounces of arsenic and would have killed ten men after this much persecution nahum loaded up his family and possessions and moved then into nauvoo for protection hyrum occasionally returned to his former home in camp creek to get stock and crops while there he boarded with the james porter family later after the fear of being ambushed subsided nahum went with hyrum also one morning james porter invited nahum to eat breakfast with him nahum had his own provisions and tried to refuse but mr porter was insistent upon arriving at the porter home nahum noticed that his children were still sleeping this was very unusual because mr porter always insisted that his children have breakfast with him at breakfast nahum was offered coffee which he felt inclined not to drink but on being asked again drank it it was poisoned with white vitriol which was slow to take effect later mr porter admitted that he had been bribed to poison nahum nahum didn t feel anything until shortly after breakfast that afternoon while fixing a wagon tongue he began to tremble and turned pale hymn realizing what had happened rode off for help returning with an elder patten to administer to nahum by then he was screaming with pain nahum was sick for two or three weeks elder patten promised nahum that he would not only get well but that he would live to take his family to the rocky mountains the bigelow family emigrated with the william snow ox team company upon arriving in the great salt lake valley they moved north to the settlement of farmington davis county they were living there when nahum died on january 28 1851 mary later shows up in the provo utah county second ward records she died on april 19 1888 maurine carr ward is editor of the nauvoo journal the above autobiography was obtained from a typescript photocopy in the utah state historical society salt lake city utah additional information on mary is found in black susan easton membership of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints 1830 1848 utah pioneer biographies vol 2 pp 141 156 records of camp creek illinois lds branch posted by momak at 6 20 pm no comments wednesday april 7 2010 hannah emerson duston hannah emerson dustin jonathan dustin mehitable dustin miriam marsh william haynes daphne haynes hamblin william haynes hamblin frederick hamblin elmira hamblin daphne jane hamblin lewis bertha adair gilbert vernon lewis william clyde finch cecil harvey lewis vurrell gilbert finch sr kristie colleen lewis vurrell g finch jr duston garrison home she is recounted in the following anecdote entered the story of hannah duston published by the duston dustin family association h d kilgore historian haverhill tercentenary june 1940 on march 14 1697 thomas and hannah duston lived in a house on the west side of the sawmill river in the town of haverhill this house was located near the great duston boulder and on the opposite side of monument street their twenty years of married life had brought them material prosperity and of the twelve children who had been born to them during this period eight were living thomas who was quite a remarkable man a bricklayer and farmer who according to tradition even wrote his own almanacs and wrote them on rainy days was beginning to have time to devote to town affairs and had just completed a term as constable for the west end of the town of haverhill he was at this time engaged in the construction with bricks from his own brickyard of a new brick house about a half mile to the northwest of his home to provide for the needs of his still growing family for baby martha had just made her appearance on march 9 under the care of mrs mary neff both mother and child were doing well the rest of the family were in good health his material affairs were prospering and it was undoubtedly with a rather contented feeling that thomas to say nothing of his family retired to rest on the eve of that fateful march 15 1697 little knowing what horrors the morrow was to bring of course there was always the fear of indians however since the capture in august of the preceding year of jonathan haynes and his four children while picking peas in a field at bradley s mills near haverhill nothing had happened and apprehensions of any further attacks were gradually being lulled besides less than a mile on pecker s hill was the garrison of onesiphorus marsh one of six established by the town containing a small body of soldiers it was believed that there was little ground for uneasiness but this was only a false security count frontenac the colonial governor of canada was using every means at his disposal to incite the indians against the english as part of his campaign to win the new world for the french king the latter due to the need for troops in europe where the war known as king william s war was going on was unable to send many to help frontenac so with propaganda and gifts the french governor had allied the tribes to the french cause and bounties had been set on english scalps and prisoners every roving band of indians was determined to get its share of these and even now such a band was in the woods near haverhill preparing for a lightning raid on the town with the first light of dawn the squaws and children were left in the forest to guard their possessions while the savage warriors moved stealthily towards the house of thomas and hannah duston the first attacked thomas like all good farmers had risen and was at work near the house attending to the morning chores when he suddenly spied the approaching indians instantly seizing his gun he mounted his horse and raced for the house shouting a warning which started the children toward the garrison while he dashed into the house hoping to save his wife and baby quickly realizing that this was impossible and urged by hannah he rode after the children resolving to escape with at least one on overtaking them and finding it impossible to choose between them he determined if possible to save them all a few of the indians had pursued the little band of fugitives firing at them from behind treees and boulders but thomas dismounting and guarding the rear from behind his horse held back the savages by threatening to shoot whenever one of them exposed himself had he discharged his gun they would have closed on him at once for reloading took considerable time he was successful in his attempt and all reached the garrison safely the older children hurrying the younger along probably carrying them at times this was probably the garrison of onesiphorus marsh on pecker s hill meanwhile a fearful scene was being enacted in the home mrs neff trying to escape with the baby was easily captured invading the house the savages forced hannah to rise and dress herself sitting despairingly in the chimney she watched them rifle the house of all they could carry away and was then dragged outside while they fired the house in her haste forgetting one shoe a few of the indians then dragged hannah and mrs neff who carried the baby towards the woods while the rest of the band rejoined by those who had been in the village killing twenty seven and capturing thirteen of the inhabitants finding that carrying the baby was making it hard for mrs neff to keep up one of the indians siezed from her and before its mother s horrified eyes dashed out its brains against an apple tree the indians forcing the two women to their utmost pace at last reached the woods and joined the squaws and children who had been left behind the night before here they were soon after joined by the rest of the redskins with their plunder and other captives fearing a prompt pursuit the indians immediately set out for canada with their booty some of the weaker captives were callously knocked on the head and scalped but in spite of her condition poorly clad and partly shod hannah doubtless assisted by mrs neff managed to keep up and by her own account marched that day about a dozen miles truly a remarkable feat during the next few days they traveled about a hundred miles through the unbroken wilderness over rough trails in places still covered with the winter s snow sometimes deep with mud and across icy brooks while rocks tore their have shod feet and their poorly clad bodies suffered from the cold a terrible journey near the junction of the contoocook and merrimack rivers twelve of the indians two men three women and seven children taking with them hannah mrs neff and a boy of fourteen years samuel lennardson who had been taken prisoner near worcester about eighteen months before left the main party and proceeded toward what is now dustin island situated where the two rivers unite near the present town of penacook n h this island was the home of the indian who claimed the women as his captives and here it was planned to rest for a while before continuing on the long journey to canada this indian family stange as it may seem had been converted by the french priests at some time in the past and was accustomed to have prayers three times a day in the morning at noon and at eveing and ordinarily would not let their children eat or sleep without first saying their prayers hannah s master who had lived in the family of rev mr rowlandson of lancaster some years before told her that when he prayed the english way he thought that it was good but now he found the french way better they tried however to prevent the two women from praying but without success for as they were engaged on the tasks set by their master they often found opportunities their indian master would sometimes say to them when he saw them dejected what need you trouble yourself if your god will have you delivered you shall be so during the long journey hannah was secretly planning to escape at the first opportunity spurred on by the tales with which the indians had entertained the captives on the march picturing how they would be treated after arriving in canada stripped and made to run the gauntlet jeered at and beaten and made targets for the young indians tomahawks how many of the english prisoners had fainted under these tortures and how they were often sold as slaves to the french these stories added to her desire for revenging the death of her baby and the cruel treatment of their captors while on the march made this desire stronger when she learned where they were going a plan took definite shape in her mind and was secretly communicated to mrs neff and samuel lennardson samuel who was growing tired of living with the indians and in whom a longing for home had been stirred by the presence of the two women the next day casually asked his master bampico how he had killed the english strike em dere said bampico touching his temple and then proceeded to show the boy how to take a scalp this information was communicated to the women and they quickly agreed on the details of the plan they arrived at the island some time before march 30 1697 after reaching the island the indians grew careless the river was in flood samuel was considered one of the family and the two women were considered too worn out to attempt escape so no watch was set that night and the indians slept soundly hannah had decided that the time had come shortly after midnight she woke mrs neff and samuel each armed with a tomahawk crept silently to a position near the heads of the the sleeping indians samuel near bampico and hannah near her master at a signal for hannah the tomahawks fell and so swiftly and surely did they perform their work of destruction that ten of the twelve indians were killed outright only town a severly wounded squaw and a boy whom they had intended to take captive escaping into the woods according to a deposition of hannah bradley in 1739 history of haverhill chase pp 308 309 above penny cook the deponent was forced to travel farther than the rest of the captives and the next night but one there came to use one squaw who said that hannah dustan and the aforesaid mary neff assisted in killing the indians of her wigwam except herself and a boy herself escaping very narrowly shewing to myself others seven wounds as she said with a hatched on her head which wounds were given her when the rest were killed hannah duston landing hastily piling food and weapons into a canoe including the gun of hannah s late master and the tomahawk with which she had killed him they scuttled the rest of the canoes and set out down the merrimack river suddenly realizing that without proof their story would seem incredible hannah ordered a return to the island where they scalped their victims wrapping the trophies in cloth which had been cut from hannah s loom at the time of the capture and again set out down the river each taking a turn at guiding the frail craft while the others slept thus traveling by night and hiding by day they finally reached the home of john lovewell in old dunsta...