Boscawen, NH
Boscawen is a New England town, town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,998 at the 2020 census. History The native Pennacook people called the area List of place names in New England of aboriginal origin, ''Contoocook'', meaning "place of the river near pines". In March 1697, Hannah Duston and her nurse, Mary Neff, were captured by Abenaki Indians and taken to a temporary village on an island at the confluence of the Contoocook River, Contoocook and Merrimack River, Merrimack rivers, at the site of what is now Boscawen. In late April, Duston and two other captives killed ten of the Abenaki family members holding them hostage, including six children, and escaped by canoe to Haverhill, Massachusetts. On June 6, 1733, Governor Jonathan Belcher granted the land to John Coffin and 90 others, most from Newbury, Massachusetts. Settled in 1734, the community soon had a meetinghouse, sawmill, gristmill and ferry across t ...
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Hannah Duston
Hannah Duston (also spelled Dustin, Dustan, or Durstan) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 – March 6, 1736,H. D. Kilgore, "The Story of Hannah Duston" (June 1940), in ''Here's Fifty: The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest,'' Edmund T. Mazur and Garth Clark Dawson. iUniverse, 2008
1737 or 1738) was a woman who was taken captive by