White woman enslaved by Native Americans; liberals hate her

Sunday, September 20, 2026

n 1861, a small new England town erected a monument to Hannah Duston " possibly the first in the U.S. to honor a woman. But not everyone thinks Duston was a hero. Almost 200 years earlier, Duston had been kidnapped by Native Americans from her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and placed with a Native American family. In the dead of night, she picked up a tomahawk and bludgeoned six sleeping children and four sleeping adults to death.

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Though Duston's husband was able to escape with eight of their children, Duston, her newborn daughter, and her nurse, Mary Neff, were taken captive. About 10 other colonists were also kidnapped from Haverhill.

According to the story Duston later told Puritan minister Cotton Mather, her captors promptly killed her baby by dashing "the Brains of the Infant, against a Tree." She and Neff were then forced to walk for weeks before being placed with a Native American family on an island in the Merrimack River.

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