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Heroic exploit., Heroic exploit [i.e., Hannah Duston and Mary Neff escaping their captors].
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Title
Heroic exploit.
Alternate title
Heroic exploit [i.e., Hannah Duston and Mary Neff escaping their captors].
Publisher
[New York? : s.n.]
Date
[1860?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; 6.6 x 8.4 cm.
Description
Three-quarter portrait of Hannah Duston, raising a hatchet above her head. With her is Mary Neff, also kneeling, and three prostrate bodies.
Notes
In “An Indian outrage,” in The trail of blood (New York, 1860), p. [9].
According to legend, Abenaki Indians took Hannah Duston and her children’s nurse Mary Neff captive in March 1697 in Haverhill, Mass. Later that month, Mrs. Duston and Mrs. Neff escaped their captors by murdering them while they slept, and returned to Haverhill with ten Indian scalps.
This image also appears in the earlier edition of this work, Confessions, trials, and biographical sketches of the most cold-blooded murderers (Hartford, 1854), p. [9].
Genre
Portrait prints – 1860-1869.
Engravings – 1860-1869.
Subject
Duston, Hannah Emerson, 1657- – Portraits.
Neff, Mary Corliss – Portraits.
Women murderers.
Captivity narratives.
Women.
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Portraits of American Women
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