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., Three-quarter portrait of Hannah Duston, raising a hatchet above her head. With her is Mary Neff, also kneeling, and three prostrate bodies., 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].