Haverhill, Mass. - Hannah Duston Monument

            A postcard bearing no publisher's name which was posted in Haverhill on the 1st. September 1909 to:

Mr. Fromage,
165, Lawrence Street,
Lawrence,
Mass.

The message on the back was simply the sender's name:

"Wm. Amis".

Hannah Duston (1657-1737) was a colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother of 9. Her younger sister Elizabeth was hanged for infanticide.

Hannah was taken captive by Abenaki First Nations Canadians from Québec, along with her newborn daughter, during the Raid on Haverhill (1697), in which 27 colonists were killed.

While detained on an island in the Merrimack River, she killed and scalped 10 of the First Nations Canadian family members holding them hostage, with the help of 2 other captives.

Hannah was subsequently referred to as a folk heroine, and the mother of the American tradition of scalp hunting.

She is the first American woman to be honoured with a statue. The bronze statue was created in 1879 by Calvin H. Weeks and erected in Haverhill Town Square (now Grand Army Park) where it still stands.

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on Wednesday the 1st. September, Baguio City was incorporated. At an elevation of 5,100 feet (1,500 metres), the city's cool temperatures made it 'The Summer Capital of the Philippines'.

The American Governor-General resided there during Manila's hottest months.

Taken on: November 4, 2016

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