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  1. Timothy Dustin Aka Duston: Birth: 14 SEP 1694 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Death: 1775 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts


Sources
1. Title:   World Family Tree Vol. 23, Ed. 1
Page:   Tree #2423
Author:   Br�derbund Software, Inc.
Publication:   Release date: July 8, 1998
2. Title:   tree2423vader.FTW
3. Title:   World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1
Page:   Tree #0945
Author:   Br�derbund Software, Inc.
Publication:   Release date: November 29, 1995

Notes
a. Note:   GEN: SOUR Nancy Borman, Willington, CT, [email protected]@@@snet.net; http://www.uftree.com/uft/webpages/nancyborman/noel/index.htm.Thomas was a brick maker and he had a saw mill. He built a new brick house
 GEN: and it became a garrison house which was, under his command, to be repaired and guarded by five men. This garrison house has been maintained and is periodically open for tourists.
 GEN: The problem he faced when the Abnaike Indians descended on Haverhill is described by Jane James, p. 21: "On the morning of March 15, 1697 about 20 Abinake Indians in war dress descended on the
 GEN: outlying homes of Haverhill. Thomas Dustin, constable of Haverhill at the time, was working outdoors and saw them approaching. He hurried to warn his family. He sent their seven children aged 17 to
 GEN: 2 to the nearest garrisoned house (probably Onisephorus Marsh's) telling them to run as quickly as possible. He then urged his wife Hannah to come with him on the one horse. But six days earlier
 GEN: Hannah had given birth to their 12th child, Martha. Although they certainly would have taken the baby with them there was a neighbor who had been nursing Hannah, Mary (Corliss) Neff, a widow, to
 GEN: consider. One can imagine the awful confusion of those few moments with the Indians approaching. Hannah urged Thomas to go with the children and protect them and he did. He was resolved to save at
 GEN: least one of the fleeing children--"the dearest one" according to [Cotton] Mather who later personally interviewed Hannah. He intended to swing that one on the horse with him and ride on. However,
 GEN: he could not make such a painful choice and so, dismounting and keeping the horse between the fleeing band and the two or three Indians who followed, they all arrived at the place of safety. He had
 GEN: a musket and Chase debates as to whether he fired at the pursuers- suers as some accounts suggest."


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