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King Williams War: Madeline de Verchères & Hanna Duston


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From April of 1688 till September of 1697 hundreds of people would be killed, and countless more captured, held for ransom, or sold into slavery, during King Williams’s War.

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Books used to research this episode:

King William's War by Michael G. Laramie

https://a.co/d/jb5HUIc

American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor

https://a.co/d/0NgjCtT

Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America by Jay Atkinson

https://a.co/d/cUBwoQi


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