TENTH GENERATION

516. Thomas, Ist Dustin was born about 1652 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He served in the military in 1676 in King Phillip's War.⁽¹²⁰⁾ He died before Nov 17 1732. He was married to Hannah Emerson on Dec 3 1677. ⁽¹²¹⁾

517. Hannah Emerson was born on Dec 23 1657 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She in 1724.⁽¹²²⁾ She died before Mar 6 1736.⁽¹²³⁾ Eldest of 15 children

THE Hannah Duston, first woman in America to have a statue erected in her honor.
Any descendent is automatically a member of the Duston-Dustin Family Association

The marriage of Michael Emerson to HANNAH WEBSTER was to be the first on record of any oth the name of WEBSTER. They were married April 1, 1657. She was a sister of Stephen. Hannah and Michael's daughter Hannah married Thomas Duston, Dec. 3.1677 and was the woman taken be the Indians and carried up the Merrimack River to the extreme part of Concord, N.H. where she with Widow Mary Neff and Samuel Leanardson killed ten Indians while they were asleep, scalped them and returned to Haverhill.

Capture was March 15, 1696 or 1997. Children were:

258 i. Thomas Dustin.