ELEVENTH GENERATION

1034. Michael Emerson ⁽¹³⁾ was born in 1625 in Lincolnshire, Cadney Parish, England.⁽¹³³⁾ He died about 1715 in Near Haverhill.⁽¹³⁴⁾ He was married to Hannah Webster on Apr 1 1657 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

1035. Hannah Webster ⁽¹³⁾ was born about 1639. Hannah Webster who married Michael Emerson is the mother of the Hannah Emerson who married Thomas Dustin, and was captured by the Indians and taken to an Island in the Merrimac River. There she killed and scalped her captors, ten Indians in all, and escaped in a canoe, bringing the scalps, for wich she received a large bounty, to Haverhill. The marriage of Hannah Webster to Michael Emerson is the first recorded marriage of a Webster in Haverhill. Date April 1, 1657.

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. Children were:

517 i. Hannah Emerson.
ii. Mary Emerson⁽¹³⁵⁾.
iii. Abigail Emerson⁽¹³⁶⁾.
iv. Sarah Emerson⁽¹³⁷⁾.