In 1697, Abenaki warriors attacked the frontier village of Haverill, Massachusetts. At the time, Hannah Duston, a young woman had just given birth, and was alone with her newborn daughter and a neighbor. Taken captive, the daughter was brutally killed, and the two women were marched 100 miles north by their captors. With the help of an Anglo teenager named Samuel Leonardson, who had been captured the year before, she was able to kill their sleeping captors with a tomahawk and then lead the three back to safety in Haverill. On her behalf, Hannah’s husband petitioned the General Court for compensation and was awarded twenty-five pounds, ten shillings. The same was awarded to the other two, split in half. Cotton Mather and Judge Samuel Sewall of the Salem Witch Trials hailed Hannah as a Puritan heroine. She died at the age of seventy-eight in 1736. Two statues were erected in her honor. The author discusses the modern controversies about Hannah’s actions, and concludes that Hannah was a woman of her time, resourceful and brave.