Captivity by Native Americans and French Canadians
Spouse
John Swarton (died 1690)
Children
Children: John, Mary, Samuel, Jasper
Parent(s)
John and Anne Hibbart
Hannah Swarton (1651 - 12 October 1708), née Joana Hibbert/Hibbard, was a New England colonial pioneer who was captured by Abenaki Indians and held prisoner for 5+1⁄2 years, first in an Abenaki community and later in the home of a French family in Quebec. She was eventually freed and told her story to Cotton Mather, who used it as a moral lesson in several of his works.
HannahSwarton (1651 - 12 October 1708), née Joana Hibbert/Hibbard, was a New England colonial pioneer who was captured by Abenaki Indians and held prisoner...
and compared Hannah Duston's story to the murder of Sisera by Jael in the Old Testament, and to the captivity narratives of HannahSwarton (captured in...
dozens of brief biographical sketches, including those of Hannah Duston and HannahSwarton. According to Kenneth Silverman, an expert on early American...
including John Swarton, were killed, and the surviving settlers were taken captive, including HannahSwarton and her children. Swarton was ransomed in...
Exploit: Dux Faemina Facti," on the captivity of Hannah Duston, as well as his account of HannahSwarton's captivity (1697), both well-known accounts of...
of the escape of Hannah Duston, one of the best known captivity narratives; his account of the captivity and ransom of HannahSwarton; his complete "catalogus"...
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