Hannah: wife, mother, daughter and captive, held for ransom along with two of her children and 14 others from her home in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and another four people from the neighbouring town of Deerfield. They were forced to walk more than 300 miles to Quebec, Canada.
This fictitious story is based on events that happened over the course of two years in the life of Hannah Gillett Jennings, nee Dickinson, including her capture and journey to Canada.
Hannah Dickinson was the oldest of 10 children, born in 1648 into an English colonial family in Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
Sixteen months before being captured, Hannah's husband was killed in a war with the area's Indigenous peoples, leaving Hannah a widow with three young children and no means to support them. Her father was killed in this same battle, meaning her family was not in a position to help her.
A year after her husband's death, Hannah remarries, and her future and her children's future appear to be safe and secure, or so she thinks.
Stephen Jennings, Hannah's second husband, along with Benjamin Waite, husband and father of 4 of the captives, set off to rescue their families and the other captives.
At the time of her capture, Hannah is pregnant. Will she lose this child on the journey to Canada?Will the two children who were captured with her survive? Will Hannah herself survive? Will Stephen Jennings and Benjamin Waite rescue the captives, or will they arrive too late?
