Colonist Gallery

Hannah Duston escapes from capture by Native Americans

Hannah Duston and two other captives escaping from Abenaki Indians on the Merrimac River, New Hampshire, 1697.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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British army marching in formation up Breed's Hill in the Battle of Bunker Hill, American Revolution, 1775
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Howard Pyle illustration

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Hiding the Connecticut charter in an oak tree, 1687

Connecticut colonist hiding the colony's charter in a hollow oak to keep it from Governor Andros, 1687.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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