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Colonial Wars[edit]
Hannah Duston scalps the sleeping
Abenaki family with whom she was placed with in captivity after the
Raid on Haverhill (1697).
There were six colonial wars with
New England and the
Iroquois Confederacy fighting
New France and the
Wabanaki Confederacy over a seventy-five year period, starting with
King William's War in 1688. All sides scalped victims including noncombatants during this Frontier warfare.
[10] The most famous captive during this war was
Hannah Duston.
Massachusetts created a scalp bounty during King William's War in July 1689.
[11] During
Queen Anne's War, by 1703, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was offering $60 for each native scalp.
[12] During
Father Rale's War (1722–1725), on August 8, 1722, Massachusetts put a bounty on native families.
[13] Ranger
John Lovewell is known to have conducted scalp-hunting expeditions, the most famous being the
Battle of Pequawket in New Hampshire.[
citation needed]
During
King George's War, in response to repeated massacres of British families by the French and their native allies, Governor of
Massachusetts William Shirley reluctantly issued a bounty for the scalps of Indian men, women, and children (1744).
[14] New York passed a Scalp Act in 1747.
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