Hannah Heath, daughter of John Hathaway Heath and Sarah Partridge, married Joseph Bradley on February 14, 1691 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Joseph and Hannah had eleven children.

Hannah was captured twice by Indians and abducted to Canada.  During one of these captivities her newborn child was killed by the abductors.  Three of her other children were killed by native Americans.

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Hannah and her husband Joseph Bradley's house was attacked three times by Indians. In the massacre of 1696/7 two of their children were killed and Hannah was taken captive by the Indians. Hannah was in captivity for nearly two years as shown by the list of the "Captives Received at Board the Province Galley from the Indians, No. 5 Hannah Bradley of Haverhill," dated 1698/9 the 17th of January, Cascoe Bay" (now Portland). Several years after her escape their house was again attacked in the massacre of 8 Feb., 1704, when 13 were killed, 5 carried away, and 3 escaped. At this time Hannah "snatched a ladle of boiling soup from the fire and dashed it upon a savage's head, scalding him to death." Hannah was again taken captive and two children were killed. Another child, born in captivity, was cruelly murdered.

Hannah was sold to the French for 80 pounds and carried to Canada. After two years' bondage she was rescued by her husband who went with Ensign Sheldon to the relief of the captives. They embarked from Quebec with forty-four prisoners 30 May, 1706, and reached Boston on 1 August after a two months' voyage. In response to Joseph's appeal for assistance to Gov. Dudley he was allowed twenty pounds "over and above what they had in fitting them out."

A month after their return, Joseph and Hannah's house was attacked for a third time. All were armed with guns and saved themselves. Hannah shot one of the Indians, killing him, and the rest fled.

In 1738 Hannah petitioned the General Court for a grant of land in consideration of her former sufferings among the Indians and "present low circumstances." That honorable body granted her 250 acres of land in Methuen. . . . Accompanying the petition was the following deposition by Hannah Bradley

"The deposition of the Widow Hannah Bradley of Haverhill of full age who testifieth that about forty years past the said Hannah together with the widow Mary Neff were taken prisoners by the Indians and carried together into captivity, & above penny cook the deponent was by the Indians forced to travel father than the rest of the Captives, and the next night but one there came to us one Squaw who said that Hannah Dustin and the aforesaid Mary Neff assisted in killing the Indians of her wigwam except herself and a boy, escaping very narrowly, shewing to myself and others seven wounds as she said with a Hatchet on her head which wounds were given her when the rest were killed, and further saith not."

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(Descendants of John Williams of Newbury and Haverhill, Mass., 1600-1674. Compiled by Cornelia Barrow Williams and Anna Perkins Williams. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1925, pp. 33-34.)