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- Hannah Ocuish was born into poverty in Groton, Connecticut, in 1773, the daughter of an African-American father and a Pequot Native-American mother who struggled with alcoholism and intermittently abandoned her children.
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Hannah Ocuish (sometimes "Occuish"; March 1774 – December 20, 1786) was a 12-year old Pequot Native American girl, possibly with an intellectual disability, who was hanged on December 20, 1786, in New London, Connecticut, for the murder of Eunice Bolles, the 6-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer.
Nov 28, 2023 · Hannah Ocuish was born into poverty in Groton, Connecticut, in 1773, the daughter of an African-American father and a Pequot Native-American mother who struggled with alcoholism and intermittently abandoned her children.
Dec 20, 2021 · Hannah Ocuish was an orphan. Believed to suffer from a mental disability, she lived her life shuttled through a series of foster homes. In June of 1786, Eunice Bolles accused Hannah of stealing strawberries during a harvest.
Hannah Ocuish, a Native American, was hanged in Connecticut on December 20, 1786 for the murder of another child. She was the youngest girl to be executed in America, at just 12 years and 9 months old.
Dec 20, 2018 · That summer, during strawberry-picking time, Eunice Bolles, a six-year-old girl from New London, returned home after a day in the strawberry fields and complained to her parents that Hannah Occuish had bullied her and taken some of her strawberries.
Jul 29, 2015 · Today, the crimes of Hannah Ocuish would be readily explained, if not outright forgiven. Her childhood incorporated all the clichés and every demographic of the youthful offender: poverty ...
May 23, 1996 · Known around her community as the “fierce young savage,” 12- year-old Hannah Ocuish was hanged behind New London’s old meeting house on Dec. 20, 1786. A fight over some strawberries that summer...
