Hannah's story is recorded in the diary of John Marshall (1634-1732), a bricklayer in Quincy, Massachusetts,Anne Andrus Grady ,"Research Notes: Extract and Comment on the Diary of John Marshall, bricklayer, of Braintree, Massachusetts 1697––1711," in Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 90-93. who wrote the following entry for April 29, 1697:
