Dammit! A thread like this just as I'm about to pull the plug
I know what you're saying! I tire of political post, and though I wish we could find another "Gipper", I'm not into arguing for or against him. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> RIP and thankyou are all I have to say there.
As to 1777 being pretty late for the area, I doubt anyone told the Indians that. We're a good bit east of the Ohio Valley and Ft Pitt, but the country north of here is pretty rugged, and was sparsley settled at the time.
Col. John Phillips and a band of "Bedford Rangers" were massacred near present Altoona as late as 1780.
This area is pretty rich in history, but unfortanatley not much is recorded. The Tull's Hill story is bareley a blurb in most books. The only mention of it other than local publications I've found is in "The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania" by C. Hale Snipe. A HS bud of mine lived near there, and we done alot of hunting & camping back then. His dad was a history buff too.
As to Delawares commiting this particular murder, I can't say. For the most part they remained nuetral up until 1780 or so. Not to say that they didn't mount the occasional scalp hunt now and then, though. It is odd that no whites were taken alive, as most Indian parties took back prisoners, and often adopted them into the tribe. Maybe the Tull girls weren't that cute? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
The Moravian Massacre was in retaliation for some nastieness ocurring in Washington County in the spring of '82. I believe their camp was in Ohio at the time. The militia used a cooper's mallet to do most of them in.
Lee, the scalp bounty is open to question. I'd always heard the French were the first to offer such during the Seven Years War, but have heard of scalps being lifted as trophies long before that. PA offered scalp bounties during The French & Indian war, as well as The Revolution. Possibly During Pontiac's War too. I honestly couldn't say where the practice started. Another one of those things that kinda slipped through the cracks of recorded history. Hey, if you have some more stories, how's about sharing? I eat stuff like this up! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Dixie, I'm in Bedford County, about 10 miles north of Shawnee State Park. Alum Bank is usually Pleasantville, depending on the map. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> One of those where the mailing adress differs from the towns name. At any rate, if you take Rt 96 north from Schellsburg, you go by my house. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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