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The Draper's Meadow Massacre was an attack in July 1755, when the Draper's Meadow settlement in southwest Virginia, at the site of present-day Blacksburg, was raided by a group of Shawnee warriors, who killed at least four people including an infant, and captured five more. [1]
During the Rogue River Wars, in response to the Lupton massacre, Indians killed 27 settlers in what later became Gold Beach. 27 (settlers) [223] 1855: December 23: Little Butte Creek: Oregon: Oregon volunteers launched a dawn attack on a Tututni and Takelma camp on the Rogue River. Between 19 and 26 Indians were killed. 19–26 [224] 1856: June
"Killed, James Couch, Wm James, Joseph Clark, Isaac Meeks & his wife and two children" The city of Stockport has posted a third sign at the site, reading: Big Bottom, named for the broad Muskingum River Flood Plain, this park is the site of an attack on an Ohio Company settlement by Delaware and Wyandot Indians on Jan 2, 1791.
Native Americans kidnapped his three-year-old sister, Elizabeth, in 1800, and killed his brother, James, during the War of 1812. [14] Harper was also the brother-in-law of John T. Bridge Sr., who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to Ohio before migrating to Indiana with his wife, Mary Harper, and their children in 1819.
A largely one-sided battle ensued on February 25 that ended with the direct deaths of nine people, eight Daggetts and one posse member. At the time the affair was briefly characterized as a Native American revolt , though it is now mostly regarded as a family's attempted escape from law enforcement.
The Indian told David “how do broder, how do broder,” trying to talk English peacefully to David and the other settlers. However the Indian died of his wounds. Another account tells that he killed another Indian and the settlers in Prickett's Fort made the Indian's skin into a shot pouch, and presented it to David as a souvenir.
Mary and Verne Kimber argue about his future in Tombstone. The army officer notices the crickets stopped chirping, a sign that the Indian attack is imminent. They quickly douse the fire. The Indians attack and the army officer tells Mrs. Kimber to take the 2 children and head down the gulley. The Indian overwhelm the wagon train, killing everyone.
Hungate rode back to find that his cabin was on fire and his family had been killed and badly mutilated. He was captured and was similarly killed. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The couple was in their twenties, Laura was 2 1 ⁄ 2 years of age, and Florence was a 6 month-old infant.