School massacre during the Pontiac uprising
The school massacre during the Pontiac Uprising took place on July 26, 1764 after the French-Indian War. Four Lenni Lenape warriors (Delaware) ambushed the teachers and students in a schoolhouse in what is now Franklin County , Pennsylvania , near what is now Greencastle, killing the schoolmaster Enoch Brown and ten children.
The Pennsylvania Parliament then reintroduced head bonuses for Indians; such rewards had already been offered during the French-Indian War.
When the four warriors to their tribe on the Muskingum River ( Ohio returned region), a chief berated them as cowards for attacking children.
Settlers buried Brown and the children in a shared grave. In 1885 a memorial was erected to commemorate the massacre.
literature
- Glen L. Cump: A disquisition portraying the history relative to the enoch brown incident . ( Page no longer available ) Allison-Antrim Museum, August 1, 1992.
- David Dixon: Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.
- Gregory Evans Dowd: War Under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, & the British Empire. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Coordinates: 39 ° 49 ′ 28.9 " N , 77 ° 45 ′ 20.2" W.