Identifier: pennsylvaniagermv15pbpenn (find matches)
Title: The Pennsylvania-German Society : (Publications)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Pennsylvania-German Society. cn
Subjects: Germans
Publisher: (S.l.) : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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d the next day, at the Crown Inn, and sopassed, away a brave and energetic officer who deserved abetter fate. This was but the beginning of the revenge which thesavages had determined to take. An extract from a Beth-lehem letter of October 9 says: 11 Early this morning came Nicholas Marks, of White-hall Township, and brought the following account, viz: That Yesterday, just after dinner, as he opened hisdoor, he saw an Indian standing about two poles from thehouse, who endeavored to shoot at him; but, Marks shut-ting the door immediately, the fellow slipped into a cellar,close to the house. After this said Marks went out ofthe house, with his wife and an apprentice boy, (This ap-prentice boy was the late George Graff, of Allentown, thenfifteen years of age. He ran to Philip Jacob Schrieberwith the news of these murders. He was Captain of acompany in the Revolutionary War. In 1786 he resignedas Collector of the Excise, and was Sheriff of Northamp- Peace Conferences with the Indians. 545
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546 The Pennsylvania-German Society. ton County in the years 1787-8-9. For three years hewas a member of the Legislature, then holding its sessionsin Philadelphia, from December 3, 1793 to December,1796. He lived many years in Allentown, where he diedin 1835, in the 88th year of his age) in order to make hisescape, and saw another Indian standing behind a tree.They then saw the third Indian running through the or-chard; upon which they made the best of their way, abouttwo miles off, to Adam Deshlers place, where twenty menin arms were assembled, who went first to the house ofJohn Jacob Mickley, where they found a boy and girllying dead, and the girl scalped. From thence they wentto Hans Schneiders and said Marks plantations, andfound both houses on fire, and a horse tied to the bushes.They also found said Schneider, his wife and three chil-dren, dead in the field, the man and woman scalped; and,on going further, they found two others wounded, oneof whom was scalped. After this they re

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