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    The Penn's Creek massacre was an October 16, 1755 raid by Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans on a settlement along Penn's Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna...
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    Lenape Turtle Clan and Penn's successors would endure for over 70 years, until the Penn's Creek Massacre of 1755. The treaty William Penn entered into was remarked...
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    and by grateful friends. French and Indian War Great Cove massacre Penn's Creek massacre Fort Allen Lehighton, Pennsylvania Paul Peucker, Lanie Graf...
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  • Leininger and Marie LeRoy, whom the Lenape forcibly seized in the 1755 Penn's Creek massacre. James R. Leininger, the father of the original novel's author and...
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    refer to these events as massacres. This is especially so of a Colorado territorial militia's slaughter of Cheyennes at Sand Creek (1864) and the army's...
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    County, Pennsylvania, where a historical marker notes their graves. Penn's Creek Massacre Battle of Sideling Hill Captain Jacobs French and Indian War William...
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    and Museum Commission. Bloody Springs massacre Great Cove massacre Penn's Creek massacre Gnadenhütten massacre (Pennsylvania) Beth L. Mark, "Our flesh...
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    spring within Penn's Cave, a commercial cave that offers guided tours by boat, forms one source for this limestone creek. Penns Creek is renowned as...
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    between the Lenape Turtle Clan and Penn's successors would endure almost a century, until the Penn's Creek Massacre of 1755. It was remarked upon by Voltaire...
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  • Switzerland and Germany respectively, who had been captured during the Penn's Creek Massacre on 16 October 1755, and whom he had known at Kittanning and at Kuskusky...
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  • Cherry Valley massacre Penn's Creek massacre Referred to as Scotch Valley in the 1700s Thomas Verenna (July 6, 2015), Murder Along the Creek: Taking a Closer...
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    Captain Anthony Selin, who fought in the American Revolution. The Penns Creek Massacre on October 16, 1755 was the first of a series of deadly raids on...
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    as every other part of this valuable province." October 16 – The Penn's Creek massacre is carried out against white settlers who have moved into the Susquehanna...
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    Native Americans. This peace endured almost a century, until the Penn's Creek Massacre of 1755. Early colonial Quakers also established communities and...
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    Expedition (Battle of the Monongahela), Battle of Lake George, Penn's Creek massacre 1756 Battle of Fort Bull, Battle of the Trough, Battle of Fort Oswego...
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    Penns Creek Massacre – SR 2017 (old US 11 & 15) just N of Selinsgrove Penns Creek Massacre (Plaque) – S end Old Trail (just E of US 11 & 15), Penns Creek...
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  • destroyed most of Penn’s Creek, taking prisoners, burning farmhouses, and stealing horses.: 75–76  Two weeks after the Penn's Creek massacre, Pisquetomen may...
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  • and was again employed in the Indian missions. Following the 1755 Penn's Creek Massacre, in 1758 he undertook an embassy in behalf of the Pennsylvania Colony...
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  • destroying Pennsylvania settlements. The Penn's Creek massacre took place on October 12 and the Great Cove massacre on November 1, along with numerous smaller...
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    and destroyed the town of Penns Creek, Pennsylvania about ten miles west of Shamokin. As news of the Penn's Creek massacre spread, panic gripped the settlements...
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  • Susquehanna River, in present-day Dauphin County. In response to the Penn's Creek Massacre in October 1755, the government of the Province of Pennsylvania...
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    as every other part of this valuable province." October 16 – The Penn's Creek massacre is carried out against white settlers who have moved into the Susquehanna...
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    1946 U.S. 15 & 11 at Mahantango Creek (Missing) Roadside Canals, Navigation, Transportation Penn's Creek Massacre September 30, 1947 SR 2017 (old U...
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  • Halifax, and Fort Augusta. Following the Penn's Creek massacre, the Great Cove massacre, and the Gnadenhütten massacre, Benjamin Franklin had been charged...
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  • Leininger and Marie LeRoy, whom the Lenape forcibly seized in the 1755 Penn's Creek massacre American Hustle (2013) – black comedy crime film inspired by the...
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    Pennsylvania who were captured by Delaware Indians following the Penn's Creek massacre on October 16, 1755. VRFA, Virginia's Explore Park (2010). p. 3...
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    be destroyed. On 12 November 1755, following the Penn's Creek massacre and the Great Cove massacre, he wrote to Governor Morris: "I have but a stockade...
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    Roy and Barbara Leininger, both age 12, were captured during the Penn's Creek massacre on 16 October, 1755. They were taken to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania...
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    Seven Years' War erupted in 1754. An incident in 1755 known as the “Penn’s Creek Massacre” left several colonials dead and many others missing in the wake...
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  • Fort." Nenatcheehunt was at Shamokin in October, 1755 when the Penn's Creek Massacre took place.: 178  According to historian Richard Grimes, he "fully...
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