Delaware Indians Capture Regina the German Girl, Hold Her Captive for Nine Years, 1755-64 (ep. 5)

In this episode we read from "The Pennsylvania-German in the French and Indian War," by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, about the attacks on the Pennsylvania Settlers by the Delaware Indians, or Lenape, in 1755.
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[@Lt.CurtissGhost]

My 6th great grandfather Wm. Galloway Ice (Indian Billy) was the son of German immigrants who was kidnapped by natives with his sisters. He got away years later to return and become an Indian fighter. He also served in every American conflict in his life even repairing guns during the war of 1812 at the age of 87.

[@annekstrom3930]

My 4th Great Grandmother, Ann Calhoun, was abducted by Cherokee fighters in 1760 at age 5, during the Long Canes Massacre near Abbeville, South Carolina. She lived among them for 14 years. She was returned to her family after stories of a white woman living with a Cherokee group in Georgia came to the ears of her family.

[@paulbriggs3072]

I wonder how Cherokee she had been forced to become by that time and what it was like for her to be back among relatives.

[@annekstrom3930]

@@paulbriggs3072 , excellent question! Her history is well documented. When she was unwillingly returned to her Scots-Irish community, she was only recognized by her family because of a burn scar suffered as a small child. She spoke only the language of her adoptive tribe. Eventually she learned English, but she never learned to read. She married an Isaac Matthews and lived a happy married life, but her husband reported that she would sometimes wander barefoot into the deep woods and forage for berries and lizards for the day, reliving her childhood. Her story can be found in several sources online as Anne Quarles Calhoun. The earliest sources have her gone for 14 years, but more recent ones try to fit her recovery into other events. I tend to believe the contemporary accounts. Her first cousin was VP John C Calhoun.

[@GeorgiaPeachHolly]

Wow that's amazing

[@mikemurray1047]

I have an ancestor who was captured by the Abenaki Indians in York, Maine. Her name was Mary Sayward age 13. She was among many captives when the Abenaki raided the small village of York in January 1691. She endured a harsh journey north as a captive and eventually was sold by the Abenaki to the French. She stayed in Montreal Canada for several years until the French allowed her to reunite with her relatives who by then then were living in Portsmouth, NH.

[@paulbriggs3072]

Why do you suppose the French were so tardy in returning her home?

[@patriciascrabeck1596]

Just hate to think why the French were so slow to return her. They were butchers, too.😢😢😢

[@redwater4778]

@@patriciascrabeck1596 but they did allow her to be reunited.

[@christinanancarrow-wilson8829]

I just came across this comment. I work as a guide at the York Historical Society, near the area where the raid to which you refer (Candlemas raid) took place. Another aside is that I believe Mary Sayward's mother was married to my ancestor at the time, as I believe her husband had died. My ancestor's last name was Plaisted. Also I grew up in Portsmouth! Small world.

[@mikemurray1047]

@@christinanancarrow-wilson8829 indeed it is a small world! I grew up in Kittery, Maine. Went and graduated from Traip Academy. I was friends with Kenny Plaisted and my sister’s best friend was Kenny’s sister Sheryl Plaisted.

[@tawannayelton1840]

You’re exactly correct , the other history channels don’t tell history anymore. Thank you.

[@TA.LONGBOW.ALASKA]

Its turned to garbage Tv and what history they do show is garbage....

[@Anahutch1]

My ancestor on my mother's side was shanghaid in Germany to work on a ship. He was Jewish and escaped at a port in North Carolina. He made his way to Virginia, changed his last name to Skeens and ended up married to a native American widow. They had many children. I assume she was Cherokee as they still had tribes in the Virginia mountain until the 19th century. Most intermarried with the white population or moved on.

[@dianebrady6784]

I also had been told was Cherokee but turns out Solomon Jennings married a lenapi and the Moravian ministers baptized many in the area and gave her the English name of Eleanor. I wish I knew her lenapi name. I have asked the Moravians if a record exists but have heard nothing.

[@Kosher19]

JEWWWWW

[@sheliafarmer]

The indigenous had no choice, the whites came to our country and murdered, starved and enslaved us and stole our lands, unless your indigenous your living on stolen land filled with the blood of our people

[@roriemcfadden6097]

​​@@dianebrady6784Check with the Mormon ancestry center in Salt Lake City if you ever have a chance. They have an amazing center! I've only been there once but it's so well done. When I was there they had an open request if anyone had Native American records to please donate them as it's one part of our country that is really lacking. Native Americans didn't keep written records like Europeans so it's something they are very interested in. If you have names, marriage dates, birth dates, certificates- that sort of thing. The Southwest Indian Foundation has a catalog to support their community & often there is a book how to research your ancestors in the Native American nations. It may be DNA based but it's another option. Hope this is helpful! 😊

[@GeorgiaPeachHolly]

​@@Kosher19LOL

[@Verityization]

My daughter-in-law's German ancestor, Johannes Adam Trump, was killed by Indians in an attack on 25 June 1757 in Allemangel, Berks County, PA. His wife Ursula and son George were taken prisoners, but escaped - although Ursula suffered a tomahawk wound to her neck.

[@utubeisazzhoe1413]

Never heard of Allemangel

[@dal8963]

That kind of history shows the cost that so many paid to build this country thank you for sharing as we only hear the other side of our history's suffering and it's made out as if nothing happened to the settlers that they killed and plundered the innocent Indians all of the history of this country should be equally important to know and understand what we are today what we truly come from.

[@stevep5408]

Before Roadside America closed they had a history of Berks county on display. Hundreds killed and farmsteads abandoned. They claimed that actual French army officers were leading the raiding parties!

[@fatdad64able]

The damage that wound caused was passed on to Donald,....🤔 That explains a lot.

[@TinaFivesten]

The love for violent raids against the settlers were really grotesque and awful, but from 1960 the main stream rule is to romanticize it by the far-left.

[@gutsbiker]

Thank you for keeping real history alive. My 3rd great grandmother was taken by Indians at the age of 2 and was thought to have died, but through DNA it had been proven she somehow survived, even her returned is not documented. This video shows clearly, many were not reunited with their family.

[@JohnSmith-de2mz]

My German ancestor on my Dads side, came to Berks county and settled in a previously unsettled by Whites area. The story I read was that he and his wife traded with the local Indians, no mention of violence. My relatives still live in Berks county, Shillington, Pa. Called Penn Dutch now.

[@lynncarden]

In. Reserching family of McCann seems he married a COBLE/KOBLE in York, Hanover PA. The Delaware indians massacre was noted in a book....A cousin in California (I've never met but got addresses from my dad's Aunt sent addresses to me ...I was researching my McCanns as my dad's mother was a McCann and thu her father James . .. and his wife who was a Coble...in line of Johann Henry Coble...they were Mennonite...

[@sheliafarmer]

INDIANS ARE IN INDIA

[@chriseggleston7573]

My ancestor was known as "Bald Headed Mike", after surviving an attack and scalping by Native Americans

[@kellyprice1024]

It was the White man that started the scalping. The Natives copied this atrocity.

[@justlooking4771]

I’m a descendant of Joseph Chawgo, a Mohawk Indian killed in the battle of Oriskany, he was fighting for the British.

[@washingtondale]

Incredible grit of the pioneers. ❤

[@marydonals1831]

Thank you for making this history more known.

[@utubeisazzhoe1413]

Right in my hometown. Awesome to hear this. I'm in Reading Berks county. Literally looking at those same mountains out my window.

[@paradoxstudios6639]

See any Indians there ?

[@utubeisazzhoe1413]

@@paradoxstudios6639 No, the natives were all slaughtered by other Indians during the French and Indian war.

[@reedheil1353]

truth

[@patgreene5716]

The Delaware Indians captured Captain John Cox. He was captured for 6 months and told all.He was 15 years old when he was captured.

[@JAMIEFITZHUGH-yb4sv]

Please keep telling the truth - we all need the truth about our history and Native Indian history truth. Thank you for all your hard work on these productions and truthful research.

[@kneesusforjesus2879]

How many years did the mother pray for safe return of the daughter? Don’t be impatient, don’t lose faith, the good Lord does things in his own time not ours. God is good!

[@luisrobles0453]

It is great that you bring these historical happenings to us now. The native Americans were not these peaceful wonderful people that many now days claim.

[@bryan7938]

What? The poor native Americans are just forgotten. I can never understand how only one voice is heard in America re oppression. Both voices are just and require attention but…..where are the apologies for the native Americans?

[@joanhuffman2166]

​@bryan7938 The greatest killer of indigenous Americans were the many infectious diseases that came with Europeans and Africans. Most died without ever seeing or even hearing of the new arrivals. You claim that only the oppressor's story is told, that is a lie. The fact that you refer to them as the "oppressors" indicates that you have heard only stories that make Europeans look like oppressors, that's why you called them oppressors. Indigenous Americans gave as good as they got, as you might have seen if you actually watched the video. Before you blame the British officers infamously distributing dirty blankets, know that that particular outbreak of smallpox began in the Spanish empire and spread north from there. See "Pox Americana" by Elizabeth A. Fenn.

[@jimbrazee]

There is no need nor reason for us to apologize to Native Americans for their depredations. It was a difficult and cruel world when these things occurred. But the attempt to reconstruct them as “noble savages” is laughable. They certainly weren’t “noble”!

[@joanhuffman2166]

@jimbrazee Europeans have a long history of projecting whatever is fashionable in the world of ideas of virtue onto Indigenous Americans. The myth of the noble savage was one of the early ones, as a counterpoint to the idea that human corruption comes from civilization (city living). Later, when personal competence was the ideal, Indians were the strongest, fastest, etc. Later still when socialism was in fashion, Indian were models of cooperation. Then, when environmentalism was the thing, they told us that Indians always lived in harmony with nature. Now that LGBTQ+ is the in thing, Indians are suddenly all about this two spirit thing. It's all as real as the eagle cry special effect, which is, in fact, the cry of a hawk.

[@michellemoeller5358]

In my opinion, if they were the ones that stole their land, we wldve done the same as they did

[@sunnyquin]

My 6th great grandmother Deborah Cole was taken in a raid on Saco Maine in 1703 at age 5 along with her mother and younger sister at the beginning of the Queen Anne's War. Her father and brother were killed in the raid. Fortunately a French seigneur Pierre Boucher paid for their freedom in Montreal. Sarah her mom worked as a domestic at his residence. At the termination of hostilities Sarah returned to Maine, her daughters, now teenagers, remained in Quebec and married French settlers. Deborah married Simon Seguin, dit Laderoute son of a soldier in the King's Carignan-Salières Regiment that had been sent to fight the Iroquois.

[@yannschonfeld5847]

Very interesting. It's first hand stories that make up the true fabric of history. Thank you for sharing.

[@marthawelch4289]

I think you mean 6th GREAT grandmother rather than 6th "grade" grandmother.

[@CaliKiwi-]

The beauty of our language when it was spoken like poetry! So much more detail and emotion to it.

[@kellycallen3195]

My twin ancestors were taken by natives as recorded in the Callen Chronicles. It’s a very interesting story if you’d like to it look up.

[@Khatoon170]

Last and most important part of my research there are series of deadly raids on Pennsylvania settlements by native Americans allied with French and Indian war . Deaths 14 ,injured one . Victims Swiss and German settlers. Perpetrators Lenape native Americans. Regina Leininger story based on allegedly true story about German girl in Pennsylvania , who was taken from her family home during raid and lived in capturing with tribe for many years and when she was returned after year. She recognized her mother after she sang alone yet not alone and she was baby when she moved with Indians. Her mother is Barbara Leininger and she wife of Peter ruffner. Regina ( aged 9) and her sister Barbara ( aged 12). Unfortunately her sister who had not travelled East after massacre next took their prisoners and headed west . Twelve years old girls Marie le Roy and Barbara Leininger were given as property to Lenape warrior named kalasquay . Barbara attempted to escape but was almost immediately recaptured and condemned to burned to death . There are film alone not yet alone adaptation in 2013 about two sisters Barbara and Regina Leininger main theme their faith became their freedom, their faith will continue to nurture them during darkest hour . It’s very sad story . I hope you like my research. Good luck to you your dearest ones .

[@amazinggrace5692]

These names are familiar to me. I attended Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA and ultimately returned to raise my family there. 💕🐝💕

[@timeforchange3786]

Thank you for keeping history alive

[@richarddavenport31]

PEOPLE FORGET THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US ABOUT THIS!!!!

[@MultiAlanR]

Greetings from Ireland.

[@jonathanturek5846]

Aloha.. the history of John Reilly & the San Patricios & the fighting 69 from the civil war to present would make you very proud of your ancestors in my country here. In Gaelic on there uniform it said "clear the road" Aloha

[@trishareynolds8011]

Yes and they weren't too sympathetic to nort american racism.

[@pigtailtrucker4672]

Hay ! With ❤ ❤ XOXO From Wichita Kansas USA

[@sunnyquin]

I enjoyed the Fannie Kelly series I will check this out. My grandmother was a Kelly born in 1880 in Ireland the youngest of 16. She told me she had an older brother that immigrated and she remembers the black bordered letter arriving telling them he has been killed in an accident at a silver mine in Montana. Don't know what happened to most her older siblings. I'm in contact with families of two sisters. Wonder how many went out West.

[@paulbriggs3072]

Around this same time in Central-Southern Pennsylvania, the entire family of Mary Jemison was captured by Shawnee in Adams County Pennsylvania and later massacred by them and scalped on their way to Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburg) while she was around 12 years old. They treated her very badly at first. (She had to sit and watch them preparing the bloody scalps of her mother and father and siblings including even infants!)). She was then traded to Senecas of Western New York State (largest of the five Iroquois tribes) A couple years or so later, a British officer visiting them saw her and asked her if she would like to go back home to live with relatives. This was a very callous idea as if to think a brutalized young girl of such an age could say no at such a time in the presence of her long term captors. In addition, today we now know about what is called Patty Hearst Syndrome, where fear and terror of your captives lead you constantly to ty to please them, and you can't muster the courage to escape them. Mary said no to the officer who left her there!! He should have taken her back regardless. She grew up among them, and many years later when they were defeated in the Revolution in that part of New York, and they sold their land at the Big Tree Treaty of Canandaigua, they lived more and more like poor white settlers in small cabins. Eventually they made Mary Jemison Chief of their much reduced tribe. In her old age, she became a Christian and also told her story in 1824 to a minister, James E. Seaver, who published it as Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824; latest edition1967). It is considered a classic captivity narrative. She died September 19, 1833, aged 90 among the Senecas of Buffalo Creek in the central portion of Erie County, New York. This was later dissolved when they sold it off piecemeal.

[@flintliddon]

You have done a pretty good job of judging someone else’s action or non-action 200 years after the fact after having grown up in an entirely different culture. You weren’t there and know nothing about the circumstances. Was the British officer outnumbered? What would have happened if he just walked off with her?

[@courtneyking400]

I am from Rochester NY , also I lived in Erie County and grew up there. Thank you for that post. Very interesting ❤

[@crystalcollins8452]

As a child I read Mary Jemison's story. The book was called Indian Captive. I remember the Senecas called her Corn Tassel because of her blonde hair & she chose to remain with them when she was given the option to leave later in her life.

[@yannschonfeld5847]

@@crystalcollins8452 Thank you sharing this and the name of the book.

[@yannschonfeld5847]

Thank you for sharing this history and the title of that book. Unless we share these histories, they will eventually be lost forever.

[@GeorgiaPeachHolly]

You must honor the fallen vanquished, lest ye become the vanquished. To pity the fallen vanquished is a deep dishonor paid to the warrior who fell in combat.

[@amcghie7670]

What happened to the little girl Susan Smith that Regina cared for?

[@LowejaDogs]

Thats what I would like to know to.

[@OldWB1]

My being a Philadelphia native, I found this very engaging.

[@brianew]

Me too

[@lynncarden]

Thu my grandmother who was a McCann by birth thu her mother family (Coble last name) goes back to Pennsylvania..York,Hanover) they were Mennonite and German who had left Germany due to Religious freedom to Switzerland I believe then fled to Colonial British America...they lived around Mohawk and Onidea Indians and Onidea had warned them about the Delaware indians but they were pacifist and always shared with indians and were friendly but Delware Massacred majority of them...there is a historical record of all of this.I did not do the research ..but a copy of McCann and Coble family was done by several of McCann family members who I only know thur letters...thanks to great Aunt who was one of two who had been searching for my dad for years ..fortunately he got to meet them 2 yrs before he passed..So if any out there even think about finding your family lines do it a.s.p. before people who know names places ect pass...it hard if you don't have as many places births gravesite ect...I have been able to find many simply because of fact I had list of many and where they live and where they were buried. Do it for your kids...

[@eileensullivan4924]

Good idea.

[@kschoolcraft]

I'd say, read some Michigan history and memoirs of the county history; there are a lot of so called missing names, aka's (families) in that tucked away history. Someone mentioned Ursula, which from what I read came from/meant Jerusalem; which there is an Ursula in Thompson's Cemetery with a John King family in Bloomingdale, Michigan.

[@storiesofwarhistory1206]

I love your jab at the history channel it’s about is non-historic there was anything can be. I’m not sure if they’re dumb and think that people hate history or if they just don’t want people to know history, I would guess the latter.

[@sheilagoos645]

How absurd. No one is trying to prevent you from educating yourself. You're making those choices yourself.

[@hyacinthlady]

Thank you!

[@thomasmcloney1437]

Really interesting show. Thanks . Cheers from Australia 👍

[@cclarke9301]

Thank you so much 💙

[@genejohnson2738]

It is a very sad clash of two very different cultures.

[@Zionist_Eternal]

Gracias, mi amigo!

[@jimreed6875]

Thank you for doing what you do.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Excellent video as usual.

[@deadhorse1391]

Thank you! Another very enjoyable and informative video I travel in this area some and is amazing to think what happened here really not that long ago

[@ludwigderzanker9767]

Thx Daryl, funny how fast the german names americanisized in 1 or 2 generations. Wucherer is the loan shark . And it sounds Melceeoor. Your perfomance is better than ever, greetings to Texas from Northern Germany Ludwig.

[@unworthyhistory]

Thanks Ludwig!

[@jasguy2715]

As a native of New Jersey I'm very happy that someone makes videos for us to watch like this about the history of Pennsylvania and the New Jersey area and you don't find it very easily. Just recently I was watching another video channel about Indians that were native of Pennsylvania somewhere in the Philadelphia area I think that we're making forays across the Delaware River in canoes and attacking settlements Along the New Jersey side of the Delaware River. I think this happened in the early 1700s or the Indian attacks were finally repulsed by local militia. I Certainly would like more history like this to view.

[@annetterohla8932]

In New Jersey,twice a year the Rancocas Indians hold a pow wow that the public is invited to.My exboyfriend and I attended several times,until we just gave up on returning to due to the very unfriendly vibes coming from the Indians.The visiting artists from North Carolina were very nice,and so was Natalie from New Jersey's Natalie's Turquoise Treasures.I live out of state now,but someone really needs to go to bat for the alligator that was being abused there as part of a stage show.My impression was that this may be a traveling animal show that would make stage appearances but I'm not sure.The Indians used to strike and unmercifuly harras the alligator with a length of lumber,in order to provoke a response,but the alligator just wanted to remain in peace;until the Indians abused him/her long enough that it had no choice but to try to protest to protect itself.Please,people,everywhere,look at the sorrow in the eyes of these animal acts at fairs,and work to stop it.There were several animal acts and displays at the Delta Fair in Memphis,Tenn.,that were obviously cruel and inhumane.I remember one cowboy - horse act where the horse laid on it's side on the ground,and the cowboy stood on top of it on it's ribs.The look in that horse's eyes was awful and completely overcome and beyond anguish.There was a baby camel with only a couple of feet of pen containing it,and it demonstrated stress and isolated self stimulating by just standing there and rocking back and forth in solitary confinement.Animal acts should mostly be banned,as far as I can tell,including captive displays of misery.Pow wows out West were conducted in a normal civil manner,unlike the unwelcoming Rancocas,which may have changed.

[@jasguy2715]

@@annetterohla8932 where are all the animal-rights groups when this goes on? As far as the Indians abusing the alligator don't expect anybody to protest against that because they are a indigenous group of people and we have to let them do absolutely anything they want and give them anything they want! I am so sick of all this special treatment that certain groups get. As far as the Cowboys standing on the horse I can't imagine why the hell they would let something like that go on!

[@sheliafarmer]

INDIANS ARE IN INDIA

[@sheliafarmer]

To bad my people didn't have better weapons to keep the whites from murdering our babies, women and me, starved us to death, stole our land, AMERICA GETTING PAID BACK FOR WHAT THEY DID TO BILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE

[@sheliafarmer]

@@annetterohla8932 😡😡😡😡Indians are in INDIA

[@annabarela4105]

I look forward to every episode

[@tonyholt90]

Excellent to listen to while I was preparing for work 👍

[@phylly5576]

Subcribed.

[@rebeccarosario7122]

It's very interesting to hear about this time period..I grew up in schuylkill County

[@Larsanator]

This a great channel! Well done! Thanks for the content!

[@robertrocca6595]

Cheers!!

[@jimd8008]

Great episodes. Always listen. The river and county is pronounced Skookil.

[@michaelshapely9886]

The Schuylkill river is pronounced the skookle by the local Philly area

[@jwhiskey242]

Its pronounced "SKO-Kill" by everyone in Pennsylvania.

[@catherinelw9365]

"School Kill".

[@eileensullivan4924]

I had a classmate "Schuyler" pronounced Sky-ler. I was surprised by the pronunciation!!

[@deaconsmom2000]

Yo, yo, yo! We are NOT associated with Philthadelphia. We are Skooks; they are just downstream.

[@deaconsmom2000]

And it's Skookle.

[@Justshill]

My third great grand aunt, Margaret Titsworth, was also thirteen when she was taken by Indians during the Titsworth Massacre near Clarksville, TN. Margaret was eventually located and her father, Colonel Isaac Titsworth, got some mates together and went in and got her back.

[@CMFelos]

Great history!

[@Crystal-cs3gm]

Soo what happened to the lil girl? That's so sad. I hope she also had a happy ending.

[@antonfarquar8799]

I wonder what happened to Barbara ?

[@user-cf9yb1fv9l]

Been burned after trying to escape

[@poponachtschnecke]

Great stuff, I had to subscribe! Also, you may want to look up German pronunciation for future videos.

[@micheleparker8553]

My ancestors settled in Lancaster Pennsylvania. They came from Germany however, they were originally from Paris France. When the Edit of Nante was revoked in France they were told that they had to renounce their faith (they were Heugonots) or face death. Because many were being slaughtered, they fled over the border into Germany. When Thomas Penn offered homesteading land to them, they came to Pennsylvania. I don’t know if they had any problems with the Indians, but I would love to know! Their last name was Rank (formerly Ranc). My husband’s family had problems with the Delaware and Shawnee Indians. He is actually descended from a Shawnee chief who held his great, great grandmother(?) prisoner. She gave birth to his child. When her family rescued her along a river, she was carrying the baby on her back. I never realized how many settlers this happened too! Thanks for sharing!

[@yannschonfeld5847]

Yes, religious persecution was everywhere in those days. There are many people in Germany with French surnames for that reason.

[@andreweden9405]

I'm pretty sure that there's a period movie about this incident called "Alone Yet Not Alone"!

[@jansmith2658]

So much work /research to produce these stories. As others I wonder why your channel is not more popular hopefully will take off soon. This is not my history but still fascinating. Regards from Argyll Scotland.

[@robandjowickham4504]

Not difficult to work out whose land this was. It certainly didn't belong to the German settlers.

[@mcmd2009]

@robandjowickham4504 they paid for it with their blood.

[@Khatoon170]

Happy belated Independence Day to you sir . Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary. We appreciate your great efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level, improve our English as well. As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here first of all biggest reason for French and Indian war American Indians were fighting to maintain control of their cultural future . French claimed upper Ohio river valley. They wanted to trade with American Indians and control area . The British also claimed upper Ohio river valley. Pennsylvania in early 1600s there were estimated 5, 000- 7, 000 Susquehanna but 1700 , their numbers had dwindled to brought on by introduction European diseases. According to historical accounts in 1763 , mob Lynched remaining 20 known Susquehanna. French and Indian war known as ( seven years war ) , ( 1689-1736). Penn creek massacre 1755 raid by Lenope ( Delaware) native Americans on settlements along penn creek , tributary, Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania.

[@jacksmarr9606]

Great piece. Let me help you out a little. It is pronounced skoo-cull county. That sch is like school.

[@aliceczyz7104]

Let’s take a moment to consider our total disregard of the rights of the Indian-“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,” land, language, culture…everything. 0:27

[@peterfrance702]

So many harrowing stories. 'Things were done'.

[@barbaracriss3614]

Look into the dealings of the Newlins of PA with the Lennie Lenape...

[@SharleenJohnston]

Wouldn't the Governor's hand be tied in regards to the letter speaking of despair? After all, the Governor would be a representative of King George who would be detached from the colonists, the apprentices, and the farmers. My Great x 8 grandfather was scalped and killed at Hannastown.

[@gpp5655]

Yea for some real history. The so called History Channel should change its name to aliens 👽 from outer space.

[@stephenchristian5739]

Awesome & that was a miracle moment when she sang that hymn & theres mom!

[@andreweden9405]

Omg, at 15:01... Hahahahaha!!!🤣

[@jsmcguireIII]

I recommend the book Unredeemed Captive by John Demos.

[@yannschonfeld5847]

Thank you.

[@ilzechoi6266]

Should the Indians have welcomed those who invaded their land?

[@Jay-qh1cu]

Large gap between killing the men invading your land and murdering babies and small children then 'skalping them.

[@manleynelson9419]

Read about the settlement of 1607 and Jamestown there wasn't any welcome there. 1620 Plymouth Rock apparently was a different situation but

[@Males.are.lowest.]

Its nit their land they asians They can go jn siberia if they want

[@Zionist_Eternal]

Great selection. Harkens a very real time when a very real faith in a very real and personal God was so foundational to existence, even to one's very survival--a time and state-of-being the new religion of the Left would but cancel, denying such ever truly existed.

[@mikr2d2]

I think there`s even a movie from 2013 about this story. Its title "Alone, Not Yet Alone" starring Kelly Greyson.

[@sheliafarmer]

INDIANS ARE IN INDIA,

[@amazinggrace5692]

The need to “spur the government to do something” is still here.

[@GaliSinatra]

Great presentation. FYI, you're pronouncing Schuylkill wrong. It's like "skoo kill"

[@kimberlyrogers9953]

But the ‘attacks’ were actually self defense, so there’s that

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Weird how the Natives spoke in High Dutch( German)!

[@manleynelson9419]

Everyone learned a little bit of everyone else's language back then

[@angelique82mon]

Ok… this is driving me crazy. It’s pronounced “skoo-kell” not shookil. I know there spelling is hard lol there are a lot of names in PA like that

[@nightrunner1456]

Thanks for; the m;a;ps.

[@kimberlyearp1009]

It is sad that kids were taken from both sides. Now days people only talk about children being taken to assimilation schools and completely ignore the kids that were taken by the Indians.

[@crystalharris7394]

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[@rustynaild4247]

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[@bonniegill6451]

I also had an ancestor named James Gill who was taken by the Abenaki tribe at the age of 8 after the tribe attacked and killed his English parents in upper state New York. He had a different experience than Regina, being adopted by a chief in the tribe. He was later returned to English relatives. He learned English, reading and writing but decided that in his heart he was Abenaki. He returned to the tribe and married a French girl also adopted by them. He later fought in the American revolution against the English because his tribe were allies of the French in the earlier war and hated the English. He received a commission from George Washington and fought along with others of his tribe. In many ways the American revolution was like a continuation of the French and Indian war.

[@yannschonfeld5847]

By the time of the American Revolution, New France was now a colony of the British after the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) This was now the beginning of Canada. The Canadians (today Québecois) remained loyal to the English because the American colonists were protestant. Your story is all the more interesting because it makes more sense. The enemies of the "Canadians" should be the English but history books do not mention this. Yes, you are totally correct, the American Revolution was the continuation of the French and Indian War as was the War of 1812. Thank you so much for sharing your story. Has anyone in your family written and or published this story?

[@fortunatusnine2012]

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[@lizlittle1641]

I have the movie Alone Yet Not Alone. I also have the book.

[@wesleyestill7653]

This history is rarely mentioned. The cruel Indians killed countless numbers of European settlers.

[@bryan7938]

🤣🤣🤣 yea right. Damn those Indians trying to protect their land 😊

[@Patricia-pg1ei]

The cruel Indians who had been displaced by same settlers? Your narrator is horrible.

[@trishareynolds8011]

Not as cruel as many 'settlers' and soldiers. The indians' saved the first settlers but received little thanks for it.

[@lindsaysisk14]

@@trishareynolds8011exactly I’m curious as to why almost every video is about how the Indians “attacking” settlements , which are true yes , but where is the history of the Europeans coming over & massacring entire villages , taking their land ….

[@eilenekellogg-ki2br]

Wesley both sides were crule to each other

[@rocroc]

Well, the irony here is that it was not only the Indians in their brutality, it was the settlers who invaded their homeland and stole away their property. The Indians were fighting a war for their homeland, for their people. It is happening today, every day, around the world. More than a million people killed or maimed in the last two plus years. Although the Indians took scalps and are well noted for that, the settlers took scalps as well. I once lived in Nashville, TN and someone there used to publish a monthly newspaper that duplicated stories from the early days of settlement. About every newspaper included stories of the settlers conflict with Indians. It wasn't pretty and it was always the Indians fault as the settlers dismantled one Indian village after another. I am a byproduct of that history of settlement. Dutch/Irish/English; Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia (near the homeland of the Cherokee nation). It is what it was - war; but we were not innocent.

[@kathrynmolesa1641]

Savages were red and white.

[@RAKY198]

This is what happens when you invade someone's land, massacre them, snatch their resources and start calling the land as yours.

[@turnipthebeet7120]

They lost lol because they were wrong

[@user-bk8iy1sd7r]

Idk why but that story told by the old man about him and his brother getting attacked getting firewood sounds like he killed his brother and blamed the scary Indians

[@Doppelreiter]

You use a lot of AI-generated images. I'm sorry, brother, they are just terrible. For example, the ones at 6:55, and 12:56 and others are pure nightmares. Love all your stories though. Thank you!

[@user-qj8pc4dv7g]

NOT so noble SAVAGES. TEACH THAT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

Great but you are mispronouncing Schuylkill.

[@jwhiskey242]

By the way it is pronounced - SKOO-KILL. Requests to the Quaker officials brought the response - of "What are you doing to the poor Indiasns"?

[@jeanfish7]

I highly doubt the scalping if the children survived

[@richardw3470]

Yes people did survive scalping - including children. There was a massacre near my family's home in the mid-1700s and one young boy was scalped and otherwise injured. He lived to a ripe old age. The entire scalp wasn't always ripped off.

[@dianebrady6784]

Children were not always scalped. They were often kidnapped. Try watching the video again. Your distracted..... probably overwhelmed with this crappy economy.

[@eileensullivan4924]

@@richardw3470 Yeah, I heard of at least one adult surviving. Had no idea that could happen. The Greeks scalped their enemies, too.

[@richardw3470]

@@eileensullivan4924 Greeks! I don't know much Greek history aside from the classical - statues, temples, etc. And, I'm too old to start on Greeks scalping. So much for them being the great civilization. You've spoiled my illusions. (Not really, man is capable of just about any atrocity and sometimes for the most ridiculous reasons.)

[@nancyg8154]

Why are we still not saying the actual names of the Native Tribes instead of calling them Indian? They are from here, not India.

[@manleynelson9419]

Because that's what we do in America we call them Indians because Columbus thought he was in a different place when he landed in the Caribbean so he called him Indians cuz he thought he was in a different part of the world so now we still call them Indians and we do call them by their actual names and the names of their tribes as well as Indians

[@Swift_2028]

Plus, they get to pal around with aristos and royals

[@bravewave2084]

School kul is how we pronounce Schuylkill. Nice reporting. They're probably relatives.

[@t.sommers6121]

How about that... White children, enslaved by Native Americans. Never even heard about that. Thank you for keeping these stories alive.

[@user-yv1np2zg1p]

Regina and her love child made it back home. What was the father's name? Why didn't they just admit that she got impregnated while living with the Americans?