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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, which is supposed to have killed him instantly. Bothof these children were scalped. The little girl, in an in-sensible state, lived until the following morning. Peter,having reached the woods, hid himself between two largetrees which were standing near together and surroundedby brushwood, where he remained quietly concealed, netdaring to move for fear of being discovered, until surethat the Indians had left. Hearing the screams of theSchneider family he knew his way was clear and ran, withall his might, by way of Adam Deshlers house, to hisbrother, John Jacob Mickley, to whom he communicatedthe melancholy intelligence and with whom he took up his abode. Thoroughly alarmed by these depredations the peopleof the county formed themselves into a military company,and wrote the governor for arms and ammunition. Thefollowing names of members of this company are recorded: George Wolf, Cattain, John Martin Dourr, Abraham Rinker, Lieutenant, Peter Ruth, Peace Conferences with the Indians. 549
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55© The Pennsylvania-German Society. Philip Koogler, France Keffer, Peter Miller, Jacob Morr, Frederick Schakler, Martin Frolick, Leonard Abell, George Laur, Tobias Dittis, Daniel Nonnemaker, Lorenz Stauck, Peter Shab, Simon Brenner, Abraham Sawitz, Jacob Wolf, John Schreck, Simon Lagundacker, George S. Schnepp, George Nicolaus, Michael Readcot.David Deschler, The danger, however, passed as quickly as it came.The Indians came to wreak vengeance for their wrongs,and that accomplished they returned. The Irish Settlement. Adjoining the scene of the above massacres, and par-ticipating in them, was the Irish Settlement, of which men-tion has been made heretofore. As early as 1728 JohnBoyd, who had married Jane Craig, went with ColonelThomas Craig from Philadelphia and settled at a placeon the Catasauqua Creek, known later as the Craig Settle-ment. This became, by 1731, the nucleus of a Scotch-Irish colony, whence came George Wolf, the seventh gov-ernor of Pennsylvania. In time the Germans

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