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HISTORY OF FRANCIS
SLOCUM
THE CAPTIVE
A Civilized Heredity vs. A Savage, and Later Barbarous,
Environment
by Charles Elihu Slocum, M.D., PH.D., LL.D.
Member of the American Historical Association; The New
England Historic Genealogical Society; The Old Colony
Historical Society; The 'Old NorthWest' Genealogical
Society; The Ohio State Archeological and Historical
Society; The Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical
Association, etc.
Publ. Defiance, Ohio by the Author
1908 |
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CONTENTS:
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PAGE |
| Aborigines: |
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| -- Delawares, The Captors |
9, 22 |
| -- Their Adoption and
Treatment of the Captive |
20 |
| -- Their Later Condition |
22 |
| -- Miamis, with whom the
Captive later dwelt |
22 |
| -- Condition of the |
22, 25, 37, 40 |
| -- Final Peace with |
38 |
| -- Made Citizens |
23 |
| -- Treaty with Affecting the
Captive |
22 |
| Bibliography regarding the
Captive |
48 |
| Friends, Society of |
9, 14, 33 |
| Illustrations, List of |
6 |
| Massacre, The Wyoming |
9, 21 |
| Preface |
7 |
| Slocum, Frances, Birth and
Parentage of |
9 |
| -- Abduction of |
9 |
| -- Abiding Places and
Wanderings of as a Captive |
21, 22, 34 |
| -- Efforts of her Brothers
for her Discovery |
10, 11, 12 |
| -- Efforts of her Mother for
her Discovery |
10, 11 |
| -- Her Discovery |
13 |
| -- Her Recognition by two
Brothers and Sister |
17 |
| -- Her Husbands |
22, 23 |
| -- Her Children |
24 |
| -- Her Grandchildren and
Greatgrandchildren |
26, 27, 28 |
| -- Her Petition to the U. S.
Congress |
23 |
| -- Per Death and Burial |
23, 43 |
| -- Interest in her of
General Character |
31, 39 |
| -- Life and Character of
With its Lesson |
33, 41 |
| -- Mississinewa Reservation |
22, 24 |
| -- Monument erected at her
Grave |
29 |
| ----Exercises in its
Unveiling |
33 |
| ---- Its Inscriptions |
44, 45 |
| -- Public Children's
Playground at Place of Capture |
48 |
| Tablets showing Place of
Capture at Wilkes-Barre |
46, 47 |
| Visit to the Captive by two
Brothers and Sister |
17, 18, 19 |
| Visit to the Captive by
Brother and two Nieces |
22, 42 |
| BY
THE SAME AUTHOR: |
|
HISTORY of the Slocum, Slocumes, and
Slocombs of America, Their Alliances and
Descendants in the Female Lines, Etc., from
11637 to 1908. Two Large Volumes, 8vo.
Illustrated |
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HISTORY of the Maumee River Basin.
Pages 688 Imp. 8vo. Illustrated with
Maps, Plans, Historic Articles, Landscapes,
Etc. |
| The
MILITARY OPERATIONS That Twice Saved to the
United States The Territory West of the
Allegheny Mountains After the Revolutionary
War. 12mo. Illustrated. |
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WHITE CHILDREN and ADULTS Captive with the
Savage and Later Barbarous, Aborigines in
the Ohio Country. 12mo, Illustrated. |
| The
DELETERIOUS EFFECTS of Fiction Reading.
16mo. |
| The
DELETERIOUS EFFECTS of Tobacco Using.
16 mo. |
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Address Dr. CHARLES E. SLOCUM, Defiance,
Ohio |
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"When evening came, the
circle met
And webt with anguish sore;
They hoped - threw hop away, and then
Retired to dream it o'er.
And in the chambers of the
soul
One picture memory laid -
A child - one hand among her curls;
The other stretched for aid!"
"Had death been in that
forest home
To call the loved away?
Was it for this that mother wept
For eve till break of day?
No; though they missed the
baby voice
And little dimpled hand:
Death in his quiver hath no dart
Like that which pierced that band." |
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ILLUSTRATIONS: |
| Francis Slocum and her two
Dauters |
24 |
| The Mississinewa River and
Valley |
27 |
| Hon. Elliott Truax Slocum |
31 |
| Dr. Charles Elihu Slocum |
33 |
| The Captiv's
Descendants and Kinsfolk |
44,45 |
| The Monument at the
Captive's Grave |
45 |
| The Captiv's Descendants and
Kinsfolk |
46 |
| George Slocum Bennet, Esq.,
Grandnephew of Captive |
47 |
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PREFACE: |
Captivities have been the order of
conquerors, large and small, thruout
all the history of man kind. Latterly
they have assumed the forms of prisoners of
war, and occasional individual abductions
for quick ransom.
The action of the American Aborigines presented no
exception to the rule of other barbarous and
savage people of capturing of and from those
they might from any or no cause think their
enemies, or people worth exploiting for
profit; and like all barbarous and at times
savage people, all captives they could not
readily or prospectively make other use of,
where immediately or torturously put to
death, and often eaten by the captors.
Children were oftener kept for prospective assimilation
into their tribal family than adult
captives, those deciding their fate having
observed the more ready, and permanent,
molding of character by early environment.
The captivity related on the following pages is in some
of its phases the most remarkable in
history. It is that of a delicate,
timid, female child rudely transferred from
a quiet family in the Society of Friends to
a savage environment among hideous strangers
in time of war, and her influence there
being such as to appeal to and call forth
the most kindly nature and protective care
of the savages for the preservation of her
life, and the preservation of her to them
from her kindred, and this during the most
trying years of the American Aborigines as
savages; and the living of this captive to
influence the betterment of the lives of her
associates; and to be found in the old age
by her brothers after many years of weary,
unsuccessful search. |
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