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From: "Barbara" <>
Subject: Indian Raid
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:23:27 -0600


Hello List,
I am sorry the scanned list I sent to Hellen was difficult to read, I should have typed it out for her, but here is the list as published:

A LIST of the people killed, and the Houses burnt, by the Indians at the Minisinks
Killed, viz.
3 .... John Rush, his wife, and daughter
1 ..... Lambert Brink
10 ... Benjamin Tidd and family
1 ...... Matthew Rue
7 ......Daniel Williams, his wife, and 5 children
1 .......Piercewell Goulding
11 .... Mr. Head and 10 of his family
17 .... Cornelius VanAken and Guizebert Vancamp with 15 of their families
20 .... several Palatines and their families, supposed to be about 20 people
4....... Hans Vanfeleara
Adam Snell, no account of his family but supposed about 5
-in all 78

Houses burnt:
William James, Sr.; William McNabb; Robert Allison; John Atkins, Esq; John Fish's Robert Harris's; Thomas Hill's; Giles Churchill's; Jacob Petty's; William Lawrence; Abraham Garno's; Dennis Rozor's; Robert Parks; Ephraim Culver's saw and grist mills; John Drake, Sr.; John McMichael's; Samuel Gutteridge; Francis Jone's;
Abraham Hartman; Daniel Brundidge's; Benjamin Tidd Jr.; Solomon Jenkins; William Tidd; John Tidd's;
Capt Johnson's; Joshua Parker's; Job Beckhorn; John Hiliman's; Mr. Countryman's; Daniel Reever's; Samuel Drake's; Daniel Logan's; Abraham Miller's; Jacob Sly's; Jacob Roror's; William James's Jr.; Bodewine Vanderlap's; William Whittin's; John Hoey's.

Published in the N.Y. Mercury on Dec 29, 1755.


Barbara Parks
Researching Hoey/Howey/Howe/Howy, etc., and Mollhollen, Mullholland, etc., in the Minisinks
Also Hooey/Howey,etc. and McConnel, Butz, Butts, etc., across the river in Morris, Sussex and Warren Counties of NJ.


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