Posted on 01/29/2011 8:27:40 PM PST by Pharmboy
Murder most foul/cold case ping for RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...
How disturbing! What an intriguing tale.
First mass murder—if you exclude mass killings of Indians by whites, of whites by Indians, and of one tribe of Indians by another tribe of Indians. Opechancanough caused a lot more deaths in 1622.
Yep...the same thing occurred to me...I assume that they meant that the first mass murder by an individual.
Covered by your exclusionary list, the Deerfield Massacre was the first thing that came into my mind.
No kidding. One of my ancestors was captured by the French and Indians in 1704 after his mother, brother, and sisters were brutally killed by Indians.
And let’s not forget witch killing hysteria.
I am working on a historical novel about serial/spree killers in 1799. In one year two brothers/cousins killed at least 40 people, and some before, and although one was caught and killed the other escaped to kill a few more before being killed 4 years later. They were called the Harpe brothers. They were apparently loyalists who rode with Banastre Tarleton, the cruel cavalry officer riding for the British portrayed in the Rev. War epic by Mel Gibson, The Patriot. As the war ended they moved to Kentucky and Tennessee. I would be grateful for any information regarding these men or their women’s descendents, especially Sally Rice, the preacher’s daughter.
Thank you so much for posting this. I live 7 minutes from New Milford, CT. and have not read about this.
New Milford is a rural town, loaded with New Yorker’s who have homes there.
I am sure the Liberals are upset that he was given lashes and hung-after all, he couldn’t help himself.
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Not to mention what those murderous mormons did at the mountain meadows massacre.
Well, it's a start.
——He will be giving lectures——
Making money giving lectures is the way of the world for academic pros. You hire me, I’ll hire you.
I attended a book reading the other night via our State Historical Society. It was based on the book, ‘Badger Boneyards; The Eternal Rest of the Story’ by Dennis McCann (who spoke & is a friend of the family) and it was very interesting.
He’s unearthed (pun intended!) stories about various people buried here in Wisconsin and their life stories. Really interesting reading.
Shameless plug for Dennis:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whspress/books/book.asp?book_id=363
Interesting...thanks!
Indeed, Nicholas was forced to stand in the gallows and watch his brother be hanged.
My father witnessed a hanging while serving in the US Army during WWI. In the ranks was the perp's brother.
The crime? Rape.
I think he means mass murder in the criminal-judicial sense, as opposed to skirmishes and battles to gain/protect territory and unlike a single murder, which may be a crime of passion, accident (manslaughter) or pre-meditated.
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