[Pharmboy]

Whoa...something new.

[Pharmboy]

Murder most foul/cold case ping for RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

[Ciexyz]

How disturbing! What an intriguing tale.

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[mojo114]

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.

[fortheDeclaration]

I am sure the Liberals are upset that he was given lashes and hung-after all, he couldn’t help himself.

[martin_fierro]

Davenport was sentenced to 40 lashes and hanging at Gallow's Lane

Well, it's a start.

[bert]

——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.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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

[archy]

Nothing like this had ever happened in the Colonies.''

Nothing ? Just Micajah "Big" Harpe and Wiley "Little" Harpe, who began their depredations in North Carolina around 1775, then moved to Virginia's Kentucky settlements. Plus failed militia captain and river pirate Samuel Mason, said to have scouted for both the British and the Colonial militia during the Revolution, having lived at the French settlement of Kaskaskia befor the shootin' war began, preying on Spanish traveles and farms near the Spanish settlement of San Luis, now St' Louis, Missouri. In later years Mason set up shop at a cave on the Ohio River, inviting flatboaters and other river travelers to his Liquor Vault and House of Entertainment- whereupon the visitors were killed, their gullets filled with gravel, and the bodies then dumped in a quite river backwater.

And then there's Simon Girty. Maybe the worst of them, and maybe not.