Frances Mac-on-a-quah SLOCUM

1773 - 1847  (74 years)

• Name	Frances Mac-on-a-quah SLOCUM
  Birth	Mar 1773	Warwick, Kent, RI
  Gender	Female
  Death	09 Mar 1847	Peru, IN
  Person ID	I26093300844	Bob Tripp's Genealogy

  
  

  Father	Jonathan SLOCUM,   b. 01 May 1733, East Greenwich, Rhode Island - Kent County d. 16 Dec 1778, Wilkes Barre, Luzerne, PA (Age 45 years)
  Mother	Ruth TRIPP,   b. 21 Mar 1735/36, Warwick, Kent, RI d. 06 May 1807, Wilkes Barre, Luzerne, PA (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	23 Feb 1757	Warwick, Kent, RI   [1]
  Family ID	F4574	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Frances Slocum was captured by Three Delaware Indians on November 11, 1778 from her home in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. She was not heard from again by her family until September 20,1837. Frances had been discovered in early January 1835 by a Col. George Ewing, a trader, but a letter to the post office at Lancaster, Pennsylvania was ignored by post mistress Mary Dickson. It lay for more than 2 years before a John W. Forney became aware of the letter and published a story about it in The Intelligencer. prominent newspaper at that time. This was the very newspaper that was formerly owned by Mary Dickson, at the time the letter was written.

  
  

• Sources

  [S_1017694936] Warwick VR 2:172.