Frances Slocum^{[1, 2]}

1773 - 1847  (74 years)

• Name	Frances Slocum  [1]
  Birth	4 Mar 1773	Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Adopted	1778	Ohio
  	Abducted by Indians in Pennsylvania Frances Slocum, or Maconaquah, (1773-1847) was an Indian captive who was taken from her family home in Pennsylvania in 1778 by the Delaware Tribe. She was raised by an elderly Miami Indian couple in what is now Ohio
  Frances Slocum Capture by Indians	11 Nov 1778	Wilkes-Barre Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA
  	Frances Slocum Capture by Indians
  	Captured as a child by the Delaware Indians in 1778 from her Pennsylvania home, she grew up with the Indians, married a Miami chief, and lived in Indiana till her death, 1847.
  Also Known As	When Frances joined the Miami she took the name Maconaquah (Little Bear).
  Web Link	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Slocum
  Web Link	https://secure.in.gov/icw/files/20160304_Frances_Slocum.pdf#:~:text=Frances%20Slocum%20was%20one%20of%20ten%20children%20born,settled%20in%20Kekionga%2C%20present%20day%20Fort%20Wayne%2C%20Indiana.
  Web Link	http://www.wikimarion.org/Frances_Slocum_-_A_Legend
  Web Link	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7457979/frances-slocum
  Death	9 Mar 1847	Peru, Miami, Indiana, USA   [1]
  	On March 9, 1847, Frances Slocum died of pneumonia at Deaf Man's village along the Mississinewa River in Indiana. She was 74 years old. Slocum was initially buried near her cabin at Deaf Man’s village, beside her second husband, She-pan-can-ah (Deaf Man)
  Burial	9 Mar 1847	Wabash County, Indiana, USA   [1]
  	Indian Cemetery, Deaf Man Village, Reserve, Indiana Slocum Cemetery Find a Grave Memorial 7457979
  		Frances Slocum4
  		FRANCES - memorial
  		Grave stone of Frances Slocum and husband at Deaf Man's Village, Indiana
  		Frances Slocum2
  Person ID	I342223142204	Tripp Family Genealogical Website | Peleg Tripp 2

  
  

  Father	Jonathan Slocum,   b. 1 May 1733, East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, USA d. 16 Dec 1778, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 45 years)
  Mother	Ruth Tripp,   b. 21 Mar 1736, Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA d. 6 May 1807, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	23 Feb 1759	Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F32516	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	Little Turtle Mihšihkinaahkwa,   b. 1747, Whitley County, Indiana, USA d. 14 Jul 1812, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	Adopted
  Family ID	F59420	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Shepoconah Wapshingqua,   b. 1770, Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA d. 1833, Peru, Miami, Indiana, USA (Age 63 years)
  Children	1. Nancy Wapshingqua,   b. 1800   d. 13 Mar 1847 (Age 47 years)   2. Jane Wapshingqua,   b. 1815, Peru, Miami, Indiana, USA d. 25 Jan 1877, Waltz, Wabash, Indiana, USA (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F28830	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Frances Slocum4
  		Frances Slocum Capture byIndians

  
  

• 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! Ruth Tripp Slocum never gave up on finding her little red haired girl alive. On her deathbed, she asked her sons to never give up finding Frances, or her fate. They never did! At the time she was embraced as the long lost sister, however, only her brother Joseph, her brother Isaac, and her sister Mary were still living. All of 58 years, 10 months, and 9 days had passed!!

  
  

• Sources

  [S1250885915] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S1258039574] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S1254677282] Ancestry.com, Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts, 1636-1899, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S1258039292] Ancestry.com, Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts, 1636-1899, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).