Ruth TRIPP

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From Mrs. Moss from various sources: Jonathan and Ruth are described in the record of their marriage at Warwick as both of Portsmouth. The name Jonathan Slocum appears in the list of the original settlers of Wyoming Valley in 1762 and on the Westmoreland Tax Lists of Wilkes-Barre District in 1777 and 1778. In the autumn of 177, with his wife, six sons and three daughters, he removed from Warwick Rhode Island to Wilkers-Barre, PA

Ruth married Jonathan SLOCUM on 23 Feb 1757 in Warwick, Kent, RI. Jonathan was born on 01 May 1733 in East Greenwich, Rhode Island - Kent County; died on 16 Dec 1778 in Wilkes Barre, Luzerne, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Mre. Moss from various sources: He was wounded by the Indians who slew his father in 1778 but escaped. He was a very active member of the Yankee party in the Second Yankee-Pennamite War. He served as High Sheriff of Luzerne County in 1796. Buried in Forty-Fort Cemetery

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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.