The Enoch Brown School Massacre was a notorious incident in Pontiac's Rebellion. On 26 July 1764, four Delaware (Lenape) American Indian warriors entered a log schoolhouse of white settlers in what is now Franklin County, Pennsylvania, near present Greencastle. Inside were the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and twelve young students. Brown pleaded with the warriors to spare the children before being shot and scalped. The warriors then began to tomahawk and scalp the children, killing nine or ten of them (reports vary). Two children who had been scalped survived. Combatants British Empire American Indians Commanders Jeffrey Amherst Henry Bouquet Pontiac Guyasuta Pontiacs Rebellion was a war launched in 1763 by North American Indians who were dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region and the Ohio Country after the British victory in the French and Indian War... July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ... An Atsina named Assiniboin Boy Native Americans in the United States (also known as Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are the indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States and their descendants in... White (collection: White people, White race or Whites) is a term used as a group lumping form of ethnic or racial classification of people. ... A family of Russian settlers in the Caucasus region, ca. ... Franklin County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. ... Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 33rd 119,283 km² 255 km 455 km 2. ... Greencastle is a borough located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. ... Native American Big Mouth Spring with decorated scalp lock on right shoulder. ... Native American Afraid of Hawk holding Tomahawk. ...

A day earlier, the warriors also encountered a pregnant woman, Susan King Cunningham, on the road. She was beaten to death, scalped, and the fetus was cut out of her body and placed next to her.

Incidents such as these prompted the Pennsylvania Assembly to reintroduce the scalp bounties previously offered during the French and Indian War, which paid money for every American Indian killed above the age of ten, including women. The bounty was approved by Governor John Penn. The French and Indian War is the common American name for the decisive nine-year conflict (1754–1763) in North America between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its North American Colonies against France and its North American Colonies, which was one of the theatres of the Seven Years War. ... John Penn (1729-1795) was one of the last colonial proprietors of Pennsylvania, and Lieutenant Governor of the colony from 1763 to 1776. ...

When the warriors returned to their village on the Muskingum River in the Ohio Country and showed the scalps they had taken, they were rebuked as cowards by an old Delaware chief. The Muskingum River near its mouth at Marietta, Ohio in 2001 The Muskingum River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 111 mi (179 km) long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. ... The Ohio Country, showing the present-day U.S. state boundaries The Ohio Country (sometimes called the Ohio Territory) was the name used in the 18th century for the regions of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and in the region of the upper Ohio River south of Lake...

Enoch Brown and the school children were buried in a common grave. In 1843, the grave was excavated to confirm the location of the bodies. In 1885, the area was designated Enoch Brown Park, and a memorial was erected.

See also

• Paxton Boys

The Paxton Boys were a group of backcountry frontiersmen from western Pennsylvania who banded together to defend themselves against Indian attack during Pontiacs Rebellion. ...

References

• Dixon, David. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.
• Dowd, Gregory Evans. War Under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, & the British Empire. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

External links

• A 1992 address delivered at Enoch Brown Park
• Account from the 1887 History of Franklin County Pennsylvania