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Title
Burial
place
of
Indian
Martyrs
,
Gnadenhutten
,
Ohio
Subject
Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
Gnadenhutten (Ohio)
Gnadenhutten Massacre, Gnadenhutten, Ohio, 1782
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Gnadenhutten (Ohio)
Tuscarawas (Ohio)
Description
In the
nine-acre
plot
is
a
stone
monument
commemorating
96
Christian
Indians
massacred
in
1872
by
white
men
. They are
buried
in the
mound
inside
the
park
.
After
David
Zeisberger
had
established
Moravian
missions
for the
Indians
at
Schoenbrunn
, a
group
of
Christian
Indians
led
by
Joshua
, a
Mohican
elder
,
came
here in
1772
and
founded
Gnadenhutten
(German
,
tents
of
grace)
.
Surrounded
by
hostile
Indians
, a
ring
of
British
forts
on the
west
, and
freebooters
in
near-by
settlements
, the
little
community
held
on
until
1781
when
a
white
renegade
,
Elliott
and
Delaware
chiefs
,
Captain
Pipe
and
Half-King
,
forced
the
Gnadenhutten
Indians
to
move
to the
Sandusky
plains
. The
winter
was
severe
and their
meager
supplies
ran
low
. In
February
of the
following
year
, a
large
group
returned
to the
Tuscarawas
valley
to
salvage
what they
could
of the
crops
remaining
in the
fields
. At the
same
time
, a
punitive
expedition
under
Captain
David
Williamson
left
Pennsylvania
for
Gnadenhutten
.
It
arrived
on
March
7
, the
day
before
the
Indians
were to
return
to
Sandusky
.
Feigning
friendship
, the
soldiers
easily
succeeded
in
disarming
the
men
, and
imprisoned
them in
one
building
,
placing
the
women
and
children
in
another
. The
Indians
spend
the
night
in
prayer
,
while
the
militiamen
got
drunk
. At
dawn
, the
executions
began
.
One
soldier
felled
14
Indians
before
he
relinquished
his
tomahawk
.
Gnadenhutten
was
pillaged
and
burned
.
Two
Indian
boys
who
had been
scalped
escaped
to
Schoenbrunn
to
warn
their
fellow
Christians
. This
heinous
massacre
further
aroused
Ohio
Indians
against
the
Americans
. The
plaque
reads
: "
Burial
place
of
1782
:
Remains
of
1798
:
Indian
Martyrs
"
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
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File Name
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Image Width
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File Size
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Date created
2010-10-13
Date modified
2010-11-30
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