Wooster's One and Only Massacre

In the mid to late 1700's Wayne County, Ohio was mostly forest and trail. There were settlers sprinkled about here and there, but not many had yet moved this far west from the colonies. The Lenape Nation (Delaware) had become somewhat seasonally nomadic due to food needs, tensions with the white man, and the fact that the Iriquois nation made the Lenape call themselves "women" to be protected by the Iriquois and not to fight for their own defense.
Many well-known Indian chiefs in the Wayne County area (and throughout the Tuscarawas valley) were well-known, revered, and even honored (The town of Killbuck is named after John Killbuck, son of Netawatwees).
This is one of several clashes that happened between the Lenape and the white man and the only one that happened inside the future city limits of Wooster, Ohio.
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[@teamteslaeckyvlogs1]

I was born in Wooster

[@danielnichols8524]

Mass murder.
An outrage.
And the more I think about it the less likely it is that these particular Indians were the ones who perpetrated the killings in Pennsylvania.
They were only about a hundred miles away and that was not very far to indigenous peoples. Yet they not only built a fire and posted no guard, they had traps set nearby. And the fact that the native who was not killed in the first mass murder asked what was wrong when he heard gunfire sort of indicates that they weren't guilty.
White vigilante groups were notoriously careless about exactly what Indians they took their vengeance on. And of course we have no details about the killings in Pennsylvania which may well have been in self-defense.
And what is really outrageous is that people growing up in Wooster don't even hear about this. If 16 white settlers had been murdered in their sleep by a band of natives you bet it would be a big part of the town's history and consciousness. The memorial plaque near the site of the massacre calls it a 'conflict'.
Someone has twice corrected the sign, crossed out the word 'conflict', and wrote 'mass murder' but the city keeps sandblasting it....

[@skagend819]

You bring up some good points. I had thought of some but not all of them. I have lineage on both sides of the conflict between the settlers and the indigenous people.

[@herrmannfan]

I don’t like Capt. Fulkes very well.