Massacre of the Conestogas by Jack Brubaker

Author:Jack Brubaker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

Map by Chris Emlet.

John Hay Jr., the sheriff’s son, and Robert Beatty and John Miller, two of the government’s overseers at Indian Town, told the fourteen Conestogas to travel to Lancaster. The Indians moved into the workhouse in shifts. Robert Thompson and Dr. Adam Simon Kuhn, two of Shippen’s fellow justices, processed the first four on December 16, two days after the massacre at Conestoga. Sheriff Hay brought in the other ten, including young Chrisly, the next day. In a letter to his son in Philadelphia, Shippen explained that the Indians consented to the move “because they know it was for their preservation.”

The magistrate quickly added that the move also would preserve the community from the Indians: “Had it not been for the great Snow which fell here the day the Indians were killed at the Conestogo Town, harmless as they might have been before, it would not have been in our Power to have put them under any confinement, but they would immediately have sought revenge.”

By the act of moving the Indians into a county facility, Shippen and Lancaster’s other magistrates took personal responsibility for their welfare. John Penn punctuated that decision on December 21 when he told the Pennsylvania Assembly that the surviving Conestogas “are now taken under the protection of the Magistracy at Lancaster, and are secured in the Workhouse there.”

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