Source: History of Berks County, Pennsylvania, by Morton Montgomery, pub. 1909, pp. 109-110.
During this war, the Indians killed about one hundred and fifty, and captured thirty inhabitants of the county. Several of those who were taken captive returned after the war. Many persons were wounded and some of them died from their wounds. But during these eight years, only four of the Indians were killed in the count, so far as ascertained.
| Date | Individuals | Place | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1754 ? | Peter GEISINGER | Tulpehocken | ||
| June 1754 ? | Fred. MYERS and wife | Tulpehocken | ||
| June 1754 ? | Young girl | Tulpehocken | ||
| June 1754 ? | HOSTETTER family | Bern | ||
| June 1754 ? | Sebastian BROSIUS | Bethel | ||
| October 1755 ? | Two men (unknown) | Bethel | ||
| October 1755 ? | ODWALLER and another unknown (Possibly these two and the two immediately before are the same.) | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | Thirteen persons, unknown | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | Child eight years old, daughter of a man named COLA | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | COLA's wife and two children older | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | Philip --a shoemaker | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | Casper SPRING | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 - __ | BESLINGER | Bethel | (Near by an Indian ? of Delaware tribe ? was found dead and scalped ? by Frederick WEISER. Another was shot and scalped several weeks later. | |
| November 1755 ? | Child of Jacob WOLF | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | John LEINBERGER | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | Rudolph CANDEL | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | Sebastian BROSIUS | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 | ? Six men killed | Bethel | (Supposed to have been soldiers.) | |
| November 1755 | ? Unknown man, a shoemaker at BROWN's house | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | A child scalped and died, (Two others also scalped.) | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 ? | A woman and male child, | Bethel | (Under this woman, her babe only fourteen days old was found. It was alive, wrapped up in a little cushion.) | |
| November 1755 ? | Fifteen persons (excluding five preceding) | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 | Christopher URY | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 | __ YOUNGMAN, | Bethel | ||
| November 1755 | wife of __ KOBEL | Bethel | (Four of their children were scalped at the same time. They had eight children with them. Two probably died. The father was wounded. | |
| February 1756 ? | Two children of Frederick REICHELDERFER, | Albany | ||
| February 1756 | One man, two women and six childre | Albany | (All were killed at house of Jacob GERHART, situate in the upper section of the township, commonly known as the "Eck" [corner]. Eight of them were burned.) | |
| February 1756 ? | George ZEISLOFF and wife, two boys and a girl, | Albany | ||
| February 1756 ? | Wife of Balser NEYFONG, | Albany | ||
| March 1756 ? | Peter KLUCK and family | Albany | ||
| March 1756 ? | A woman at LINDERMAN's house | Albany | ||
| March 1756 ? | William YETH | Hereford | ||
| March 1756 ? | Wife of John KRAUSHER | Hereford | ||
| October 1756 ? | Two married women and two boys | Bethel | (One of them reported as likely to die from scalping) | |
| November 1756 ? | Wife, daughter and son-in-law of Philip CULMORE | Albany | ||
| November 1756 ? | Martin FELL | Albany | ||
| November 1756 ? | Two old men | Bethel | (Ten women and children were rescued at this place from the cellar of a burning building.) | |
| November 1756 | ___ STONEBROOK | Albany | ||
| June 1757 ? | Man unknown | near Fort Northkill, Tulpehocken | ||
| June 1757 ? | Two persons near Forth | Northkill, Tulpehocken | ||
| June 1757 ? | Adam TRUMP | Albany | (Found with a knife and a spear [fixed to a pole four feet long] in his body.) | |
| June 1757 ? | Peter GERSINGER | Bethel | ||
| June 1757 ? | Three men and four children | Bethel | (All murdered andscalped in one house.) | |
| July 1757 ? | Two children near BICKEL's | |||
| July 1757 ? | Martin JAEGER and wife | Greenwich | (John KRAUSHER's wife and child, Abraham SECHLER's wife and a child of Adam CLAUSS were scalped at the same time and badly wounded.) | |
| July 1757 ? | Two children of John KRAUSHER | Greenwich | ||
| July 1757 ? | One child of A. SECHLER | Greenwich | ||
| July 1757 ? | One child of Philip ESHTON | Greenwich | ||
| July 1757? | Ten people | (Alluded to in WEISER's letter, Probably referred to party killed in Greenwich.) | ||
| September 1757 ? | A man shot in bed whilst sick | |||
| April 1758 ? | Jacob LEBENGUTH and Margaret, his wife | Tulpehocken | ||
| September 1757 ? | Two families | (No number mentioned.) | ||
| April 1758 ? | Wife and children of Nicholas GEIGER | Tulpehocken | ||
| April 1758 ? | Wife of Michael DITZELER | Tulpehocken | ||
| June 1758 ? | Wife of John FRANTZ | Tulpehocken | ||
| June 1758 ? | Son of John SNABELE | Tulpehocken | ||
| October 1758 | A man | Bethel | ||
| September 1763 | John FINCHER and wife and two sons | Albany | ||
| September 1763 | Four children at house of Nicholas MILLER | Albany | (Two of MILLER's children were prisoners, but were rescued. When rescued, they were tied together, in which manner they had been driven along.) | |
| September 1763 ? | Two children of Franz HUBLER, | Bern | ||
| November 1763 ? | Three men | near forks of Schuylkill. | (These are supposed to have been the last persons killed by the Indians at this time. |
But during the Revolutionary war, in August, 1780, John NEGMAN and his two young children were cruelly murdered by the Indians thirty-three miles from Reading on the road to Shamokin; and at the sametime a little girl was carried off.)
| Date | Individuals | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 1754 ? | Daughter of Balthaser SCHMIDT (fifteen years old) | Tulpehocken | |
| June 1754 ? | Three children of Frederick MYERS (two boys, 10 and 6years old, and a girl 8 years old), | Tulpehocken | |
| June 1754 - | ___, son of ___ REICHARD (eight years old), | Tulpehocken. | |
| February 1756 ? | Son of Balser NEYFONG, | Albany. | |
| March 1756 ? | Son of William YETH, | Hereford | |
| November 1756 ? | Girl named STONEBROOK | Albany | |
| June 1757 | Son of Adam TRUMP | Albany | |
| June 1757 ? | Young woman from near Fort Henry | Bethel | |
| July 1757 ? | Three children from | near BICKEL's | |
| July 1757 ? | Two children at same time. | ||
| September 1757 ? | Five children | ||
| June 1758 ? | Three children of John FRANTZ | Tulpehocken | |
| September 1763 ? | Wife and three children of Frantz HUBLER | Bern |
| Date | Individuals | Place |
|---|---|---|
| November 1756 ? | Wife and child of Martin FELL | Albany |
| November 1756 ? | A boy seven years old | Albany |
| October 1758 ? | Three men missing | Bethel |
| September 1763 ? | Daughter of John FINCHER | Albany |
| September 1763 ? | Wife of Nicholas MILLER | Albany |
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