ATTACKS IN OCT AND NOV 1755
Attacks occur near near a depot of supplies in 1755.
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A planned attack but never materialized was by captured and killed Sieur D’ouville in April 1756.
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Watkins Ferry, Fort Maidstone and Conococheague (see area of Conococheague Institute) are the names often used to indicate this supply depot.
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Many of the links show map locations.
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October 16, 1755
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The picture is of the Virginia Regiment George Mercer Company of 1755 to 1757 re-enactor group. Christopher Gist mentioned below was a Captain of a Company of Scouts in the Virginia Regiment.
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November 1, 1755 to November 14, 1755
Christopher Gist writes a letter to Col George Washington before he, Gist, travels out to present day Harrisburg PA area just after the attack on Penn’s Creek west of the Harrisburg PA area and north of the Depot area (referred to variously in letters of the time as Watkins Ferry, Fort Maidstone and Conococheague ) ... and on the very day of the Massacre of the Great Cove, noted below.
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MASSACRE OF THE GREAT COVE
After the defeat of Braddock, in 1755, the weight of savage ferocity fell heavily on the sturdy frontiersmen. On Saturday, November 1, 1755, a party of about one hundred Indians, Shawnees and Delawares, among them Shingas, the Delaware King, entered the Great Cove and began murdering the defenseless inhabitants and sestroying their property, one of which attacked the inhabitants of the Cove and the other swept down on Connoloways. Sheriff Potter on November 14, 1755 reported “that ninety three families which were settled in the Coves and the Connolways, forty seven were either killed or taken and the rest deserted.”
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Source:
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The Janet Martin Story of Great Cove
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