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squaw put more coals on his back and head, and his body burned almost to ashes
1782
5
The Reverend Corly’s family was scalped by Indians
1782
7
Shawnee and Mingos killed captives by burning, the bodies of 3 given to the dogs
1783-90
c.l,500
Settlers killed in Little Turtle’s War in the Old North-west
1785
4
Scott family killed by Indians in Virginia
c.1785
1
This prisoner of the Indians was burned from all sides by women with torches; when he fell unconscious, he was scalped, dismembered, and all his extremities, including his genitals, cut off
1786
1
Grandfather of Abraham Lincoln killed by Indian in Kentucky
1788
3
Tecumseh and his men scalped at Drake Creek
1788
110
British colonel Hamilton bought these white scalps
1789
1
Medicine man Aiskawbawis ate his wife
1789
1
Indian showed Ironside the heart of a settler whom he had killed
1789
1
Charles Builderback, who had murdered Indians at Gnadenhutten, and his wife were captured; he was slowly emasculated and dismembered
1790
8
Johnston was captured, and others also captured scalped by Indians, then 6 more killed, 2 of whom were scalped by Indians
1790
3
Miamis killed prisoners
1790
1
William Flinn was burned at the stake and eaten by Miamis
1790
1
Abner Hunt was tied to a log, stretched out, a fire built around him, knife slits made in his body, and hot coals put in the slits
1791
24
Mingos captured boats on the Ohio River and killed passengers
1791
2
Daniel Greathouse, who allegedly murdered part of the family of Mingo chief Logan, and his wife were captured by Mingos, pieces of their intestines lashed to a sapling, and they were made to walk around it until they died
1791
1
Officer Richard Butler was captured by Shawnee, who killed and scalped him, then cut out his heart and divided it into 14 pieces so that each tribe in the battle could eat it
1791
1
Soldier George Aikins was scalped by Kickapoos, then stabbed in every sensitive part of his body
1791
4
Soldiers were severely beaten, fainted, and were scalped and tortured
1791
6
Settlers scalped, perhaps by Wabash Indians
1792
12+
After St. Clair’s defeat, captives were roasted, soldiers’ intestines pulled out; they were flayed alive, their limbs hacked and pulled off, brains of children were dashed out, women run through with stakes, and some women’s breasts hacked away before they were cut in 2
1792
2
The Herbeson boys, 5 and 3, were scalped
c.1795
1
The Shawano captured Anantooeah, who tried to use strategy to escape. He sat on burning torches there to torture him. A Shawano warrior said he would not have died except that he was spoiled by fire, and tomahawked him
c.1800
12
Warrior captured by Catawba escaped and was pursued by Seneca; he killed them, chopped them to pieces, scalped them, went to the place he had buried other Seneca earlier, dug them up, scalped them too, and burned their bodies
c.1805
3
Chickasaw warrior went into enemy Muskohge country, killed a young man and 2 women, then scalped them
1806
4
Delaware medicine man Tenskwatawa had a witch hunt where an accused witch was roasted 4 days, then confessed, and 3 more burned
1807
7
Jordan and his children were put in holes dug in the ground up to their necks; dried branches were placed around them and burned
1812
1
The body of Captain Wells was beheaded by Indians and stuck on a pole, while other Indians took out his heart and divided it among chiefs
1812
10+
The garrison at Fort Dearborn surrendered, and troops, settlers, wives, and children evacuated and Potawatomis killed many by torture
unknown
4
Moore family captured; infant and retarded son killed; mother and daughter roasted by Cherokee
1812
20
Tecumseh’s Indians scalped prisoners at Fort Meigs
1813
400
Creeks attacked Fort Mims and massacred settlers
1813
850
American army failed in its attack on Frenchtown on the Raisin River in Michigan, and soldiers massacred by Indians
1813
40
At the Battle of Fort Meigs, Indians massacred prisoners
1816
4+
Creek and Seminole mothers killed their