Delaware Indians Capture Regina the German Girl, Hold Her Captive for Nine Years, 1755-64 (ep. 5) 

My 6th great grandfather Wm. Galloway Ice (Indian Billy) was the son of German immigrants who was kidnapped by natives with his sisters. He got away years later to return and become an Indian fighter. He also served in every American conflict in his life even repairing guns during the war of 1812 at the age of 87.

I have an ancestor who was captured by the Abenaki Indians in York, Maine. Her name was Mary Sayward age 13. She was among many captives when the Abenaki raided the small village of York in January 1691. She endured a harsh journey north as a captive and eventually was sold by the Abenaki to the French. She stayed in Montreal Canada for several years until the French allowed her to reunite with her relatives who by then then were living in Portsmouth, NH.

My 4th Great Grandmother, Ann Calhoun, was abducted by Cherokee fighters in 1760 at age 5, during the Long Canes Massacre near Abbeville, South Carolina. She lived among them for 14 years. She was returned to her family after stories of a white woman living with a Cherokee group in Georgia came to the ears of her family.

You’re exactly correct , the other history channels don’t tell history anymore. Thank you.

Thank you for keeping real history alive. My 3rd great grandmother was taken by Indians at the age of 2 and was thought to have died, but through DNA it had been proven she somehow survived, even her returned is not documented. This video shows clearly, many were not reunited with their family.

My ancestor on my mother's side was shanghaid in Germany to work on a ship. He was Jewish and escaped at a port in North Carolina. He made his way to Virginia, changed his last name to Skeens and ended up married to a native American widow. They had many children. I assume she was Cherokee as they still had tribes in the Virginia mountain until the 19th century. Most intermarried with the white population or moved on.

My daughter-in-law's German ancestor, Johannes Adam Trump, was killed by Indians in an attack on 25 June 1757 in Allemangel, Berks County, PA. His wife Ursula and son George were taken prisoners, but escaped - although Ursula suffered a tomahawk wound to her neck.

My German ancestor on my Dads side, came to Berks county and settled in a previously unsettled by Whites area. The story I read was that he and his wife traded with the local Indians, no mention of violence. My relatives still live in Berks county, Shillington, Pa. Called Penn Dutch now.

I’m a descendant of Joseph Chawgo, a Mohawk Indian killed in the battle of Oriskany, he was fighting for the British.

How many years did the mother pray for safe return of the daughter? Don’t be impatient, don’t lose faith, the good Lord does things in his own time not ours. God is good!

My ancestor was known as "Bald Headed Mike", after surviving an attack and scalping by Native Americans

Please keep telling the truth - we all need the truth about our history and Native Indian history truth. Thank you for all your hard work on these productions and truthful research.

Thank you for making this history more known.

The Delaware Indians captured Captain John Cox. He was captured for 6 months and told all.He was 15 years old when he was captured.

Right in my hometown. Awesome to hear this. I'm in Reading Berks county. Literally looking at those same mountains out my window.

It is great that you bring these historical happenings to us now. The native Americans were not these peaceful wonderful people that many now days claim.

Incredible grit of the pioneers. ❤

Thank you for keeping history alive

Oh my God!! This is my new favorite podcast. I discovered it a few hours ago and i cannot stop listening. i have long been obsessed with Captivity Narratives. I hve quite a collection, but this is wonderful!

My 6th great grandmother Deborah Cole was taken in a raid on Saco Maine in 1703 at age 5 along with her mother and younger sister at the beginning of the Queen Anne's War. Her father and brother were killed in the raid. Fortunately a French seigneur Pierre Boucher paid for their freedom in Montreal. Sarah her mom worked as a domestic at his residence. At the termination of hostilities Sarah returned to Maine, her daughters, now teenagers, remained in Quebec and married French settlers. Deborah married Simon Seguin, dit Laderoute son of a soldier in the King's Carignan-Salières Regiment that had been sent to fight the Iroquois.

The beauty of our language when it was spoken like poetry! So much more detail and emotion to it.

Last and most important part of my research there are series of deadly raids on Pennsylvania settlements by native Americans allied with French and Indian war . Deaths 14 ,injured one . Victims Swiss and German settlers. Perpetrators Lenape native Americans. Regina Leininger story based on allegedly true story about German girl in Pennsylvania , who was taken from her family home during raid and lived in capturing with tribe for many years and when she was returned after year. She recognized her mother after she sang alone yet not alone and she was baby when she moved with Indians. Her mother is Barbara Leininger and she wife of Peter ruffner. Regina ( aged 9) and her sister Barbara ( aged 12). Unfortunately her sister who had not travelled East after massacre next took their prisoners and headed west . Twelve years old girls Marie le Roy and Barbara Leininger were given as property to Lenape warrior named kalasquay . Barbara attempted to escape but was almost immediately recaptured and condemned to burned to death . There are film alone not yet alone adaptation in 2013 about two sisters Barbara and Regina Leininger main theme their faith became their freedom, their faith will continue to nurture them during darkest hour . It’s very sad story . I hope you like my research. Good luck to you your dearest ones .

My twin ancestors were taken by natives as recorded in the Callen Chronicles. It’s a very interesting story if you’d like to it look up.

Thank you! Another very enjoyable and informative video I travel in this area some and is amazing to think what happened here really not that long ago

What happened to the little girl Susan Smith that Regina cared for?

Really interesting show. Thanks . Cheers from Australia 👍

Wow! Almost made me cry! 😢

Thank you so much 💙

These names are familiar to me. I attended Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA and ultimately returned to raise my family there. 💕🐝💕

Gracias, mi amigo!

Thu my grandmother who was a McCann by birth thu her mother family (Coble last name) goes back to Pennsylvania..York,Hanover) they were Mennonite and German who had left Germany due to Religious freedom to Switzerland I believe then fled to Colonial British America...they lived around Mohawk and Onidea Indians and Onidea had warned them about the Delaware indians but they were pacifist and always shared with indians and were friendly but Delware Massacred majority of them...there is a historical record of all of this.I did not do the research ..but a copy of McCann and Coble family was done by several of McCann family members who I only know thur letters...thanks to great Aunt who was one of two who had been searching for my dad for years ..fortunately he got to meet them 2 yrs before he passed..So if any out there even think about finding your family lines do it a.s.p. before people who know names places ect pass...it hard if you don't have as many places births gravesite ect...I have been able to find many simply because of fact I had list of many and where they live and where they were buried. Do it for your kids...

As a native of New Jersey I'm very happy that someone makes videos for us to watch like this about the history of Pennsylvania and the New Jersey area and you don't find it very easily. Just recently I was watching another video channel about Indians that were native of Pennsylvania somewhere in the Philadelphia area I think that we're making forays across the Delaware River in canoes and attacking settlements Along the New Jersey side of the Delaware River. I think this happened in the early 1700s or the Indian attacks were finally repulsed by local militia. I Certainly would like more history like this to view.

Thank you!

PEOPLE FORGET THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US ABOUT THIS!!!!

Around this same time in Central-Southern Pennsylvania, the entire family of Mary Jemison was captured by Shawnee in Adams County Pennsylvania and later massacred by them and scalped on their way to Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburg) while she was around 12 years old. They treated her very badly at first. (She had to sit and watch them preparing the bloody scalps of her mother and father and siblings including even infants!)). She was then traded to Senecas of Western New York State (largest of the five Iroquois tribes) A couple years or so later, a British officer visiting them saw her and asked her if she would like to go back home to live with relatives. This was a very callous idea as if to think a brutalized young girl of such an age could say no at such a time in the presence of her long term captors. In addition, today we now know about what is called Patty Hearst Syndrome, where fear and terror of your captives lead you constantly to ty to please them, and you can't muster the courage to escape them. Mary said no to the officer who left her there!! He should have taken her back regardless. She grew up among them, and many years later when they were defeated in the Revolution in that part of New York, and they sold their land at the Big Tree Treaty of Canandaigua, they lived more and more like poor white settlers in small cabins. Eventually they made Mary Jemison Chief of their much reduced tribe. In her old age, she became a Christian and also told her story in 1824 to a minister, James E. Seaver, who published it as Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824; latest edition1967). It is considered a classic captivity narrative. She died September 19, 1833, aged 90 among the Senecas of Buffalo Creek in the central portion of Erie County, New York. This was later dissolved when they sold it off piecemeal.

Excellent video as usual.

I enjoyed the Fannie Kelly series I will check this out. My grandmother was a Kelly born in 1880 in Ireland the youngest of 16. She told me she had an older brother that immigrated and she remembers the black bordered letter arriving telling them he has been killed in an accident at a silver mine in Montana. Don't know what happened to most her older siblings. I'm in contact with families of two sisters. Wonder how many went out West.

Greetings from Ireland.

Thank you for doing what you do.

Great episodes. Always listen. The river and county is pronounced Skookil.

I look forward to every episode

I'd say, read some Michigan history and memoirs of the county history; there are a lot of so called missing names, aka's (families) in that tucked away history. Someone mentioned Ursula, which from what I read came from/meant Jerusalem; which there is an Ursula in Thompson's Cemetery with a John King family in Bloomingdale, Michigan.

Thx Daryl, funny how fast the german names americanisized in 1 or 2 generations. Wucherer is the loan shark . And it sounds Melceeoor. Your perfomance is better than ever, greetings to Texas from Northern Germany Ludwig.

You must honor the fallen vanquished, lest ye become the vanquished. To pity the fallen vanquished is a deep dishonor paid to the warrior who fell in combat.

It's very interesting to hear about this time period..I grew up in schuylkill County

My being a Philadelphia native, I found this very engaging.

My third great grand aunt, Margaret Titsworth, was also thirteen when she was taken by Indians during the Titsworth Massacre near Clarksville, TN. Margaret was eventually located and her father, Colonel Isaac Titsworth, got some mates together and went in and got her back.

I love your jab at the history channel it’s about is non-historic there was anything can be. I’m not sure if they’re dumb and think that people hate history or if they just don’t want people to know history, I would guess the latter.

Let’s take a moment to consider our total disregard of the rights of the Indian-“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,” land, language, culture…everything. 0:27

This a great channel! Well done! Thanks for the content!

Yea for some real history. The so called History Channel should change its name to aliens 👽 from outer space.

Schuylkill = SKOOL-kill. Great episode. We know we had some run-ins and misunderstandings between the indigenous people and the settlers, but we never really hear sources like this. It's pretty cool to hear the surnames that are still popular here in the Skook.

Should the Indians have welcomed those who invaded their land?

It is sad that kids were taken from both sides. Now days people only talk about children being taken to assimilation schools and completely ignore the kids that were taken by the Indians.

The Schuylkill river is pronounced the skookle by the local Philly area

Soo what happened to the lil girl? That's so sad. I hope she also had a happy ending.

But the ‘attacks’ were actually self defense, so there’s that

I wonder what happened to Barbara ?

Great selection. Harkens a very real time when a very real faith in a very real and personal God was so foundational to existence, even to one's very survival--a time and state-of-being the new religion of the Left would but cancel, denying such ever truly existed.

This is what happens when you invade someone's land, massacre them, snatch their resources and start calling the land as yours.

Excellent to listen to while I was preparing for work 👍

It is a very sad clash of two very different cultures.

Savages were red and white.

Well, the irony here is that it was not only the Indians in their brutality, it was the settlers who invaded their homeland and stole away their property. The Indians were fighting a war for their homeland, for their people. It is happening today, every day, around the world. More than a million people killed or maimed in the last two plus years. Although the Indians took scalps and are well noted for that, the settlers took scalps as well. I once lived in Nashville, TN and someone there used to publish a monthly newspaper that duplicated stories from the early days of settlement. About every newspaper included stories of the settlers conflict with Indians. It wasn't pretty and it was always the Indians fault as the settlers dismantled one Indian village after another. I am a byproduct of that history of settlement. Dutch/Irish/English; Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia (near the homeland of the Cherokee nation). It is what it was - war; but we were not innocent.

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My ancestor was Nancy ward ( Naneyhi) she was a interpreter in the french and Indian war and helped Defend a fort and is said to have saved Daniel Boones life and im also part Delaware..some of these guys back then probably went by the they all look the same rule..when alot of us weren't the same or did the same things..and my grandma has some German.and our ancestor was a gent by the name Koiner and Keindant... we're also related to some of the dutch who settled from the dutch reformed church..but alot of the barbaric and terrible things done by one tribe would not be done by other tribes.. everyone is different and you can't vilify an entire group of people just because of the actions of some of their kinsmen.. But that's just disgusting scalping children For being scared and just so sad 😢.. please excuse my lack of punctuation my eyesight isn't the best and this is the first time I've heard of Regina and amazing and i like her already her story.. take care and God bless

I also had an ancestor named James Gill who was taken by the Abenaki tribe at the age of 8 after the tribe attacked and killed his English parents in upper state New York. He had a different experience than Regina, being adopted by a chief in the tribe. He was later returned to English relatives. He learned English, reading and writing but decided that in his heart he was Abenaki. He returned to the tribe and married a French girl also adopted by them. He later fought in the American revolution against the English because his tribe were allies of the French in the earlier war and hated the English. He received a commission from George Washington and fought along with others of his tribe. In many ways the American revolution was like a continuation of the French and Indian war.

Great piece. Let me help you out a little. It is pronounced skoo-cull county. That sch is like school.

Wouldn't the Governor's hand be tied in regards to the letter speaking of despair? After all, the Governor would be a representative of King George who would be detached from the colonists, the apprentices, and the farmers. My Great x 8 grandfather was scalped and killed at Hannastown.

Why are we still not saying the actual names of the Native Tribes instead of calling them Indian? They are from here, not India.

My ancestors settled in Lancaster Pennsylvania. They came from Germany however, they were originally from Paris France. When the Edit of Nante was revoked in France they were told that they had to renounce their faith (they were Heugonots) or face death. Because many were being slaughtered, they fled over the border into Germany. When Thomas Penn offered homesteading land to them, they came to Pennsylvania. I don’t know if they had any problems with the Indians, but I would love to know! Their last name was Rank (formerly Ranc). My husband’s family had problems with the Delaware and Shawnee Indians. He is actually descended from a Shawnee chief who held his great, great grandmother(?) prisoner. She gave birth to his child. When her family rescued her along a river, she was carrying the baby on her back. I never realized how many settlers this happened too! Thanks for sharing!

Great history!

This history is rarely mentioned. The cruel Indians killed countless numbers of European settlers.

Great stuff, I had to subscribe! Also, you may want to look up German pronunciation for future videos.

So much work /research to produce these stories. As others I wonder why your channel is not more popular hopefully will take off soon. This is not my history but still fascinating. Regards from Argyll Scotland.

INDIANS ARE IN INDIA,

Happy belated Independence Day to you sir . Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary. We appreciate your great efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level, improve our English as well. As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here first of all biggest reason for French and Indian war American Indians were fighting to maintain control of their cultural future . French claimed upper Ohio river valley. They wanted to trade with American Indians and control area . The British also claimed upper Ohio river valley. Pennsylvania in early 1600s there were estimated 5, 000- 7, 000 Susquehanna but 1700 , their numbers had dwindled to brought on by introduction European diseases. According to historical accounts in 1763 , mob Lynched remaining 20 known Susquehanna. French and Indian war known as ( seven years war ) , ( 1689-1736). Penn creek massacre 1755 raid by Lenope ( Delaware) native Americans on settlements along penn creek , tributary, Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania.

The need to “spur the government to do something” is still here.

Ok… this is driving me crazy. It’s pronounced “skoo-kell” not shookil. I know there spelling is hard lol there are a lot of names in PA like that

Weird how the Natives spoke in High Dutch( German)!

I recommend the book Unredeemed Captive by John Demos.

Omg, at 15:01... Hahahahaha!!!🤣

I think there`s even a movie from 2013 about this story. Its title "Alone, Not Yet Alone" starring Kelly Greyson.

I'm pretty sure that there's a period movie about this incident called "Alone Yet Not Alone"!

So many harrowing stories. 'Things were done'.

It's sad these Europeans took over 1st Nation People's land. This was so sad 😢

Look into the dealings of the Newlins of PA with the Lennie Lenape...

You have to mention what the settlers did before to the Indians! They massacered them first! No wonder that these things happened!

You use a lot of AI-generated images. I'm sorry, brother, they are just terrible. For example, the ones at 6:55, and 12:56 and others are pure nightmares. Love all your stories though. Thank you!

Thanks for; the m;a;ps.

Do you have a FB page?

Great but you are mispronouncing Schuylkill.

Great presentation. FYI, you're pronouncing Schuylkill wrong. It's like "skoo kill"

By the way it is pronounced - SKOO-KILL. Requests to the Quaker officials brought the response - of "What are you doing to the poor Indiasns"?

My own ancestor was the only one besides her father to have survived an Indian attack. Part of me cannot blame the Native Americans as I would fight to keep my country from being overrun. I actually sympathize with them.

It amuses me that only the stories of the white people is retold so many times. Tell me, do you understand why my native ancestors acted like this? Maybe it was because the almost animation due to smallpox and other germs brought to them? Maybe it was because the first Europeans showed up like stray dogs at our doors, we took them in and the greed for land continues to this day... Why are we native peoples still prosecuted? This year, the supreme court will decide whether or not we will continue having rights to our children. Once our childer are taken. The cultures will collapse and the 80% of natural resources under native owned lands are be up for grabs with no one to protest and ask that it be extracted in a way that will not harm the ecosystems around. Easier to simply blame we the Savages,than anything else, i guess...

Savages

Regina and her love child made it back home. What was the father's name? Why didn't they just admit that she got impregnated while living with the Americans?

Awesome & that was a miracle moment when she sang that hymn & theres mom!

I have the movie Alone Yet Not Alone. I also have the book.