Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls: Complete history of the massacre of sixteen whites on Indian creek, near Ottawa, Ill., and Sylvia Hall and Rachel Hall as captives in Illinois and Wisconsin during the Black Hawk war, 1832Scanlan, Charles Martin
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Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls: Complete history of the massacre of sixteen whites on Indian creek, near Ottawa, Ill., and Sylvia Hall and Rachel Hall as captives in Illinois and Wisconsin during the Black Hawk war, 1832
Scanlan, Charles Martin
Black Hawk War, 1832; Horn, Sylvia Hall, 1813-1899; Indian captivities -- Middle West; Munson, Rachel Hall, -1870
Hall, Rachel, one of the “Hall girls”, ages of, 23, 98
death of, 98
exhausted, 42, 98
family of, 96, 98
marriage of, 95
picture of, 97
state land gift, 102
tomb of, 99
wading Kishwaukee, 42
Hall, Sylvia, one of the “Hall girls”, ages of, 23, 100
death of, 100
fainted at sight of scalp, 43
family of, 100
marriage of, 100
pictures of, 24, 101
state land gift to, 102
Hall, William, sketch of, 23
family of, 23
hospitality, noted, 24
shot by Indians, 35
Hall, Mrs. Wm., massacred, 34-35
Harney, Gen., U. S. officer, 51
Harrison, president, 9
Hearts, human on spears, 60
Henderson, Hon. John W., escape of, 32, 35
memorial oration of, 105
Henderson, John H., settler, 25
Henderson, Gen. T. J., oration, 105
Home, longing for, 99, 101
Horicon Lake, 63
Horn, Mr. C. L., grandson of Elder, 6
Horn, Miss Sylvia E., grandchild of Elder, 6
Horn, Thomas S., son of Elder, 100
Horn, Elder W. S., sketch of, 99, 101
marries Sylvia Hall, 100
picture of, 101
Horses stolen from settlers, 39
Howard, Allen, escape of, 32, 35
I.
Illinois river, 4, 13
Indian troubles, 13
bands attack settlers, 21
land claims, 13
marriage custom, 23
scare, 31
whipped by Davis, 29
Indians: Foxes, Sacs, etc., 13
attack Davis cottage, 33
attempt to get girls, 69
carry away Hall girls, 39
conspiracy suspected, 81
parting from Hall girls, 88
refusal to ratify treaty, 16
taken to Morrison’s, 84
trial of for murder, 112
wrongs of, 16
J.
Jackson, President Andrew, 9
Jerome, Judge Edwin, guest of Halls, 24
Johnson, Gen. Albert Sydney, 9
Johnson, Col. R. M., and Shabona, 108
K.
Kaskaskia, mission and capital, 9
Kishwaukee river, 10
Kishwaukee Trail, 13
L.
La Fayette, Gen., at Kaskaskia, 9
Land, Indian claims to, 13
donated to Hall girls, 104
Landis, Judge K. M., married Winnie Eckles, 98
Lands, treaty as to, 13
Lincoln, Capt. Abraham, 44
anecdote of, 53
President, at Kaskaskia, 9
Little Priest, Indian chief, 61
as hostage, 87
M.
Maple sugar, abundance, 62, 64
Marquette, Father, 9
Marriage and civilization, 25
Indian wife purchase, 23
Massacre, the Indian Creek, 31
Medary, George, Hotel of, 84
Michigan, excitement in, 54
Mill, necessity in settlement, 25
Miller, important settler, 25
Military movements, 51
Military Road, course of, 67, 78
Militia, drunk, 52
Monument erected by Munson, 4, 103, 104
Monument erected by state, 104
Monuments on site of massacre, 4, 103
Munson, Rachel, three generations of, 103
burial place of, 98
given land, 103
Munson, William, sketch of, 95
family of, 96, 97, 98
picture of, 96
N.
Neighbors, helping each other, 25
Norris, Robert, at work on dam, 33
shot by Indians, 36
O.
Oconomowoc river, 10
lakes around, 63
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