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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 158 Today's Topics: #1 GEORGE FOULKS AND SISTER ELIZABTH, [Jamescassidy22@cs.com] #2 PART TW0- CAPTIVITY OF GEORGE AND [Jamescassidy22@cs.com] #3 Part 3, CAPTIVITY OF GEORGE AND EL [Jamescassidy22@cs.com] #4 Part 5- CAPTIVITY OF GEORGE AND EL [Jamescassidy22@cs.com] #5 PART 6- CAPTIVITY OF GEORGE AND EL [Jamescassidy22@cs.com] #6 GEORGE and ELIZABETH FOULKS & THE [Jamescassidy22@cs.com] #7 PART TWO, GEORGE & ELIZABETH FOULK [Jamescassidy22@cs.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:35:33 EDT From: Jamescassidy22@cs.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <6a.285aa11.26445255@cs.com> Subject: GEORGE FOULKS AND SISTER ELIZABTH, INDIAN CAPTIVES, SANDUSKY, OHIO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Part One Chambersburgh, Columbiana County, Ohio December 221, 1850 To Lymon C. Draper Esq. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of two letters from Colonel Joseph Cable the member of Congress from this district enclosing to me our last letter to him making certain enquires in relation to the services and captivity of George Foulks and his sister Elizabeth Foulkes during the Indian War of 1790 and about that time-George and his sister were my uncle and Aunt- theyare both dead and I am the oldest now living of that stock of Foulks, but I am not now prepared to answer fully the enquires of your letter but as soon as I can acquaint myself with all the formation which you desire I will write and furnish you with it-In the mean time I shall be pleased to hear from you when ever it may suit your convenience. Respectfully your obt. servant John Foulkes ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:06:58 EDT From: Jamescassidy22@cs.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: PART TW0- CAPTIVITY OF GEORGE AND ELIZABETH FOULKES Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Draper Collection- Wisconsin richland County Ohio, February 17, 1851. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 1st. instant has been duly received by me and read with pleasure. I as much plesed to receive a letter from you, we are all in reasonable good health, thanks to the great giver of all things. Your letter requesting me to make all the inquiry respecting the Foulks family has been attended to by me. I have conversed with Mother Foulkes (Catharine Ullery Foulkes) relative to your inquiry and she has given me all the information she could on that subject. Mother Foulkes is getting old and her memory of events is not as good as it used to be. you know Mother Foulkes has always been an intelligent woman. She must be 75 years of age by this time. I will give you all the information on the subject of your inquiry I can gather and take pleasure in doing so. Mother Foulkes is here at this time - her and the family send their best respect to you and your family. She tells me that George Foulks (her husband) was the son of William Foulks and was born in Philadelphia County Pennsylvania in the year 1768 and was taken prisioner by the Indians on the 20th day of March in the year 1780 in Washington County Pennsylvania on a little stream called Raccoon while at a sugar camp. I have heard Father Foulks relate the whole circumstance in his life time relative to his being captured by the Indians. He told me that his brother John Foulkes and sister Elizabeth and Lewis Tucker and his sister Polly Tucker and one of the Walkers was all at the sugar camp and the young men and boys had been sent out hunting for koon and about midnight they all returned to the camp and in a short time after they got back the Indians came upon them and took them prisoners. They killed some of the young men, John Foulks was one among the number that was killed. He had a white dog with him that bothered him when he attempted to escape he broke and ran and the dog followed him close at his heels; the dog being frightened at the the Indians, would run before him and retarded his speed so much that the Indians soon overtook him and killed him. The Indians told Father Foulks that if it had not been for that white dog that John would have made his escape. They struck George with the pipe end of their tomahawk and wounded him on the head. They was Wyandottes. He remained with them 12 years. During all this time they resided at or near Lower Sandusky now called Fremont. Their hunting ground was in the vicinity of Upper and Lower Sandusky and along the Sandusky River. His sister Elizabeth married a man by the name of James Whitacre who traded with the Indians after he was free from them. Whitacre, the husband of Elizabeth located at or near Lower Sandusky and remained in that place till his death. They reared a large family of children some of them is yet living, Isaac, George and Rachel. Isaac live in Logrange County, Indiana, George and Rachel is living in Lower Sandusky, (now called Fremont). Rachel is married to a man by the name of James A. Scranton. Scranton is a good scholar and a very smart, intelligent man who could give you more information than any other person I could refer you to on this subject and I think Mr. Draper would do well to write to him. Old Aunt Whitacre has been dead some 9 or 10 years. I think she died about the time the Indians left LIttle Sandusky. I will now detail to you further particulars about George Foulks after his return home from the Indians, he ran off from them, some time after he came home he volunteered as a spy and continued to spy four years along the Ohio River sometimes in Ohio and sometimes on the Virginia side and shortly after he was married. He married Catharine Ulery daughter of Henry Ulery of Allegheny County Pennsylvania. They was married on the 21 day of November 1796 12 miles east of Pittsburg, PA and in the year 1797 on the 20 day of March they moved to Beaver County Pennsylvania on Little Beaver Creek and there remained up to his death. they raised a family of 11 children. he died on the 10th day of Jul 1840 and was buried within 20 feet of the place he made his first imcampment. He was a man that was respected by all who knew him, a worthy husband and a kind and affectionate father, at an eary part of his life he became a member of the Presbyterian Church to which he remained up to his death. The names of his children who are still living and their places of residence and to whom they are married I will give you. Elizabeth Foulkes married Jacob Cline and lives in Sheandoah in Richland County Ohio; Charlotte Foulk intermarried to George Huffman and resides in Washington County Penn at or near a little village called Lawrence. Rebecca Foulk married to Jessie W. Davidson residence in Rome, Richland County Ohio, Dorcas Foulks married to George A. Myers residence Staubenville, Jefferson Co he runs a steam boat from Steubenville to New Orleans. Nancy Foulks married to William Bleeker of Mansfield Richland County Ohio, residence in Mansfield, he practices medicine. Sophronia Foulks married to William Farrow of Jackson County Ohio he is deceased, her residence is now in the village of Rome, Richland County Ohio with her mother and single sister Louise. George A. Foulks (single) also resides in the village of Rome. H.U. Foulkes married to Eliza Jane Allen daughter of Doct. Gustavus Allen formerly of Columbiana County, resides in the village of Rome, Richland County Ohio he keeps a public house. The old lady Katharine Foulks widow, is in good health and is very spry and active on her feet. Father Foulkes after his marriage traded with the Indians for a number of years which enabled him to accumulate a large amount of real and personal property. I must now conclude . Jessie W. Davidson ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:19:17 EDT From: Jamescassidy22@cs.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Part 3, CAPTIVITY OF GEORGE AND ELIZABETH FOULKS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Richland County O, Monday morning Oct. 10 A.D. 1853 Limon Draper Esq. Dear Sir: I this morning take the opportunity of addressing a letter to you to inform you that I will. I have received some 2 or 3 letters from you requesting me to send you all the information I could in reference to George Foulk and his Sister Elizabeth Foulks and to answer some inquires relative to some of the prisoners that were taken by the Indians at the sugar camp. I am very sorry indeed that I have been so negligent about writing to you on this subject. I fear I am too late for you. Your letter came to the post office at Shanandoah a place that I have never rec 'd any letters. They lay in the office a long time before I heard anything about them being there. When you write to me again, please direct your letter to Rives Post Office, Richland County O. I was from home at the time the letters came and they was lifted by some of the family and laid away among some other letters and I had not seen them. A short time since I was looking over some of my letters and found them. I read them over carefully and hasten to answer but fear I am too late. Your first inquiry when and where was George Foulks born and when did his parents settle in West Penn. I answer as follows and will correct something I had written to you before. 1st George Foulks was born December 4th 1767 in Leesburgh, VA, his parents had been living in Washington County at some time before he was taken prisioner some two or three years before. He was taken prisoner to the Indians on the night of the 20th of March, 17788 on Raccoon Creek, Washington County, PA and remained with them 12 years which would make it in the year 1790 when he returned home to his parents who lived at the same place they did when he was taken prisioner. He was wounded on the head by one of the Indians the night he was taken prisioner. The balance of the company was all at the sugar camp when George left the camp and went to a sugar trough to get some sugar water and one of the Indians was hid behind the same sugar tree that he went to get the water from and as soon as he discovered this Indian he started to run back to the came and this Indian threw the tomahawk at him and struck him on the head and wounded him very bac. He was a long time before he recovered from the wound. He carried the mark with him to his grave. I seen the cut frequently. He lay a long time beofre he recovered from his wound. The stroke from the Indian knocked him down. We have evidence he was in the military service acting as a cpatain or leader amont eh spies under Caaptian Samuel Brady in the years 1790 and up to 1794. He was a member of Captian Samuel Bradys spies. cont; ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:48:32 EDT From: Jamescassidy22@cs.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Part 5- CAPTIVITY OF GEORGE AND ELIZABETH FOULKS- CONT. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Letter dated Oct. 15, 1853 Cont: I will now give you the testamoney of Thomas Moss of Richladn Co O who is now in the 87th year of his age. He says that he was well acquainted with George Foulks who had been a prisoner to the Indians for some 11 or 12 years. Said George Foulks returned home to his parents in Wahington County PA bout 1789 or 90 and soon after was employed as a spy under Captain Samuel Brady against the Indians in the Indian war during the years 1790-1793 and up to the year 1794. About 4 years said George Foulks was a member of Captian Samuel Bradys Company of Spies during the above mentioned time in military service. Says his (Foulks) knowledge of the Indian character and being able to converse with six different tribes of Indians rendered his service as a spy very important and George Foulks was in the service as a spy until after General Anthony Wayne advanced to the west. This affiant was employed as a clerk in the store of John Bever at Pricelands Cross Roads at which store the spies did buy their supplies. I had the mrsnd of knowing particularly as to George Foulks spy service and military service during the Indian War. He is now dead, having died in Bever Coounty, Little Beaver Township in the year 1840. His widow Catharine Foulks died in Rome, Richland County O in the year 1852 in the month of February. As to your third inquiry, yousay you have evidence Foulkes as in the spies service in 1792, how much longer you did not know, in your next letter please inform me is that evidence on record or from what source did you get it. George Foulks father's name was George and he was called for his father. [2nd]. the Date was reserved by record, but the record was burned at this tiem. They had their house burned by fire. He was 12 years a prisioner and 4 years in the military or spies service I am confident form the best information I can get. [3rd] when they was caaptured by the Indians the whites followed them the next morning but was not able to trace them on account of the snow being gone. There was 11 of the Indians- I heard Father Foulks say so in his life time. I often heard him speak of the number. [5th] John Foulkes his brotherwas 21 years of age when he was killed that night by the Indians he as laying in a large store trough at the time the Indians came on them and he ran but the Indians followed him and killed him. They would not of caught him but he had a white dog with him and the dog ran before him and bothered him so much that (the Indians often told Father Foukes about the white dog) he ran over the dog and fell. The dog was afraid of the Indians. They was three others killed besides John oulkes, the Indians killed 4 that night and took 11 prisioners. I am nor prepared to say who the others was that was killed. Ther're all buried in one grave the four of them. I can list a part of them that were taken prisioners, George and Elizabeth Foulkes, Margaret and Mary Casselman (Peggy and Polly), 2 of the Turners, 2 of the Tuckers and I think some of the Walkers. These 2 Casselman girls Father Foukes stole from the Indians after he left them - they was of the Wyandot tribe of Indians that took the prisioners. Old Mr. Casselman hired George Foulkes to go and steal the 2 girls (his daughters) and he went and stole them while in the service of Capt. Samuel Brady. [6th] It was John Foulks laying in the store trough that night. [7th] There was some of the Walkers and 2 of the Turner brother and sister and 2 of the Tuckers the same time. [8] Elizabeth Foulkes was older than George. She continued with the Indians. She married a man by the name of James Whitacre while a prisioner (Whitacre) was also a prisioner at the time they was married. They traded with the Indians him and her after they as liberated but they continued to live in the same vicinity that the Indians lived till they both died. Their farm was on the Sandusky River about one mile from Lower Sandusky now called Fremont. Elizabeth had 8 children by Whitacre: Nancy, Isaac, Elizabeth, James, Mary, Charlotta, Rachel, and Goerge. Out of the 8 children there is now living at this time Isaac, George and Rachael, the latter is a widow. She was married to James Scranton-he is dead. He died in Columbus. He as Sergeant at Arms in the Senate in Columbus in the winter of '1851. She has a large family of children left from him to support. Whitacre ( the husband of Elizabeth) was poisened by a French man when the youngest child (George) was nursing at the breast. [9] Lewis Tucker was Father Foulkes step brother. He is dead and I am not prepared to say when he died or where nor can I tell anything about him nor refer you to any one of his descendants [10] As to the locality of the sugar camp I am not able to answer you correctly. They was all in camp but George and he was out after sugar water. [11] The sugar camp was close to the fort. Old Mrs. Nancy Foulkes (George's mother) was in the fort with some of the younger children: Mary, Jacob and William was the 3 children in the fort with her. Mary married a man by the name of Lawrence Feezel, Jacob married Dolly Ulery, sister of George's wife and William married Elizabeth Morgan and they lived in Richland County and died there. [12] They had been engaged in making sugar for about 8-10 days before the attack by the Indians. The Indians had been watching them only one night before they made the attempt to take them. There was no snow on the ground at the time. It was about midnight when they came upon them. The boys had been out after coons till about 11 O'clock but at the time of the attack they did not resist but all broke and run. I am not prepared to tell whether they made any noise that night. To be cont: ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:56:10 EDT From: Jamescassidy22@cs.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <9e.4230afd.2644653a@cs.com> Subject: PART 6- CAPTIVITY OF GEORGE AND ELIZABETH FOULKES Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [14] There is some of the same family of Walkers living at Little Sandusky at this time one of them kept a store at the liittle Lower Sandusky during this time the Indians lived there. I think of one of the same Walkers was married to an Indian. [15] George Foulkes after he had spent some 12 years with the Indians as a prisioner left in the spring of 1790 and came home to his parents in Washington County PA and was a spy in the service of Captain Samuel Brady and continued this until General Wayne advanced to the west. George always said the Indians continued to treat him well while he was with them but he never went with them on any expedition against the whites while he was with them. [16] George Foulks was about 5 feet 10 inches high and would wight about 175 lbs. He was a very fine looking man and a man of first rate character remarkably kind to his family Dear Sir: If you have not completed your history and should want any further information write me. I would inform you that the two Cassleman girls are still living. They are both widows and I will see them this fall. No preventing lprovidence one of them married an Indian while she was a prisioner to the Indians and had one daughter before George Foulks stole them away. She afterwards married a white man. The Indians followed George the time he stole them but they could not over take him. I am respectfully Jessie W. Davidson submitted by: Judy Cassidy 117 Evergreen Court Blue Bell, PA 19422 Jamescassidy22@cs.com ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:15:32 EDT From: Jamescassidy22@cs.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <63.52f042e.264469c4@cs.com> Subject: GEORGE and ELIZABETH FOULKS & THE OTHER INDIAN CAPTIVES TAKEN AT THE SUGAR CAMP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Testamony appearing in Vol 16, Pages 201, -203 Draper Mss. Part I. (Shane's Collection III, pg 144) Testamony taken from John McCormick, near Harrow P.O. Canada John McCormick was born at Maumee Rapids, November 1790. His father Alex'r McCormick was born in County Derry, Ireland and early went as a trader from the Ft. Pitt region to Delawares, Shawanoes and Wyandotts, was several times robbed of goods and once imprisioned him and the Indians who had him, gave him to the Wyandotts, who finally gave him his liberty, after beng 5 years a prisioner on the condition that he should not return to Pittsburg region but buy his goods in Detroit. His wife was Elizabeth Turner, daughter of Wm Turner, with Elizabeth Foulkes, Nancy McKeever and a young youth Foulkes and perhaps a young McKeever also taken. George Turner, a young man grown, was in camp, his younger brother William Also- perhaps five killed altogether. There were nine Indians of the party who took them - had been watching all the previous Saturday afternoon. When the whites first went there to make sugar, took out kettles and with teams, and some of the young colts strayed away from their------ and remained at camp, when the teams returned - colts were caughte & tied up & the young men returned on Saturday for the colts, intending to return home the next day- were playing, jumping, shooting at a mark during Saturday afternoon which rather intimidated the Indians. The Indians took the colts & horses. Three of Old (Half) King's sons were along. Subsequently the eldest of these sons got wounded in a fight on the Upper Ohio- got his bowels shot out and he held them in one hand while he swam the river with the other, but soon died; his death was greatly lamented among the Wyandotts. There were nine of this latter party also. Alex'r McCormick died in Colchester, Canada Oct 20, 18?3 age 76years and Mrs. McCormick at the same place June 6th 1838 in her 80th year. Shje lived while a prisoner in the Half King's family and as well treated. They were married about 178? and had four sons and four daughters- three of them older than my informant. Mrs. McCormick visited Pennsylvania soon after her marriage and found her father dead, but mother living; who died during the months she was there. Mrs. McCormick lived several years at Maumee Rapids, was there in 1790 when my informant was born in 1794 when Wayne came and removed to Canada in 1796. Thinking he could do better there, as from frequent robberies he had given up the Indian trade. Once when some Indians undertook to rob McCormick- burst open his store and one Indian aimed a tomahawk at McCormick which was ntended for his head, but he being some three inches over 6 feet, struck into his cheek. when Bllue Jacket, a small athletic fellow called the Shawanee Devil, rushed into the store and drove out the robbers in an instant and saved McCormicks life and property. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:37:17 EDT From: Jamescassidy22@cs.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4a.50049b4.26446edd@cs.com> Subject: PART TWO, GEORGE & ELIZABETH FOULKES AND OTHER'S CAPTURED BY THE WYANDOTTS. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cont: Testamony given to Lyman C. Draper George Foulkes a prisioner-Geroge Foulks said while he was a prisoner the Indians caught the small pox, it was very bad- when his adopted father went and caught a couple of live skunks, had them tied up in the cabin and he would daily switch them around the wigwam so as to thoroughly impregnate the atmosphere with the odor they emitted thus to shield his famiy from the small pox. To be cont: -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #158 *******************************************