. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. k houseof their own, which was used as a place of refuge, andstood at the top of the elevation, some seventy-five yardssouth from Teads house. The direct occasion for thebuilding of this refuge was because of the raid made bythe Indians on the neighborhood in 1757. The greatestsufferer, during the attack, was Joseph Keller, who cameto America from Germany in 1737. On September 15,1757, his family, consisting of his wife, and two sons,were carried captives to Canada, his oldest son, a lad offourteen, being killed and scalped. Mrs. Keller wasev
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. k houseof their own, which was used as a place of refuge, andstood at the top of the elevation, some seventy-five yardssouth from Teads house. The direct occasion for thebuilding of this refuge was because of the raid made bythe Indians on the neighborhood in 1757. The greatestsufferer, during the attack, was Joseph Keller, who cameto America from Germany in 1737. On September 15,1757, his family, consisting of his wife, and two sons,were carried captives to Canada, his oldest son, a lad offourteen, being killed and scalped. Mrs. Keller waseventually released and restored to her husband. It was doubtless owing to these disturbances that a peti-tion was sent to Governor Denny by the inhabitants pray-ing that soldiers might again be stationed in their answer to this appeal Lieutenant Hyndshaw, of Cap-tain Garraways Company, with Ensigns Kennedy andHughes, and thirty men, was ordered to Teads Block-house, which was once more occupied, for a while, duringFebruary and March, —
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