Enoch Brown school massacre

Enoch Brown school massacre
Memorial erected in 1885, near Greencastle, Pennsylvania
LocationGreencastle, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DateJuly 26, 1764 (1764-07-26)
TargetStudents and staff at Enoch Brown school
Attack type
School shooting, mass murder, bludgeoning
Deaths11
Injured1
Perpetrators4 Delaware Lenapes

On July 26, 1764, four Delaware (Lenape) Native Americans entered a settlers' log schoolhouse in the Province of Pennsylvania and killed the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and ten students. One other student named Archie McCullough was wounded.[1] Historian Richard Middleton described the massacre[2] as "one of the most notorious incidents" of Pontiac's War.[3]

  1. ^ "Enoch Brown Incident". National Teachers Hall of Fame. May 13, 2014. Archived from the original on September 29, 2018. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  2. ^ Variations on the name in sources include the "Enoch Brown massacre" and the "Enoch Brown Indian massacre". Dixon calls it the "Enoch Brown Schoolhouse Massacre" (p. 223).
  3. ^ Middleton, p. 171

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