Who was Frances Slocum?

By: HRA Crack Research Team

Who was Frances Slocum? The answer has an Indiana twist.

Frances Slocum was, a young Quaker girl who was
kidnapped by Indians.

Frances was one of nine children of Mr. and Mrs.
Johnathan Slocum. On the night of November 2, 1778,
Delaware Indian braves entered the Slocum home
in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and carried away
little Frances who was then just five years old.

The first night after her abduction was spent in a
crude shelter under a rock ledge along Abraham Creek,
believed to be within the boundary of the Pennsylvania
Park that bears her name.

That first night the little Francis tried to escape but
she was soon recaptured.

Fifty years after her abduction she was found by her
brothers (who had never given up the search). She was
living on a reservation in New Reserve, Indiana, and
had been married twice to Indiana Chiefs. She had four
children. Mocanaquah was her Indian name.

Mocanaquah refused the pleas of her brothers to return
to Pennsylvania, her childhood home. She told them many
stories about her abduction and life with the Indians.

Frances Slocum died in New Reserve, Indiana, in 1838 at
the age of 68.

In the Francus Slocum State Recreation Area in Indiana,
near Peru, Indiana, along the Mississinewa River, there
is a monument which marks the final resting place of
Frances Slocum who became Mocanaquah the "Indian
Princess".

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