Jonathan Alder: A Prisoner with the Indians Thirteen Years
"Alder's Indian incarnation began with a...run of the gauntlet...he was adopted into a Mingo tribe...he became accustomed to his rugged life." Dayton Daily News, Dec. 25, 1960
The stories of those who have survived captivity by hostile frontier tribes are full of harrowing interest, and one of the most intriguing is that told by Jonathan Alder in his narrative of captivity among the Shawnee Indians from 1782 to 1795.
Jonathan Alder (1773 –1849) was an American pioneer, and the first white settler in Madison County, Ohio. As a youth living in Virginia, Alder was captured by Shawnee Indians, and later adopted by a Mingo chief in the Ohio Country. He lived with the Native Americans for many years, marrying a Shawnee woman before returning to the white community.
Alder settled near present-day Plain City, Ohio, where he became a farmer. He was reunited with his birth family, which moved to Ohio with him, and also had a short career as a military officer during the War of 1812. A middle school, high school, and school district in Plain City all bear his name.
On the outbreak of hostilities in 1812 the Indian chiefs held a council and sent a deputation to Alder, to learn which side to espouse, saying that the British wished them to go and fight for them, holding out the promise that in such case they would support their families. He advised them to remain at first neutral, and told them they need not be afraid of the Americans harming them. They followed Alder's advice, for a while remained neutral, and eventually became warm friends of the Americans.
In 1915, The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society, published a 12-page article of John Alder's account of his captivity, reprinted here.
In the June after he was taken occurred Crawford's defeat. He describes the anxiety of the squaws while the men were gone to the battle, and their joy on their returning with scalps and other trophies of the victory. He defends Simon Girty from the charge of being the instigator of the burning of Crawford, and states that he could not have saved his life because he had no influence in the Delaware tribe, whose prisoner Crawford was.
Alder was dwelling at the Mackachack towns when they were destroyed by Logan in 1786; was in the attack on Fort Recovery in 1794 (see Mercer County), and went on an expedition into "Kaintucky to steal horses from the settlers.
Alder remained with the Indians until after Wayne's treaty, in 1795.
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The stories of those who have survived captivity by hostile frontier tribes are full of harrowing interest, and one of the most intriguing is that told by Jonathan Alder in his narrative of captivity among the Shawnee Indians from 1782 to 1795.
Jonathan Alder (1773 –1849) was an American pioneer, and the first white settler in Madison County, Ohio. As a youth living in Virginia, Alder was captured by Shawnee Indians, and later adopted by a Mingo chief in the Ohio Country. He lived with the Native Americans for many years, marrying a Shawnee woman before returning to the white community.
Alder settled near present-day Plain City, Ohio, where he became a farmer. He was reunited with his birth family, which moved to Ohio with him, and also had a short career as a military officer during the War of 1812. A middle school, high school, and school district in Plain City all bear his name.
On the outbreak of hostilities in 1812 the Indian chiefs held a council and sent a deputation to Alder, to learn which side to espouse, saying that the British wished them to go and fight for them, holding out the promise that in such case they would support their families. He advised them to remain at first neutral, and told them they need not be afraid of the Americans harming them. They followed Alder's advice, for a while remained neutral, and eventually became warm friends of the Americans.
In 1915, The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society, published a 12-page article of John Alder's account of his captivity, reprinted here.
In the June after he was taken occurred Crawford's defeat. He describes the anxiety of the squaws while the men were gone to the battle, and their joy on their returning with scalps and other trophies of the victory. He defends Simon Girty from the charge of being the instigator of the burning of Crawford, and states that he could not have saved his life because he had no influence in the Delaware tribe, whose prisoner Crawford was.
Alder was dwelling at the Mackachack towns when they were destroyed by Logan in 1786; was in the attack on Fort Recovery in 1794 (see Mercer County), and went on an expedition into "Kaintucky to steal horses from the settlers.
Alder remained with the Indians until after Wayne's treaty, in 1795.
Jonathan Alder: A Prisoner with the Indians Thirteen Years
"Alder's Indian incarnation began with a...run of the gauntlet...he was adopted into a Mingo tribe...he became accustomed to his rugged life." Dayton Daily News, Dec. 25, 1960
The stories of those who have survived captivity by hostile frontier tribes are full of harrowing interest, and one of the most intriguing is that told by Jonathan Alder in his narrative of captivity among the Shawnee Indians from 1782 to 1795.
Jonathan Alder (1773 –1849) was an American pioneer, and the first white settler in Madison County, Ohio. As a youth living in Virginia, Alder was captured by Shawnee Indians, and later adopted by a Mingo chief in the Ohio Country. He lived with the Native Americans for many years, marrying a Shawnee woman before returning to the white community.
Alder settled near present-day Plain City, Ohio, where he became a farmer. He was reunited with his birth family, which moved to Ohio with him, and also had a short career as a military officer during the War of 1812. A middle school, high school, and school district in Plain City all bear his name.
On the outbreak of hostilities in 1812 the Indian chiefs held a council and sent a deputation to Alder, to learn which side to espouse, saying that the British wished them to go and fight for them, holding out the promise that in such case they would support their families. He advised them to remain at first neutral, and told them they need not be afraid of the Americans harming them. They followed Alder's advice, for a while remained neutral, and eventually became warm friends of the Americans.
In 1915, The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society, published a 12-page article of John Alder's account of his captivity, reprinted here.
In the June after he was taken occurred Crawford's defeat. He describes the anxiety of the squaws while the men were gone to the battle, and their joy on their returning with scalps and other trophies of the victory. He defends Simon Girty from the charge of being the instigator of the burning of Crawford, and states that he could not have saved his life because he had no influence in the Delaware tribe, whose prisoner Crawford was.
Alder was dwelling at the Mackachack towns when they were destroyed by Logan in 1786; was in the attack on Fort Recovery in 1794 (see Mercer County), and went on an expedition into "Kaintucky to steal horses from the settlers.
Alder remained with the Indians until after Wayne's treaty, in 1795.
The stories of those who have survived captivity by hostile frontier tribes are full of harrowing interest, and one of the most intriguing is that told by Jonathan Alder in his narrative of captivity among the Shawnee Indians from 1782 to 1795.
Jonathan Alder (1773 –1849) was an American pioneer, and the first white settler in Madison County, Ohio. As a youth living in Virginia, Alder was captured by Shawnee Indians, and later adopted by a Mingo chief in the Ohio Country. He lived with the Native Americans for many years, marrying a Shawnee woman before returning to the white community.
Alder settled near present-day Plain City, Ohio, where he became a farmer. He was reunited with his birth family, which moved to Ohio with him, and also had a short career as a military officer during the War of 1812. A middle school, high school, and school district in Plain City all bear his name.
On the outbreak of hostilities in 1812 the Indian chiefs held a council and sent a deputation to Alder, to learn which side to espouse, saying that the British wished them to go and fight for them, holding out the promise that in such case they would support their families. He advised them to remain at first neutral, and told them they need not be afraid of the Americans harming them. They followed Alder's advice, for a while remained neutral, and eventually became warm friends of the Americans.
In 1915, The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society, published a 12-page article of John Alder's account of his captivity, reprinted here.
In the June after he was taken occurred Crawford's defeat. He describes the anxiety of the squaws while the men were gone to the battle, and their joy on their returning with scalps and other trophies of the victory. He defends Simon Girty from the charge of being the instigator of the burning of Crawford, and states that he could not have saved his life because he had no influence in the Delaware tribe, whose prisoner Crawford was.
Alder was dwelling at the Mackachack towns when they were destroyed by Logan in 1786; was in the attack on Fort Recovery in 1794 (see Mercer County), and went on an expedition into "Kaintucky to steal horses from the settlers.
Alder remained with the Indians until after Wayne's treaty, in 1795.
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