Anna /Margaretha/, Margaretha

ID: I06600
Name: Margaretha Brinker 1
Sex: F
ALIA: Anna /Margaretha/, Margaretha
Birth: 1756 in Monroe Co., Pennsylvania 2
Death: 3 JUL 1781 in Indian attack near Tannersville, Pennsylvania 3
Note:
From Barnhart Ancestors by Janet Walter

Margaretha died in an Indian attack on July 3, 1781, on their homestead near Tannersville, along with her husband George and daughter Susanna.Her Father-In-Law John Learn, was also killed in this attack.

Death of Margaret Brinker Learn and her family

As the last years of the Revolutionary War approached, the Jacob & Susannah Brinker family suffered many changes. Most tragic was the death of their daughter, Margaret Brinker Learn, her husband George and baby Susannah, in the Indian attack of 3 July 1781 at the Learn settlement at Tannersville. An account of this massacre appears in the PA Archive, 1781, p. 257-260 in a letter from Robert Levers to Joseph Reed,Esquire, President of the Supreme Executive Council. dated July 8, 1781, Easton:
"...Jacob Briner, whose daughter was the Wife of George Learne, Tow of the late unhappy victims slain by the Indians, was with me last Evening, with young John Learne (brother of George Learn), who killed and scalped an Indian soon after his Father was shot, desiring a small Party of men might be posted at the place of his late Father deceased for the Protection of his Crop and of his mother & younger Bretheren...These Families, there is too much reason to fear, have unhappiuly fell a Sacrifice to malicious Rensentment; Frequent application had been made to Col. Strowd (Stroud) for a Guard, by the late unhappy John Learne, whose Place is so situated that it is certainly a proper Post, and he was as often refused; and, as the deceased some time past told me mimself, because Col. Strowd asserted he was a Tory and he only wanted men there to have them destroyed, and on which Account, John Lerne, in his Life Time, broght an action of slander against Col. Strowd..."
"from the account I have received from young John Lerne, the Indian attack was thus:--his Brother George was mowing Grass in a meadow where he was attacked; ;upon endeavoring to make to the House, his Retreat was cut off and he was killed & scalped. The old man with his Son John were in a Rye field, and attacked by Two Indians, who both fired; John Lerne the Elder, having first fired, but missed, he was sot and began to run; his Son escaped, and whilst he was watching the fate of his Father, the Two Indians running after him to scal him, Young Lerne saw another in the Rye with his head down as if he was doing something to his RIfle, upon hich Lerne immediately fired & shot him through the Head, but dared not venture to scalp him at that time. He thinks he could have shot another of the Indians after he had loaded, but his Weakness of body being such that he could not make his Escape if he should have missed, he judged, as his Father & Brother were killed, it was best to secure himself. He says had there been four or five persons then present, beside the Family, all the Indians must inevitably have fallen into their Hands--From every CXircumstance it appears there were byt Four...His Brother Geoge`s wife and Child were taken & carried off by the Indians, with some plunder, the HOuse & etc. not destroyed--and afterh the Prisoners were taken some distance were both killed..." These excerpts, from a much longer account give the major facts of the story.

from the web page of phil knox @ World COnnect; [email protected]

Name: Margaretha Brinker
Sex: F
Birth: ABT 1755 in Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Death: 03 1781 in Monroe County, Pennsylvania

Father: Jacob Brinker Sr. b: 9 NOV 1727 in Elsau Parish, Zürich Canton, Switzerland
Mother: Susanna Henkle b: ABT 1727 in Germanic Europe

Marriage 1 George Learn b: ABT 1753
Married: 1776 in Hamilton Twp., Monroe Co., PA.


Father: JACOB BRINKER b: 9 NOV 1729 in Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, Hamlet of Rumikon, village of Elsau
Mother: SUSANNAH HINKLE b: 1735 in Northampton, Pennsylvania

Marriage 1 George Learn b: 26 JAN 1751 in Tannersville, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania
Married: 1776 4
Children
Jacob Learn b: 20 FEB 1777 in Tannersville, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania
John Learn b: 25 APR 1779 in Tannersville, Monroe Co. Pennsylvania
Susannah Learn b: 20 JAN 1781 in Tannersville, Monroe Co. Pennsylvania

Sources:
Title: Descendants of Jacob Brinker-3995 sent from Janet Walther
Text: Margaretha Brinker
Gene`s 4th gr grandaunt
Title: Descendants of Jacob Brinker-3995 sent from Janet Walther
Text: b. abt. 1755/1756 Monroe Co. Pa
Title: Descendants of Jacob Brinker-3995 sent from Janet Walther
Text: d. 3 Jul 1781 Indian attack near Tannersville
Title: Descendants of Jacob Brinker-3995 sent from Janet Walther
Text: m. 1776

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