LOL......but why are you hard on that man regarding his family?
Not on his family. His constantly shifting stories about his long lost son that he used to pretend he had no responsibility for him.
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We scalped far more of them. Towns would offer bounties per scalp.
Scalping was ramped up during the French-Indian wars by the white man as a way of keeping track of what their allies were doing. No trust for the word of a red man apparently.
"During Queen Anne's War, by 1703, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was offering $60 for each native scalp.[12] During Father Rale's War (1722â€"1725), on August 8, 1722, Massachusettes put a bounty on native families.[13] Ranger John Lovewell is known to have conducted scalp-hunting expeditions, the most famous being the Battle of Pequawket in New Hampshire.
During King George's War, in response to repeated massacres of British families by the French and their native allies, Governor of Massachusetts William Shirley reluctantly issued a bounty for the scalps of Indian men, women, and children (1744).[14]
During Father Le Loutre's War and the French and Indian War in Nova Scotia and Acadia, French colonists offered payments to Indians for British scalps.[15] In 1749, British Governor Edward Cornwallis offered payment to New England Rangers for Indian scalps. Both the Mi'kmaq people and the British killed combatants and non-combatants (i.e., women, children and infants). During the French and Indian War, Governor of Nova Scotia Charles Lawrence also offered a reward for male Mi'kmaq scalps in 1756.[16]
Indian Warrior with Scalp, 1789, by Barlow.
During the French and Indian War, in June 12, 1755, Lieutenant Governor Spencer Phips of Massachusetts Bay colony was offering a bounty of £40 for a male Indian scalp, and £20 for scalps of females or of children under 12 years old.[17] In 1756, Pennsylvania Governor Morris, in his Declaration of War against the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) people, offered "130 Pieces of Eight, for the Scalp of Every Male Indian Enemy, above the Age of Twelve Years," and "50 Pieces of Eight for the Scalp of Every Indian Woman, produced as evidence of their being killed."[18]
Some scalping incidents even occurred during the American Civil War; for example, Confederate guerrillas led by Bloody Bill Anderson were well known for decorating their saddles with the scalps of Union soldiers they had killed.[22] Archie Clement had the reputation of being Anderson’s “chief scalperâ€.
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