A PIECE OF HISTORY
WESTMORELAND CLUB PORTRAITS
Luzerne County Historical Society Collection Oil on Canvas One of the ten children of Jonathan and Ruth Tripp Slocum, Frances was five years old at the time she was taken into captivity on her father’s farm located at the present intersection of North Pennsylvania Avenue and East Union Street in Wilkes-Barre by a roving band of Delaware Indians on November 2, 1778. Taken to upstate New York, she was adopted by an Indian family in the Delaware tribe. The family first relocated to Ohio and finally settled in Indiana. Frances married a chief of the Miami tribe, Shepancanah, and settled in the Osage village where she raised two sons and two daughters on the banks of the Mississinewa River. Her family continued to search for the “Lost Daughter of Wyoming” when in 1837, her brother, Joseph Slocum, learned through an article in a Lancaster newspaper of a white woman living among the Miami’s who gave details of her capture. Joseph and his brother, Isaac, went to Indiana where they met with Frances. Despite all of the entreaties of her family to return with them to Wilkes-Barre, Frances chose to remain with her children and grandchildren where she died on March 9, 1847. FRANCES SLOCUM MO-CON-NO-QUAH (LITTLE BEAR) 1773-1847
KEKENAKUSHWA (CUT FINGER) DAUGHTER OF FRANCES SLOCUM
Luzerne County Historical Society Collection Oil on Canvas The oldest daughter born to Frances Slocum and Chief She-Po-Con-Ah, the identity of her first husband, (a Miami Indian), is unknown. When married to her second husband, Captain Jean Baptiste Brouillette, she became known as Nancy Brouillette. Overcome by grief at the death of her mother, she died four days later on March 13, 1847 and was buried at Deaf Man’s Village with her first husband and her mother.
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