Hmmmmmmmmmm
In 1654 the Indians on Manhattan Island massacred my ancestor and his son...
In Feb 1690 5 brothers of another ancestor were kidnapped by the Indians from Schenectady and taken to Canada while the parents and younger children were away in Albany..Many of the villagers were massacred that night and most of the village was burnt down ...
8 Sept 1755 my 6th great grandfather was killed at the Battle of Bloody Pond, Lake George, NY ...another massacre by Indians (helped by the French)
The one in PA, about my 5th gr grandfather, the Indians ambushed some men clearing a field. The Indian cut out his heart and held it aloft on knife/spear. Jonathan Hardin for whom I believe Hardin County, KY was named, shot him dead.
I've read account after account in family histories about the Indians killing the colonists, and the Indiana provoked all of them. Later there was some brutality when later settlers went on the offensive, definitely.
I know the ancestor above, my patrilineal line, took part in the massacre at Mystic. It makes me feel bad the way it is said to have happened, but reading excerpts from Lion Gardiner's journal, the Indians kept picking them off one or a few at a time.
What really ticks me off are self righteous people who live on land and property allegedly stolen from the natives. They pontificate of the evils of the white men and think they have no blame because THEIR ancestors came after the Indian business was over with. They share in the collective guilt then.