This was the first burial place of Tom Quick, "Indian Slayer" and aka " Avenger of the Delaware". His remains were later moved to the town of Milford, PA, where the monument to him stood in the middle of Sarah Street.
He was the son of Thomas and Margriete (Dekker/Decker) Quick, natives of New York, who had bought land on the Deleware River in 1722.
This land at the junction of the Modder Kill (Creek) and the Delaware would be the birth place and home of Tom Quick all of his life. His father built a mill here and later the place became known as Milford.
Only a few white people had settled this far west and the Indian children of the area were Tom's playmates and hunting companions as he grew to adulthood. He and a boy named Mushwink became fast friends.
Sometime in February of 1756, young Tom and his father were crossing the river on the ice when they were ambushed by a group of drunken Indians. They shot and killed Thomas senior and later scalped him and stole the silver buckles from his shoes.
To avenge this ruthless murder Tom swore a declaration of war of himself against the entire Delaware tribe until he found the man who shot his father. This one man war raged on for forty years.
One night Tom was in the tavern when the Indian, Mushwink, the one Indian Tom might have spared came in. Mushwink approached Tom saying "You hate Delawares. I hate you. You kill Delaware. I kill your father." Prove it Tom said. The Indian reached in his pocket and pulled out the silver shoe buckles. Tom pointing his rifle, ordered the Indian
to march down the road. That was the last anyone saw of Mushwink.
It is said that Tom spent his last days in the home of a friend on a farm about 5 miles north of Milford, near the Rose cemetery. He was said to have muttered on his death bed that he had only killed 99 Indians and that he wished he had killed 100.
All of the above took place in what is today Pike County,PA
He was the son of Thomas and Margriete (Dekker/Decker) Quick, natives of New York, who had bought land on the Deleware River in 1722.
This land at the junction of the Modder Kill (Creek) and the Delaware would be the birth place and home of Tom Quick all of his life. His father built a mill here and later the place became known as Milford.
Only a few white people had settled this far west and the Indian children of the area were Tom's playmates and hunting companions as he grew to adulthood. He and a boy named Mushwink became fast friends.
Sometime in February of 1756, young Tom and his father were crossing the river on the ice when they were ambushed by a group of drunken Indians. They shot and killed Thomas senior and later scalped him and stole the silver buckles from his shoes.
To avenge this ruthless murder Tom swore a declaration of war of himself against the entire Delaware tribe until he found the man who shot his father. This one man war raged on for forty years.
One night Tom was in the tavern when the Indian, Mushwink, the one Indian Tom might have spared came in. Mushwink approached Tom saying "You hate Delawares. I hate you. You kill Delaware. I kill your father." Prove it Tom said. The Indian reached in his pocket and pulled out the silver shoe buckles. Tom pointing his rifle, ordered the Indian
to march down the road. That was the last anyone saw of Mushwink.
It is said that Tom spent his last days in the home of a friend on a farm about 5 miles north of Milford, near the Rose cemetery. He was said to have muttered on his death bed that he had only killed 99 Indians and that he wished he had killed 100.
All of the above took place in what is today Pike County,PA
This was the first burial place of Tom Quick, "Indian Slayer" and aka " Avenger of the Delaware". His remains were later moved to the town of Milford, PA, where the monument to him stood in the middle of Sarah Street.
He was the son of Thomas and Margriete (Dekker/Decker) Quick, natives of New York, who had bought land on the Deleware River in 1722.
This land at the junction of the Modder Kill (Creek) and the Delaware would be the birth place and home of Tom Quick all of his life. His father built a mill here and later the place became known as Milford.
Only a few white people had settled this far west and the Indian children of the area were Tom's playmates and hunting companions as he grew to adulthood. He and a boy named Mushwink became fast friends.
Sometime in February of 1756, young Tom and his father were crossing the river on the ice when they were ambushed by a group of drunken Indians. They shot and killed Thomas senior and later scalped him and stole the silver buckles from his shoes.
To avenge this ruthless murder Tom swore a declaration of war of himself against the entire Delaware tribe until he found the man who shot his father. This one man war raged on for forty years.
One night Tom was in the tavern when the Indian, Mushwink, the one Indian Tom might have spared came in. Mushwink approached Tom saying "You hate Delawares. I hate you. You kill Delaware. I kill your father." Prove it Tom said. The Indian reached in his pocket and pulled out the silver shoe buckles. Tom pointing his rifle, ordered the Indian
to march down the road. That was the last anyone saw of Mushwink.
It is said that Tom spent his last days in the home of a friend on a farm about 5 miles north of Milford, near the Rose cemetery. He was said to have muttered on his death bed that he had only killed 99 Indians and that he wished he had killed 100.
All of the above took place in what is today Pike County,PA
He was the son of Thomas and Margriete (Dekker/Decker) Quick, natives of New York, who had bought land on the Deleware River in 1722.
This land at the junction of the Modder Kill (Creek) and the Delaware would be the birth place and home of Tom Quick all of his life. His father built a mill here and later the place became known as Milford.
Only a few white people had settled this far west and the Indian children of the area were Tom's playmates and hunting companions as he grew to adulthood. He and a boy named Mushwink became fast friends.
Sometime in February of 1756, young Tom and his father were crossing the river on the ice when they were ambushed by a group of drunken Indians. They shot and killed Thomas senior and later scalped him and stole the silver buckles from his shoes.
To avenge this ruthless murder Tom swore a declaration of war of himself against the entire Delaware tribe until he found the man who shot his father. This one man war raged on for forty years.
One night Tom was in the tavern when the Indian, Mushwink, the one Indian Tom might have spared came in. Mushwink approached Tom saying "You hate Delawares. I hate you. You kill Delaware. I kill your father." Prove it Tom said. The Indian reached in his pocket and pulled out the silver shoe buckles. Tom pointing his rifle, ordered the Indian
to march down the road. That was the last anyone saw of Mushwink.
It is said that Tom spent his last days in the home of a friend on a farm about 5 miles north of Milford, near the Rose cemetery. He was said to have muttered on his death bed that he had only killed 99 Indians and that he wished he had killed 100.
All of the above took place in what is today Pike County,PA
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