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Big Bottom massacre
The
Big Bottom
massacre
occurred on January 2, 1791, near present-day
Stockport
now in
Morgan County, Ohio
,
United States
.
Lenape
and
Wyandot
Indians surprised a
European American
settlement at the edge of the
flood plain
, or "bottom" land of the
Muskingum River
; they stormed the
blockhouse
and killed eleven men, one woman, and two children. Three settlers were captured while four others escaped into the woods.
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