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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. The Ohio Company of Associates acted immediately after this to provide greater protection for settlers. The Ohio Historical Society manages the three-acre Big Bottom Park site. In addition to the markers noted below, the site features a twelve-foot marble obelisk, picnic tables and information signs about the site's history. ==Background== In the Gnadenhutten Massacre of 1782, ninety-six unarmed Christian Lenape men, women and children were murdered by the Revolutionary militia forces. This was on the northern part of the Muskingum River. The terminus of this river was south at the Ohio where the Treaty of Fort Harmar in 1787 had been signed between the United States and an "...unrepresentative gathering of undistinguished chiefs..." 〔https://books.google.ca/books?id=ALfK7Ag4SXIC&pg=PA902&lpg=PA902&dq=1787+treaty+Fort+Harmar&source=bl&ots=HQQGiHM2DB&sig=LW_eQo-XWrWTqhB-tRChUG2HA0Q&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gFDFVK_bC4yagwSKzoHoBQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=1787%20treaty%20Fort%20Harmar&f=false〕 The land of the Wyandots was reduced, but in Ohio it was still under dispute.〔Duane Champagne, ''Chronology of Native American History'', (Detroit: Gale Research Inc, 1994), 1789.〕 After most troops were moved from nearby Marietta to Cincinnati for the ill-fated Harmar Campaign, the Donation Tract was being established as a buffer zone between the natives and the earlier paying settlers colonists. This land taken from the Wyandot and others tribes was given to less experienced Whites. In fact, a Colonel Stacy ice skated thirty miles up the frozen Muskingum River in late December 1790 and warned his sons about the danger of a possible Indian attack. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Bottom massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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