John Tidd

1708 - 1757  (49 years)

• Name	John Tidd
  Birth	1708
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Jun 1757	Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I4299	Carl
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2016

  
  

  Family	Olive Martin
  Marriage	Nov 1738
  Children	1. James Tidd   2. Olive Tidd + 3. Susannah Tidd   4. William Tidd,   b. 1744   5. John Tidd,   b. 22 Dec 1748   6. Joseph Tidd,   b. 22 Dec 1748 + 7. Martin Tidd, Sr.,   b. 1750, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania d. 19 Sep 1837, Kinsman, Trumbull County, Ohio (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F1355	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Title: Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania: The Indian forts of the Blue Mountains. By H.M. Richards. The frontier forts within the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River. By J.M. Buckalew . The frontier forts within the Wyoming Valley region. Volume 1 of Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania Authors: Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, John M. Buckalew, Sheldon Reynolds, Jay Gilfillan Weiser, George Dallas Albert, Thomas Lynch Montgomery Publisher: C. M. Busch, state printer, 1896 Page 294: At the same time that the above deposition was read before Council, another letter from Major Parsons, of June 26th, was presented giving an account of the attack on Brodhead's house, about a mile from and in sight of Fort Hamilton, wh ich they burnt. At the same time they killed and scalped one Tidd besides destroying a number of animals. (Col. Rec., vii, p. 620.) Page 315:(23 June 1757). In the morning, near Eleven O'c, the fort was allami'd by some of the neighbours who had made their escape from the Enemy, five of them in Company near Brawdhead's house, seeking their horses in order to go to mill, wa s fired upon by the Enemy, and said that one of them, John Tidd by name, was Kill'd ... John Tidd killed and scalped by Indians: source: The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania, Volume 1, Page 314, killed 23 June 1757 Also, Pension of William Tidd, Ann, Number R.10598, page 3, from an affidavit Elizabeth (Tidd) Henry daughter of Martin Tidd, Sr. "the tradition of the family has it . . .her Grandfather, father of her father and father of uncle William Tidd was killed the Indians in the French and Indian War.. On June 23rd, 1757, during the French & Indian War ? what some have described as the first world war and known outside of North America as the Seven Years' War ? John Tidd was murdered and scalped by "a large body of Indians" near Fort Hamilton, Pennsylvania, in what is now the borough of Stroudsburg in Monroe County. He was buried the next day, according to a soldier who wrote about the incident in his journal. Source: Title: A history of the Tidds of Ohio, Genealogy & local history, Author: Howard Harmon Tidd