Person:Hannah Ford (20)

Biography

Josiah Rogers settled with his family at Plymouth, Pennsylvania in 1776. He is found in the tax lists of 1776, 1777, and 1778. He was a member of Captain John Franklin's company of Militia at the post of Wyoming in April-May 1778. After the massacre, with his family he fled, taking his course down the Susquehanna two days journey, then across the mountains towards Northampton or Berks.

His wife, Hannah Ford, died escaping the Wyoming massacre. A broken piece of board that lay across the path was used for a spade, and in a hollow where a fallen tree had upturned it's roots, a shallow grave was dug, and her remains were buried with all the care and respect their distressed condition would allow. On the board placed over the grave, this inscription was written with a piece of charcoal: 'Here rest the remains of Hannah, wife of Josiah Rogers, who died while fleeing from the Indians after the massacre at Wyoming.' After an exile of some months, Josiah and his family returned to Plymouth.

1.   Windham Vital Records, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   Vol 1, p. 51.

   FORD, Hannah, d. Joseph & Elizabeth, b. Sept. 9, 1723
   [Note: The town of Hampton was not formed until 1786, and therefore is not the place of Hannah's, or her siblings' birth.]