Elizabeth Campbell

  General Notes:

GEN: Murdered in the Cherry Valley Massacre on November 11, 1778. Scalped. House and barn burned down. Three of the children were GEN: home at the time but were unharmed. GEN: *********** GEN: Elizabeth's tombstone - Cherry Valley Cemetery GEN: DICKSON, Elizabeth, wife of William Dickson, who was barborously murdered by the savages on the 11th of Nov. 1778, aged 48 yrs. GEN: 9 mos. Monument erected by her affectionate son, Samuel Dickson. GEN: *********************** GEN: Monument in Cherry Valley Cemetery: GEN: "Monument sacred to the memory of those who died by massacre in the destruction of the village at the hands of Indians and GEN: Tories under Brant and Butler, November 11, 1778. GEN: Col. Ichabod Alden and XIV private soldiers, the wife of Rev. Samuel Dunlop, Robt. Wells, his wife, Mary Dunlop, their four GEN: children, John Wells, Jane Wells, three servants, Wm. Gallt, Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson, Mrs. Eleanor Cannon, the wife and four GEN: children of Hugh Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Gill, Mrs. Jane Scott, and others, above forty in all, whose bodies lie near this GEN: spot; mostly in a common grave beneath this stone, also Lieut. Robt. (- - - dell), killed at Oriskany; Lieut. Wormwood, shot GEN: by Brant at Tekarawa; Major Robt. McKean and his men who fell at Durlach." GEN: ****************** GEN: "At the beginning of the Revolution, Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) was a prominent Mohawk chieftain who was intimately GEN: associated with the Johnsons and warmly favored the royal cause. He received a tolerable English education under the patronage GEN: of Sir William Johnson, and was afterward sent to England, where he was feasted and toasted as his predecessors had been in GEN: that country, and returned in the winter of 1776 . . . [O]n his way westward he was met by Walter Butler, then a fugitive GEN: from justice. He had been arrested as a spy and condemed to death, but had been reprieved and imprisoned at Albany, whence he GEN: escaped and joined his father, Colonel John Butler, at Niagara. He now obtained command of two hundred Tories for an incursion GEN: into the Mohawk valley, and meeting Brant, prevailed upon him to join the expedition for an attack upon Cherry Valley. GEN: Colonel Alden, who was in command of the fort at that place, received information of the intended attack, but treated it as a GEN: false alarm. On the morning of the 11th of November, the little village was attacked, the inhabitants indiscriminately GEN: slaughtered and their dwellings burned. Thirty-two inhabitants, mostly women and children, and sixteen soldiers of the GEN: garrison were brutally murdered. Colonel Alden, in attempting to escape, was tomahawked and scalped. About forty prisoners GEN: were taken and conducted down the valley for the night encampment, where they were huddled together, some of them with little GEN: clothing and all without shelter, with no resting-place but the cold ground. Next day, finding the women and children GEN: cumbersome, most of them were sent back to the ruins of the village. For this infamous piece of work Butler was mainly GEN: responsible. " History of Broome County, New York

Elizabeth married William Dickson on 20 Nov 1752 in Cherry Valley, New York. (William Dickson was born on 25 Dec 1728 in Downpatrick, Downpatrick, Ireland and died in Cherry Valley, New York.)