Militia Dissent and the Schoenbrunn Escape
- When
- March 1782
- Where
- Gnadenhutten and Schoenbrunn, Ohio Country
- Part of
- Gnadenhutten Massacre
Eighteen militiamen refused to kill and withdrew; Obadiah Holmes Jr. later rescued a Lenape child, and Schoenbrunn's Indians fled to Sandusky.
Eighteen of the U.S. militiamen opposed killing the pacifist Moravians but were outvoted; they did not participate and separated themselves from the killers. Obadiah Holmes, Jr. was among those who refused, later rescuing one Lenape child and raising him himself. Meanwhile, Moravian Christian Indians at Schoenbrunn fled to Sandusky, escaping militiamen who had planned to travel there and commit another massacre.
Sources
- Gnadenhutten massacre Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-25
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