Anne Hupp

Anne Rowe Hupp (1757 – June 26, 1823) was an American frontierswoman of the Buffalo Creek Valley in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Indian attack

Jacob Miller settled 400 acres (1.6 km²) of land on Buffalo Creek watershed in the 1770s.^[1]

In early April 1782, she defended the fort of Miller's Blockhouse, Washington County, Pennsylvania, against a Shawnee Indian Attack,^[2] for over 24 hours in 1782 while eight months pregnant,^[3] after her husband was murdered and scalped.^[4][5]

Attacks continued in the area from April to May 1782.

Ann married John May and they had 3 children: Benjamin, Ann, and George. Ann died on 26 June 1823.^[6]

References

1. Michael A. Vacca and Ron Eisert, "History of the Buffalo Creek Valley," Buffalo Creek Watershed Assessment and Protection Plan
2. Alfred Creigh (1871). History of Washington County. B. Singerly. p. 49.
3. Lewis, Mary Anne (July 22, 1998). "Tracking Down Settlers' Forts". Pittsburgh Post Gazette. p. W-5.
4. G.D. Albert, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, John M. Buckalew, Sheldon Reynolds, Jay Gilfillan Weiser, George Dallas Albert (1916). Thomas Lynch Montgomery, ed. Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania: The frontier forts of western Pennsylvania. W.S. Ray, state printer. p. 413.
5. John Crawford, Henry Jolly, Lydia Boggs Shepherd Cruger, Jared Lobdell, Lyman Copeland Draper, Draper Society (1992). Jared Lobdell, ed. Indian warfare in western Pennsylvania and north west Virginia at the time of the American Revolution: including the narrative of Indian and Tory depredations by John Crawford, the military reminiscences of Captain Henry Jolly, and the narrative of Lydia Boggs Shepherd Cruger. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-1-55613-653-5.
6. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nwa/hupp.html

External links

• Anne Hupp and the Siege of Miller's Blockhouse
• Historical Marker
• Pennsylvania Museum and Historical Commission, Official Marker Record
• Creigh, Alfred., History of Washington County: From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, B. Singerly: Harrisburg, PA. 1871. p. 46-50 Link to Text
• Lewis, Mary Anne., "Tracking Down Settler's Forts," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 July 1998. Retrieved 27 June 2009 Link to Text

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