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Monadnock Guide
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 Posted - November 22 2013 : 3:14:36 PM
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While Europeans did not originate scalping, they did encourage its spread through the establishment of bounties. J. C. B. writes that "the French and English were accustomed to pay for the scalps, to the amount of thirty francs' worth of trade goods. Their purpose was then to encourage the savages to take as many scalps as they could, and to know the number of the foe who had fallen."8
The French paid virtually nothing for scalps, preferring to purchase prisoners that they would at times send back to their families or utilize for prisoner exchanges. Father Pierre Joseph Antonie Roubaud, missionary to the Abenaki at St. Francis, obtained a scalp from one of his warriors to redeem an infant from a Huron captor. The priest then reunited him with his parents.9
The English, however, passed acts through their colonial assemblies. Even before war was declared, on June 12, 1755, Massachusetts Governor William Shirley offered £40 for Indian male scalps and £20 for female scalps.10 The following year, on April 14, Pennsylvania Governor Robert Hunter Morris "declared war and proclaimed a general bounty for Indian enemy prisoners and for scalps." The bounties to be paid were £130 for a male scalp and £50 for a female scalp.11
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Scalps were also used for decoration. Father Roubaud, remarked about the French allied Native Americans "engaged in counting the number of barbarous trophies - that is to say, the English scalps - with which the canoes were decorated" after the massacre of New Jersey soldiers on Lake George in July, 1757.17 It was at St. Francis, two years later, that Major Robert Rogers "found . . . hanging on poles over their doors, etc. about 600 scalps, mostly English."18
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - November 23 2013 : 11:21:48 AM
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| I really think Rogers lied about the number of scalps (600) as he did about so many other things. |
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Posted - November 23 2013 : 3:58:03 PM
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| Always possible, - but we'll never really know. |
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James N.
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Posted - November 30 2013 : 2:30:14 PM
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| Of course scalping was a natural development from the practice of headhunting since scalps were easier to carry and didn't weigh as much; whole heads are heavy! As the practice of buying scalps continued, it became necessary for each scalp to include an EAR attached, since a trick had been developed by shysters of the day to scalp an entire head ( not just the crown ) then divide it into as many as FOUR "scalps" thereby increasing the profits. With tribes that wore their hair in scalplocks like those in Mohicans it was harder to get away with such fraud. |
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Posted - December 01 2013 : 05:37:08 AM
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| Nothing like a 4-1 sale, ... |
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