What the records say
- When
- 11 Sep 1780
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 17
- Coordinates
- 41.01° N, 75.99° W
- Description
- massacre during the American Revolutionary War
Sugarloaf massacre
1780 battle of the American Revolutionary War
The Sugarloaf massacre was a skirmish which occurred on September 11, 1780, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania when a number of Natives and a handful of Loyalists attacked a small detachment of militia from Northampton County. According to pension files and witness depositions, the militia detachment was led by Lieutenants John Moyer and John Fish of Captain Johannes Van Etten's company of volunteers.
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