Wilkinson

French: nickname from Old French six ‘six’ (Latin sex), given for some anecdotal reason now lost; the surnames Deux (‘two’), Huit (‘eight’), and Dix (‘ten’) also exist, but all are rare.

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Conrad SYCKS Family Indian Encounter-Green ,PA

source: miramreyburnsteeel posted 31 DEC 2000

http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.natam.indiancaptives/504/mb.ashx

Surnames: SYCKS, BONNETT, WETZEL, ENIX, ROBINSON, GARRISON, SELSOR, SWEAGENGEN

Classification: Biography

The following is condensed from a four page narrative by L. K. Evans in the publication "Pioneer History of Green County, Pennsylvania", published by the McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV.

In the year 1760 Conrad SYCKS emigrated from Germany and located in Monongahela Township, on the waters of what is now known as "Rocky Run", not over two miles from the mouth of Dunkard. He built a house and married a Miss BONNETT, who was a sister to the mother of Lewis WETZEL, the most celebrated pioneer and Indian fighter of American history. Here they lived and raised a family of ten children - among whom were Henry and Christina.

When Henry was 18 years old, Enoch ENIX lived in a cabin nearby north of the SYCK's lands. Leonard SYCK lived a half a mile westward. Other neighbors were: Lane ROBINSON, the SELSOR family, who resided in their fort, as did the SWEARENGEN's in their fort.

Some days prior to the eventful night, rumors of prowling Indians had been rife in the settlement. GARRISON,with commendable precaution, had removed his family to a place of safety, and SYCKS, rather than abandon his peaceful home, preferred to hazard the danger of remaining. GARRISON
arranged with Christina, then ten or eleven years old, to milk his cows.

One evening the little girl went to the GARRISON house and procured the milking pail, and hearing the cow bell tolling about three hundred yards away in the direction of the sugar camp, went thither and was driving the cows homeward when she looked quickly around and beheld two stalwart Indians running towards her. In a moment one Indian had grasped her and the hopeless prisoner was spirited away.

When Christina had not returned by evening, her father rounded up his neighbor, Enoch EXIX, who left his wife and babe, to help in search of SYCKS daughter. But soon two shots were fired and EXIX fell, mortally wounded. SYCKS eluded the Indians and arrived to his home. The alarm was sounded and a party was organized to heed the frontier, finding several homes already in flames.

At the home of Lane ROBINSON's, his wife and babe in arms fled to the fort, but the husband was shot at the meadows. The SELSOR Fort had been unmolested.

Young Christina at this time had crossed the Ohio at Grave Creek and was on her way to a large Indian town where she remained for twenty two years, being liberated by arrangement with the Government at Detroit, and returned to friends. Being an adopted child of the forest, she became so conformed to Indian customs and habits as to lose her identity as a civilized being. Though she lived to a ripe old age among friends, she never unlearned her Indian education, and expressing herself satisfied with the treatment she had received at their hands. She was ever ready to defend them from any unkind aspersions. Christina SYCKS died and was buried at or near Clarksburg WV.

A Capt. Enoch ENIX, who died near Mt. Morris, was the babe four weeks old, the night his father was slain.

The only one of Leonard GARRISON married Mary SYCKS, a "babe" of the lone cradle, and for a time forgotten and deserted by her parents and friends, on that same eventful occasion. They had twelve children, and after her death, he remarried and a second wife bore him 12 more.

Henry SYCKS married Barbary SELSOR, one of the brave hearted girls who led the way from SELSOR Fort.

1 Charles Slessor