Lochry's Internment Camp, Cleves, Ohio

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Border warfare characterized the American Revolution on the northwest frontier. Between August 26 and September 15, 1781, sixty-four survivors of Lochry's Expedition were held captive by "Butler's Rangers" (British-allied Indians led by George Girty) in a camp near Cleves, Ohio. Colonel Archibald Lochry's battalion of Pennsylvania militia, part of a larger punitive expedition under General George Rogers Clark and traveling down the Ohio River behind the main force, was attacked by Girty's men ten miles downstream from the mouth of the Great Miami River near present-day Aurora, Indiana. Thirty-seven militiamen were killed in the August 24 battle, including Lochry, and the rest captured. Afterwards Rogers abandoned his objective of capturing British-held Detroit. The captives were taken to Detroit and eventually to Montreal. Tradition holds that fewer than twenty of Lochry's battalion ever returned to their homes.
GPS Location: 39°10'43.1"N 84°44'47.6"W

[@joeaxe]

They are not simply "indiians", they are mixed people. Traders and natives who had been living here together for a long time.

[@terrykotschwar6876]

My ancestor was Archibald Lochry.

[@rewdjbsi]

My ancestor was Richard Wallace ,who bore my mother's maiden name.

[@Ben_Loughrey]

My dads ancestor is a sibling of Archibald Lochry

[@robtholt4351]

@@Ben_Loughrey your last name is spelled right I used to live by the massacre site and got interested in it on all the old maps the creek is spelled right but later years it was spelled lochry

[@travelingsweatpantsproduct9851]

Thanks for the video. During my genealogy research, I found out my 5th Great Grandfather, Jacob Lawrence, was captured and held POW at this location.

[@raynagel7462]

A friend of mine Charles Edwards was very instrumental in getting this marker put up he had a ggg grandfather that was one of the captives