ANNALS OF THE DEAR UNKNOWN: "NAMED PARTICIPANTS"

 

The grave of Wilmot Munson (1731-1845)

NAMED PARTICIPANTS (in order of appearance):

(for reference purposes as you read the story -- some only appear briefly

 - those in yellow are major characters)

 

There seems to be a requirement that the play must find its own finale, with participants tossed along impersonally to the end.[1]

 

 

Little Girl, author of this verse-tale, descendent of Diah Munson and Rachel Tyler Munson

Nathan Tyler, father of Rachel Tyler Munson

Obadiah Munson (Sr.) (1703-1773)

Rachel Tyler Munson (1736-1778), wife of Diah Munson and mother of their twelve children

Obadiah "Diah" Munson (Jr.)  (1731-1805), son of Obadiah Munson (Sr.) (1703-1773),  husband of Rachel Tyler Munson

Barnabas Munson (1754-1792), eldest child of Diah and Rachel

Uncle Eph, Rachel’s uncle Ephraim Tyler

Granny Thankful Doolittle Tuttle, Rachel Tyler Munson’s grandmother

Colonel Eliphalet Dyer, Representative of the Susquehannah [former spelling] Company of Connecticut

Joel Munson, Diah’s uncle

Wilmot Munson (Wil) (1755-1845) Diah and Rachel’s second child. The protagonist of the story.

Walter Munson (1771-1836), Diah and Rachel’s tenth child - Catherine Chandler's 4th great-grandfather

The twelve Munson children: Barnabas, Wilmot, Hannah, Stephen, Daniel, Ephraim, Irene, Sarah, Obadiah III, Walter, Rachel, Benoni

Captain Amos Ogden, Pennsylvanian settler, owner of a fortified blockhouse near Mill Creek

Francis West “Frank” Phillips, Wyoming Valley settler originally from Rhode Island, Diah’s friend

Private Ichabod Tuttle, Rachel’s cousin, settler in Westmoreland, killed in the Battle of Wyoming, 1778

Elizabeth “Eliza” Matthews Tuttle, Ichabod’s wife

Thankful Tyler Smith, Rachel Tyler Munson’s sister

Doctor William Hooker Smith, physician and minister, Westmoreland

Lucy Pierce, a girl from Kingstown

Patience Cooper Munson, Wil Munson’s wife

John Phillips, Wilmot Munson’s friend, son of Francis Phillips

Mary Chamberlain Phillips, John’s wife

Meschatamen, Lenape warrior. His Lenape name translates into English as “He who remembers”

Eton Jones, blacksmith at Fort Brown, one of the Pittstown stockades, friend of Diah Munson

Rebecca Jones, Eton Jones’s wife, wet-nurse to Benoni Munson, mother of Susannah Jones

Susannah Jones, Rebecca and Eton’s daughter

Ishmael Bennet (not Bennett), another local blacksmith

Nathan Jones, Eton Jones’s brother, Wyoming Valley settler

Nanny Dunn, local midwife

Benoni Munson (1778 - ?), youngest child of Obadiah Munson and Rachel Tyler Munson, renamed John Eton Jones

Dr. Lemuel Gustin, local physician

Dr. Joseph Sprague, one of the first physicians in the Wyoming Valley settlement

David Inman, Ichabod Tuttle’s friend

Sam Wares, proprietor of a tavern and inn at Shohola

Eunice Bradley, Diah Munson’s second wife

The Reverend Joshua Williams, pastor, First Church of Christ, Harwinton, Connecticut

John Eton Jones, Benoni Munson’s adoptive name (1778-unknown)

Gerhard Scholl, tailor, Rebecca Jones’s second husbanD

 

TOMORROW:  PART ONE, CHAPTER 1

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[1] Myers, Charles E. A Connecticut Yankee in Penn’s Woods: the Life and Times of Thomas Bennet. Wilkes University Press, 1993, p. 205