SLOCUM, Frances, captive among the Indians, born in Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, in 1773; died near Logansport, Indiana, in 1851. She was taken captive by Delaware Indians on 2 November, 1778, and no intelligence was received regarding her till the summer of 1837, when the surviving members of her family heard that she was residing near Logansport, Indiana Her brother, Joseph Slocum, and her sister proceeded thither, and, obtaining an interview with their long-lost sister, had no difficulty in establishing her identity. She had entirely forgotten her native language and all knowledge of Christianity, and was an Indian in everything but the fairness of her skin and the color of her hair. She had a distinct recollection of her capture by the savages, who, after taking her to a rocky cave in the mountains, departed for the Indian country. She was treated kindly and adopted by an Indian family, who brought her up as their daughter. For years she led a roving life, and became an expert {n all the employments of savage existence, and when grown to womanhood married a young chief of the nation, and removed with him to Ohio. She was so happy in her domestic relations that she dreaded being discovered and compelled to reside among the whites. After the death of her first husband she married one of the Miami tribe, and at the time of her discovery had been many years a widow, and had children and grandchildren around her. She was known among the Indians as Maconaqua (young bear), was regarded by them as a queen, and was happy and in comfortable circumstances. When the Miamis were removed from Indiana, John Quincy Adams pleaded the cause of Maconaqua so eloquently in congress that she and her Indian relatives were exempted. Congress gave her a tract of land a mile square, to be held in perpetuity by her descendants.