Over the years, fact blended with fiction and he became the legendary Tom Quick, Indian Slayer The Red Revenger The Avenger of the Delaware. Though he could have joined the British Army as a regular or scout, he preferred to exact his revenge as a lone assassin. Something snapped in him and from this point on, Tom Quick swore vengeance on all Indians. Tom paused after reaching the bank to see if they were being pursued and saw to his horror his now-dead father being scalped. The two men then frantically made their way back across the frozen river. Young Tom and the brother-in-law tried to drag the elder wounded Quick to safety, but he was dying and commanded them to run for their lives. The story is told that young Tom was out with his father and brother-in-law one day on some errand across the river when the senior Quick was felled by a round from a marauding Indian’s rifle. It didn’t take much prodding on the part of the French to induce the Indians to drive the whites from their lands. Increasing numbers of settlers were encroaching on Indian lands. But as the French and Indian War loomed, the climate throughout the Delaware Valley began to grow unsettled. Young Tom grew up living a life that most boys would have found idyllic. As the youngster grew, he spent more time with the Indians than his family, learning their language and how to hunt, fish, and trap, and the ways of the forest. The following year, young Tom Quick was born, and here’s where the story picks up momentum. Quick built a log cabin and began clearing the land for farming which didn’t seem to bother his neighbors, the Lenni Lenape. His ancestral ties are somewhat vague-some sources state his homeland as County Ulster, some say Holland, and some even cover all the bases and claim both.
In 1733 Thomas Quick arrived near what is now Milford, Pennsylvania, and pitched a tent.
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