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Frances Slocum State Park is named for Frances Slocum, who was one of the first settlers in northeast Pennsylvania. She, at five years old, was kidnapped by a group of Lenape Native Americans in 1778 and lived for a time in the region that would later be named for her. Frances lived with Native Americans for the rest of her life. Fifty-nine years later, her brother found her living in Indiana on an Indian reservation. Twice-married and mother of four children, she refused to leave her family, and she died in 1847. It is believed that Frances is one of the first, if not the first, European kidnapped by Native Americans, and her life may have inspired many similar stories about white Americans being kidnapped in the Wild West era and “going Native."