https://www.varsitytutors.com/.../early.../scalping-during-the-french-and-indian-war
Accounts of the French and Indian War describe many incidents of scalping: ...a ... 1755, Massachusetts Governor William Shirley offered £40 for Indian male scalps and ... war and proclaimed a general bounty for Indian enemy prisoners and for scalps. ... The first involved a single Chicasaw (an ally to the English) "who was ...
https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/traditional.../scalping-in-america/
Oct 2, 2017 - In this 1841 print of The Paxton Boys Massacre, the artist put the Paxton ... The Dutch governor of Manhattan, Willem Kieft, offered the first bounty in ... The Massachusetts Bay Colony first offered $60 per Indian scalp in 1703.
xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/scalpin/oldfolks.html
Sonora was the first state to enact a scalp bounty law; in 1835, offering 100 pesos ... and children, and Johnson and his troops swarmed into the mass of natives, killing ... and the bounty of one Indian was worth more than many Mexicans or Anglos ... Don Angel Trias of Chihuahua put out a $9000 reward on the chief of the ...
https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/09/rhetoric-practice-scalping/
Sep 1, 2016 - Accusations of scalping emerged as early as the first engagement of the war at Lexington and Concord. ... Thomas Gage, the royal governor of Massachusetts and .... pounds for the scalps of Penobscot Indians, while the Deputy Governor of ... bounty payments, which he received after being arrested, put on ...
https://portfolios.journalism.ku.edu/charles-perry/2016/05/11/21/
May 11, 2016 - “In 1850, California's first governor, Peter Burnett, announced the state's ... and $10 to $25 for proof of executed Indians – scalps, heads, hands, or bodies.” “California's first bond of $400,000 was issued in 1854, to fund the bounty on ... remotely comparable to this massive orgy of theft and mass murder.
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0557899494
Peter Moss - 2010
The Dutch governor of the Manhattan colony offered the first ''scalp bounty''. ... The village was set fire, and 500 Indian residents were put to the sword. ... The European colonists declared Thanksgiving Days to celebrate mass murder, the ...