Author talks about a Lenape War Captain at Dover Library

Author and historian Alan Fitzpatrick will speak about his 2024 non-fiction history book Vengeance is Mine:The untold Story of Bemino, known as Killbuck on Monday, November 17 at 6:30 PM at the Dover Public Library, located at 525 N. Walnut St.

The book documents the story of Bemino, a Lenape war captain and medicine man during the conflict between Native-Americans and colonials during the tumultuous period of the late 1700’s. The story is set in the South Potomac Valley, which is now West Virginia. Because Bemino spoke English, he had a great advantage fighting against the English during the French and Indian War. He was able to plan ruses and ambushes that affected the outcome of the war.  When the war was over, Bemino returned to his father Netawattwees who was at what is now Newcomerstown.  A book signing will follow.

Born and raised in Canada, Alan Fitzpatrick has resided in West Virginia since 1973. He graduated from Kent State University and was employed at the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville before moving to the Wheeling area where he ran a retail carpet business for thirty-three years. Fitzpatrick has always been fascinated by the early frontier history of the Upper Ohio Valley, and in 1997, he was a founding member of “Fort Henry Days,” a yearly living-history commemoration and re-enactment of the 1782 last battle of the American Revolution. The event is held at Wheeling’s Oglebay Park every Labor Day weekend. Fitzpatrick has written  several non-fiction early-American history books: Wilderness War on the Ohio; In Their Own Words; The Place of the Skull; The White Indians; Captives and Kin in the Ohio Country; The Untold Story of Isaac Zane; Patriot Soldier, Loyalist Spy;  Vengeance is Mine-The Untold Story of Bemino; and Captured by the Mingo – Two Faces.This program will be held on Monday, November 17th at 6:30 PM at the Dover Public Library, located at 525 N. Walnut Street. To register, visit www.doverlibrary.org/events or call the library at 330-343-6123.