Ruth Tripp and her husband Jonathan Slocum resided in Warwick, Rhode Island after their marriage. He was a blacksmith.
They accompanied or followed Ruth's father Isaac Tripp to the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania soon after 1768. In 1771 Jonathan took up land in what is now probably Scranton, Pennsylvania.
In 1774 they were back in Rhode Island where the census shows them with a household of 14 persons, including two Negro servants and two Indians. They probably returned to Wyoming with the entire family late in 1774.
Jonathan received a deed of land in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania on 6 November 1775. By 1777 he had purchased land in Old Township of Putnam, now Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.
On 2 November 1778 Indians seized her five year old daughter Frances and carried her into lifelong captivity.
As a member of the Society of Friends Jonathan had befriended the Indians, but his son Giles had been recognized at the battle 3 July 1778. On 16 December 1778 Jonathan was shot and scalped by the Indians while feeding cattle within sight of the Fort of Wilkes Barre. Ruth was an eye-witness to both Indian attacks - the kidnapping of her daughter and the scalping of her husband and father.
Ruth Tripp was born on 21 Mar 1735/36 in Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island. She died on 6 May 1807 in Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. She is buried in Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.