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Chronicles of border warfare

CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 9)

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Agnew, Daniel.

A History of the Region of Pennsylvania North of the Allegheny River. 1887.

Alden, George H.

New Government West of the Alleghenies Before 1780. 1897.

Barrett, Jay Amos.

Evolution of the Ordinance of 1787. 1891.

Billon, Frederick.

Annals of St. Louis in its Early Days Under the French and Spanish Dominations. 1886.

Billon, Frederick.

Annals of St. Louis in its Territorial Days, 1804-1821. 1888.

Littel, William.

Political Transactions in and Concerning Kentucky. 1926.

Bowles, William Augustus.

Authentic Memoirs of William Augustus Bowles. 1916.

Bradley, A. G.

The Fight with France for North America. 1900.

Brannan, John, ed.

Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the War, 1812-1815. 1823.

Brown, John P.

Old Frontiers. 1938.

Brown, Samuel R.

The Western Gazetteer. 1817.

Cist, Charles.

Cincinnati Miscellany of Antiquities of the West and Pioneer History. (2 volumes in one). 1845-6.

Claiborne, Nathaniel Herbert.

Notes on the War in the South with Biographical Sketches of the Lives of Montgomery, Jackson, Sevier, and Others. 1819.

Clark, Daniel.

Proofs of the Corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson. 1809.

Clark, George Rogers.

Colonel George Rogers Clark’s Sketch of His Campaign in the Illinois in 1778-9. 1869.

Collins, Lewis.

Historical Sketches of Kentucky. 1847.

Cruikshank, Ernest, ed,

Documents Relating to Invasion of Canada and the Surrender of Detroit. 1912.

Cruikshank, Ernest, ed,

The Documentary History of the Campaign on the Niagara Frontier, 1812-1814. (4 volumes). 1896-1909.

Cutler, Jervis.

A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indian Territory, and Louisiana. 1812.

Cutler, Julia P.

The Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler. 1890.

Darlington, Mary C.

History of Col. Henry Bouquet and the Western Frontiers of Pennsylvania. 1920.

Darlington, Mary C.

Fort Pitt and Letters From the Frontier. 1892.

De Schweinitz, Edmund.

The Life and Times of David Zeisberger. 1870.

Dillon, John B.

History of Indiana. 1859.

Eaton, John Henry.

Life of Andrew Jackson. 1824.

English, William Hayden.

Conquest of the Country Northwest of the Ohio. (2 volumes in one). 1896.

Flint, Timothy.

Indian Wars of the West. 1833.

Forbes, John.

Writings of General John Forbes Relating to His Service in North America. 1938.

Forman, Samuel S.

Narrative of a Journey Down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90. 1888.

Haywood, John.

Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee to 1796. 1823.

Heckewelder, John.

History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations. 1876.

Heckewelder, John.

Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren. 1820.

Hildreth, Samuel P.

Pioneer History. 1848.

Houck, Louis.

The Boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase: A Historical Study. 1901.

Houck, Louis.

History of Missouri. (3 volumes in one). 1908.

Houck, Louis.

The Spanish Regime in Missouri. (2 volumes in one). 1909.

Jacob, John J. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of the Late Capt. Michael Cresap. 1826.

Jones, David.

A Journal of Two Visits Made to Some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio, in the Years 1772 and 1773. 1774.

Kenton, Edna.

Simon Kenton. 1930.

Loudon, Archibald.

Selection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Outrages. (2 volumes in one). 1808-1811.

Monette, J. W.

History, Discovery and Settlement of the Mississippi Valley. (2 volumes in one). 1846.

Morse, Jedediah.

American Gazetteer. 1797.

Pickett, Albert James.

History of Alabama. (2 volumes in one). 1851.

Pope, John.

A Tour Through the Southern and Western Territories. 1792.

Putnam, Albigence Waldo.

History of Middle Tennessee. 1859.

Ramsey, James G. M.

Annals of Tennessee. 1853.

Ranck, George W.

Boonesborough. 1901.

Robertson, James Rood, ed.

Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky to the Gen. Assembly of Virginia. 1914.

Royce, Charles.

Indian Land Cessions. 1899.

Rupp, I. Daniel.

History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon and Schuykill Counties. 1845.

Safford, William H.

The Blennerhasset Papers. 1864.

St. Clair, Arthur.

A Narrative of the Manner in which the Campaign Against the Indians, in the Year 1791 was Conducted. 1812.

Sargent, Winthrop, ed.

A History of an Expedition Against Fort DuQuesne in 1755. 1855.

Severance, Frank H.

An Old Frontier of France. (2 volumes in one). 1917.

Sipe, C. Hale.

Fort Ligonier and Its Times. 1932.

Stevens, Henry N.

Lewis Evans: His Map of the Middle British Colonies in America. 1920.

Timberlake, Henry.

The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake. 1927.

Tome, Philip.

Pioneer Life: Or Thirty Years a Hunter. 1854.

Trent, William.

Journal of Captain William Trent From Logstown to Pickawillany. 1871.

Walton, Joseph S.

Conrad Weiser and the Indian Policy of Colonial Pennsylvania. 1900.

Withers, Alexander Scott.

Chronicles of Border Warfare. 1895.

Illustration from Chronicles of border warfare: or, A history of the settlement by the whites, of north-western Virginia, and of the Indian wars and massacres, in that section of the state

Reprint Edition 1971 by Arno Press Inc.

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Transcriber’s Note

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vii early period, indentifying very large the sources of (identifying)

xi whatever for his diligenee and labor in producing it (diligence)

8 adorned with spendid magnificence, who can feel surprised (splendid)

9 Yet, although the philanthopist must weep over (philanthropist)

10 Nothwithstanding those two great evils which have (Notwithstanding)

46 with an aggregate population ef 289,362. (population of)

51 visited Great Britian in 1737 (Britain)

101 Upen the earnest remonstrance and entreaty (Upon)

110 of the commanding officer a party of Higland soldiers (Highland)

112 they did not scruple to intercept the pussage of goods (passage)

113 from the entrace into the Fort, and three centinels on the (entrance)

120 hauch of the others. The low state of their little magazine (haunch)

126 bleeching in the sun, after their murder by the Indians, (bleaching)

160 house, had been dischaaged at them by Indian (discharged)

182 it would be more conconvenient (convenient)

203 draging his wounded body along (dragging)

211 to the place of rendezvous. This stock was nearly exhaused (exhausted)

216 which naturally enough prompts to deeds of revangeful cruelty (revengeful)

309 was in vain. The tomahawk was uplifted, and stoke followed (stroke)

313 in the bloody deeds of their red brethern, yet that (brethren)

323 take upon themseves the entire responsibility (themselves)

345 A most schocking scene was exhibited some time before this (shocking)

345 the the purpose of washing. While thus engaged three guns (repeated word)

361 miles from its enterance into the Ohio, and was known (entrance)

375 Buffaloe, and as Levi Morgan was engaged in skining (skinning)

385 loss was severely felt thoughout the whole country. (throughout)

387 was the head chief with this three wives and children (his three)

393 if posssible, to a general engagement; and if this (possible)

417 a company which had been sta-stationed (printer’s error)

421 assembled to witness the awful spectacle. The croud was (crowd)

Corrections in footnotes:

Footnote Correction

Introduction: Chapter 3, Footnote 3 consider the running of the guantlet (gauntlet)

Introduction: Chapter 3, Footnote 5 Kis faithful dog shall bear him company. (His)

Chapter 1, Footnote 13 Shehandoah, Frederick, 1772 767 19,750 4,922 (Shenandoah)

Chapter 1, Footnote 17 with his family to Culpeper coanty, which was (Culpeper county)

Chapter 5, Footnote 5 bitten, and the whole patrty suffered exceedingly. (party)

Chapter 10, Footnote 8 of the tribes west and sonthwest of Lake (southwest)

Chapter 18, Footnote 4 to Aprfl 30, 1793. The army was fancifully (April)

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