Note 6 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 3)
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Both Van Meter and Swan afterwards served under Col. G. R. Clark––at least, on the Kaskaskia campaign; Swan commanded a company on Clark’s Shawnee campaign of 1780, and Van Meter on that of 1782. The latter moved to Kentucky in 1780; settled in Hardin county, Ky., Nov. 16th, 1798, in his seventy-sixth year.––L. C. D.
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Comment by R. G. T.––This note, written by Dr. Draper a few days before his death (Aug. 26, 1891), was probably his last stroke of literary work.