Note 6 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 4)
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The Indians made their appearance on the night of August 31st––not September 1st, as in the text. The incident here related occurred at about sunrise of September 1st. Andrew Zane, young John Boyd, Samuel Tomlinson, and a negro, set out to hunt for the horses of Dr. James McMechen, because the latter wished that day to return to the older settlements, either on the Monongahela, or east of the mountains. Boyd was killed, but his companions escaped––Zane, by leaping from a cliff, the height of which local tradition places at seventy feet.––R. G. T.