Note 8 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 7)

Mrs. Cunningham had been over three years with the savages, when she was taken to a great Indian conference held at the foot of the Maumee rapids, “at or near the site of the present Perrysburgh, Ohio,” in the autumn of 1788. Girty brought the attention of McKee, then a British Indian agent, to the matter, and McKee furnished the trinkets which constituted the ransom.––R. G. T.