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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Big Blue Lick, battle at. (search)
Big Blue Lick, battle at. Parties of Indians and Tories, from north of the Ohio, greatly harassed the settlements in Kentucky in 1782. A large body of these, headed by Simon Girty, a cruel white miscreant, entered these settlements in August. They were pursued by about 180 men, under Colonels Todd, Trigg, and Boone, who rashly attacked them (Aug. 19) at the Big Blue Lick, where the road from Maysville to Lexington crosses the Licking River in Nicholas county. One of the most sanguinary battles ever fought in Kentucky then and there occurred. The Kentuckians lost sixty-seven men, killed, wounded, and prisoners; and, after a severe struggle, the rest escaped. The slaughter in the river was great, the ford being crowded with white people and Indians, all fighting in horrid confusion. The fugitives were keenly pursued for 20 miles. This was the last incursion south of the Ohio by any large body of barbarians.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Girty, Simon 1750-1815 (search)
Girty, Simon 1750-1815 Partisan; born in Pennsylvania about 1750; was a spy for the British at Fort Pitt in 1774. When the Revolutionary War broke out he became a leader of the Indians and took part in numerous atrocities. In 1778 he went to Detroit, inciting the Indians on the way to hostility against the United States. He was present when Col. William Crawford (q. v.) was tortured to death by the savages, and it is alleged that he manifested joy in Crawford's agony. In 1791 he was present at the defeat of Gen. Arthur St. Clair, and while Gen. William Butler lay wounded he ordered an Indian to kill and scalp him. He also took up the cause of the British in the War of 1812. He died in Canada about 1815.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Virginia, state of (search)
to seats......March 21, 1775 Convention of Virginia frontiersmen west of the Alleghany Mountains at Pittsburg elects John Harvie and George Rodes delegates to Continental Congress......May 16, 1775 Tory insurrection under John Claypole, a resident of Hardy county, suppressed by troops under General Morgan......June, 1775 Captain Foreman and twenty-one men massacred by Indians about 4 miles from Moundsville......Sept. 25, 1777 Fort Henry unsuccessfully besieged by Indians under Simon Girty......Sept. 27-28, 1777 Cornstalk, Shawnee chief, murdered at Point Pleasant......Nov. 10, 1777 Fort Randolph besieged by Indians......May, 1778 Attack by the Indians on Donnally's Fort, 10 miles northwest of Lewisburg......May, 1778 By grant of William Penn in 1681, the western boundary of Pennsylvania is the meridian 5 degrees west of the Delaware. Virginia in ceding to the United States lands beyond the Ohio, in 1784, reserved a strip about 70 miles long upon the Ohio west