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Accault, Michael,
Explorer; was with La Salle when the latter discovered the Mississippi River.
Later, with Louis Hennepin (q. v.), in the summer of 1679, he was sent by La Salle to explore the sources of the Mississippi.
They went up the river as far the Falls of St. Anthony, where they were captured by Indians, but were rescued by Daniel Duluth, a French officer.
In a few months they succeeded in reaching the tradingstation at Green Bay.
Adair, James,
Author; lived among the Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians in 173575.
He held the opinion and attempted to show that the American Indians were descended from the Jews.
He was the author of a History of the American Indians (in which he elaborated his opinion), and of vocabularies of Indian dialects.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Algonquian, or Algonkian, Indians , (search)
Algonquian, or Algonkian, Indians,
The most powerful of the eight distinct Indian nations found in North America by the Europeans in the seventeenth century.
It was composed of several tribes, the most important of which were the Ottawas, Chippewas, Sacs and Foxes, Menomonees, Miamis, Pottawattomies, Kickapoos, Illinois, Shawnees, Powhatans, Corees, Nanticokes, Lenni-Lenapes or Delawares, Mohegans, the New England Indians, the Abenakes, and Miemaes.
There were smaller independent tribes, the principal of which were the Susquehannas in Pennsylvania; the Mannahoacs in the hill-country between the York and Potomac rivers; and the Monacans, on the headwat e of the Hudson River, and under that name were included several independent families on Long Island and the country between the Lenni-Lenapes and the New England Indians.
The New England Indians inhabited the country from the Connecticut River eastward to the Saco, in Maine.
The principal tribes were the Narragansets on Rhode Is
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blount , William , 1744 -1800 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boone , Daniel , 1735 -1820 (search)
Boone, Daniel, 1735-1820
Explorer; born in Bucks county, Pa., Feb. 11, 1735.
From his youth he was a famous hunter, and, while yet a minor, he emigrated, with his father, to North Carolina, where he married.
In May, 1759, Boone and five others went to explore the forests of Kentucky.
There he was captured by some Indians, but escaped, and returned home in 1771.
In 1773 he led a party of settlers to the wilds he had explored; and in 1774 conducted a party of surveyors to the
Daniel Boone. falls of the Ohio (now Louisville). He had taken his family with the other families to Kentucky in 1773, where they were in perpetual danger from the barbarians of the forest.
He had several fights with the Indians; and in 1775 he built a fort on the Kentucky River on the present site of Boonesboro.
In 1777 several attacks were made on this fort by the Indians.
They was repulsed, but in February, 1778.
Boone was captured by them, and taken to Chillicothe, beyond the Ohio, and thence to
Bosomworth, Thomas,
Clergyman; came to America in 1736 with General Oglethorpe's regiment of Highlanders; married a Creek woman, who gradually came to be recognized as the queen of the Creek Indians.
The crown granted Bosomworth a tract of land, and Governor Oglethorpe gave his wife a yearly allowance of $500. Her pretensions gradually increased, until she claimed equality with the sovereign of Great Britain.
This not being conceded to her, she induced the Creek nation to revolt, and for a short time Savannah was in imminent danger.
Both Bosomworth and his wife were imprisoned for a short time, but released upon giving peaceful assurances.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bowyer , Fort, attack it upon. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Braddock , Edward , 1695 - (search)