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Indians (search for this): chapter 16
to Kentucky. At Powell's valley, he was joined by five families and forty men. On or near the tenth of October, as they approached Cumberland Gap, the young men who had charge of the pack-horses and cattle in the rear, were suddenly attacked by Indians; one only escaped; the remaining six, among whom was Boone's eldest son, were killed on the spot; so that the survivors of the party were forced to turn back to the settlements on Clinch river. When the Cherokees were summoned from Virginia to e month, they seized a trading canoe on the Ohio, killed the men on board, and carried Chap. XV.} 1774. their goods to the Shawanese towns. In March, Michael Cresap, after a skirmish, and the loss of one man on each side, took from a party of Indians five loaded canoes. It became known that messages were passing between the tribes of the Ohio, the western Indians, and the Cherokees. In this state of affairs, Conolly, from Pittsburg, on the twenty-first of April, wrote to the inhabitants of
Cornstalk (search for this): chapter 16
irmed the account. Colonel Andrew Lewis, who had the command, instantly ordered out two divisions, each of one hundred and fifty men; the Augusta troops, under his brother Charles Lewis, the Botetourt troops under Fleming. Just as the sun was rising, the Indians opened a heavy fire on both Chap. XV.} 1774. Oct. parties; wounding Charles Lewis mortally. Fleming was wounded thrice; and the Virginians must have given way, but for successive reinforcements from the camp. Be strong, cried Cornstalk, the chief of the Red Men; and he animated them by his example. Till the hour of noon, the combatants fought from behind trees, never above twenty yards apart, often within six, and sometimes near enough to strike with the tomahawk. At length the Indians, under the protection of the close underwood and fallen trees, retreated, till they gained an advantageous line extending from the Ohio to the Kanawha. A desultory fire was kept up on both sides till after sunset, when under the favor o
William Campbell (search for this): chapter 16
the savages fled across the river. The victory cost the Virginians three colonels of militia, forty-six men killed and about eighty wounded. This battle was the most bloody and best contested in the annals of forest warfare. The number of the Red Men who were engaged, was probably not less than eight hundred; how many of them fell was never ascertained. The heroes of that day proved themselves worthy to found states. Among them were Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky; William Campbell; the brave George Matthews; Fleming; Andrew Moore, afterwards a senator of the United States; Evan Shelby, James Robertson, and Valentine Sevier. Their praise resounded not in the backwoods only, but through all Virginia. Soon after the battle a reinforcement of three hundred troops arrived from Fincastle. Following orders tardily received from Dunmore, the little army, Chap. XV.} 1774 Oct. leaving a garrison at Point Pleasant, dashed across the Ohio to defy new battles. After a
John Conolly (search for this): chapter 16
Dunmore extended his own jurisdiction over the tempting and well-peopled region. He found a willing instrument in one John Conolly, a native of Pennsylvania, a physician, landjobber, and subservient political intriguer, who had travelled much in themissioned by Dunmore as captaincommandant for Pittsburg and its dependencies, that is to say of all the western country, Conolly opened the year 1774 with a proclamation of his authority; and he directed a muster of the militia. The western people,messages were passing between the tribes of the Ohio, the western Indians, and the Cherokees. In this state of affairs, Conolly, from Pittsburg, on the twenty-first of April, wrote to the inhabitants of Wheeling to be on the alert. Incensed by tungovernable, were forming war parties along the frontier from the Cherokee country to Pennsylvania. When the letter of Conolly fell into Cresap's hands, he and his party esteemed themselves authorized to engage in private war, and on the twenty-si
Fleming (search for this): chapter 16
e command, instantly ordered out two divisions, each of one hundred and fifty men; the Augusta troops, under his brother Charles Lewis, the Botetourt troops under Fleming. Just as the sun was rising, the Indians opened a heavy fire on both Chap. XV.} 1774. Oct. parties; wounding Charles Lewis mortally. Fleming was wounded thricFleming was wounded thrice; and the Virginians must have given way, but for successive reinforcements from the camp. Be strong, cried Cornstalk, the chief of the Red Men; and he animated them by his example. Till the hour of noon, the combatants fought from behind trees, never above twenty yards apart, often within six, and sometimes near enough to strik of that day proved themselves worthy to found states. Among them were Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky; William Campbell; the brave George Matthews; Fleming; Andrew Moore, afterwards a senator of the United States; Evan Shelby, James Robertson, and Valentine Sevier. Their praise resounded not in the backwoods only, b
October 6th (search for this): chapter 16
ic growth of primeval forests where, in that autumnal season, the golden hue of the linden, the sugar tree, and the hickory, contrasted with the glistening green of the laurel, the crimson of the sumach, and the shadows of the sombre hemlock, they descended to where the valley of Elk river widens into a plain. There they paused only to build canoes; having been Oct. joined by a second party, so that they made a force of nearly eleven hundred men, they descended the Kanawha, and on the sixth of October encamped on Point Pleasant, near its junction with the Ohio. But no message reached them from Dunmore. Of all the Western Indians, the Shawanese were the fiercest. They despised other warriors, red or white; and made a boast of having killed ten times as many of the English as any other tribe. They stole through the forest with Mingoes and Delawares, to attack the army of southwestern Virginia. At daybreak on Monday, the tenth of October, two young men, rambling up the Ohio in
April 21st (search for this): chapter 16
on each side, took from a party of Indians five loaded canoes. It became known that messages were passing between the tribes of the Ohio, the western Indians, and the Cherokees. In this state of affairs, Conolly, from Pittsburg, on the twenty-first of April, wrote to the inhabitants of Wheeling to be on the alert. Incensed by the succession of murders, the backwoodsmen, who were hunters like the Indians and equally ungovernable, were forming war parties along the frontier from the Cherokehis, five more, who were following, turned their course; but being immediately fired at, two were killed and two wounded. The day following, a Shawanese was killed, and another man wounded. The whole number of Indians killed between the twenty-first of April and the end of the month, was Chap. XV.} 1774. about thirteen. At the tidings of this bloodshed, fleet messengers of the Red Men ran with the wail of war to the Muskingum, and to the Shawanese villages in Ohio. The alarm of the emigr
1773 AD (search for this): chapter 16
mation of the king and reiterated and most positive instructions from the secretary of state, he advocated the claims of the colony to the West; and was himself a partner in two immense purchases of land from the Indians in southern Illinois. In 1773, Chap. XV.} 1774. his agents, the Bullets, made surveys at the falls of the Ohio; and a part of Louisville, and of the towns opsite Cincinnati, are now held under his warrant. The area of the Ancient Dominion expanded with his cupidity. Pittsr had every motive to preserve peace; yet he could not be turned from his purpose by fear, and trusted for security in the forest to his perpetual readiness for self-defence. Not a year passed away without a massacre of pioneers. Near the end of 1773, Daniel Boone would have taken his wife and children to Kentucky. At Powell's valley, he was joined by five families and forty men. On or near the tenth of October, as they approached Cumberland Gap, the young men who had charge of the pack-horse
February, 1774 AD (search for this): chapter 16
arty were forced to turn back to the settlements on Clinch river. When the Cherokees were summoned from Virginia to give up the offenders, they shifted the accusation from one tribe to another, and the application for redress had no effect; but one of those who had escaped, murdered an Indian at a horse race on the frontier, notwithstanding the interposition of all around. This was the first Indian blood shed by a white man from the time of the treaty of Bouquet. In the beginning of February, 1774, the Indians killed six white men and two negroes; and near the end of the same month, they seized a trading canoe on the Ohio, killed the men on board, and carried Chap. XV.} 1774. their goods to the Shawanese towns. In March, Michael Cresap, after a skirmish, and the loss of one man on each side, took from a party of Indians five loaded canoes. It became known that messages were passing between the tribes of the Ohio, the western Indians, and the Cherokees. In this state of affair
1774 AD (search for this): chapter 16
ans in southern Illinois. In 1773, Chap. XV.} 1774. his agents, the Bullets, made surveys at the fll the western country, Conolly opened the year 1774 with a proclamation of his authority; and he dito the West, became a scene of con- Chap. XV.} 1774. fusion. The territory north and west of the young men and women of Virginia in Chap. XV.} 1774. captivity; and the annals of the wilderness neApril and the end of the month, was Chap. XV.} 1774. about thirteen. At the tidings of this blooted the frontier, and to look after Chap. XV.} 1774. Sept. his own interests and his agents, Dunmorehind them the last rocky masses of Chap. XV.} 1774. Sept. the hill-tops; and passing between the gIndians opened a heavy fire on both Chap. XV.} 1774. Oct. parties; wounding Charles Lewis mortally.ived from Dunmore, the little army, Chap. XV.} 1774 Oct. leaving a garrison at Point Pleasant, dashisoners without reserve; to restore Chap. XV.} 1774. Oct. all horses and other property which they [3 more...]
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