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On the fourth day, the Indians killed one of our men.--We were busily
employed in building this fort, until the fourteenth day of June following,
without any farther opposition from the Indians; and having finished the works,
I returned to my family, on Clench.
In a short time, I proceeded to remove my family from Clench to this garrison;
where we arrived safe without any other difficulties than such as are common to
this passage, my wife and daughter being the first white women that ever stood
on the banks of Kentucke river.
On the twenty-fourth day of December following we had one man killed, and one
wounded, by the Indians, who seemed determined to persecute us for erecting this
fortification.
On the fourteenth day of July, 1776, two of Col. Calaway's daughters, and one of
mine, were taken prisoners near the fort. I immediately pursued the Indians,
with only eight men, and on the sixteenth overtook them, killed two of the
party, and recovered the girls. The same day on which this attempt was made, the
Indians divided themselves into different parties, and attacked several forts,
which were shortly before this time erected, doing a great deal of mischief.
This was extremely distressing to the new settlers. The innocent husbandman was
shot down, while busy cultivating the soil for his family's supply. Most of the
cattle around the stations were destroyed. They continued their hostilities in
this manner until the fifteenth of April, 1777, when they attacked Boonsborough
with a party of above one hundred in number, killed one man, and wounded
four--Their loss in this attack was not certainly known to us.
Adventure 9
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