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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians
attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two. They besieged us
forty-eight hours; during which time seven of them were killed, and at last,
finding themselves not likely to prevail, they raised the siege, and departed.
The Indians had disposed their warriors in different parties at this time, and
attacked the different garrisons to prevent their assisting each other, and did
much injury to the distressed inhabitants.
On the nineteenth day of this month, Col. Logan's fort was besieged by a party
of about two hundred Indians. During this dreadful siege they did a great deal
of mischief, distressed the garrison, in which were only fifteen men, killed
two, and wounded one. The enemies loss was uncertain, from the common practice
which the Indians have of carrying off their dead in time of battle. Col.
Harrod's fort was then defended by only sixty-five men, and Boonsborough by
twenty-two, there being no more forts or white men in the country, except at the
Falls, a considerable distance from these, and all taken collectively, were but
a handful to the numerous warriors that were every where dispersed through the
country, intent upon doing all the mischief that savage barbarity could invent.
Thus we passed through a scene of sufferings that exceeds description.
On the twenty-fifth of this month a reinforcement of forty-five men arrived from
North-Carolina, and about the twentieth of August following, Col. Bowman arrived
with one hundred men from Virginia. Now we began to strengthen, and from hence,
for the space of six weeks, we had skirmishes with Indians, in one quarter or
other, almost every day.
Adventure 10
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