Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-02-02
INDIAN CAPTIVE RECLAIMED.

| VINcENNEs, December %. --The following is
brief statement facts, by MIR. Edward Tan.
ner, OF New Madrid county, Mi. who passed
| thu ough this place or the 18th instant with a
brother, who, after a captivity of rs Years, lie
has at length reclaimed from among the
Chippewa Indians
MIR. Tanner is man of undoubted veracitv.
ana most excellent intelligence; and we much
regret That, tor want of time, we are comDslie
to omit many interesting particular in relat ton
10 his brother, and his own adventures in MIR.
snit Of him but the following will, no doubt.
be read with some degree of interest, not only
Tor the Uncommon per eYerance Of that gen.
tleniaii, but may facilitate others in recovering
their friends whom The disasters of Indian
Warfare Lave placed la similar situations.
MIR. Tanner is a son oil the late John Tanner,
who formerly resided at Tanners Station on
he Ohio. Mr. T.. tanners Younger brother
the subject of This story, in The year I79o. then
apont ma years Oid, while gathering nuts, a
lew rods from The Station, was taken and car
RED oil by tie Indians. Various unsuccessful
e%eI tinns were made for his recovery previous
10 The year l79S, whep Mr.. Tanner attended
General Waype's treaty with The Indians q
Gieenviile. In l70S he visited ths place aud
having heard that number of Shawa,iees aud
Deiawares had gone over the Mississippi with
Lprimore, an Indian trader, in l7Gg ne went
ana searched among them. In Nav 1890 lie
left home, in WOOdiord county, Ken. crossed
the Ohio at Cincinnati. examined through all
TIE lndian tribes on the waters OF the two Mi
anis. the Scioto, SapdnSky, Miami OF the Lake,
me rivers RaiSln, Detroit, Sandwich AID Mai.
den, and through The principal part Of ibe !n.
dian country III Upper Canada and all the
waters that run into tle south side oil Lake
michigan thence 10 the head of the Illinois,
and 81 the EIklmrt, The head Of the Wabash.
aud down The west side Of Tue Great Miami
crossed the Ohio, home. Believing his brother
10 be dead, he gave up further search uItiIIa
March, when he received letter from MIR
sasilernan, enclosing one from Lord Stlkik,
gIttN Ia ont IL A..
little doubt of the existence of his brother
amongst Tie Indians in the north. Again, on
the LIST of August last, MIR. Tanner Sc, cut.
waited on Gov. Clark. got such papefs and H.
SiLucions as MS eHcellency thought necessary,
LETT 81. Louis the 18th for Lord Selkirk's colony
~ TIE north on his arr val AT Prailje du CHEN
an Indian trader at that post informed him
That nian had come into Miciiilimacindc with
the Indians from The northwest, resembling
linn ~ person: he changed his route asceuded
The OuscOnsfn river 10 the portage, crossed
t0 Fox river, dscPpded TO Green Bay, ohtaiEed
TURNER encouraging information and being
I&tOrmed that The person he was in pursuit of
spoke The Chippewa tongue. procured an id
terprettr, sailed from maCkiuac on board Tie
Widows Sow, captain RupeiS arrived goi
information that The said person had gone 10
DetrOii sailed for that place ;arrived called
on gov. C"ss VINO Informed him that he believed
mat The saI6 person (who was called JayloD
lldu gone to keDtucky, ia search of his rela.
lions being furnished by hisexcelIency with
horses. &C. pursued OH to Fort Meigs learned
That Tie said person had A. ~ unsuccessful in
his search after friends, aHu had returned he
thea turned back, and found kis brother in lie
heiehborhood of Detroit, Oh tie I7i;i " last
month.
The feelings Of tie two brothers when intro
dnced 10 each other. through an interpreter,
aiter a separation of25 years, is theme Tor q
hntr pen. han mine.
ltseenis tbat The name of John TAYLOR had
through some mistake in the sn,iid been az on
by tie Indians tot JOHN Tanner, which Is his
proper name.
There is the strongest family resemblance.
both IN the person and fe.tuycs of these iwo
brsiheTs aud although they cannot conVer.e
With cach other, except thronc II an ii,terurct,.f
| they look upon and act towards each other
| with the most ardent tatcrusl affection.
| This man " The ,cJo0s who indeed hi,
nothing OF the savage sitdrcss and fcrocisy in
hH appeHfence, Is now gOIrs to New Maafid