Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-12-07

NOTES ON KENTUCKY-sscTIos IL.
From he Kernekg Gazette.

towns, the Indians were reduced al
most to state of famine, and the war.
riors were not only ob'.,d to attend
to the immediate wants oftheir women
and children, bot to provide for them
habitations for the approaching winter
hence all their time was SO occupied,
that Kentucky enjoyed considerable
repose until the ensuing spring.
Many of the disaffected to the cause
of the American Revolution had re-
moved TO Kentucky from North Caro-
lima, US well as from other parts of the
United States, TO avoid being COMPEL
ed TO take up arms against Great Bri-
tain, who in consequence OF the f1atter-
ing success Of The British arms in the
South in the taking of Charleston, and
other successes, together with the gloO
my prospects in Kentucky, immedi
ately after the return of the army from
chastising the Indians, made ready
and removed back 10 North Carolina
IN the autumn of 1880, some Of whom
entered the British service "A great
number Of those who had been con.
sidered permanent settlers in the cOun-
try, removed TO the old settled country
in the autumn Of the year 1880, which
so discouraged 'he remaining inhabi
iants, that il the Indians had not, by
stealing their horses, deprived them of
the means ofremoving the women and
children, the country would have been
abandoned; but owing TO the impossi
bility of removing them, the men reso
lutely determined to protect and de.
fend them. The gloomy prospects in
Kentucky checked the emigration to it
until the spring of The year 1880, and
even then it was by no means equal to
what it had been the proceeding year.
About the first Of March, 1881,
Col. William Lynn and Captains Tip
ton and Chapman, were killed by
parties Of Indians who waylaid the
paths on Beargrass. In pursuit of one
of these parties, Captain AquiIla Whit
aker, with Is men, followed them TO
the Ohio river at the foot of the Rapids,
where they found some canoes, in
which they embarked in order to cross
the river in the pursuit, but as soon as
they were fairly on board, the Indians,
who lay concealed under the bank of
the river, fired on them, and killed
one aad wounded nine others they
instantly re. landed, rushed Oh the In
dams and defeated them.
In the month of April, in the year
1881, a Station settled by Squire
Boone, (brother Of Colonel Daniel
Boone,) pear the place where Shelby.
vile now stands, was so exposed, and
has so suffered by the Indians, that the
inhabitants determined to break up
and remove TO Beargrass. Whilst
they were on their way, incumbered
with women and children, and their
goods, they were attacked
by party Of Indians near Long Run,
defeated and dispersed with great
slaughter. Col John Floyd receiv
ing information Of this defeat, collected
together so men, and went in the I'M
pursuit Of the Indians. Cal.
rulated on being pursued, the Indians
formed an ambuscade, into which
Floyd and his party were unsuspect
ingly drawn, and one half their nam.
Der were killed. Col. Floyd would
have fallen into the hands of
the Indians. bot for the manly intre-
pldity Of Capt Samuel Wells, who,
seeing the Col. on foot, nearly exhaus-
ted and hard pressed by the enemy,
ncbly dismounted himselffrom his own
horse, assisted Col Floyd into the
saddle, and accompanied him on foot.
Such iilustrious acts ought never be
forgotten. Bot what adds greatly to
hat magsanimity ofthe act is, that at
hat time Capt Wells and Col. Floyd
were at variance.
On The 9Th of May, 1871, MA
frees Station on Salt river, about Sc.
ven miles from Harrodsburg, was at
lacked by party of Indians. One of
The Matrices and another man were
on their way from the Station to a plan
Iaton in the vicinity OF the place, on
whom the Indians fred and pursued
hem to the station. The seige lasted
only about three hours, when the Indi
ans withdrew, and shortly after. men
from different places in The neighbor
hood collected TO the amount Of forty,
and pursued the Indians, and within a