Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-08-18
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"fhere comes voice that awakcs my sou-It is the voice
of days that gone-They roll before me viii, all their
deeds" Cs.,,n 'i
1t becomes civilized man, as he floats down the
tide OF time to sketch the passing scenes that pos
tcrity may profit by his wisdom and his foies:LIn
1856, the whites began to extend their settlements
New River and Hoston, in Fincastle county, (II A.
mongst the first OF those Adventures, were-Gcn
Evan Shcby,(@l Gen. William Campbell Col vii
liam Christian, Col. William Preston, Daniel Boone
THOMAS Walden, and Il number ofothers, afterwards
distinguished in the histories of their country Boone
afterwards went to Kentucky, and finally to Missouri:
Walden was killed on Clinch River and the noun
tain dividing Clinch from Powell river still heor. hi
maine. Those lands were mostly taken up at frs,
as "Corn rights, who planted few acres of
corn, acquired right to many hundred acres of
land surrounding it:-(3) Those frontiers were much
harasscd by the Shawnees, Delawares VHuaw,,os
ane Cherokees. (4l party OF French Jesuits about
this time, established themselves Galliopois near
y opposite the mouth OF Great Kanawha:-they in
cited the Indians to commit great barbarities on our
frontiers (5) Gallopolis became great point of rem
devious for the Shawnees and Delawares; from
thence they would pass up the Kanawha and Green
orer and across the mountains to the frontiers of Au
gusta; rup the kauawha and New River and across
to James River and Roanoke. Another chief point
OF rendezvous, on the Ohio, opposite Roanoke was
at the mouth of Great Sandy River; from thence
they would pass up Sandy, and by way of
Blue Stone River to New River and Roanoke
large party of Shawnees came in i'm the Sp,po of
1856, and destroyed nearly the whole Roanoke Set
tlement.
10 avenge the last named outrage and TO prevent
Its repetition, Governor Dinw iddie in the summer
OF 1877, ordered out the campaign, which COMMON
~ known In tradition amongst the Oldest settlers
here, as the SANDY CREEK VOYAGE" (G) The OBJ.
Ject OF 1t wasto chastSe the savaucs on the Sc oa.
and to establish military post the mouth of Great
Sandy River at convenient point to intercept that
route OF ncurson, and to the French post
of Galliopois, well to cut off in some measnto
the intercourse between Gaiopolis and the Indian
towns on the Sclota and Mama This eypedition was
commanded by the then Col Andrew Lewis; it CON
sisted OF company of regulars, principally drawn
IRON Fort DmWiddIc on Jacksons River then COM
manded by Capt. Audley Paul, and three companies
of Colonial minute men, of them from Boetourt
and the other two from Augusta-one of the conipa-
mes from Augusta, was under the command of Capt.
John AeXanccr;* and the late Governor John Nc
Mutt OF Nova Scotia, Babaltern in that comma
ny; the other company from Augusta, was comman-
ded by Capt Wiliama IQggg; (whosc conduct is said
to have justified his name) and the late Cant Jobn
Anderson, of Towards creek in Greenbrer was one
OF Hoggs subalterns: the Botetourt company was
commanded by Capt. William Preston.
Tins campaign was attended with circumstances
OF individual sufferings, peculiarly DISTRESSING It's
comparative failure is attributed in great measure
by some, to the tardy movements of Capt. Hogn:
the whole regiment were required to rendezvous at
the post where Col. Lewis then stationed on the
Roanoke (near Salem.) They all met there
excepting liogg company, and determined to 90 the
route by way OF New River and Sandy, for two rea-
sons-one was to avoid early discovery by the en-
OF Great kanawha the other was, that thew rnirht
suddenly drop into the Indian towns, in the valley of
Scotia, previous to discovery interruption by the
French post OF Gallopoiis. They waited at Iewis's
Tor Capt Hogg, more than week, and finally set
out without hIm--they went out by the biz bend of
Roanoke, and crossed New River at Browns ford
below the Horse shoes and descended that river to
the mouth OF Wolf creck-they assembled that creel,
to Its source, and passed over to the head of Blue
stone river, where they delayed about another week
Tor capt; Hogg's comPany-they then crossed the
at TOP mountains, to the head of the North fork of
SANDY river, and continued down that stream to the
great burning spring, ~ where they halted one dav
At TINS place their salt and provisions, which had
been conveyed on pack horses, became exhausted
!hey mad Killed two Butaloes, the mouth of Pid-
gGon creek, just above the spring; where Carter
Clarke now ives they roasted them at the Burning
spring and ate them; and hung their hides up on q
peach tree. From this time, they had to depend en-
trely upon the game of the woods, for Subsistence
They proceeded down to the Great Falls of that riv
er, NOW Donathans mills where they CAUGHT anoth
or ouhaioe-on the next day they were ovsrtaken bv
runner, with information that Capt Horn with hs
company, were only about a DAVIS Journey behind
Lewis therefore halted at the mouth of III: Disn river
t8) now, Boomer's and Shorts salt works. until Cant
iiogg arrived. On The next day, lin December
1850 they were overtaken by an express from Fran
CTS Fauqujrc. who had Just taken his seat as Gov
ernor of Virginia the successor of Governor Din
wlddle;-wh orders to return home, and disband all
tLle troops, excepting Capt. PauPs regulars-who
we're TO rctrrn to Fort Dinwidde.
Ihls order to return, no doubt arose from the
change OF Governors in Virginia; Governor Dnwid-
die had ordered out the campagn- Governor Eau
quirc ordered ITS return; the given bv Eau
cures trends, for this singular change of policy
were; that Lewiss forces too weak to make an
establishment sufficiently strong, at the mouth of
sandy, and to defend it and themselves against the
great FORCES OF tfe enemy, to be expected at that
place, 1T being point of indian rendezvous-near All
their towns on the Sciota-wbn few days' journey
OF several thousand warriors on the Miami; benr
several hundred miles from any other friendly asss,
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and of several others the Ohio below and BEING
so remote from the settled frontiers as to be unss7
cepbe OF being furnished with provisions assistance
or information without the expenditure of more
object. ''
Lewis and his men. were much vexed ON recnvinr