Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-10-03
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i 'a'a-nauy TINE, with narY a t,st--
/ 10 native accents, breathing Joy
Il "NIsi winters hearth blazing lear
! a. al, and listened, wLcn boy
! lies, every scniclc:--eyeTy word
''SuAes on sympathetic Caord;
! And e"Jmes w, with viswless wand,
MY ca.y Gays-my native land"
BiacFwoo"s M1SG=iae, Dee 1927.
" lic c.osc o. The Revolutionary war, in i7C3 tie
Legislature passed the "Ac, for SURVIVING tl.. Lands
given by law, 70 the officers and soldiers" IN In Al.
gust l7ai the Surveyors went down the Ohio TO
Mississippi, 10 explore the country Sc apart west OF
Green RIVER in Kentucky, by this Act, to be survey
cd as military bounty lands. They found the whole
country occupied by Indiaus:--the presence or the
surveyors, at once brought Oh caT, upon our from
hcrs,--aS the Indians always viewed, w!th Just .0d
Iution, cur attempts to take from them their lands
in December 1888, an Act had been passed se,tinr
apart the country between Scioto and Miami IN
now Ono, to be applied as military bounty lands. III
case inc lands allotted for that purpose in Kentucky
should not be sufficient 10 satisfy the claims of alte
officers and soldiers (2 the OF the war tl.s en-
brac!ng ONO as well as Kentucky the Ohio Indians
joined IN ito save the frontiers frof havoc Ben
Jdtnin Harrison the .~vcrnor OF Virginia, in N0rcn-
Der 1884, recommended the pOstponement Of the sur
veys;-and on the 9Th Of Jannny 1865 Putrc, Hen
r. me new governor, issued proclamation command
ing the surveyors TO cease ~ The treaty of TInne
well, soon after produced short Cessation OF bosil
tes-Out AS VIC still coveted their land and persist cd
IN taking possession OF il, the was soon renewed,
and lasted several years; It's termination the end
oil Gen. WHync's campaign, Is mqt:er Of history
soon alter the commencement Of this srca:icr war
party OF Indians came up Sandy River, in October
13f, and passed 10 the head OF Clynch River 20 the
! white settlement, ncnr now Iazcwcl county court
house:-;hey fast went 70 Mr. Dargisson's house
ahd Killed. DAWSON and his wife, and set Tie house. OF
lue;-ihcy then proceeded towards tho, house Of
James Moore scnr; ON their KAY thther they met with
Moore, sailing his horses NJ a lick trough in tho
woods, and killed him and took away some of tho
! horses E}-thcy then went to- Moore's botse and
captured his wife and seven children; together with
Sally WINS. neighboriDg lady, who was there on
ffnpf u0fU hhprh
and the enemy, fearing detection. set out for Ohio
witt. the prisoners and horses: their way ont, thew
Killed John Moore junior and the three youngest chill
dTen IN order TO expedite their escape-V hon tho,
arrived at the Shawnee towns the Scoto (neay the
mouth OF PalHt creek council Of war was held in
which 1t was resolved that Two OF the captyes shod
be burned ddre to avenge the Heath some of their
own nation. who had been lately murdered b,, ,Lo
whites on Kentucky River this dreadful LOT fell ,nor
Mrs BnTbaro Moore and her daughter June an in =.
teresting girl OF sixteen: they were tied m most 81 tor
tail Of this affair, would sickcn the heart Iii \, time
u drop The curtain OF eternal oblivion over such
deed, and the cause OF i:s oTigin--But IL cnnuo no
forgotten the anniversary Of This tragedy is stillob
served by many OF the Inhabitants Of rnzcwell count
( az day Of fasting and prayer (5):-Jancs Moore.
Junr. now residing in faZewcf county Va and his
sister Mary, tlie wife Of the late Reverend -
brown OF Augusta county, Va. present, at
\ tic burning Of their mother and sister Jane fGl
/ Times Moore junT after the death Of his mother
was allotted % live with te Maumees, in Michiuan;
where be reunined until December 17g6:-IIs sis
/ ter Mary and Sally Wins, stu remained with the
Shawnscs-Sally Wins was bitten by n rattle snake
but We soon cured by an Indian, by the application
d The JUICE and bruised leaves Of an berb. do moi
know tie botanical name of the herb nor can give
ts L,naeH genera II is cOnalsRly called amongst us
/ the Soll9mO,l-seni tceed uses Moore iunr and bis
sister Mary, and Sally Iylns wero brou,ht homo ~
Augusta county, IN December 1786, under the treaty
OF Miami, and ransomnd, by James WINS (Sa,' g bro
thcr) and the late Col Poaguc OF AunusIn Nor
! ther-ln-law,) ard ono " his brothers Mary
/ Moore afterwards became the wife Of Mr.. Brown n
Presbyterian preacher, in Augusta county, Va. Uer
brother James Moore sill resides ~ Iazcwcli conn
~, ond, be it told in Virginia TO the honour Of inc
INDIAN character That although no had witnessed at
ors and ssteTs,yet it IS said. that he soil oxprcss
40 attachment 10 them.
la ali tbat have written in thcsc numbers IL has
Pee" ~. es'vsiro desire ecpine ysef entirely 70