Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-05-22


Taylor and others, near the bluff, tc
the south west. After much time and
care he was recovered. In this sum
mer Robert Gilkey sickened and died
HE was the first man of the settlers
that died natural death. Soon after
wards negro of Mrs. Gilkey was fired
upon by the Indians, at the place where
Mr.. Whiteside's s Office now is. The ne,
gro was dangerously wounded, but re-
covered. Philip Conrad, in the spring
was killed by the fall of a tree, at the
place where Bass lanyard now is. In
this year man of the name of Michael
Stoner, first discovered the lick which
has ever since been called Stoner's
lick. Stoner's lick creek, which runs
through it, received its name from the
same circumstance. In the fall of this
year the hunters supplied the inhabi-
tants with meat, by killing bears, buf.
taloes and deer. A party of twenty
men went up the Caney Fork as high
as Films creek, and returned in ca
noes with their meat in the winter.
While in the woods they killed one
hundred and five bears, seventy five
buffaloes, and eighty and more deer.
Some of the inhabitants, however.
failed to obtain subsistence which was
expected from this source, and others
had lost their crops by fresh in July,
and such persons were in distress, for
want of provisions. The multiplied
disasters and dangers, which every
moment threatened the small body of
settlers with destruction, at length be-
gan to dishearten them. A consider
able part of them went this year to
Kentucky and Illinois. In the winter,
the emigration was stopped by the
want of horses, and all the inhabitants
were collected into two stations.
The Assembly of North Carolina in
May, 1880, engaged by public act, in
the form of a resolution, to give the
officers and soldiers in its line, on con-
tinental establishment, a bounty in
lands, in proportion to their respective
grades, to be laid off in the western
country in what is now called West
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in service and should continue to the
end OF the war, or such as from wounds
or bodily infirmites, have been or
shall be rendered unfit for service, and
to the heirs of such who shall have
fallen, or shall fall, in defense of the
country. There never was bounty
more richly deserved, or more grudg-
ingly promised.
In the year 1881, on the 18th OF Janu
ary, an attack was made on Freeland' 3
station by forty or fifty Indians in the
still hour of midnight. Captain James
Robertson had, in the evening before,
returned from the Kentucky settle
ments; and having been accustomed.
whilst on the road, to more vigilance
than the other residents of the fort, he
heard the noise which the cautious
savages made in opening the gate. He
arose and alarmed the men in the sta.
ton, but the Indians had got in. The
cry of Indians brought Major Lucas
out in his shirt; he was shot. The
alarm being general, the Indians re-
treated through the gate, but fired in at
the portfolios, through the house in
which Major Lucas lived. In this
house they shot a negro of Captain
Robertson S. These were the only fatal
shots, though not less than five hun
dred were fired into the house; it was
the only one in which the portfolios
were not filled up with mud. The
whites, only eleven in number, made
good use of the advantage they pos
sessed in the other houses in the fort;
Captain Robertson shot an Indian,
which soon caused the whole BODY to
retreat The moon shone bright, other
wise this attack would probably have
succeeded. The fort was once in the
possession of the Indians. They found
means to loosen the chain on the inside.
which confined the gate, and they were
superior in point of numbers. The In.
,dians received reinforcements from the
Cherokee nation. They burnt up every
thing before them; immense quantities
of corn and other produce, as we'll as
the houses. fences, and even the sta
tions of the whites. The alarm was
general; all who could get to the bluff
or Eaton 8 station, did SO; but many
never saw their comrades in those sta
tions; some were killed sleeping; some
were awakened, only to be apprised
that their last moment was come; some
were killed in the MONDAY, when not
suspicious of danger; death seemed
ready to embrace the whole of the ad-
venturers. In the morning when Man
scos lick station was broken up, two
men who had slept little later than
their companions, were shot by two
guns pointed through portfolio by
the Indians. These men were David
Coin and Patrick Quigley. Many of
the terrified settlers removed to Ken
tucky, or went down the river. A few
nights afterwards, Mrs. Dunham sent
a small girl out of the fort to bring in
something that she wanted, and the
Indians being there, took hold of the
child and scalped her, but they did not
kill her, and she is still alive. Mrs.
Dunham hearing the cries of the child,
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