Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-05-22
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE,
[CoNTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
CHAPTER V.

is pleased with the storm and earth
quake, and can behold with serenity
national convulsions and the works OF
death, will now enjoy repast in per
feet association with his ferocious ap
petite. But let him who suffers at the
tale of woe, and bleeds with the victim
which barbarity sacrifices in vengeance
Tor its wrongs, cover his head with a
mantle of mourning, and fly to other
scenes, consigning, as far as he is able,
to the tomb of oblivion, the events
which are now to be recorded.
Mr.. Rains, on the same day that he
crossed the Cumberland river on the
ice, went and settled on the land now
called Deaderick Plantation. He re.
mained there three months and three
or four days before the Indians did any
harm to the settlers. But in the month
of April, 1880, Keywood and Millikin,
two hunters, coming to the fort, stopped
on Richland creek, five or six miles
west from the bluff. and as one of
them stepped down to the bank of the
creek to drink, the Indians fired upon
Millikin and killed him. Keywood
escaped and brought intelligence of
this affair to the bluff. Mr.. Rains then
moved to the bluff, and continued
there four years, before he again set.
tied in the country. The Indians soon
afterwards killed Joseph Hay on the
Lick branch. In less than ten DAYS
after killing Millikin, party of Indi.
ans came to Freelands station, and
finding an old man, Bernard, making
an improvement at place called Den
ton s lick, they killed him and cut off
his lead and carried it away. They
were either Creeks or Cherokees. With
the old man were two small boys,
Joseph Durham and William Dunham: /:
they ran off and gave information to
the people at Freeland's station. Be-
tween Denton's lick and the fort, the
Indians found young man, whom the
boys had neglected to alarm; the In.
dians killed him and cut off and car.
ried away his head: his name also was
Millikin. Soon afterwards a party of
Indians supposed to be Delawares,
killed Jonathan Jennings, at the point
of the first Island above Nashville, in
July or August. At Eaton's station
they killed James Mayfield, and at the
same place, which is on the north side
of the Cumberland river, man of the
name of Porter was shot by the Indi.
ans in the cedars, in view of the sta
ton, in the day time, early in the
spring season. About the time the In
dians killed Jennings, they also killed
Ned Carver, five miles above Nashville.
His wife, with two children, escaped
and came 10 Nashville. This was done
on the bluff of the river, on the north
side, where William Williams, Esquire.
now lives. In day or two afterwards,
the same party killed William Neely,
at Neely's lick, and took his daughter
prisoner. At Mansco's lick, a little
before, they killed Jesse Balestine and
John Shockley. They killed David
Coin and Risby Kennady at the same
station, afterwards in the winter of the
same year. In this year Mansco' g sta
tion was broken up in the winter time:
some of the inhabitants went to Nash.
vile and some to Kentucky. In Nov
ember or December, at Eaton s station.
they shot Jacob Stump, and attempted
to kill the old man, Frederic Stump.
but he ran and got safely into Eaton s
station, after they had pursued him
three miles. The Indians killed two
persons at Bledsoe's lick, or on the
creek near it. They killed w. johnson
in the woods on Barren river, in com.
pany with Daniel Mongle, who ran off.
In the latter part of the year 1880, a
company of Indians met Thomas Sharp
Spencer in the woods, on the path in
which he was returning to the bluff
with load OF meat. They fred at and
missed him, but took his horses. and
went with them up the river. At Sta
ton Camp creek, they saw and took
other horses, which had strayed from
camp of white men that was near, but
which the Indians did not discover.
With both sets of horses they went off.
AT Ashers station, two miles and
half from where Gallatin now is, some
white men were in cabin in the night
time. AT break of day the Indians
crept up to the cabins. and fired into
them. They killed and scalped one
man, and wounded Phillips. They
then went off towards Bledsoe's 8 lick,
and met hunters who were returning
to the bluff. They were Alexander
Buchanon, James Manifee, William
Ellis, Alexander Thompson, and one or
two more. Buchanon. killed one In
dian and another was wounded. The
Indians ran off and left the horses they
had taken from Spencer and Phillips.
When the Indians came to Freeland's
station in May, the whites pursued
them, namely, Alexander Buchanon,
John Brock, aud William Mann, with
captain James Robertson and others,
being in number twenty, to the neigh.
borhood of Duck river, near where
Gordon's ferry now is, and near the
Duck river licks, where the pursuers
came in hearing of them aud heard
them cutting. The parry of white men
dismounted and marched to their camp.