Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-12-04
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENN NESSEE.
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post rider, and two other men, on their
way from Hawkins Court House, in
the territory, to Kentucky, were fired
on near Laurel River by a party of In.
dians and white man; Ross was killed !;
the other two men were wounded, but
made their escape.
On Saturday the Goth of March, 1893,
nine men and ten women and children
were attacked uear the Halle Patch by
by a party of Indians, consisting of
about eighteen and Il white man, who
appeared to be the leader. On sight
CT the Indians the travellers dismount.
ed, and an action ensued which lasted
near half an hour, when both parties
retreated, each regarding the other as
conquerors. Only four men Of the
company reached Kentucky, three of
whom were wounded. On Thursday
following. Gen. Logan, with seventy
men, went in search of the rest of the
company; on the ground where the
engagement had taken place, they
found little girl who had been taken
prisoner few weeks before, and who,
during the engagement. made her es.
cape and hid herself; they also found
child of one of the company, some dis
tance from the place of action, nearly
exhausted. but who finally recovered; :;
they were led to this discovery by the
barking of dog, which had remained
with the child from the time its pareD ts
had forsuken it; the Iniians had sew
eral wounded, and their leader, the
white man, killed, whom they carried
some distance and buried. Mr.. McFar-
land, one of the company, wounded
several of the Indians and killed their
leader, and was the last person who
left the ground: he escaped unhurt.
having his charger shot from his belt.
On Monday the 18th of March 1893,
two young men of the name of Glenn
ents, were killed and scalped about six
teen miles below Knoxville.
On Wednesday the Goth of March.
1903, on Pigeon, in Jefferson County,
man by the name of Taylor was fired
on by the Indians who had formed an
ambuscade on the path he travelled
near station. The number of guns
fired induced the belief that the party
of Indians were numerous.
On Sunday the Goth of March, a
party of seven or eight Indians killed
and scalped William Massey and
Adam Greene, at the gap of Powell's
Mountain, on Clinch. about twenty
miles from Hawkins Court House.
On Monday the 9Th of April, 1903, u
party of Creeks headed by young Lash
ley, the person who had lately COM
mitted so many acts of repine and
slaughter on the frontier inhabitants
of Hamilton district, burnt house be
longing to James Gallaher, on the
south side of Holston, twenty miles
from Knoxville; returning from the
frontiers they called on the Hanging
Nav, and asked for provisions, which
he refused them, upon which they shot
his dog and went of. A detachment
of mounted infantry followed them
over the Tennessee, without being able
to overtake them; the waters having
risen suddenly, the company were
obliged to swim their horses in recross
ing the Tennessee, in attempting which,
a young man, John Mccullough, was
drowned.
On Thursday the 18th of April, the
house of Mr.. Blackburn, on the north
side of Holston, fourteen miles from
Knoxville, was burnt by the Indians,
generally supposed to be the Creeks.
On the 10Th of April, party of
Lieut.. Tedford's rangers, on the south
side Of Holston, in the dusk of the eve
ming, diligently in pursuit of some
Greeks who were on the frontiers under
the command of Lashley, fell in with
two Indians on horseback, on whom
they fired and killed one who proved
to be the Noon Day, a Cherokee Toquo.
The Creeks had broken out into open
hostilities, when the Cherokees offered
to be at peace. About the last of April,
some Indians whom the white people
were willing to suppose to be Creeks,
killed a man near Tugulo, and stole
abou. thirty horses near the residence
of Col. Cleveland. The white people
there received orders to pursue and kill
them aud to retake the horses. They
came up with the Indians near Chota
in the Cherokee territory: the white.
found where they had killed horse
aud bell which was known; they
fred upon and killed two of these In
dians, and wounded one. The Chero
KEGS were informed of this bv tt white
people, by communication which i'm
piled friendship for them, and disgust
at the conduct Of the Creeks, who, by
returning through their country, had
endeavored to fix on the Cherokees the
imputation that they were the perpe
traitors of those enormities.
The white people established station,
at the Oconee Mountains, and othel
places on the frontiers, leaving oper
only one path bv which the Cherokee,
were to come to the white settlements
which was the old trading path by the
Oconee Mountain. The Cherokees were
desired not to 60 to the Spaniards fol