Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-01-29
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. !

CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
On Monday the 10Th of January, 1899,
the Indians killed Robert Sever and
William Sewer, sons of Valentine Sc
vier, who lived Mt the mouth of Red
River near the present site of Clarks.
vile; they had gone to the relief of the
distressed families on the Cumberland
River, who had sent by express for as.
sistance; the officers of Tennessee could
give none. A part of the crew was on
shore getting provisions to be carried
in boats to the sufferers; the boats
were ahead of them when these young
men discovered the enemy, whom they
mistook for their own party the In.
dians having been seen late in the eve
ming considerable distance from that
place. Robert Sewer hailed them who
answered they were friends, with
which answer being satisfied, he sailed
on, anu the Indians carelessly began
to chop with their hatchets, till the
young men in the boats got very near
them. Robert said TO the man who
was with him in the boats, these are
not our friends, steer off. - The Indians
then fired upon them; the man leaped
out of the boat and left them in il
about three rods distant from the
shore. Before the Goth, William was
found and buried, but Robert met a
party of twelve white men, pursued,
but did not overtake the Indians. On
the 10th of the same month, Valentine,
third son of this unfortunate parent,
also fell by the hands of the savages
he was in boat ascending the river,
and was fired upon and killed dead in
it; two others were wounded, one of
them, John Rice, died, and both he
aud Valentine were buried about sixty
miles below the mouth of Red River
Until Valentine fell, he and two others
kept up So brisk fire, that they in
timidated the Indians and saved the
crew. The attack on Robert and Will
liam was about eighteen miles below
the mouth of Red River, at the mouth
of Blooming Grove Greek: the Indians
about this time had fred upon several
boats and had taken some of them, and
the inhabitants in this part of the set.
Elements expected very hot war in
the ensuing summer. The Indians
who committed these outrages, were
supposed to be from New Madrid or
Lans le Grace, where the hand of the
Spaniards who pretended SO much
friendship, was preceptible in almost
all the injuries which the settlements
received from the savages. Deprived of
all of his sons who had come with him
to Cumberland in 80 short time, the
afflicted parent wrote to his brother,
Gen. Sewer, to send to him his son
John to come and see him: as, said he,
in the moving language of suffering
Innocence, | have no other sons but
small ones.
On the 2Sth of January, 1902, Oliver
Williams and Jason Thompson, at
night encamped on the road leading
from Bedsoe's Station to the ford of
Cumberland River on the north side of
the river, where they were fred upon
by Indians and both wounded and
their horses and other articles were
taken from them: they got back to the
settlement much injured by the frost,
snow being then on the ground. The
horses were taken by eight Creeks, who
were seen with them In the Cherokee
country, on their way to the Creek
nation. About the beginning of March,
l792, the Indians attacked the house of
MIR. Thompson, within seven miles of
Nashville, killed and scalped the old
man, his wife, his son and daughter,
and made prisoners Mrs. Caffrey, her
son, small boy, and Miss Thompson.
The Creeks saw two white men who
came to camp on a trace leading
from the Choctaws to the Creeks, where
the latter had with them as prisoners
two white women and a child two
years old; these white men were in
company with soma chiefs of the
Chickasaws, and would have been
killed by the Creeks, but fol the assur.
ances of those chiefs that they were
not citizens of the United States. On
the 9th of March, 1909, twenty five In
dians attacked Browns Station, eight
miles from Nashville, and killed four
boys; on the 9th they burnt Dunham 8
Station; on the 18th they killed Nc.
Murray on his own plantation, at the
mouth of Stones River, on the 10Th of
April they killed Mrs. Radcliff and
three children; on the 9Th they killed
Benjamin Williams and party, consist
ing of eight men, in the heart of the
Cumberland settlements; on Station
Camp Creek boy was wounded in
three places; at the same place two
boys, sons of Robert Desha, were
killed in the field in the day time, near
their fathers house, and also Kirken-
dali, on the 10th of May, 1892, and a
man on the nth. So much did the
dangers and distresses of the Cumber.
land people increase and thicken upon
them, that Gov. Blount was obliged to
order two more companies to their as.
sistance, with orders to be in the Cum
berland settlements on the 10th of June.
On the Gath of May, l792, Gen. Robert.