The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-08-14

ter whom they met, and who took
them 90 a settlement on the Monon-
ghela.
AT COSHOCToN. ID
Nine years Rfterward, the High
lander, who had settled In Westmore-
land county, Joined Boquet,s army.
and at Coshocton inquired of the In
dians what had become of Three Legs
and his town up the river, telling
them he was once prisoner there, but
had escaped. All he could learn was
that Three Legs had been killed by
a white prisoner, and his town was
since deserted Mcintosh returned
with the army to Pennsylvania, set
tied In Fayette county and again
volunteered in 177S, at Fort Pitt Cen
eral Lachlin Mcintosh there made his
acquaintance, and took him down to
Beaver, thence to Fort Laurens, and
back to Pittsburg, after which he
was sent to the Tuscarawas as one OF
Broadhead's Indian killers in 1880,
Shtr4 lhC Sldu5lltCIf Vi IuC OO5DoC-
ton Indians in that campaign the
Scotchman was in the forefront,
boasting in his old age of having
tomahawked six Indians in one hour,
when telling his exploits in Fayette
county, where he died, leaving a fam-
lily.
Near the junction of the Killbuck
and Walhonding rivers, a few miles
northwest of the present Coshocton,
lived as early as 1850, Mary Harris,
white woman. She had been cap
tured in one of the colonies, by the
Indians, between 1880 and 1740, and
was then girl verging into woman
hood. Her beauty captivated a chief,
who made her his wife in the Indian
fashion of that day
"The Indian tribes were being
crowded back from the eastern colo
nies and the tribe of Custaloga had
retired from place to place before the
white frontier men, until about 1740 1t
found a new hunting ground in this
valley, where the white woman be-
came one of the inhabitants with her
warrior, and where they raised a Wig
wan which formed the nucleus OF an
Indian town near the forks of the
stream above mentionel. Mary Har-
ris had been sufficiently long with tle
Indians to become fascinated with
their nomadic life and entered into
all its romantic avenues, following
Eagle Feather, her husband to all
the buffalo, elk and bear hunts in
the valley, and whenever he went OH
with a war party to take a few scalps
she mixed his paint and laid it on
and plumed him for the wars, always
putting up with her own hands a
sufficiency of dried venison and parch-
ed corn for the journey. She was es-
pecially careful to polish with soap.
stone his little hatchet,' always, how
ever, admonishing him not to return
without some good long haired scaII
for wigwam ornaments and chignons
such as wero worn by the first class
Indian ladies along the Killbuck. 81
prominent had she become that tlt
town was named The White Wo.
mans Town. and the river from
thence to Muskingum was called IL
honor of her, The White Woman
River
''In 1850, when Christopher Gist was
on his travels down the valley hunt
| inc tho lc
Washington's Virginia Land company
he stopped some time at White Wo
mans Town, and enjoyed its Indial
festivities with Mary Harris, who toIt
him her story; how she liked savag,
warriors; how she preferred Indian t.
white life, and said the whites wer,
a wicked race and more cruel thar
the red man
In her wigwam the white. woman
was the master spirit, and Eagle
Feather was ignored except when go
ing to war, or when she desired tC
accompany him on his hunting expe
ditions, or was about to assist at tn,
burning of some poor captive, OF
OCSdolOno BIG WAS d SQudY
to him, and loved him much. All wen
along merrily as possible until on,
day Eagle Feather came home from
beyond the Ohio with another whit,
woman, whom he had captured, ant
who he intended should enjoy the re
licities of Indian life on the Killbucl
with Mary in her wigwam. She, how
ever, did not see happiness from
that standpoint, and forthwith the
advent of the newcomer as Mar,
called her, into that home, made it a
Pomeroy used to say, red hot 10
Eagle Feather all the time, her Purl
tan idea of the marital overtoppini
the Indian idea of domestic virtue
Hence Eagle Feather, whenever n
rendered any civilities to the newcop,
er encountered from Mary all tn