Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-12

~, they led him OF TO town three
miles distant from the town ] lived.
in, and there they gathered to have
frolic with this poor object of pity.
They led him to large stake near
large fire prepared for the purpose,
and when they had scalped him and
cut his nose off SO that it hung below
his underlip they cut off his ears
and took bark shovels and threw
hot embers out of the fire upon his
head, while others were employed in
burning him with firehrands - In
short. they lacked nothing that they
could invent to augment his pain, and
many others suffered in a most bar
barous manner particularly Col.
wford, who was, unhappily, de-
feated by them and fen victim into
their hands.
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Telling of the fate of Col Crawford
Abel Janney wrote: "They first scalp
ed him and then they tied him fast to
a stake before large fire mades of
logs and then cut out his tongue and
cut off his nose and ears and then
poured hot embers out of the fire upon
his head while others were employed
in burning him with long firebrands
and none were more active in this
employment than the squaws---ins
deed, my memory fails me in recol-
lecting the many inventions they con-
trived to punish so brave man, who
bore all they could infict upon him
with such a calmness and fortitude
as seemed to be surprising to human
nature. His son-in-law, John Harri-
son, also fell into their hands and
was most barbarously murdered, but
seemed to be much assured that he
should find a merciful Savior and
seemed to be very fervent in his sup
plications. He did not in the least
seem to dread their severest threat9
of torture, but seemed to he fully reg
signed to the will Of his Creator and
desired me df it should please God
to bring me home asain) to inform
his wife that ] saw his end; and like
wise to desire her and her children to
live a more circumspect life than they
had done heretofore. SO L shall cease
to enumerate any more of their par
barities and turn again to my own
concerns"
After his escape from the Indians,
who later in his narrative he calls
the "Shawnese," he headed through
the forest from Fort Wheeling. He
met eTOup VI II iCiiuiS oNth""
dams and they agreed to conduct him
to Detroit. He made stop at the
Wyandotte town of Sandusky, ate
great many blackberries. declined to
eat the roasted flesh of wolf. which
the Indians had shot, had his hair
cut In the Indian fashion and him
self painted as a savage. On Septem-
Der 3, 1882, under the conduct of the
Indians he reached Fort Detroit,
where / was given up to one agent
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to Maj. Depasture (Maj. A. S. De
Peyster, British officer in command at
Detroit at that time, a grandson OF
J. w. De Peyster, a leading Dutch
settler of New York;. communicable
chief of the garrison where l re-
NAMED in close confinement till the
ed and then l embarked on board
the Dunmore sloop of war when we
kept around by Lake Erie to Fort
Slusher" BY Fort Slusher he meant
Fort Schlosher, which was opposite
the fort of Grand Isle.
Janney was next taken to Fort
Niagara. thence to Montreal. and
thence down the st. lawrence and by
sea to New York. He seems to have
been confined as prisoner. though
for what reason does not appear. at
a place he calls Cateawde lake, which
the owner of the diary assumes to
have been Lake st. Francis, an ex-
thence down the st. Lawrence and by
Abel says that sit was on the 2Sth
day of January when I obtained my
permit to teach school for the chill
dren of the officers of the garrison
and the merchants with whom ! lived
till my releasement, which was on the
morning of the 7th of July. 1883 We
left Cateawde lake, and from thence
round to New York, and from thence
to Loudoun county, Va, my native
home"
There are many Janneys living in
Loudoun county and other parts of
Virginia. 1t would be hard to count
the number of people of Janney an
cestry who are descended from the
women Of the Janney family and now
bear other names. The collateral re-
lations of the Janneys no doubt num-
Der many thousands of people in
Virginia and the District of Column
bia, and. Of course. they are scattered
around the world. The Rambler came
upon the name Janney when he first |
set foot In the Goose Creek region
and wrote the story of the town OF |
Ashburn. Adjoining the Burch farm, !
which was called "Farmwell," and on I
which the present town or Ashburn, !
or most of It, stands, was a farm
called "Ashburn." That was the home
of John Janney, a distinguished citi- |
zen Of Virginia. He was a member 7
of the delegation of Virginians who
called on President Lincoln with a ,
view TO finding some solution OF the