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by Charles Hallowell Mitchener (Author)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...first to apprise the western Indians of Crawford's army crossing the valley. When all was over, she became again a pious Christian on White River, Indiana, and was there burned as a witch about the year 1806 by order of Tecumseb, the prophet. In a few days after Williamson crossed the valley, John Slover, Crawford's guide, who had been nearly captured, hut escaping his savage pursuers, crossed the Tuscarawas, near the present town of Port Washington, reaching the Ohio in safety. James Paul, another of the body-guard of Crawford, was captured, painted black, but also escaped death by fire, reaching, on his way home, the Sugar Creek, which he followed to its junction with the Tuscarawas, near the present Dover, where he proceeded up the stream, crossed where the Canton fording place was afterward located, and slept at the so-called "Federal Springs," of a later day, where he found a deserted Indian camp, with kegs and empty vessels lying around, which had been captured by the Indians at Fort Laurens three years before, when they stampeded McIntosh's provision train, and 011 which provisions the savages had many jolly feasts while the garrison were starving. From this point Paul passed over the edge of the plain, whereon is at this day New Philadelphia, and reaching Williamson's trail below Schoenbrunn ruins, he arrived safely at Mingo bottom. But how many more of Crawford's troopers re-crossed the haunted valley history saith not, for until 1785 the savage warriors after scalps, in fulfillment of the vow of vengeance, were its only human inhabitants. In that year an escaped prisoner crossed the river at the massacre town and reached Fort Wheeling, but he reported that he saw no human being in the valley. The bones of the Christian...
