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have met with some from those back woods 

 who now and then stray into a city ; and 

 they look like persons who have been lost in 

 a wilderness for years. 



About this time I met with General 

 Humpton, who had been an officer in the 

 American war, and a great friend to Gene- 

 ral Washington ; and I told him of Judge 

 Turner's kind offer. He condemned the 

 scheme totally, and gave me the following 

 narratives, published by Dr. Knight and Mr. 

 Slover, of the cruel murder of Colonel 

 Crawford, by the Indians in the back woods 

 of Kentucky, and of their wonderful escape; 

 from which will be seen the danger I avoided 

 by not settling in those parts. 



Dr. Knight says — " About the latter end 

 of the month of March, or the beginning of 

 April, of the year 1 782, the western Indians 

 began to make incursions upon the frontiers 

 of Ohio, Washington, Youghagany, and 

 Westmoreland counties, which has been their 

 constant practice ever since the commence- 



