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name of Ball. — The Indians also attacked 

 their house at the same instant they en- 

 tered Mr. Scott's ; but, the door being 

 shut, the enemy fired through an opening 

 between two logs, and killed a young lad, 

 and then essayed to force the door open ; 

 but a surviving brother fired through the 

 door, and the enemy desisted, and went off": 

 the remaining part of the family ran out 

 of the house and escaped. In Mr. Scott's 

 house were four good rifles well loaded, 

 and a good deal of clothing and furniture, 

 part of which belonged to people that had 

 left it on their way to Kentucky. The 

 Indians loaded themselves with the plunder, 

 being thirteen in number, then speedily 

 made off*, and continued travelling all night: 

 next morning their chief allotted to each 

 man his share, and detached nine of the party 

 to steal horses from the inhabitants on 

 Clinch. The eleventh day after Mrs. Scott's 

 captivity, the four Indians that had her in 

 charge stopped, at a place fixed upon for a 

 rendezvous and to hunt, being now in great 



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