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the Ohio, opposite to that post, and calling to 

 him, and asking for particular persons who 

 had been on the expedition, and telling him 

 I was Slover, at length, with great difficulty, 

 he was persuaded to come over, and bring 

 me across in his canoe." 



To shew more particularly how danger- 

 ous it is to live in the back settlements, I 

 shall add the following narrative of the cap- 

 tivity and escape of Mrs. Frances Scott, an 

 inhabitant of Washington county, Virginia, 



" On Wednesday the 2Qth day of June, 

 1 785, late in the evening, a large company 

 of armed men passed the house, on their 

 way to Kentucky, some part of whom en- 

 camped within two miles. Mr. Scott, liv- 

 ing on a frontier part, generally made the 

 family watchful ; but on this calamitous 

 day, after so large a body of men had passed, 

 shortly after night, he lay down in his bed, 

 and imprudently left one of the doors of 

 his house open : the children were also in 

 bed, and asleep. Mrs. Scott was nearly 

 undressed, when, to her unutterable aston- 



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