APPENDIX 



APPENDIX A TO CHAPTER I 



(Campbell MSS. ; this letter and the one following are from 



copies, and the spelling, etc. , may not be 



quite as in the originals. ) 



CAMP OPPOSITE THE MOUTH OF THE 

 GREAT KENAWAY, 



T^ TT October 16 1774 



DEAR UNCLE, 



I gfadly embrace this opportunity to acquaint you 

 that we are all here yet alive through God's mercies, 

 & I sincerely wish that this may find you and your 

 family in the station of health that we left you. I 

 never had anything worth notice to acquaint you 

 with since I left you till now the express seems to 

 be hurrying, that I can not write you with the same 

 coolness and deliberation as I would. We arrived 

 at the mouth of the Canaway, thursday 6th. Octo. 

 and encamped on a fine piece of ground, with an 

 intent to wait for the Governor and his party but 

 hearing that he was going another way we con- 

 tented ourselves to stay there a few days to rest the 

 troops, &c. where we looked upon ourselves to be in 

 safety till Monday morning the loth, instant when 

 two of our company went out before day to hunt 

 to wit Val. Sevier and James Robinson and dis- 



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