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South side of the Ohio which when the Indians 

 saw supposed it must be Clark. It would have been 

 a lucky circumstance if they had come on, as I had 

 eleven hundred Indians on the ground, and three 

 hundred within a days march of me. When the 

 Report was contradicted They mostly left us, many 

 of them had left their Towns no way equipped for 

 War, as they expected as well as myself to fight in 

 a few days, notwithstanding I was determined to 

 pay the Enemy a visit with as many Indians as 

 would follow me: accordingly I crossed the Ohio 

 with three hundred Indians & Rangers, and Marched 

 for Bryants Station on Kentuck, and surrounded 

 the Fort the I5th in the morning, & tried to draw 

 'em out by sending up a small party to try to take 

 a Prisoner and shew themselves, but the Indians 

 were in too great a hurry and the whole shewed too 

 soon I then saw it was in vain to wait any longer 

 and so drew nigh the Fort, burnt 3 Houses which 

 are part of the Fort but the wind being contrary 

 prevented it having the desired effect Killed upward 

 of 300 Hogs, 150 Head of Cattle, and a number of 

 Sheep, took a number of Horses, pull'd up and 

 destroyed their Potatoes, cut down a great deal of 

 their Corn, burn't their Hemp and did other con- 

 siderable damage by the Indians exposing them- 

 selves too much we had 5 Killed & 2 Wounded. 



We retreated the i6th and came as far as Bid- 

 die's for'mer Station, when nigh 100 Indians left 

 me, as they went after their things they left at the 

 Forks of Licking, and I took the Road by the blue 



