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month of July or August it is supposed the Indians 

 in Ambuscade between Boonsboro and Knock- 

 buckle, intended to take him prisonner but killd his 

 horse and at the same time broke his Thigh, that 

 the savages finding their Prisonner with his Thigh 

 broken was under the necessity of puting him to 

 Death by shooting him through the Heart at so 

 small a Distance as to Powder burn his Flesh. He 

 was Tomahawkd, scalped & lay two days before he 

 was found and buried. This Account has come by 

 difrent hands & confirmd to Col. Henderson by a 

 Letter from an intimate Friend of his at Kentuck." 



This last bit of information is sandwiched in be 

 tween lamentations over bad debts, concerning 

 which the writer manifested considerable more emo 

 tion than over the rather startling fate of Captain 

 Hart. 



The second letter contains an account of the 

 "trafficking off" of a wagon and fine pair of Penn 

 sylvania horses, the news that a debt had been par 

 tially liquidated by the payment of sixty pounds' 

 worth of rum and sugar, which in turn went to 

 pay 'workmen, and continues: "The common people 

 are and will be much distressed for want of Bread. 

 I have often heard talk of Famine, but never thought 

 of seeing any thing so much like it as the present 

 times in this part of the Country. Three fourths 

 of the Inhabitants of this country are obliged to 

 purchase their Bread at 50 & 60 miles distance at 

 the common price of i6| and upwards per barrel. 

 The winter has been very hard upon the live stock 



