8 FRONTIER FORTS AND SETTLEMENTS. [1763, Mat. 



the body of a trader, which lay by the side of the 

 path, mangled with tomahawks, and stuck full of 

 arrows.^ It was stated in the journals of the day, 

 that more than a hundred traders fell victims, and 

 that the property taken from them, or seized at 

 the capture of the interior posts, amounted to an 

 incredible sum.^ 



1 M'Cullough gives the following account of the murder of another of 

 the traders, named Green : — 



"About sunrise, Mussoughwhese (an Indian, my adopted brother's 

 nephew, known by the name of Ben Dickson, among the white people), 

 came to our house ; he had a pistol and a large scalping-knife, concealed 

 under his blanket, belted round his body. He informed Kettoohhalend (for 

 that was my adopted brother's name), that he came to kill Tom Green; 

 but Kettoohhalend endeavoured to persuade him off it. They walked out 

 together, and Green followed them, endeavouring, as I suppose, to dis- 

 cover the cause of the alarm the night before ; in a short time they 

 returned to the house, and immediately went out again. Green asked 

 me to bring him his horse, as we heard the bell a short distance off; he 

 then went after the Indians again, and I went for the horse. As I was 

 returning, I observed them coming out of a house about two hundred 

 yards from ours ; Kettoohhalend was foremost. Green in the middle ; I 

 took but slight notice of them, until I heard the report of a pistol ; I cast 

 my eyes towards them, and observed the smoke, and saw Green standing 

 on the side of the path, with his hands across his breast ; I thought it had 

 been him that shot ; he stood a few minutes, then fell on his face across 

 the path. I instantly got off the horse, and held him by the bridle, — 

 Kettoohhalend sunk his pipe tomahawk into his skull ; Mussoughwhese 

 stabbed him under the armpit with his scalping-knife ; he had shot him 

 between the shoulders with his pistol. The squaws gathered about him 

 and stripped him naked, trailed him down the bank, and plunged him 

 into the creek ; there was a freshet in the creek at the time, which carried 

 him off. Mussoughwhese then came to me ( where I was holding the horse, 

 as I had not moved from the spot where I was when Green was shot), 

 with the bloody knife in his hand ; he told me that he was coming to kill 

 me next ; he reached out his hand and took hold of the bridle, telling me 

 that that was his horse ; I was glad to parley with him on the terms, and 

 delivered the horse to him. All the Indians in the town immediately 

 collected together, and started off to the Salt Licks, where the rest of the 

 traders were, and murdered the whole of them, and divided their goods 

 amongst them, and likewise their horses." 



2 Gent. Mag. XXXIII. 413. The loss is here stated at the greatly 

 exaggerated amount of £500,000. 



