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christian Indians, were finally, either all murdered, or driven 

 away by Colonel Williamson and his party, in 1782. Anoth- 

 er expedition immediately afterwards started from Wheel- 

 ing under Colonel Crawford; it pressed forward to Upper San- 

 dusky, was finally defeated ; Crawford was taken prisoner and 

 burnt to death at the stake, within the now limits of the county 

 which bears his name. Those who wish for a full account of this 

 last expedition, in all its horrors of detail, may consult Dod- 

 dridge's notes, Heckewelder's narrative, LoskiePs Moravian 

 missions, or any similar publication, relative to that perioj. 

 For ourselves, we wish a moment's respite, from Indian war- 

 fare, and to say, in conclusion, that there was one expedition 

 after another, year after year, from about Wheeling, and 

 along the Ohio river, above that point, into the Indian country, 

 from the year 1774, up to 1782-3. All these expeditions were 

 unauthorized by law, they began wrong, were badly conducted, 

 and ended in nothing beneficial to the white settlements. 

 These expeditions were undertaken at the expense of indivi- 

 duals, without the aid of the nation or of any state authority. 

 There was no good discipline among these militia, who suffer- 

 ed dreadfully, on their painful marches, without a sufficiency 

 of food, raiment, or of arms and ammunition. They exaspe- 

 rated, but did not conquer the enemy. The Indians managed 

 their affairs pretty much in the same way until the nation final- 

 ly put an end to the whole business under General Wayne. 

 For the honor of human nature would that these things had 

 never been. Having related briefly indeed what was going 

 forward in the eastern half, of w^hat is now Ohio, ever since 

 the French were expelled from the country, in 1763, up to 

 1782 or 3, which was the last of those fatal efforts to estab- 

 lish our dominion over the Indian nations, during that period; 

 we now descend the Ohio river to ascertain what had been 

 doing in that part of Kentucky, adjacent to us. 



In 1754, James McBride had traversed some part rf 

 Kentucky. His flattering account of the country, when he 

 returned home, induced Daniel Boon, thirteen years af- 

 terwards to visit the same country, in company with McBride 



