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wards explained to them by cue of the Indians then present. 

 The Indians were apprehensive of being pursued by the peo- 

 ple of Belpre, early in the morning, as soon as Armstrong's 

 mill should be visited; and it was contended, that one of the 

 children, was too young, to travel fast enough, to keep up with 

 the party. It was suggested, that now was the time to kill 

 him. One Indian, however, who had led the child, seeing him 

 jump over the logs, in his way, and otiierwise, showing great 

 activity and sprightliness, interposed his good offices, and even 

 offered to carry Jeremiah on his back, should the child grow 

 tired, on their march. This offer, saved his life, and, marching 

 rapidly forward, they found their secreted canoes, crossed the 

 river in them, and running them into the mouth of the Little 

 Hocking, they there secreted them, ascended the bank, and 

 gave the Indian yell, in token of success. 



Hastening forward, they crossed over the high grounds, 

 between the Little and Great Hocking and ascending the lat- 

 ter, to, not far from where Lancaster now stands, they reached 

 their encampment. Here they had left a young man, by the 

 name of Cox, whom the same party had previously taken pris- 

 oner, a few miles above Armstrong's, on the same side of the 

 Ohio. He belonged to the Marietta settlement, and he and 

 his brother had killed a deer, just above Parkersburgh, and one 

 of them had returned to Marietta for a horse, on which to car- 

 ry in their deer. When attacked, he had the deer, on his horse, 

 carrying it home, when one of the young men was killed, by 

 the Indians; but the other, with the horse and venison, was car- 

 carried off by this same party of ravages. 



These Indians with their four prisoners, moved forward, from 

 near where Lancaster is now, to Lower Sandusky. After run- 

 ning the gauntlet, they were adopted into the Indian nation, as 

 their children. Young Cox, made his escape from captivity 

 in about six months after he was made a prisoner. 



Elizabeth Armstrong was placed in the family of Simon Gir- 

 ty, on the Maumee river. She v.as afterwards rescued from 

 the Indians, at Detroit, went over into Canada, and there mar- 

 ried a Mr. Dolson, on the river Thames. At Dolson's ferry, 



