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Danville May 13th 1790 Judge Innes to the Secy of War That you may have an idea of our unhappy Situation, I beg leave to refer you to a Letter I wrote on the 20th ultimo to the [undecipherable] John Browne, since which the Indians have killed two white men and two negroes in Jefferson County–in [undecipherable] two Girls–Scalped one woman, and made one other woman prisoner–

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Danville May 13. 1790 Judge Innes to the Sec^y of war. 2^d That you may have an idea of our unhappy Situation, I beg leave to refer you to a Letter I wrote on the 26^th ultimo, to the Honble John Brown Junr in which the Indians have killed two white men and two Negroes in Jefferson County — in [undecipherable] Girls scalped one Woman, and make me think [undecipherable] —

Type

Document Signed

Description

Murder of several whites and Negros in Jefferson County by Indians related; many instances in numerous accounts that have occurred on the frontier.

Date

05/13/1790

Author

Harry Innes

Recipient

Henry Knox

Sent from

Danville

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

First Congress: Reports and Communications Submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War [1A-D2] (RG 233) {Reference Microfilm}

Document number

1790051340001

Page start

Note

Cited in Innes to Knox, 07/07/1790.

Notable persons

Henry Knox

Judge Harry Innes

Indians

Indian Nation

savages

John Brown

whites

Negros

girls

woman

prisoner

Notable locations

Danville

Jefferson County

frontier

territory

Notable items

killed