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Grow Up and Then We'll Kill You!

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Type

Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Description

Colonel Elijah Robertson describes for Governor Blount the Indian raids on two frontier families in which all but two small children were killed.

Date

03/20/1792

Sent from

Nashville

Document number

1792032090000

Note

Enclosed in Blount to Knox, 03/20/1792.

Notable persons

William Blount
Elijah Robertson
Indians
James Thompson and family
Peter Caffey's family
all the women and children

Notable locations

Nashville
Nashville

Notable items

the yard
the house
English [language]
a party to pursue them