Indian Attacks
Item
Type
Document
Title
Indian Attacks
Description
Detailed account of Indian attacks and resulting defense and attack by U.S.
year created
1789
month created
08
day created
22
author
sent from location
Woodford County
recipient
in collection
in image
author note
Robert Johnson
recipient note
Beverly Randolph
notable person/group
Beverley Randolph
Robert Johnson
Indians
savages
hostiles
Indian Nation
County Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia
Negroes
notable location
Woodford County
frontier
settlement
Kentucky
Ohio River
notable item/thing
hostile acts
horses
tomahawks
camp
salt
salt spring
document number
1789082237101
page start
1
transcription
N:o 6.
District of Kentuckey
Woodford-county.
__
Aug.t 22.d 1789.
Rob.t Johnson
County Liëu.t
to the Governor
of Virginia.
'The hostile acts of the in-
dians is so frequent in our country that
it becomes troublesome to write you on every
occasion. On the 10:h of this instant a
party fired on a young man in this coun
-ty near the settlement, killed the horse
and took the saddle & bridle and stole
some horses, the night following; we were
in motion, early next morning and
soon found their trail and came up
with them and retook the horses, and
killed two of them, one of which was a
white man, the 15.th following a party
took five negroes within a mile of my
house
~ 109
house, killed two, wounded two with their toma-
-hawks and left them for dead, and the other
two made their escape while they were mur
-dering the rest. The second night after they stole
some horses. About forty men followed them
to the Ohio, and twenty six crossed the river and
followed them over the Ohio, about twelve miles,
where we came up with a party at a large
camp making salt at a salt spring, we divided
the party and attacked them on [carrot to insert next word] each side, they soon
gave back; we took some of their horses and
returned to the Ohio where we crossed; the Cost
three men killed and two wounded."
District of Kentuckey
Woodford-county.
__
Aug.t 22.d 1789.
Rob.t Johnson
County Liëu.t
to the Governor
of Virginia.
'The hostile acts of the in-
dians is so frequent in our country that
it becomes troublesome to write you on every
occasion. On the 10:h of this instant a
party fired on a young man in this coun
-ty near the settlement, killed the horse
and took the saddle & bridle and stole
some horses, the night following; we were
in motion, early next morning and
soon found their trail and came up
with them and retook the horses, and
killed two of them, one of which was a
white man, the 15.th following a party
took five negroes within a mile of my
house
~ 109
house, killed two, wounded two with their toma-
-hawks and left them for dead, and the other
two made their escape while they were mur
-dering the rest. The second night after they stole
some horses. About forty men followed them
to the Ohio, and twenty six crossed the river and
followed them over the Ohio, about twelve miles,
where we came up with a party at a large
camp making salt at a salt spring, we divided
the party and attacked them on [carrot to insert next word] each side, they soon
gave back; we took some of their horses and
returned to the Ohio where we crossed; the Cost
three men killed and two wounded."
Item sets
Document instances
In image | In source | Location in source | |
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[view document] (2 pages) | NJQ10 (2 pages) | Collection: First Congress: Reports and Communications Submitted to the Senate by the Secretary of War [1A-F2] (RG46) | V: 1, P: 108-109 |
Document names
Type | Name | Location | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Author | Robert Johnson | Woodford County | [n/a] |
Recipient | Beverley Randolph | [unknown] | [n/a] |