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

sent from location

Woodford County

recipient

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.

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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
[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]