History of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley : embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley ; predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. . -that it stands among the most patriotic in the o X z>min S < o -IIIIu III zIIIo (A HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLEY. 193 CHAPTER XV. TRIALS OF THE EARLY SETTLERS—THEIR FORTS, AND OTHER OF DEFENCE. TiiE first outbreak of tlic war in 17T-) found thefrontier inhabitants few i
History of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley : embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley ; predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. . -that it stands among the most patriotic in the o X z>min S < o -IIIIu III zIIIo (A HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLEY. 193 CHAPTER XV. TRIALS OF THE EARLY SETTLERS—THEIR FORTS, AND OTHER OF DEFENCE. TiiE first outbreak of tlic war in 17T-) found thefrontier inhabitants few in number and without in a remote i)art of the State, where no invadingfoe would be likel}- to come, many young and vigorousmen went forward and joined the army. This fanciedsecurity, however, proved a sad delusion to the frontier-meu; and the absence of any regular means of defencewas only severely felt when the savages came down fromthe mountain, ripe ibr rapine, blood, and theft. The factthat the northwestern savages had allied themselves to theEnglish was only fully realized by the residents of theJuniata Valley when the painted warriors came downthe Kittaning War Path, and commenced their infernaland atrocious work by scalping women and innocentbabes. Tlie first alarm and panic over, people collected to-gether and consulted a1)out some
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