Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . LEWIS AND THE RATTLESNAKE. , The family of John Lewis were the first settlers of Augusta, inthe state of Virginia, and consisted of himself, his wife, and foursons, Thomas, William, Andrew, and Charles. Of these, the firstthree were born in Ireland, from whence the family came, and thelast was a native of Virginia. Lewis was a man of wealth and station in the old country, and 224 LEWIS AND THE RATTLESNAKE. the cause of his emigration
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . LEWIS AND THE RATTLESNAKE. , The family of John Lewis were the first settlers of Augusta, inthe state of Virginia, and consisted of himself, his wife, and foursons, Thomas, William, Andrew, and Charles. Of these, the firstthree were born in Ireland, from whence the family came, and thelast was a native of Virginia. Lewis was a man of wealth and station in the old country, and 224 LEWIS AND THE RATTLESNAKE. the cause of his emigration to America was an attempt, on the partof a man of whom he hired some property, to eject him therefrom,. APPALLING SITUATION OF LEWIS. which led to an affray, in which the noble landlord lost his , from the high standing of his antagonist, the desperatecharacter of his surviving assailants, and the want of evidence tosubstantiate his case, that his life would be in danger if he staid,Lewis fled the country, accompanied by a party of his tenantry, andsettled in the then western wilds of Virginia. The father appears to have been a man of remarkable force andenergy, and all four of his sons rendered themselves conspicuous fordeeds of daring and determined bravery during the early history ofWestern Virginia, and that of her infant sisters, Ohio and Kentucky,which would require volumes to relate. Ch«.rles Lewis was, even in early youth, distinguished for thosequalifications which have rendered the class to which he belonged—the Indian fighters—so remarkable among men. He was a young LEWIS AND THE RATTLESNAKE. 225 man when the Indians commenced their attacks upon the settle-me
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