Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . g up to the hilt in his body, just be-low the breast-bone, evidently to show that he had killed himselfand that he had not come to his end by the hand of an enem3\They had a long search before they found the knife with which Joe 186 THE PATRIOTIC QUAKERESS killed the big Indian. They at last found it forced down into theground below the surface, apparently with the weight of a personsheel. This had been done by the crippled Indian. T
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . g up to the hilt in his body, just be-low the breast-bone, evidently to show that he had killed himselfand that he had not come to his end by the hand of an enem3\They had a long search before they found the knife with which Joe 186 THE PATRIOTIC QUAKERESS killed the big Indian. They at last found it forced down into theground below the surface, apparently with the weight of a personsheel. This had been done by the crippled Indian. The greatefforts he must have made alone, in that condition, show amongthousands of other instances, what Indians are capable of underthe greatest extremities. Some years after the nbovrtook place, peace ~with the Indians -^^ Yr,was restored. That =^frontier, like manyothers, became in-fested with a gangof outlaws, whocommenced steal- ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ?^^• ing horses and committing various depredations. To counteractwhich, a company of regulators, as they were called, was raised. Ina contest between these and the depredators. Big Joe Logston losthis THE PATRIOTIC QUAKERESS. When the British array held possession of Philadelphia, GeneralHarris head-quarters were in Second street, the fourth door belowSpruce, in a house which was before occupied by General Cadwala-der. Directly opposite, resided William and Lydia Darrah, membersof the Society of Friends. A superior officer of the British army,believed to be the Adjutant General, fixed upon one of their cham-bers, a back room, for private conference; and two of them fre-quently met there, with fire and caudles, in close consultation. THE PATRIOTIC QUAKERESS. 18t About the second of December, the Adjutant General told Lydiathat they would be in the room at seven oclock, and remain late, and
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