Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . K 110 THRILLING On the 11th of November, 1778, seven hundredTories and Indians, led by Brant and Butler, attackedthe fine settlement of Cherry Yalley. Colonel Aldencommanded the fort in the vicinity: on the 10th, theinhabitants, warned of the approach of the Indians,requested him to give them shelter in it. He refused,assuring them there was no danger. During the night,snow and
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . K 110 THRILLING On the 11th of November, 1778, seven hundredTories and Indians, led by Brant and Butler, attackedthe fine settlement of Cherry Yalley. Colonel Aldencommanded the fort in the vicinity: on the 10th, theinhabitants, warned of the approach of the Indians,requested him to give them shelter in it. He refused,assuring them there was no danger. During the night,snow and rain fell, making the atmosphere thick andhazy. Favoured by that circumstance, the Indiansin the morning approached the fort unperceived. Theignorance and mistakes of the colonel favoured themstill more. Rushing into the settlement, the Indianssurrounded the houses and summoned the command-ant to surrender. He endeavoured to escape, was ATTACK ON CHERRY VALLEY. Ill overtaken, killed and scalped. The guard, being out-side the fort, shared his fate or were captured. Thefamily of Eobert Wells, consisting of himself, hismother, wife, brother, sister, four children, and threedomestics, were massacred. Jane, his sister, had runto a
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