Border fights & fighters; stories of the pioneers between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and in the Texan republic . ren fled to the woods. Gray pursuedthem calling their names. The three remaining Indians, now wide awake, at-tempted to rise. Bradys terrible knife accounted forone, his tomahawk did for the other, and Biggs, who hadat last reached the rifles, shot the last one dead. Bradyhad killed six, Bevington and Gray each three, and Biggsone. That w^ar party was annihilated. The women and children were soon found. Thehorses, arms, and other plunder of the Indians were se-cured, every
Border fights & fighters; stories of the pioneers between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and in the Texan republic . ren fled to the woods. Gray pursuedthem calling their names. The three remaining Indians, now wide awake, at-tempted to rise. Bradys terrible knife accounted forone, his tomahawk did for the other, and Biggs, who hadat last reached the rifles, shot the last one dead. Bradyhad killed six, Bevington and Gray each three, and Biggsone. That w^ar party was annihilated. The women and children were soon found. Thehorses, arms, and other plunder of the Indians were se-cured, every one of the savages was scalped, and theparty returned in si ty to Fort Mcintosh. The placebears the name of Bloody Spring to this day. It was the constant practice of frontiersmen to scalpthe Indians whenever they could. It is impossible forus to enter into the spirit prevalent at that time, but itis evident that the settlers thought no more of killing anIndian than they would of killing a rattlesnake, or a pan-ther; and indeed the horrors they witnessed and whichevery one of them had felt, either in his own person,. Brady, Chief of the Rangers 33 or in the persons of those near and dear to them—asBradys father and brother—had rendered them abso-hitely ruthless so far as Indians were concerned. Be-sides, the scalp of an Indian had a commercial the Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, under date ofMonday, February 19, 1781, Philadelphia, in the Minutesof the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, ofwhich Joseph Reed was President, I find the following: v order was drawn in favor of Colonel ArchibaldLochry Lieutenant of the County of Westmoreland, forthe sum of 12 lbs, los. state money, equal to 2500 dol-lars, Continental money, to be by him paid to CaptainSamuel Brady, as a reward for an Indian scalp, agreeableto a late proclamation of ihis board. (Italics mine.) This interesting document is signed by his ExcellencyJoseph Reed. He, with his associates, therefore, i
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