Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ce to procure a supply of their wants. 344 THRILLING ADVENTURE OF TWO SCOUTS. THRILLING ADVENTURE OP TWO SCOUTS. As early as the year 1790, the block house and stockade, abovethe mouth of the Hockhocking river, was a frontier post for thehardy pioneers ofthat portion of ourstate from theHockhocking to theSciota, and fromthe Ohio river toour northern nature v7oreher undisturbedlivery of dark andthick forests, inter-spersed
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ce to procure a supply of their wants. 344 THRILLING ADVENTURE OF TWO SCOUTS. THRILLING ADVENTURE OP TWO SCOUTS. As early as the year 1790, the block house and stockade, abovethe mouth of the Hockhocking river, was a frontier post for thehardy pioneers ofthat portion of ourstate from theHockhocking to theSciota, and fromthe Ohio river toour northern nature v7oreher undisturbedlivery of dark andthick forests, inter-spersed with greenand flowery prai- /ries. Then the axe of the wood-man had not been heard in thewilderness, nor the plough of thehusbandman marred the beautyof the green prairies. Among the i^many rich and luxuriant valleys,that of the Hockhocking was pre-eminent for natures richest gifts—and the portion of it whereon Lancaster now stands, was marked asthe most luxuriant and picturesque, and became the seat of an Indianvillage, at a period so early, that the memory of man runneth notparallel thereto. On the green sward of the prairie was held many a rude gambol. WATCHING THE ENEMY. THRILLING ADVENTURE OF TWO SCOUTS. 345 of the Indians ; and here too, was many an assemblage of the warriorsof one of tho most powerful tribes, taking counsel for a war pathupon some weak or defenceless frontier post. Upon one of these luar-stirring occasions, intelligence reached thelittle garrison above the mouth of the Hockhocking, that theIndians were gathering in force somewhere up the valley, for thepurpose of striking a terrible blow on one of the few and scattereddefences of the whites, A council was held by the garrison, andscouts were sent up the Hockhocking, in order to ascertain thestrength of the foe, and the probable point of attack. In the month of October, and on one of the balmiest days of ourIndian summer, two men could have been seen emerging out of thethick plum and hazel bushes skirti
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