A history of the United States, from the discovery of the American continent .. . Kentucky to the head waters of one of the ffreat rivers son, 1/1. ?/ a of South Carolina; and, at a later day, an encamp-ment of four hundred and fifty of them, who had been Yio^ straggling in the woods for four years, was found notfar north of the head waters of the Mobile River, ontheir way to the country of the Muskhogees. It was Alii about the year 1698, that three or four score of theirfamilies, with the consent of the government of Penn-sylvania, removed from Carolina, and planted them-selves on the Susqueh
A history of the United States, from the discovery of the American continent .. . Kentucky to the head waters of one of the ffreat rivers son, 1/1. ?/ a of South Carolina; and, at a later day, an encamp-ment of four hundred and fifty of them, who had been Yio^ straggling in the woods for four years, was found notfar north of the head waters of the Mobile River, ontheir way to the country of the Muskhogees. It was Alii about the year 1698, that three or four score of theirfamilies, with the consent of the government of Penn-sylvania, removed from Carolina, and planted them-selves on the Susquehannah. Sad were the fruits ofthai hospitality. Others followed; and when, in 1732,the number of Indian fighting men in Pennsylvaniawas estimated to be seven hundred, one half of themwere Shawnee emigrants. So desolate was the wil-derness, that a vagabond tribe could wander undis-turbed from Cumberland River to the Alabama, fromthe head waters of the Santee to the Susquehannah. The Miamis were more stable, and their own tra-ditions preserve the memory of their ancient I. THE ALGONQUIN FAMILY OF TRIBES. 241 My forefather, said the Miami orator Little Turtle, chap. XXll at Greenville, kindled the first fire at Detroit; from ^^v^-thence he extended his lines to the head waters of ^^nScioto: from thence to its mouth; from thence down Papers, iv. 570, the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash; and from ^^*thence to Chicago, on Lake Michigan. These arethe boundaries within which the prints of my ances-tors houses are every where to be seen. And theearly French narratives confirm his words. The for-ests beyond Detroit were at first found unoccupied, or,it may be, roamed over by bands too feeble to attracta trader or win a missionary; the Ottawas, Algon-quin fugitives from the basin of the magnificent riverwhose name commemorates them, fled to the Bay ofSaginaw, and took possession of the whole north ofthe peninsula as of a derelict country; yet the Mi-amis occupied its southern moie
Size: 1314px × 1902px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbancroftgeorge18001891, bookcentury1800, bookidhistory
