A History of the Valley of VirginiaJ. Gatewood, printer, 1850 - 347 страници |
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... remarkable for a massacre of the colonists by the Indians , which was ex- ecuted with the utmost subtilty , and without any regard to age , sect , or dignity . A well concerted attack on all the settlements destroyed in one hour , and ...
... remarkable for a massacre of the colonists by the Indians , which was ex- ecuted with the utmost subtilty , and without any regard to age , sect , or dignity . A well concerted attack on all the settlements destroyed in one hour , and ...
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... remarkable ] I rarely heard of any houses burnt , tho ' abundance was forsaken , nor ever , of any corn or tobacco cut up , or other injury done , besides murders , except the killing of a very few cattle and swine . Frequent complaints ...
... remarkable ] I rarely heard of any houses burnt , tho ' abundance was forsaken , nor ever , of any corn or tobacco cut up , or other injury done , besides murders , except the killing of a very few cattle and swine . Frequent complaints ...
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... remarkable to see with what resigna- tion this unfortunate young prisoner submitted to her fate . Her unfeel- ing tormentors would tie her , and compel her at night to lay on her back , with the cords distended from her hands and feet ...
... remarkable to see with what resigna- tion this unfortunate young prisoner submitted to her fate . Her unfeel- ing tormentors would tie her , and compel her at night to lay on her back , with the cords distended from her hands and feet ...
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Samuel Kercheval. Tradition also relates a very remarkable instance of the sacrifice of a female Catawba prisoner by the Delawares . A party of Delawares crossed the Potomac , near Oldtown , in Maryland , a short distance from which they ...
Samuel Kercheval. Tradition also relates a very remarkable instance of the sacrifice of a female Catawba prisoner by the Delawares . A party of Delawares crossed the Potomac , near Oldtown , in Maryland , a short distance from which they ...
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... remarkable , the teeth stood transversely in the jaw bone . It would pass over any common man's face with entire ease.f There are many other signs of Indian settlements all along this river , both above and below the one just described ...
... remarkable , the teeth stood transversely in the jaw bone . It would pass over any common man's face with entire ease.f There are many other signs of Indian settlements all along this river , both above and below the one just described ...
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