 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...a summary way. Colonel Cresap, a m«ni for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party, and proceeded down the Kanhaway in quest of vengeance. 2. Unfortunately, a canoe of women and children, with one man only, was. been' coming from the opposite... | |
 | Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1808 - 310 pages
...outrage in a summary way. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for his numerous attrocities on this injured people, collected a party, and proceeded down the Kanhaway in quest of Indians. Unfortunately a canoe of women and children, with one man only, was seen coming from the opposite... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Massacre, 1778 - 1809 - 148 pages
...neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party and proceeded down the Kanaway in quest of vengeance ; unfortunately,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1810 - 266 pages
...neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party and proceeded down, the Runaway in quest of vengeance; unfortunately;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1810 - 272 pages
...neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary, manner. Colonel .Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people,. collected a party and proceeded down the Kanaway in quest of vengeance ; unfortunately,... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1814 - 240 pages
...neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party, and proceeded down the Kanhaway in quest of vengeance. 2. Unfortunately,... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Readers - 1820 - 226 pages
...The neighboring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party, and proceeded down the river Kanhaway in quest of vengeance.... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary way. Colonel Cresap, a man, infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party, and proceeded down the Kanhaway, in quest of vengeance. Toked... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 254 pages
...neighhouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party and proceeded down the Kanaway in quest of vengeance. Unfortunately,... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. ids the heart much injured people, collected a party, and proceeded down the Kanavray in quest of vengeance ; unfortunately,... | |
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In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe. The neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel... 
