 | Eli Bowen - Mines and mineral resources - 1854 - 526 pages
...proceeded down the Kanaway in quest of vengeance ; unfortunately, a eanoe with women and children, and one man only, was seen coming from the opposite shore unarmed, and unsuspecting an attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1857 - 114 pages
...collected a party and proceeded down the Kanaway in quest of vengeance ; unfortunately a canoe with women and children, with one man only, was seen coming...from the opposite shore, unarmed, and unsuspecting an attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Children's literature - 1858 - 120 pages
...collected a party and proceeded down the Kanaway in quest of vengeance ; unfortunately a canoe with women and children, with one man only, was seen coming...from the opposite shore, unarmed, and unsuspecting an attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1859 - 424 pages
...proceeded down the Kauaway in quest of vengeance ; unfortunately, a canoe with women and children, witli one man only, was seen coming from the opposite shore unarmed, and unsuspecting an attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the... | |
 | 1866 - 524 pages
...collected a party and proceeded down the Kanaway in quest of vengeance ; unfortunately, a canoe with women and children, with one man only, was seen coming...from the opposite shore unarmed, and unsuspecting an attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the... | |
 | Lewis H. Miner - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1866 - 168 pages
...collected a party and proceeded down the Kanaway in quest of vengeance ; unfortunately, a canoe with women and children, with one man only, was seen coming from the opposite shore, unarmed, and unsuspeeling an attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the... | |
 | Brantz Mayer - Ohio River Valley - 1867 - 232 pages
...these much injured people, collected a party and proceeded down the Kanawha in quest of vengeance. Unfortunately A CANOE of women and children with one...from the opposite shore, unarmed and unsuspecting a hostile attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river,... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...those much injured people, collected a party, and proceeded down the Kanhaway in quest of vengeance. Unfortunately, a canoe of women and children, with...from the opposite shore unarmed, and unsuspecting any hostile attack from the whites. ' Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1870 - 456 pages
...down the Kanaway in quest of vengeance; unfortunately a canoe with women and children, with one mua only, was seen coming from the opposite shore unarmed, and unsuspecting an attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the... | |
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... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire killed every person in it. This happened to be the family of Logan,... 
