M'Crea, a young lady, lovely to the sight, of virtuous character, and amiable disposition, engaged to an officer of your army, was, with other women and children, taken out of a house near fort Edward, carried into the woods, and there scalped and mangled... An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffalo: With Some Account of Its ... - Page 295by William Ketchum - 1864Full view - About this book
| 1848 - 534 pages
...shall, in every gazette, confirm the truth of the horrid tale. " Miss M'< 'rr:i, a young lady, luvely to the sight, of virtuous character, and amiable disposition,...carried into the woods, and there scalped and mangled in a most shocking manner. Two parents with their six children, were all treated with the same inhumanity,... | |
| Robert Sears - United States - 1850 - 448 pages
...Europe, until authenticated facts shall, in every gazette, confirm the truth of the horrid tale. " Miss McCrea, a young lady lovely to the sight, of...house near Fort Edward, carried into the woods, and then scalped and mangled in a most shocking manner. Two parents with their six children were all treated... | |
| William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1851 - 546 pages
...to General Burgoyne, thus spoke of the case now specially under consideration : — " Miss M'Crea, a young lady, lovely to the " sight, of virtuous character...an officer of your army, was, with other women and chil" dren, taken out of a house near Fort Edward, carried into the " woods, and there scalped and... | |
| Jacob K. Neff - United States - 1851 - 610 pages
...Burgoync of 20 • this and other outrages in the following words: — " A young lady, Miss M'Crea, lovely to the sight, of virtuous character and amiable disposition, engaged to be married to an officer in your army, was, with other women and children, taken out of a house near... | |
| David Wilson - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1853 - 166 pages
...Gates, also, in a letter addressed to Burgoyne upon the subject of Indian cruelties, speaks of her as "a young lady lovely to the sight, of virtuous character and amiable disposition." She is described by another as " so graceful in manners, and so intelligent in features, that she was... | |
| William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1865 - 552 pages
...spoke of the case now specially under consideration : — " Miss M'Crea, a young lady, lovely Uxthe "sight, of virtuous character and amiable disposition,...an officer of your army, was, with other women and chil" dren, taken out of a house near Fort Edward, carried into the " woods, and there scalped and... | |
| Henry Clay Maine - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1877 - 68 pages
...in Europe, until authenticated facts shall in every gazette confirm the Horrid tale.'' He added : " Miss McCrea. a young lady, lovely to the sight, of...with other women and children, taken out of a house at Fort Edward, carried into the woods, and there scalped and mangled in the most chocking manner.... | |
| William Digby - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1887 - 444 pages
...until authenticated facts shall in every gazette convince mankind of the truth of this horrid tale. — Miss McCrea, a young lady lovely to the sight, of...virtuous character and amiable disposition, engaged to be married to an officer in your army, was with other women and children taken out of a house near... | |
| William Digby - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1887 - 452 pages
...authenticated facts shall in every gazette convince mankind of the truth of this horrid tale.— Miss M c Crea, a young lady lovely to the sight, of virtuous character and amiable disposition, engaged to be married to an officer in your army, was with other women and children taken out of a house near... | |
| Robert O. Bascom - Fort Edward (N.Y.) - 1903 - 300 pages
...her brother, Colonel John McCrea. General Gates in his letter to General Burgovne says, that "she was a young lady, lovely to the sight, of virtuous character and amiable disposition." Lossing describes her as graceful in manners and so intelligent in features that she was the favorite... | |
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