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A«er has mamage^Co^.^mith whichattendiiigasession con\ eucd 1 mthatotyUethat city he waswass^^ standing ^1 outside the meetin,, , j.prs passed on their 1 L | f s^aSw^ss*^srs a«»s»«... m«m g* a* i *ve the Presbyterian taureuChurch wto ^preach,_ n I 'tistUold S crating tor fighting and ad- died at the house of a stepson, a Mr. I , suff •ssjss, Washington county, Ky:, m lhis ^'mSougMs In turr«*an6 instant he yearS‘ in nOGED BY A SAVAGE TRIBE. ! “» s«*s s*“?wsr ss A q interesting' as the traditions and scan | The rSiueat was ^tead‘c^^f and w°Jut I bhltoWaSK= into New Jersey, l^rlviMiSiFffeissJgS; devoted to the recital of occurrences he , ST' S0H6 OM l'erred b^etscalietd for the attention T the &As<>emblv and on its being given, °t body by announcing his abil- surprised thatboay y emen whom he S“«. ell ?S« »MSJ»*gaS . itY L?„1dlSess hle indtos aud lead against H" was at Morristown with his men sefefeafsfSSWKPl rivers aod mountain foilae-e, . * floods and scalps and tomahawks and arrows. Smith had a keen ey or»ru- * tentive memory. Nothing escaped hts cru tiny. When he was captured abcwe Pemora , * T^Sm.A Jgf«3? m i Sgt Pbe,C which bareTy .reached in front mmmmi Ws speech, smith informed Washington that lip had a very poor opinion of the colo¬ ninor hash the moo spin. iuw *r;r: nel assigned to the command of the bat¬ Smith was ordered to run the gauntlet, s- talion, and that bo would not serve under tweln the lines he fled, flogged at every id him. Somewhat taken back. Washington sind frightened by the demoniacal cries -ole asked for his reasons, which Smith save, the savages One of them reached out antalL principal of which was that the colonel was the handle of a tomahawk struck h me not a friend of the Black Boys, and as Ihe earth. Smith fell ^nseiess Wd a result of this feeling. Smith would consciousness returned J aL,?t not be able to have his rangers under him as unbroken the Indians were awaiu he wished, therefore he refused the commis¬ his recovery- He was commanded, a 0. sion and said he could boot' more service to get on° Ms feet and start off agam.i his country as a militia officer than under obeyed, but had not run thice yV-nml s in \ such a leader as Washington proposed. another brute threw a handful M ” ,.)■ Washington allowed Smith to have his way eves and blinded him. Ashe stummeuuj i for a few months, when he sent him a colo¬ was tossed from one f ea™” ^lat ir nel's commission in the army. Just after other his tormentors buffeted ana De“\ this Indians again attacked the frontier, and until he dropped insensible a second ti* held sway until Col. Smith and his Black They carried him into the fort, acd lor aaf ?! , Boys came along and drove them into the v>» wns verv ill under the care of a DMwmi ; wilderness. nMsfciln On his recovery he found ant MARRIED A VIRGINIA LAPY. Indian who had a smattering of English, and Skirmishes with the red men kept him off Irmn hhn he learned that the garrison m and on in the saddle until 1785, when he went Port Duauesne were tamili&i e'^ v, ■ to Kentucky to further the interests of land movement of Braddock’s army through claims he acquired there by virtue of ex¬ Se work of Indian scouts, and could ploration. There he met a widow, Mrs. Mar¬ locate the British any liour that ?vas garet" Irvin, *43 years 'old, whose husband npeessarv The plan of tho. warriors UlcUdied illin 1777i< i I a.tat uuiuuwo,Dumfries, Ya.,„ ' fromi • x. small- was to get Craddock and his men in a posi¬ pox while he was marching from his home in tion where they could surround ana slaugh¬ Charlotte county, in the same State, to join ter them. Smith knew that this intention the American army r.s a volunteer. She had had been realized on the afternoon ot July J, ^ live young children. Colonel Smith, aithoueh 1755 About sundown he looked out the fort, a widower and the lather of seven children, gate and saw a party of Indians ouproar , ) was.... attracted.... by—*-*-, the17^r«n cultivated | n manners* andf' - fngwith twelve British soldiers prisonp^ V c ' ( / ^ ..Zr- ‘r (4 ■e.' -'r ■ - .niYtt were naked, didpefim ,.i vu>---3»k- _ _ ir bands were tied behind their batiks end took Smith to a town near Muskinguulj'. rts of their bodies were blacked from inhabited by Delawares, Caughnew-1 | bit >W9 and bruises. Across the Alleghany Mohicans. Here ne was formally , river, directly opposite the fort, on whose brave according to Indian custom and | wall Smith stood with sentinels and watched ted to a tribe. I tljBir operations, the Indians carried the sol- The baptism was one of pain. The Stakcs were driven into the ground opened in pugilistic parlance with the the unfortunate foreigners tied Indians doing the hddliug. They collected them. Fires were kindled, and about Smith and cornered him. A warrior im them burning brands were snatched with a piece ot bark on which be had ashes placed on the soldier’s, who screamed elbowed his way into the ring around the htfully. Other Indians, with increased youth, and, dipping a thumb and index Ity, kept touching the victims with red- linger into the asae-. grabbed with that band irons until they burned the very life out at Smith’s hair abd caught a bunch of it. them. The next morning Braddock’s With surprising deftness he pulled out a fn artillery was drawn into Fort Duquesuc tuft, repeating the operation again and again under the mock escort of a company of In¬ witli the deliberateness of a housewife di¬ dians, rigged out in the uniform, sashes and vesting a chicken of its feathers, until he had hats of the British officers they had plucked oil all the boy's hair save an rdered. oasis a few inches in circumference on the A DEED FOR PITTSBURG'S SITE. crown. The ashes played an important part; Fifteen years later the chiefs of the Six it roughened the skin on his lingers and en¬ rfftVifitions gave Garrett Pendergrass, Sr., a abled him to secure a firmer hold on the hair. IsjPcv&der who lived at Bedford, the land on Taking a pair of scissors, the Indian began which Fort Duquesne stood, and which is the cutting the remaining hair until only three site of the present city of Pittsburg. The locks were left, and Smith was as "cleanly 1 deed of-, this property is carefully preserved picked as the parrott in the picture that was I in the archives of the court in this town, and thrown into the company of the monkey. is an object of rare curiosity. It is executed This trinity of strands the Indian proceeded I in regular, easily-read characters, on stout to dress with beads and silver brooches. j white paper,which though 120 years old, is in This much done. Smith’s ears and nose were ; a splendid state of preservation. Pender¬ bored and rings and jewels inserted. His grass Was what is called in this region a English-cut clothes were stripped off him and Scotch-Trishman. He was a trader, and fol¬ a breech-clotn given him. A belt of lowed his business along the pike from Phila¬ wampun was placed uroimd his neck delphia west. As the road was opened and silver bands on his bands and piece by piece Pendergrass moved ac¬ right arm. The finishing touches were ad¬ cordingly in the new direction. ministered in paint, lavisnly spread in vari¬ -j Time and his own enterprise brought him ous colors tft'er his head, face and body. An j totBedford. His practiced sight showed him old chief took him by the hand and gave a » the advantages of the country and the value cry of alarm. From all sides came warriors, 9 of. its proximity to the highway. Forthwith children and squaws. Smith was handed he bargained with the Indians for the pur¬ over to three girls, who led him by the hand chase of a tract, and offered in payment cer¬ down to the Muskingum river and waded tain quantities of rum, molasses and wam¬ with him into the water until they were pum. Terms were mutually agreeable. A waist deep in it. The ladies plunged him bargain was consummated and Smith put in under the surface, washed and rubbed him possession of the land. The period of the with gusto, and finally led him back to the war between the Frencli and English came tribe, where he was redecorated and pre¬ along, and Pendegrass was disposessed of his sented with gifts, including a pair of garters property, which was seized by adventurers, dressed with beads, porcupiue quills and red now called ’‘boomers.” On the cessation of hair, a new rutiled shirt, a polecat skin hostilities he endeavored to recover his own pouch filled with a mixture of tobacco and and railed.
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