ces attending the Execution of an Oneida warrior. Escape of an Indian Prisoner.-Lieut. Boyd and another man taken Prisoners.-Cruelty of Boyd's Ex

fety, &c.-Severe Winter.-Sufferings of the Indians.-Destruction of Game.-Indians'

t secure from an attack. At length, in the fall of 1779, intelligence was received that a large and powerful army of the rebels, under the command of General Sullivan, was making rapid progres

ly destroyed at a single blow. But in order to prevent so great a catastrophe, they sent out a few spies who were to keep themselves

ible, the distresses to which they knew we should be subjected, if he should succeed in reaching our town. Accordingly they sent all their women and children into the woods a little west of Little Beard's Town, in order that we

ering to the people of the states essential services. At the commencement of the revolution he had a brother older than himself, who resolved to join the British service, and endeavored by all the art that he was capable of using to persuade his brother to accompany him; but his arguments proved abortive. This went to the British, and that joined the American army. At this critical juncture they

ll finish your career!-When I begged of you to follow me in the f

rs'-You have merited death and shall die by our hands! When those rebels had drove us from the fields of our fathers to seek out new homes, it was you who could dare to step forth as their pilot, and conduct them even to the d

e speech was ended, struck the prisoner on the h

was encamped. The Indians pursued him without success; but in their absence they fell in with a small detachment of Sullivan's men, with whom they had a short but severe skirmish, in which they killed a number of the enemy, took Capt. or Lieut. William Boyd and one private, prisoners, and brought them to Little Beard's Town, where they were soon after put to death in the most shocking and cruel manner. Little Beard, in this, as in all other scenes of cruelty that happened at his town, was master of ceremonies, and principal actor. Poor Boyd was stripped of his clothing, and then tied to

nce of being an active and enterprizing officer, of the first talents. The ot

and finally came to the conclusion that they were not strong enough to drive him, nor to prevent his taking possession of their fields: but that

t was called by the Indians Catawba, accompanied by a part of the Indians, while the remaind

nt with me on foot, one who rode on hors

a part of which we had gath

ind that they could lay their hands on. A pan of our corn they burnt, and threw the remainder into the river. They burnt our houses, killed what few cattl

e off, but suspecting that it was Sullivan's intention to watch our return, and then to take us by surprize, resolved that the main body

taking possession of our lands. Accordingly we all returned; but what were our feelings when we found that there w

solved to take my children and look out for myself, without delay. With this intention I took two of my little ones on

flats. They lived in a small cabin and had planted and raised a large field of corn, which they had not yet harve

f I should husk the whole. I husked enough for them, to gain for myself, at every tenth string, one hundred strings of ears, which were equal to twenty-five bushels of shelled corn. This seasonable supply made my family comfortable for samp and cakes through the succeeding winter, which was the most severe that I have witnessed since my remembrance. The snow fell about five feet deep, and remained so for a long time, and the weather was extremely cold; so much so indeed,

sking, and having found from the short acquaintance which I had had with the negroes, that they were kind and friendly, I concluded, at their request, to take up my residence with them f

at they expected would suit them much better. But as that land became my own in a few years, by vi

Indian tribes ever saw them. I well remember that soon after I went to Little Beard's Town, the banks of Fall-Brook were washed off, which left a large number of human bones uncovered. The Indians then said that those

and an officer by the name of Johnston commanded the British in the expedition. The force was large, and so strongly bent upon revenge and vengeance, that seemingly nothing could avert its march, nor prevent its depredations. After leaving Genesee they marched directly to some of the head waters of the Susquehannah

man, and made him a prisoner. Old John O'Bail, in his younger days had frequently passed through the Indian settlements that lay between th

e of his father's residence, took the old man at this time, in order that he might make an introduction leisu

isoner ten or twelve miles up the river, and then stepped befo

I am a warrior! I was anxious to see you, and to greet you in friendship. I went to your cabin and took you by force! But your life shall be spared. Indians love their friends and their kindred, and treat them with kindness. If now you choose to follow the fortune of your yellow son, and to live with our people, I wi

od as his word, ordered an escort to attend h

to Genesee, was William Newkirk, a man

ards with Jack Berry, an Indian. When he left Jac

rd and at Fort Niagara about one year, and then enlisted under