Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... oolki m: rLa arid Indians and '-desTrvy-ff rebel seruextrfcnts scraxh of the Ohio." OauiweL.4-who seems to have been a militia Steer of foreign birth and a Tory, ic not an actual renegade, gathered one company of Tory and Canadian rangers, ani figured s the official and ostensible head of the mowment, though its real leader was the notorious Simon thirty, who had been captured by the savages when a child, and adopted by them, and had rinally become an lndian in everything but complexion, and was a power both in the council house and on the warpath. A grand conference of the dusky allies of tiie crown, to consider the question ol the invasion of Kentucky, was hold at old Chillicothelj, about three miles northwest of the present city of Xenia, Ohio, and the best known of the Shawanese towns or camping places in the Miami country, and here, mainly through the influence of Girty, the tribes again united to make another and a supreme effort to drive the whites from their ancient domain forever. Haldimand MS-. Ottawa. Canada. Sir i rciieriok ltaMimamt was Governor of Canada from 1778 to l7S. fCaldwell figured conspicuously at Sandusky in June,17Sli..V prejudiced writer makes him th. inactive Captain of a company of Tory militia disguised as lndians at the battle of Fallon Timber, in 17W. Shortlv after this, when the British delivered up the military posts of the Northwest, he settled at Amhe-sttmy (formerly Maideni. Canada, along with Byrd. Glrty and McKee.: See"Girty the White 1ndian" in Magazine of American Httory for March, is;, which the authorclaims as the Hist attempt in more than a century to give Girlys life after a careful and unprejudiced study of tne most reliable original authorities, both British..."
