Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887) (14591489397)

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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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t, he lay down upon his stomach. The savages then scalpedhim, and repeatedly threw the scalp into the face of Knight, say-ing he is your great captain. An old squaw, whose appearanceKnight thought every way answ^ered the ideas people entertainof the devil, then got a board, took a parcel of coals and ashes,and laid them on his back and head.^ He then raised himself took about 200 prisoners. The Indians gave over the prisoners to theirwomen, who instantly tomahawked every man of them with the mosthorrid circumstances of barbarity. (The Remembrancer, London, 1782,Part II, pp. 255, 256.) 105 Simon Girty arrived last night from the upper village (Half-Kingstown) who informed me, that the Delawares had burned Colonel Craw-ford and two captains at Pipes-Town, after torturing them a long time.Crawford died like a hero; never changed his countenance tho theyscalped him alive, and then laid hot ashes upon his head; after whichthey roasted him by a slow fire. (Capt. Caldwell, writing from Lower
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Crawfords Monument. As it appears to-day, on the east bank of the Big Tymochtee,near Crawford, Wyandot Co., O. Colonel William Crawford. 33 upon his feet and began to walk around the post. They nextput burning sticks to him as usual; but he seemed more insensibleof pain than before. At this point Knight, expecting soon tosuffer in the same way himself, was dragged away from the dread-ful scene.^^ When it became known in the Indian villages that ColonelCrawford had suffered such extreme torture, there was great joy,yelling and shouting; but when the story of his shocking deathwas told along the border, and repeated in army circles, andwherever his name was known, sorrow and grief were on everycountenance. His loss was keenly felt, for he was generally be-loved, and no life on the frontier was so valuable. But after all, itwas the manner of his death that wrung every bosom. Ah, the an-guish in the humble home on the Youghiogheny! Who can pic-ture it? When the heartrending intelligence f