>Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:23:31 -0700 >From: "Charles P. Phillips" <timp@primenet.com> >Subject: Fwd: Christmas 1794 - Tennessee > >I thought perhaps many of you on the list might enjoy reading this 'glimpse >from the past'. It gives a firsthand experience of what our pioneer >ancestors faced on a daily basis. >Have a Happy New Year! >Charles Phillips > >>Subject: Fwd: Christmas 1794 - Tennessee >>Knoxville Gazette Vol. 3, #24 >>Page 3 Saturday Nov. 29, 1794 >> >> On the fifth instant a party of fifty Indians on the waters of the >>Red River Tennessee County fell upon the families of Col. Isaac >>Titsworth and his brother John Titsworth and killed and scalped seven >>white persons, wounded a negro wench and took a white man, three >>children and a negro fellow, prisoners. Pursuit was given by the >>neighboring Militia, and the Indians discovering their approach, >>tomahawked the three children taking off the whole skin of their heads. >>The white man and negro fellow were either killed or carried off. Our >>informer from the Mero District supposes these murders to have been >>committed by the Creeks. >> * * * * * * >>* * * * >>Isaac Titsworth >>Letter to the Editor >>Knoxville Gazette, Jan 9, 1795 >>Vol. #1, Page 3 upper left corner >> >>Mr. Roulstone, >> Please to give the following a place in your paper. >> On the 5th of October, 1794, on the waters of Red River, myself >>and family, together with the family of John Titsworth, were attacked by >>Indiams about 12 'oclock at night; my wife, John Titsworth, his wife, >>one child, and one of my childen and one negro (were) killed on the >>ground, and captured three of my children, one of John Titsworth's and a >>negro. Next day, being pursued by Major Maulden and others, they >>killed and scalped one of my children, and wounded and scalped another >>of John Titsworth's, then made off with a daughter of mine, about 13 >>years of age, named Peggy, and a negro boy about 15 or 16 years of age, >>named Mingo. I hope every person this notice reaches will make inquiry >>for the prisoners; and if by treaty, purchase or otherwise, my daughter >>is recovered from the hands of the savages, no sums of money that they >>may cost shall ever be regretted by me, but cheerfully paid to any >>person who may purchase her or have trouble in maintaining her until I >>can receive information. >> >> Isaac Titsworth >> >>N.B. I wish the above to be published in all the frontier gazettes of >>the United States >>Dec 20, 1794 >> * * * * * >>* * * * >> >>I wonder if Isaac Titsworth ever recovered his daughter, Peggy. Also, >>just how many of the family survived, wounded and scalped. Later, the >>Titsworth families were located in Logan Co., KY. This is an actual >>account given by Isaac Titsworth of that fateful night. >> >>----------------------------------------------- >>To contact the list owner, use stephenL@indiana.edu >> >>Please don't send ATTACHED FILES to the list! >> >>--part0_915109288_boundary-- >>