TIP #492 BULLIT CO CONCLUDED From the writing of Collins concluded: The boat neared the southern shore and 40-50 Indians were seen crossing the river above them on logs. Some were swimming with their rifles held over their heads. There was no escape. The boat reached the southern shore and hurridly the men tried to get the wounded to safety in the woods. Floyd, Fossett and Boyce reached land and tried to hide in the thickets. Crepps and Crist tried to help Spears but they found he had already died. The unknown woman remained in the boat by herself. Offering to help her ashore but she was too afraid to move. She just sat there with her hands buried in her hands. The Indians were now on shore and yelling loudly. They ran towards the boat but Crepps and Crist raised their rifles and ascended the river bank. They came face to face with the Indians. Crist was using Fosset's weapon but it would not fire as it had gotten wet. Crist and Crepps however fell back into a ravine. The Indians did not pursue them but turned back to the woman in the boat where they captured her. Crepps by next morning came to the area of Long Lick and he was too exhausted to go any further. Here he laid down to die. Moore escaped unhurt and reached someone to tell of what had happened. Crepps was found but died on the way home. Crist described him as a tall, fair haired and handsome man, kind, brave and enterprising. Crepps left a wife who was with child who was born after his death. She became the wife of the Hon. Charles A Wickliffe. Crepps was so disabled by his wounds that he could not walk, the bones in his heel had been crushed. When he laid down in the woods to die, he was bleeding profusely. He crawled all day up the river and that night crossed back over to the north side. He tried to sleep but the pain was too intense, his foot and leg were swollen and inflamed. He crept along all that night and the next morning came up to a campfire and heard the barking of a dog. Indians encircled the fire and he crawled away. As soon as it became still again, he started the painful crawling. At daylight he came into a wilderness. He was desperately trying to reach Bullitt's Lick which was yet eight miles away. He could only make about ½ mile an hour. He was away from water now to quench his thirst and he had not had anything to eat. Again, he lie down as if to die. On the morning of the third day when he heard the tramping of a horse's hoof. A man on horseback neared him and he yelled out. But the man turned his horse and went the opposite way. He thought that all hope was lost and he was so close to salvation. The rider, who was a Black man, had gone back and alerted the people that Indians were approaching. Again Crist heard voice and hoof beats approaching. Then he saw the lights and heard people hailing him. Upon approaching closer, they recognized him and bore him home. The woman in the board was not massacred, but carried off to Canada. Ten years later, Crist ran into her again in Kentucky. She had been redeemed by an Indian trader and brought to Wayne's camp on the Maumee where she was soon restored to her friends. She told Christ that the Indians who had attacked numbered between 100 and 120. Crist later became a member of the Kentucky Legislature and in 1808 was a member of Congress. He died in Bullitt county in August 1844 at the age of 80 years. For further information you might check out: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/bc/index.html http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/paro2.html (c) Copyright 27 May 2004, Sandra K.Gorin Colonel Sandi Gorin SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html SCKY surname registry sites: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyclinto/reg.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyclinto/forms/SCKYreg.html Gorin Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/