Nita I have this same note in my files but not as well documented as you have it. This John Pate apparently had a son who in turn had a son named Rufus M Pate. Rufus M Pate is the known ancestor of a participant in the Pate DNA Project. Joel On 8/21/2010 9:08 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Looking over some old genealogy material I found this paragraph re: John Pates killed& scalped. Did he belong to anyone? > > Nita > > > > Retyped and reformatted by Ray and Kathy Leigh > > > The Troubles of the Tennesseeans > Created June 19, 2001 > Copyright 2002 > Web design and graphics by Kathy Leigh > > CHAPTER XIX. > THE TROUBLES OF THE TENNESSEEANS. > > "In 1792 and 1793 the Indian outrages came thick and fast. Every settler passing along the road, every planter at work in his cotton-field, every ferryman pushing his boat with heavy oar through the sluggish current of the river, was liable to fall a victim to some shaft of destruction from and unseen hand. If we take the annals of the time for a single fortnight, and itemize the outrages committed by Indians, it would read something like this: > January 22, 1793. John Pates killed and scalped by Indians on Crooked Creel. (Creek?) > January 24th. The Cherokees stole three of William Davidson's horses. > January 27th. A party of Indians assaulted the house of Mr. Nelson, near Knoxville. Two of his sons, James and Thomas, were killed. > February 1st. Fourteen horses stolen from Flat Creek. > February 3d. Two young men named Clements killed. > February 5th. William Massey and Adam Green ambuscaded and killed at the gap of Powell's Mountain. > February 7th. A party of Indians burned the house of Gallaher. > February 9th. Great alarm on the frontier. Two hundred white men, women, and children crowded together in great discomfort at Craig's Stockade. > And so we might go on with the red record, week after week, and month after month." > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- PATE DNA PROJECT http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pate-dna-project Sharing Our Past, Our Present and Our Future PATE LIST SERVE [email protected] A free E-Mail Forum for PATE Researchers