Draper Manuscripts
Draper Manuscripts
KENTUCKY PAPERS, Roll 13CC, DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS
No. 24 - Jos. Martin

Submitted by: Adina Watkins Dyer
Feb. 5, 2001


Came down a few days before Christmas, 1790.  Landed at JARRETT's Station.  =  ISAAC JARRETT said his father, old parson JARRAT, of Va., said their proper name was GARRARDS, but it was a french name,and the Virginians gave them the nic-name of JARRAT. =  Knocked off some plank, and made a camp, on the upper bank of the Miami.  SAMUEL WELCH, and _____ BRIDGES, from New England, had 2 cabins, about 30 poles below where we camped.  We came by without seeing them.  It was dark at the time.  The river makes a sudden bend at that place, and on the 2d bank, we placed the station, 2 rows of cabins, in the course of 2 years, when the Indians being so bad, drove them down from COVALT's.  The Ohio was rising, and backed the water up the Miami, so that it was very easy to get up.  We landed and JOSEPH FRAZER (FRAZEE?), (the old gentleman) said to past some heavy things in the bow to keep the boat from floating off.  JOHN JARRET.  ABRAHAM MARTIN.  In the morning we found our boat sunk.  The water came in so as to fill all the boat.   But the weight of the bow kept the back end from sinking.  A chest of clothes got afloat.  The bow somehow got off, and some of our clothes were also floating on the water.  Flour, salt, whiskey & other necessaries - in the family boat.  The stock-boat was the only other.  I don't know where we left that then. SAML WELCH was taken.  He had gone out to get some sugar water, was in the act of taking it up, when an Indian, one of 3, tapped him on the back, and holding the tomahawk over his head, said no hollow, no hollow.  It was in the evening. They took him off to the towns, and sold him out in the country of Detroit, to a Frenchman, who could hardly keep him, the Indians thought he had given too little for him.  He told WELCH if he saw the Indians coming he must run out in the meadow, and hide in the meadow or grass, they would kill him.
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No other cabin built that winter.

JOSEPH FRAZER (FRAZEE?), that little chunk of a grey horse.  3 of our men were out, and saw 3 Indians, making as if they were coming to that point. HALL planned the ambush and plenty of wild _?_ for him to feed on.  He died way up on the head of the Miami.  Tied the white pony out on the hill.

I was from Bedford, Pa.:  JOHN JARRET from Berkeley, Va.  Got acquainted in Redstone.  I was there about 3 years.

ELIAS JARRET came with us, & brought some hogs we kept in a pen in one corner of the boat.

JOSEPH HINKLE, that was killed at COVALT.  I knew him in Pa.  They were cutting hewed logs for houses.

2 rows of cabins.  E. & W.

Indians stuck his gun into a crack in a cabin where the woman was sitting with a candle, fired and missed her.  In Columbia.


 
 

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