Draper Manuscripts
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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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