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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Near Staunton, Virginia, on May 12, two escaped Cherokee Indians tomahawked a blind man and his wife at their home, scalping the man slightly but sparing the woman's appearance. Later that day, they attacked a mounted man who escaped after being struck in the cheek.
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Extract of a Letter from Staunton, in Virginia, May 29
On the 12th Instant, two of the Party of Cherokee Indians, who escaped from the White People, went to the House of a blind Man, about ten Miles from hence, where they tomahawked him and his Wife, and took a very small Scalp off of the Man, but did not disfigure the Woman.
The same Day, about four Miles from thence, as they were lying behind a Log, a Man on Horse-back came up, and his Horse starting threw him, when one of the Indians seized and struck him in the Cheek with his Tomahawk, and imagining he had done his Business, left him, and went to assist the other in catching the Horse, but in the mean time the man escaped, putting his Hat under the Wound, to catch the Blood that they might not track him.
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Staunton, In Virginia
Event Date
12th Instant
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blind man and wife tomahawked; small scalp taken from man; woman not disfigured. mounted man struck in cheek but escaped.
Event Details
Two escaped Cherokee Indians attacked a blind man's house ten miles from Staunton, tomahawking him and his wife. Later, four miles away, they ambushed a man on horseback who fell; one Indian struck him in the cheek, but he escaped while they pursued the horse.