When was it published?

September 9, 1785 in Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Domestic News September 9, 1785

Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Q: What sub-type of article is it?

Indian Affairs, Death Or Funeral

Q: What entities or persons were involved?

Col. Thomas Lewis, Col. Samuel Lewis

Q: What keywords are associated?

Shawanese Indians, Six Nations, Point Pleasant, Raccoon Bottom, Treaty Ambush, Col Thomas Lewis, Indian Conflict

Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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What is this article about?

Shawanese Indians allied with Six Nations ambushed and killed Col. Thomas Lewis and four officers at Raccoon Bottom near Point Pleasant during a treaty invitation, revenging a white party's murder of an old Indian hunter. Fort distressed; Greenbrier relief mobilizing.

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By a letter from the Sweet Springs on the Ohio, we have the following intelligence: That the Shawanese Indians are out upon the frontiers in great force, united with the Six Nations. At Point Pleasant they have killed Col. Thomas Lewis, and four other officers, a Major and three Captains. Col. Lewis and his party were killed at a place called Raccoon Bottom, to which place they were upon invitation of the Shawanese to hold a treaty with them; and this piece of bloody treachery is said to be in revenge for a recent murder of an old Indian hunter, by a party of whites going down the Ohio. The fort at Point Pleasant is in great distress, and the inhabitants at Green Brier, stimulated by Col. Samuel Lewis, brother to Col. Thomas Lewis, are in motion to its relief.

What sub-type of article is it?

Indian Affairs Death Or Funeral

What keywords are associated?

Shawanese Indians Six Nations Point Pleasant Raccoon Bottom Treaty Ambush Col Thomas Lewis Indian Conflict

What entities or persons were involved?

Col. Thomas Lewis Col. Samuel Lewis

Where did it happen?

Point Pleasant

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Point Pleasant

Key Persons

Col. Thomas Lewis Col. Samuel Lewis

Outcome

killed col. thomas lewis and four other officers (a major and three captains). fort at point pleasant in great distress; inhabitants at green brier in motion to its relief.

Event Details

Shawanese Indians, united with the Six Nations, out upon the frontiers in great force. At Point Pleasant they killed Col. Thomas Lewis and four other officers at Raccoon Bottom, where they were upon invitation of the Shawanese to hold a treaty. This treachery in revenge for a recent murder of an old Indian hunter by a party of whites going down the Ohio.