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The Rhode Island Republican
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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In mid-November, Osage Indians attacked a party of 21 American hunters on Big River in Arkansas, killing or capturing all but survivor Isaac Pennington, who found the pillaged camp and remains of Major Welborn; other attacks reported, causing frontier alarm. Accounts doubted as exaggerations.
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The Arkansas Gazette, of the 9th ult. contains an account, that a hunting party of Americans, amounting to 21 persons, in the employ of Major McElmurry, were attacked, on the Big River, in Arkansas, about the middle of November, by a band of Osage Indians, and all of them, save one (to Mr. Isaac Pennington, who is bearer of the tidings) were killed and scalped, or made prisoners. Mr. P. being at a distance when the attack was made, concealed himself till the Indians retired, and then went into the hunting camp, and saw the mangled remains of several of his companions, and the camp pillaged; being dark he could only recognise the countenance of one of them, and that was old Major Welborn. Other attacks were reported to have been made on hunting parties; and considerable alarm was spread on the frontiers.
We have no doubt these accounts will turn out, like others, to be exaggerations.
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Big River, In Arkansas
Event Date
About The Middle Of November
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21 persons attacked, all save isaac pennington killed and scalped or made prisoners; camp pillaged; other attacks reported; considerable alarm on the frontiers
Event Details
A hunting party of 21 Americans in the employ of Major McElmurry attacked by a band of Osage Indians; Isaac Pennington, at a distance, concealed himself, later saw mangled remains including Major Welborn