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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Reports from western counties indicate ongoing Indian hostilities and barbarous murders of white settlers. Despite this, a recent convention in Kentucky decided on governmental separation, citing a militia of 5,000 men sufficient to repel attacks.
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RICHMOND, (Virginia) Sept. 3.
By letters immediately from the western county, we receive advice, that the Indians continue to commit their hostile depredations, frequently very barbarously murdering some of our whites. -Notwithstanding which, at the last convention held at the Kentucky, a separation of government was decided upon, considering themselves formidable enough to repel any attacks of the Indians; they having in their country, a militia of five thousand fighting men.
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Kentucky
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indians frequently very barbarously murdering some of our whites; separation of government decided upon
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Indians continue to commit their hostile depredations in the western county. At the last convention held at the Kentucky, a separation of government was decided upon, considering themselves formidable enough to repel any attacks of the Indians with a militia of five thousand fighting men.