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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Emigrants from North Carolina to Pittsylvania on the Ohio were attacked by Indians at their encampment on Louisa River, killing six including John and Richard Mendinhall, a son of Daniel Boone, a son and enslaved man of Capt. Rustin, and one unnamed. Bodies were mutilated but not scalped; attackers likely Delawares and Shawanese. Some escaped.
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We hear from Salisbury, that a Number of People, who were going from this Province to Pittsylvania, the new Colony on the Ohio, were attacked in their Encampment on Louisa River, by a Party of Indians, who killed John and Richard Mendinhall from Guildford: a Son of Daniel Boone's and a Son and Negro Fellow of Capt. Rustin's of Rowan, besides a Sixth Person, whose Name our Intelligence did not know. Their Bodies were found ripped open. but they were not scalped, and a Parcel of painted Hatchets, War-Clubs, &c. were lying near them; by which it appears that the Murderers must have been in great Haste. As these unfortunate Adventurers were in the hunting Grounds of the Delawares and Shawanese, they are supposed to be the Perpetrators of this cruel Massacre. This Account is said to have been received from some of that Party of emigrants, who fortunately made their escape.
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Louisa River
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six killed: john and richard mendinhall from guildford, a son of daniel boone, a son and negro fellow of capt. rustin of rowan, and one unnamed person. bodies ripped open but not scalped; painted hatchets and war-clubs left behind. some emigrants escaped.
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A party of emigrants from North Carolina heading to Pittsylvania were attacked in their encampment on Louisa River by Indians, likely Delawares and Shawanese, who killed six people in haste.