out opposition,
being deserted by its inhabitants. We continued our pursuit through five
towns on the Miami rivers, Old Chilicothe, Pecaway, New Chilicothe,
Will's Towns, and Chilicothe--burnt them all to ashes, entirely destroyed
their corn, and other fruits, and everywhere spread a scene of desolation
in the country. In this expedition we took seven prisoners and five
scalps, with the loss of only four men, two of whom were accidentally
killed by our own army.

This campaign in some measure damped the spirits of the Indians, and made
them sensible of our superiority. Their connexions were dissolved, their
armies scattered, and a future invasion put entirely out of their power;
yet they continued to practise mischief secretly upon the inhabitants, in
the exposed parts of the country.

In October following, a party made an excursion into that district called
the Crab Orchard; and one of them, being advanced some distance before
the others, boldly entered the house of a poor defenceless family, in
which was only a negro man, a woman, and her children, terrified with the
apprehensions of immediate death. The savage, perceiving their
defenceless situation, without offering violence to the family, attempted
to capture the negro, who happily proved an overmatch for him, threw him
on the ground, and, in the struggle, the mother of the children drew an
axe from a corner of the cottage, and cut his head off, while her little
daughter shut the door. The savages instantly appeared, and applied their
tomahawks to the door. An old rusty gun-barrel, without a lock, lay in a
corner, which the mother put through a small crevice, and the savages,
perceiving it, fled. In the mean time, the alarm spread through the
neighborhood; the armed men collected immediately, and pursued the
ravagers into the wilderness. Thus Providence, by the means of this
negro, saved the whole of the poor family from destruction. From that
time until the happy return of peace between the United States and Great
Britain, the Indians did us no mischief. Finding the great king beyond
the water disappointed in his expectations, and conscious of the
importance of the Long Knife, and their own wretchedness, some of the
nations immediately desired peace; to which, at present [1784], they seem
universally disposed, and are sending ambassadors to General Clarke, at
the Falls of the Ohio, with the minutes of their councils.

To conclude, I can now say that I have verif