after reaching the Indian towns; and
corrects some other statements not properly related in
Withers's narrative of the affair.--L. C. D.

[13] In 1763-65, the great Shawnee village just below the
mouth of the Scioto (site of Alexandria, O.), was destroyed by
floods. Some of the tribesmen rebuilt their town on a higher
bottom just above the mouth (site of Portsmouth, O.), while
others ascended the Scioto and built successively Old and New
Chillicothe.--R. G. T.

[14] Where Ballard Smith now resides.

[15] Further particulars of this captivity are in Royall's
_Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in U. S._ (New Haven,
1826), pp. 60-66.--R. G. T.

[16] Carpenter's son (since Doctor Carpenter of Nicholas)
came home about fifteen years afterwards--Brown's youngest son,
(the late Col. Samuel Brown of Greenbrier) was brought home in
1769--the elder son never returned. He took an Indian wife,
became wealthy and lived at Brown's town in Michigan. He acted
a conspicuous part in the late war and died in 1815.

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_Comment by L. C. D._--Adam Brown, who was captured as
mentioned in the above text and note, was thought by his last
surviving son, Adam Brown, Jr., whom I visited in Kansas in
1868, to have been about six years old when taken; and he died,
he thought, about 1817, at about seventy-five years of age. But
these dates, and his probable age, do not agree; he was either
older when taken, or not so old at his death. The mother was
killed when the sons were captured, and the father and some
others of the family escaped. The late William Walker, an
educated Wyandott, and at one time territorial governor of
Kansas, stated to me, that the Wyandotts never made chiefs of
white captives, but that they often attained, by their merits,
considerable consequence. It is, however, certain that Abraham
Kuhn, a white prisoner, grew up among the Wyandotts, and,
according to Heckewelder, became a war chief among them, and
signed the treaty at Big Beaver in 1785; and Adam Brown himself
signed the treaties of 1805 and 1808, and doubtless would have
signed later ones had he not sided with the British Wyandotts,
and retired to Canada, near Malden, where he died.

[17] It is highly probable