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Subject: [PABRADFO] Fw: [KYBOURBO-L] Interview with Robert Jones, Part Three
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 11:23:53 -0700


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> > From: The Kentuckian-Citizen, May, 1935
> > Pioneer History of Kentucky
> > Interview with Robert Jones
> > >From Draper Manuscripts
> > Courtesy Mrs. William B. Ardery
> >
> > NOTE--As mentioned earlier, I do not have the FIRT INSTALLMENT of this
> > series. I hope to find it the next time I'm in Bourbon County on a
> > reseach trip.--Bob Francis
> >
> > FOURTH INSTALLMENT
> >
> > Strong's boat. A man that was rowing was shot, so as to graze the front
> > of his forehead, just above, or at the eyebrows. It didn't break the
> > skin: but blood-shot, his face and killed him. All the men on shore were
> > kilied. It was at the mouth of Cygart's creek. I think they were buried
> > on the lower side of the creek, all together.
> >
> > Bill Lynn was the Captain at the Grove Creek defeat, in the time of the
> > old revolution. He was killed at his station in Kentucky, near
> > Middletown.
> >
> > There, was never as much death from the Indians in Pennsylvania, as
> > lower down in Virginia, where that narrow strip and those short creeks,
> > made it all a frontier.
> >
> > 1792? McCurry was the wagoner's name, who was in the road.
> >
> > Millersburgh. 1790.. Irish station. Came, landed at Limestone, 3rd May.
> > Last of May contracted for some land. We made an Indian ladder, trimmed
> > the sugar trees way up, and burned the branches about the foot of trees,
> > and planted last of May. The Irish station was just settled. They laid
> > out 5 acres to a lot, each side of the road, and that made the station.
> > It was not picketed. One John Cahie, of the Irish station killed a Mr.
> > McCutchen of Millers station, a widower this fall. McCutchen had pursued
> > turkeys over to the neighborhood of Irish station, where Cahie was
> > engaged in the same business. And seeing his head above a log, mistook
> > it for a turkey's back, and shot him.
> >
> > Jimmy Barbour, Andrew Caldwell, old Mr. Frazier, John Cahie, his sons,
> > Geo., Wm., and Jim, (and a son John also?) were at the Irish station.
> >
> > It was very high water that year, in the Mississippi country, and the
> > Bayous ran up into the land, and the high water covered over a great
> > deal of country. There was now and then a very fine piece of land in the
> > midst of such country.
> >
> > Landed at Louisville spring of 1789, May 20th, went up by Owen's
> > Station, near where Shelbyville now is, and from there went on across to
> > where Frankfort now is. There were only three little bush pole cabins at
> > that place. And one Jerry Gullion set us, Johnny & Bob Walker, & myself,
> > over the river. Staid that night at old Wm. Haydon.'s, about a mile out.
> >
> > The fall of 1789, I returned from Pa., and down back of Marietta,. to
> > hunt, Saw Col. Harrod there for the last time. He stopped about a month
> > or more, at one Saml. McCullough's. Was there a hunting. He and I hunted
> > a good deal there together.
> >
> > He seemed perfectly contented, and without any definite purpose in his
> > mind.
> >
> > Joseph Jones, my brother, was killed on Paint Creek, in the spring of
> > 1792. Had gone out a scout under Kenton. The Indians came on the camp in
> > the night, Their fires were hid by the wigwams doubled close around it,
> > so that they came right on it, was the way he got killed. The scout
> > staid ready to go on the next day, or at day, but the Indians cleared
> > out.
> >
> > John Jones, my brother, I was a boy then, was killed at the Beech Bottom
> > ort, on the Ohio, above Wheeling. The Indians were laying in ambush. New
> > Robinson, & my brother, were coming from Ramsey's Fort, about 6 miles
> > off. Ned was shot in this way, viz., etc.-My brother told Robinson to
> > tell Capt. Jos. Ogle to come out that he was mortally wounded.
> >
> > After this my brother, Ignatius Jones, with this same gun that John had,
> > was taken out of the head of the Muskingum, from Fort Tuscara--was, time
> > of McIntosh's campaigns, carried out to Sandusky towns, got away, and
> > was out 18 days. He was the only one that was taken. Lower Sandusky, I
> > think. He and three or four others, had just started to go to Fort Pitt.
> > The Indians had ambuscaded, and took him advancing, and as he thought
> > leading on the others, to attack, when they had retreated. They kept him
> > 2 months at the towns. They were then out at 2 camps, making sugar. He
> > killed 2 from each camp, and made his escape. They had given him an old
> > gun to mend the britch, & he brought it off. He died out on Mad River in
> > Ohio.
> >
> > Charles Norris, and a woman named Bilderback, at the mouth of Short
> > Creek above Wheeling, hadn't been married, it was said, and moved over
> > to the other side to avoid the law. This was the first man and woman
> > that lived in Ohio. He was there & this woman with him, when I came,
> > August 1779, in first block house ever built in Ohio. It was on the
> > upper side of Short Creek, right at the point. That was a stopping
> > place, & crossing place for those who went out and over land jobbing.
> > They then thought that preemptions could be made in Ohio, as well as in
> > Ky. This untill it became Congress land. I had an improvement there
> > clear of timber, some old Indian village,, I suppose. Norris got a still
> > house on this side, & moved back over, and three or four years after,
> > one day jumping from a little wagon, instead of springing forward, and
> > throwing it back, he went straight up, and fell down on the standard,
> > and was killed. 'Twas said he and her were never married at all. But all
> > the frontiers were settled with such kind of people. It is so now way
> > out in the frontiers of Missouri. Tilton gave $70 for a cabin, as an
> > improvement, but it fell into the hands of Congress & he had to give
> > $3600 for 900 acres. Pennsylvania and Virginia were taken up by
> > improvements.
> >
> >
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