OF THE INCIDENTS ATTENDING THE CAPTURE. DETENTION, AND RANSOM 11290 OF CHARLES JOHNSTON, OF BOTETOURT COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHO WAS MADE PRISONER BY THE INDIANS, ON THE TOGETHER WITH AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE FATE OF HIS COM- SUFFERED AT THE STAKE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Sketches of INDIAN CHARACTER AND MANNERS. WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY J. & J. HARPER, 82 CLIFF-ST. 1827. 2 Checked Clerk's office at Staunton, Western District of Virginia, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 30th day of March, in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, CHARLES JOHNSTON, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claim as Author, in the words following, to wit: "A Narrative of the Incidents attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston, of Botetourt County, Virginia, who was made Prisoner by the Indians, on the river Ohio, in the year 1790; together with an interesting Account of the Fate of his Companions, five in number, one of whom suffered at the stake. To which are added, Sketches of Indian Character and Manners, with Illustrative Anecdotes." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints. JEFFERSON KINNEY, D. Clerk of the Western District of Virginia. EMMET COLLECTION INTRODUCTION. THE incidents of my capture on the River Ohio by the Indians, in the year 1790, and of my subsequent detention by them, have been considered, by many gentlemen, on whose candor and intelligence I can rely, of such interest as to merit the attention of the public. My earlier days have been so completely occupied by the business of a very active life, that I can with truth say, I could never spare the time necessary for such a work, until age is advancing upon me, and I find myself able to command a little leisure. But the strongest consideration which has operated on me to engage in this undertaking is, that an extremely incorrect and imperfect narrative was published by the Duke de Liancourt, in the account of his travels in America, which appeared some years ago. Being called to Europe, on matters of business, in 1793, on my return in the following year I crossed the Atlantic in the ship Pigon, commanded by Captain Loxley, bound from London to Philadelphia. The Duke de Liancourt was one of my fellow-passenHe assumed the name of Aberlib, which, as gers. |