Transcriber’s Note
This is a 1971 reprint edition of the 1895 edition of “Chronicles of Border Warfare.” Themodern title page and verso have been relocated to the end of the text.
The 1895 edition includes and expands on the original 1831 edition. Throughout this text,the pagination of the original edition is indicated by brackets, such as [54].
Capitalization standards for the time (i.e. “fort Morgan,” “mrs. Pindall,” “Ohio river”) have been preserved.
Variable hyphenation has been preserved.
Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
Author’s punctuation style has been preserved.
Typographical problems have been corrected as listed in the Transcriber’s Note at the end of the text.
CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE
Chronicles of Border Warfare
OR, A
History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-
Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres
in that section of the State
WITH
REFLECTIONS, ANECDOTES, &c.
BY
ALEXANDER SCOTT WITHERS
A New Edition
EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY
REUBEN GOLD THWAITES
Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, editor of “Wisconsin Historical Collections,”
and author of “The Colonies, 1492-1750,” “Historic Waterways,”
“Story of Wisconsin,” etc.
With the addition of a Memoir of the Author, and several Illustrative Notes.
BY THE LATE
LYMAN COPELAND DRAPER
Author of “King’s Mountain and Its Heroes,” “Autograph Collections
of the Signers,” etc.
CINCINNATI
THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY
1895
Copyright, 1895
By Reuben Gold Thwaites
All rights reserved
CONTENTS.
| Portrait of the Author | Frontispiece. |
| PAGE | |
| Editor’s Preface | v |