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Map of part of North America from Cape Charles to the Mouth of the River Mississipi

1 Comment / America, Native American / / 2 minutes of reading

Captain John Barnwell, otherwise known as Tuscarora Jack, was a well known frontier settler who was active in the 1711 Tuscarora War. His travels throughout the Southeast enabled him to draw a relatively accurate map of the area of his travels and exploration, some from second hand information, but most from first hand. For researchers of the Southeast this map is critical, and never before seen online in such a large form as to be able to read the hand writing and personal descriptions and historical details as outlined by Barnwell. In order to view this map in a form that made it legible you had to travel to one of the two locations the actual versions exist.

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Eyewitnesses who were never called to the witness stand

Leave a Comment / Native American / 5 minutes of reading

Between about 1585 and 1600 AD, something catastrophic happened in the Southern Highlands.  The effects are most notable in northwest Georgia, southeast Tennessee and the northwestern North Carolina Mountains.  A native population remained in the heartland of the Apalache “kingdom” in the north-central and northeast mountains of Georgia. In fact the large town of Ustanoli

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Narrative of the Captivity of Frances Noble – Indian Captivities

Leave a Comment / Canada, Maine, Massachusetts, Native American, New Hampshire / 15 minutes of reading

Narrative of the captivity of Frances Noble, who was, among others, taken by the Indians from Swan Island, in Maine, about the year 1755; compiled by John Kelly, Esq. of Concord, New Hampshire, from the minutes and memoranda of Phinehas Merrill. Esq. of Stratham, in the same state; and by the Former Gen. Tleman communicated for publication to the editors of the Historical Collections of New Hampshire.

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Captivity and Redemption of Mrs. Jemima Howe – Indian Captivities

Leave a Comment / Canada, Native American, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont / 21 minutes of reading

A particular account of the captivity and redemption of Mrs. Jemima Howe, who was taken prisoner by the Indians at Hinsdale, New Hampshire, on the twenty-seventh of July, 1765, as communicated to Dr. Belknap by the Rev. Bunker Gay. As Messrs. Caleb Howe, Hilkiah Grout, and Benjamin Gaffield, who had been hoeing corn in the

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Narrative of the Sufferings of Peter Williamson – Indian Captivities

Leave a Comment / Native American, Pennsylvania / 20 minutes of reading

Not for the faint of heart or stomach, this is a graphically descriptive recounting of the captivity of Peter Williamson, who was taken by the Delaware Indians, at his own house near the forks of the Delaware in Pennsylvania. Of all the sufferings reported by captives, this particular account appears to go above and beyond the usual descriptions, almost to the point of unbelievability – because in this case, he doesn’t simply report the acts of cruelty, but vividly describes them in the most horrid fashion, even to claim the Delaware committed cannibalism on one of their captives, and then explaining how they did it.

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Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Isabella M’coy – Indian Captivities

Leave a Comment / Canada, Native American, New Hampshire / 10 minutes of reading

Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Isabella M’coy, who was taken Captive at Epsom, N. H., in the Year 1747. Collected From the Recollections of Aged People who knew her, by the Rev. Jonathan Curtis, a Minister of that Town, about Seventeen Years ago, and by Him Communicated to the Publishers of the New Hampshire

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The Cherokee Revolt – Indian Wars

Leave a Comment / Arkansas, Georgia, Military, Native American, Tennessee, Texas / 9 minutes of reading

From the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia and Tennessee to Arkansas and their establishment upon the reservation allotted to them by treaty with the Government in Arkansas, they have, until the period of this outbreak to the narrative of which this chapter is devoted, been considered as among the least dangerous and most

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Massacre at Howard’s Well and Other Depredations – Indian Wars

Leave a Comment / Arizona, Military, Native American / 8 minutes of reading

Closely following the outbreak of the Cherokees and half -breed renegades at Whitemore‘s, Barren Fork, came on attack by a similar party of Indians, half breeds, and Mexicans combined, on a train of supplies, en route to Fort Stockton, at Howard’s Well, near old Fort Lancaster. The facts of this one of the most inhuman massacres

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The Illinois Indians – Indian Wars

Leave a Comment / Illinois, Military, Mississippi, Native American, Ohio / 9 minutes of reading

Some years ago there was deposited in the Archives of the “Historical Society” of Chicago a record in reference to the history of the Illinois Indians, a portion of which is interesting as connected with this matter. It was deposited by Judge Caton, who became a citizen of Chicago thirty-nine years ago, when the whole

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The End of the Florida War, The Fate of the Seminoles – Indian Wars

Leave a Comment / District of Columbia, Florida, Military, Native American, New York / 4 minutes of reading

The close of the troubles with the Florida Indians resulted in their removal to a reservation almost within the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. The tribe, the Seminoles, lost much of their prestige, and became discouraged upon the death of Osceola. The last battle of those terrible swamp skirmishes could be called by the legitimate

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General History of the Western Indian Tribes 1851-1870 – Indian Wars

Leave a Comment / Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Military, Montana, Native American, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas / 11 minutes of reading

Up to 1851, the immense uninhabited plains east of the Rocky Mountains were admitted to be Indian Territory, and numerous tribes roamed from Texas and Mexico to the Northern boundary of the United States. Then came the discovery of gold in California, drawing a tide of emigration across this wide reservation, and it became necessary, by treaty with the Indians, to secure a broad highway to the Pacific shore. By these treaties the Indians were restricted to certain limits, but with the privilege of ranging, for hunting purposes, over the belt thus re-reserved as a route of travel.

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William Cody – “Buffalo Bill” His Life and Adventures – Indian Wars

Leave a Comment / Arkansas, Military, Native American / 7 minutes of reading

One of the best known, and since the death of the renowned Kit Carson, probably the most reliable guide on the Western frontier, is William Cody, otherwise known as “Buffalo Bill.” His exploits have been the theme of a dozen novelists, and in the year just past (1870-72) his movements have been as accurately and

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Narrative of the Captivity of John Ortiz – Indian Captivities

Leave a Comment / Florida, Georgia, Native American, Texas / 20 minutes of reading

John Ortiz, a Spaniard, Who was Eleven Years a Prisoner Among the Indians of Florida In the year 1528 Pamphilo de Narvaez, with a commission, constituting him governor of Florida, or “all the lands lying from the river of Palms to the cape of Florida,” sailed for that country with 400 foot and 20 horse,

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Narrative of the Captivity of Quintin Stockwell – Indian Captivities

Leave a Comment / Canada, Massachusetts, Native American, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont / 21 minutes of reading

Quintin Stockwell, Who was taken at Deerfield, in Massachusetts, by a Party of Inland Indians, in the Year 1677; Communicated in his own Words, and Originally Published by the Eminent Dr. Increase Mather, in the Year 1684. A particular account of the interruption in which Stockwell and others fell into the hands of the Indians

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