27 September 2013

A Scout And A Spy


From Abstracts of pensions: soldiers of the Revolution, 1812 and Indian wars who settled the Blue Grass region of Kentucky ([n.d.]), by Lucy Kate McGee:


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Service of the U.S. as a lieutenant in Captain Henry Patton's Company and under the command of Captain Patton and Colonel James Roberts.  Says he rendezvoused in Culberson's Bottom on the banks of New River....

The Shawnee tribe were committing many outrages upon the frontier settlers....Captain Patton's Company was employed in spying on them...

Says that during the campaign while scouting and spying the Indians fell on a scouting party and killed one of the spies by the name of William Shockley...

He again entered the service of the U.S. as a lieutenant and was under the command of Captain James Montgomery and Colonel Arthur Campbell.....





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