id he,
striking his tomahawk into the council post, "I will go and make
peace." This was done, and the war of 1774 concluded.

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[1] He is said to have committed some offence, in the upper
part of South Carolina, which rendered him obnoxious to the
laws of that colony, and to evade the punishment for which, he
had fled to the wilderness and taken up his abode in it.

[2] Lewis Wetzel, the son of a German settler on Wheeling
Creek, some fourteen miles above its mouth, was born about
1764. He and his brothers Martin, Jacob, John, and George
became famous in border warfare after the close of the
Revolution; the annals of the frontier abound in tales of their
hardy achievements. Martin and Lewis were the heroes of most
remarkable escapes from Indian captivity; John was also famous
as an Indian fighter; and Jacob's name will ever be connected
with the exploits of that other great border scout, Simon
Kenton. But of all the brothers, Lewis achieved the widest
celebrity, and two biographies of him have been published: by
Cecil B. Hartley (Phila., 1860), and by R. C. V. Meyers
(Phila., 1883).--R. G. T.

[3] Now Shenandoah.

[4] The northern wing was composed of men from Frederick,
Berkeley, and Dunmore (afterwards Shenandoah) counties, and
Col. Adam Stephen was placed in command. With this wing went
Lord Dunmore and Major John Connolly. Counting the forces
already in the field under Maj. Angus McDonald and Capt.
William Crawford, this levy numbered some twelve hundred men.
Among them, as scouts, were George Roger Clark, Simon Kenton,
and Michael Cresap.--R. G. T.

[5] Lewis was colonel of the militia of Botetourt county.
Camp Union (so called because several bodies of troops met
there) was on the Big Savannah or Great Levels of Greenbrier
River; the town of Lewisburg now occupies the site.

In Dunmore's letter to Andrew Lewis, dated July 12, he directed
him to raise a sufficient body of men, and proceeding to the
mouth of the Great Kanawha there erect a fort; if he deemed
best he was to cross the Ohio, proceed directly to the Indian
towns, and destroy their crops and supplies; in any event he
was to keep communication open between Fort Wheeling and Fort
Dunmore (Pittsburg). It is e