ee towns and murdered.

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_Comment by R. G. T._--Crawford was born in 1732, in Orange
County, Va., of Scotch-Irish parentage. He made the friendship
of Washington while the latter was surveying for Lord Fairfax,
in the Shenandoah Valley, in 1749. Washington taught him his
art, but in 1755 he abandoned it for a military life, and
thenceforward was a prominent character on the frontier, often
serving under Washington. From 1767 forward, his home was on
the banks of the Youghiogheny, on Braddock's Road. Crawford
fought in Dunmore's War, and throughout the Revolution did
notable service on the Virginia border.

[13] John Slover, one of the guides to the expedition, was
among the best known scouts of his day, on the Upper Ohio. His
published _Narrative_ is a prime source of information relative
to the events of the campaign.--R. G. T.

[14] Thomas Mills.--R. G. T.

[15] Lewis Wetzel, a noted Indian fighter. See p. 161,
_note_.--R. G. T.

[250] CHAPTER XV.

While expeditions were carrying on by the whites, against the Moravian
and other Indians, the savages were prosecuting their accustomed
predatory and exterminating war, against several of the settlements.
Parties of Indians, leaving the towns to be defended by the united
exertions of contiguous tribes, would still penetrate to the abode of
the whites, and with various success, strive to avenge on them their
real and fancied wrongs.

On the 8th of March as William White, Timothy Dorman and his wife,
were going to, and in site of Buchannon fort, some guns were
discharged at them, and White being shot through the hip soon fell
from his horse, and was tomahawked, scalped and lacerated in the most
frightful manner.[1]--Dorman and his wife were taken prisoners. The
people in the fort heard the firing and flew to arms; but the river
being between, the savages cleared themselves, while the whites were
crossing over.

After the killing of White (one of their most active and vigilant
warriors and spies) and the capture of Dorman, it was resolved to
abandon the fort, and seek elsewhere, security from the greater ills
which it was found would befall them if they remained. This
apprehension arose from the fact, that Dorman was then with the
savages, and that to gratify his enmity to particular individuals in
the settlement, he would unite with the In