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- KENTUCKY GAZETTE
Vol. 6, No 29, Page 3, colume L.
April 13, 1793
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LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
April 6, 1793
On the 26th of March, a company consisting of 9 men, 2 women & eight children, on their way to this state, were attacked about five miles from the Hazle Patch toward Larel River, about an hour before sunset, by a party of Indians supposed to be about thirty. The nine men dismounted and defended the women and children for about fifteen minutes, during which time they fired four or five rounds, but being over powered and the indians closing in on all sides, the whole group were killed or taken, except four who esceped, one of which is dangerously wounded.
The names of the killed and missing are.Joel Corder and his family: James Anthony and family; Mathews Flournoy; ______Spilman and Thomas Peniston, James Jones, wounded. Robert Hill, James M. Farland and William Anthony escaped unhurt.---The above account is given by one of the men who escaped.
We are just now informed that Peniston and one of the children, that was missing has since come in.
Joel Corder was the son of John Corder Jr. and brother to Bailus James Anthony was a son-in-law of John Corder and brother-in-law to Bailus.
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LEXINGTON, APRIL 13, 1793
We are informed that a party of men under Major Wheatly who went to the place where the company was defeated in the Wilderness on the 26th March have returned, and brought in with them the most of the horses and baggage belonging to the party defeated, also, two of the children that were missing--it is supposed some sudden alarm caused the Indians to leave the ground immediately, by means of which the children were preserved. They also found and brought in a child that was taken by the Indians from a company they defeated about the first of March. It had straggled off from their camp whhilst they were making the attack on the company of the 26th---The children had suffered very much for want of food.
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