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A narrative of the capture of certain Americans, at Westmoreland, by savages; and the perilous escape which they effected, by surprizing specimens of policy and heroism. : To which is subjoined, some account of the religion, government, customs, and manners of the aborigines of North-America
Author
Van Campen, Moses, 1757-1849
Published
New-London [Conn.]: : Printed by T. Green., 1784.
Location
SML, Microform (Non-Circulating) >> Fiche B1130 18850
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A narrative of the capture of certain Americans, at Westmorland, by savages; and the perilous escape which they effected, by surprizing specimens of policy and heroism. To which is subjoined, some account of the religion, government, customs and manners of the aborigines of North-America
Author
Van Campen, Moses, 1757-1849
Published
Hartford: : Printed and sold [by Barzillai Hudson and George Goodwin] near the bridge., [1780?]
Location
SML, Microform (Non-Circulating) >> Fiche B1130 18273
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Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres, a native of Canada; who was with the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians eleven years, with a particular account of his sufferings, &c. during his tarry with them, and his safe return to his family connections in Canada; : to which is added an appendix, containing a brief account of their persons, dress, manners, reckoning time, mode of government, &c. Feasts, dances, hunting, weapons of war, &c. Making peace, diversions, courtship, marriage, religious tenets, mode of worship, diseases, method of cure, burying their dead, character of the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians, particular description of the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, which are to be met with on and in the vicinity of Scanyawtauragahrooote Island. : Copy right secured
Author
Rusoe D'Eres, Charles Dennis, b. 1761
Published
[Exeter, N.H.] : Printed for, and sold by Henry Ranlet, Exeter., 1800.
Location
SML, Microform (Non-Circulating) >> Fiche B1130 37949 38422
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An account of the remarkable occurrences in the life and travels of Col. James Smith, (now a citizen of Bourbon County, Kentucky) during his captivity with the Indians, in the years 1755, '56, '57, '58, & '59, in which the customs, manners, traditions, theological sentiments, mode of warfare, military tactics, discipline and encampments, treatment of prisoners, &c. are better explained, and more minutely related, than has been heretofore done, by any author on that subject. Together with a description of the soil, timber and waters, where he travelled with the Indians, during his captivity. : To which is added, a brief account of some very uncommon occurrences, which transpired after his return from captivity; as well as of the different campaigns carried on against the Indians to the westward of Fort Pitt, since the year 1755, to the present date
Author
Smith, James, 1737-1812
Published
Lexington [Ky.]: : Printed by John Bradford, on Main Street., 1799.
Location
SML, Microform (Non-Circulating) >> Fiche B1130 36317
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