THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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A Writer from
Kaskaskia, Ill.
(January 17, 1772)
In: Draper Manuscripts, Vol.
20S, pp. 177-179 and in
Pennsylvania Gazette,
April 9th, 1772.
A writer from Kaskaskia, Illi., Jan 17th 1772, writes- that near there on 17th of July last he was captured by eight Kickapoos, his horse taken from him- & he was nine days in being conducted to their town Wiotonon, near the head of the Wabache river- arriving there (not allowing him to ride any of the way), he was stripped & painted black, as is usual with the savages when they intend to burn their prisoners. The next day they lighted a fire, bound & laid me before it, and were proceeding to exercise the most cruel torture on me, when some French traders from Detroit, touched with compassion, interceded for my life, which after two days consultation, the savages agreed to allow, on the payment of a very great ransom; which with my expenses to return here & will cost about three hundred pounds.
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