59/62 Harrad has been there many months building a kind of Town &c) in order to make improvements. This day a quarrel arose between Mr.Lee and Mr.Hyte; Lee cut a Stick and gave Hyte a Whiping with it, upon which Mr.Floyd demanded the King's Peace which stopt it sooner that it would have ended if he had not been there." 45. They said that in a skirmish the whites had killed thirteen Shawnees, two Mingos, and one Delaware (this may or may not mean the massacres by Cresap and Greathouse; see, _post_, chapter on Lord Dunmore's War). Where the journal says the land "is like a paradise, it is so good and beautiful." 47. The journal for July 8th says: "The Land is so good that I cannot give it its due Praise. |