54/101 This was a party of a hundred Westmoreland men under their county-lieutenant, Col. They started down the Ohio in flat-boats, but having landed on a sand bar to butcher and cook a buffalo that they had killed, they were surprised by an equal number of Indians under Joseph Brant, and being huddled together, were all slain or captured with small loss to their assailants. [Footnote: At Loughry's Creek, some ten miles below the mouth of the Miami, on August 24, 1781. Diary of Captain Isaac Anderson, quoted in "Indiana Hist.Soc.Pamphlets, No. 4," by Charles Martindale, Indianapolis, 1888. |