The Life of Joseph Bishop: The Celebrated Old Pioneer in the First Settlements of Middle Tennessee, Embracing His Wonderful Adventures and Narrow Escapes with the Indians, His Animating and Remarkable Hunting Excursions. Interspersed with Racy Anecdotes of Those Early TimesThe author, 1858 - 236 Seiten |
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... stopping to spend a single thought upon the learned professions , I soon ran over the whole catalogue of the trades , but crossed none which I thought I should like to pursue , which left me with the conclusion that I should like to ...
... stopping to spend a single thought upon the learned professions , I soon ran over the whole catalogue of the trades , but crossed none which I thought I should like to pursue , which left me with the conclusion that I should like to ...
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... stopped here , and absolutely in a state of great perplexity as to how he should get over . We observed that he had a saddle - bag with a jug in each end , his mission being rum , a quantity of which was kept for purchasers in a doggery ...
... stopped here , and absolutely in a state of great perplexity as to how he should get over . We observed that he had a saddle - bag with a jug in each end , his mission being rum , a quantity of which was kept for purchasers in a doggery ...
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... stopped the wagon , and started one of Jones's negroes to the spring after a pail of water , which he took up , and as he returned one of the men asked him for a gourd - full , but the boy having been . ordered to hurry , was disposed ...
... stopped the wagon , and started one of Jones's negroes to the spring after a pail of water , which he took up , and as he returned one of the men asked him for a gourd - full , but the boy having been . ordered to hurry , was disposed ...
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... stopped them , and cut a number of clubs for the negroes , and ordered them when to strike , and our guns being taken out , we were ready for the second battle . Just at this time a wayfarer rode up from the direction we were travelling ...
... stopped them , and cut a number of clubs for the negroes , and ordered them when to strike , and our guns being taken out , we were ready for the second battle . Just at this time a wayfarer rode up from the direction we were travelling ...
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... stopping to see the conse- quences , tumbled down the bank , narrowly escaping a ducking ; but when I recovered I found him dead , and ready to be rolled into the canoe , and it now being about sunset , we rowed down to the island ...
... stopping to see the conse- quences , tumbled down the bank , narrowly escaping a ducking ; but when I recovered I found him dead , and ready to be rolled into the canoe , and it now being about sunset , we rowed down to the island ...
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Seite 73 - To die, to sleep; To sleep? perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Seite 77 - Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Seite 228 - Siglar, the owner of it, and also Archie Wilson, a fine young man, who had volunteered his services to help protect the people that night. He had fought bravely, but wounded, and finally retreating from the . fort, he was brought to bay at about one hundred yards distant. I was there the next day, and the ground was beaten all round in token of the desperate defence he had made.
Seite 227 - Thinking, towards night, that they had left, the men in the fort went out and brought in the body. The fort was poorly manned, and about bed-time the Indians came and made another attack on the fort, set fire to it, and succeeded in taking it. They killed Mr. Sigler, the owner of it, and also Archie Wilson, a fine young man, who had volunteered his services to help protect the people that night. He had fought bravely, but wounded and finally retreating from the fort, he was brought to bay at about...
Seite 129 - The bearer, Joseph Bishop, hath lived in this neighborhood and district for near three years, and has at all times behaved himself as an orderly, good citizen, and peaceable member of society. These are therefore to recommend to the notice and attention of all good people, •wherever chance or fortune may direct him, he being about to travel from this district to North Carolina.
Seite 228 - ... wounded Joseph Wilson the same night. Himself and son, twelve years old, were all that escaped of his family. The others, his wife and six children, were taken prisoners, and led by the Indians into captivity, to the Cherokee and Creek nations. One of the girls only went to the Creek nation. Mrs. Sigler made her escape with one child, thrusting her handkerchief into its mouth to prevent its crying whilst she fled. Two of Sigler's children were taken. A party gathered under General Winchester...
Seite 7 - I am going to dictate the history of my life to a friend, and as I cannot stay here much longer than the time he will require to write it in, I shall make truth my aim from preface to conclusion, allowing my narrator to fill each story out in his own language...
Seite 7 - There is one thing that I do know, and that is that I am tired of the part which you have made me play.
Seite 227 - In June, 1792, the Indians killed Michael Shaffer, near Sigler's Station, whilst he was working in the field. The locality is within sight of my present residence, on Sigler's branch, a tributary of Bledsoe's creek. He was killed in the first part of the day, and the neighbors having collected together to bring the body from the field into the fort, the Indians lying in ambush made an attack upon the party, and wounded Gabriel Black, a brother-in-law of General Winchester, and Joe Eccles; both, however,...
Seite 116 - ... while he shot one of the cows I captured the calf, haltered it, and at first it was much disposed to butt at us, but it soon became very docile and followed us all the day like a clog, and at night lay down by our horse, but the next morning it had disappeared and we saw it no more.