Recollections of the Early Settlement of the Wabash Valley Book

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CHAPTER I. Visit To The Prison Of The Indian Murderers, Bridge, Sawyer, Hudson, And John Bridge, At The Falls Of Fall Creek, In October, 1824 Description Of The Jail And Jail-yard Harper Shot At, But Made His Escape Prisoners, Who MurDered Nine Friendly Indians, Most Of Whom Were Women And Children, Convicted Hudson, Bridge, And Sawyer Hung John Bridge Pardoned By The Governor Crossing White River At Abbott's Ford, On The Strawtown Trace—Beck- Worth's TRAVEL THROUGH THE WILDERNESS INDIAN SUMMER BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE LOSS OF STOCK, AND FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR THE SAME TWO BOYS LOST IN THE WILDERNESS. In furnishing some extracts from the Journal of the Black Creek School Master, in relation to the early settlement of the Wabash Valley, I will first give a few entries made by the young journalist while on the road moving to this country. The first memorandum of any particular interest reads thus : Falls Of Pall Creek, Madison Madison Co., Ind., October 24, 1824. J Mr. Corey, the sheriff, took us in to see the Indian murderers —Bridge, Sawyer, Hudson, and John Bridge. Hudson is now under sentence of death. He sits apart from the rest, reading a emall Bible. Old man Bridge, his son John, and Sawyer, are reclining on the jail floor, dressed in brown pantaloons and blue linsey hunting shirts. Hudson has on a black woolen wamus, fastened with a leathern belt. He is quite penitent, talks but little, and appears to be about forty years old,—heavy set, and inclines to be corpulent. Old man Bridge and Sawyer talked freely with father and others on the subject of their confinement. They each appear to be over fifty years of age, and are thin and cadaverous. John Bridge is an over-grown boy of about twenty,who says his father and uncle Sawyer were the cause of hi...