Greetins to ye. Me name be Katy Ulen. If ye please, would ye be knowin how they life was lived on they frontier of America?
A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN ULEN
Me name is Catherine (Katy) Carpenter Ulen. I be barn in Boston, Massachusetts in the summer of Lard Dunmore’s War, 1774. Me father sight land and weelth in the far waist Virginny Territory. The injuns weir a grate source o danger, as they attacked evry sittlement at will. Death be a dialy companion an life be ‘ard and dengerous, with many settlers taken.
I met me ‘usband in 1789 at they Redstone Old Fort in they flats o Grave Creek nine miles south o Wheeling, Va. ‘E be a small man about 5’ 4” with a ruddy complexion. ‘E was fond of horse racing and good spirits for drinkin’. Aye, an ‘andsome ‘e was. “is life be one for a story book, tis. Aye, the adventures that ‘e ‘ad on that wild frontier! Benjamin be barn in Philadelphia, Penn. In 1750. ‘E’s parents took ‘em to Mobile when ‘e be only a wee lad o ten years. Poor wee lad ‘e lost ‘is mum when ‘e was twelve years. Benjamin an ‘is sister, Mary, be given to a guardian an sent to school. Poor Ben, bein’ so active, coudna abide they books, and when they master gave ‘im a thrashing, ‘e ran away an jained a group o injun traders hedin’ to they Creek Nation. The traders be ambushed by they injuns an poor Ben be taken, ‘e was.
Ben says ‘e lerned they ways, they language, an they vices o the Creeks. ‘E loved they foot racin’ an they ‘orse racin’ They Creeks called ‘im “the Rabbit”. 