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To: Pharmboy
Nothing like this had ever happened in the Colonies.''

Nothing ? Just Micajah "Big" Harpe and Wiley "Little" Harpe, who began their depredations in North Carolina around 1775, then moved to Virginia's Kentucky settlements. Plus failed militia captain and river pirate Samuel Mason, said to have scouted for both the British and the Colonial militia during the Revolution, having lived at the French settlement of Kaskaskia befor the shootin' war began, preying on Spanish traveles and farms near the Spanish settlement of San Luis, now St' Louis, Missouri. In later years Mason set up shop at a cave on the Ohio River, inviting flatboaters and other river travelers to his Liquor Vault and House of Entertainment- whereupon the visitors were killed, their gullets filled with gravel, and the bodies then dumped in a quite river backwater.

And then there's Simon Girty. Maybe the worst of them, and maybe not.

25 posted on 02/14/2011 2:22:06 PM PST by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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To: archy

Thanks for this...I do remember those nice guys from NC now that you mention it. Well, the CT guy wanted to glom the fame...


26 posted on 02/14/2011 3:14:10 PM PST by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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