Produced by Roger Frank, Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note This is a 1971 reprint edition of the 1895 edition of "Chronicles of Border Warfare." The modern title page and verso have been relocated to the end of the text. The 1895 edition includes and expands on the original 1831 edition. Throughout this text, the pagination of the original edition is indicated by brackets, such as [54]. Capitalization standards for the time (i.e. "fort Morgan," "mrs. Pindall," "Ohio river") have been preserved. Variable hyphenation has been preserved. Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. Author's punctuation style has been preserved. Typographical problems have been corrected as listed in the Transcriber's Note at the end of the text. Passages in italics are indicated by _underscores_. CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE [Illustration] CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE OR, A History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State WITH REFLECTIONS, ANECDOTES, &c. BY ALEXANDER SCOTT WITHERS A New Edition EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY REUBEN GOLD THWAITES Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, editor of "Wisconsin Historical Collections," and author of "The Colonies, 1492-1750," "Historic Waterways," "Story of Wisconsin," etc. _With the addition of a Memoir of the Author, and several Illustrative Notes._ BY THE LATE LYMAN COPELAND DRAPER Author of "King's Mountain and Its Heroes," "Autograph Collections of the Signers," etc. CINCINNATI THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY 1895 Copyright, 1895 By REUBEN GOLD THWAITES All rights reserved CONTENTS. Portrait of the Author Frontispiece. PAGE Editor's Preface v Memoir of the Author, by Lyman C. Draper viii Original Title-page (photographic fac-simile) xiii Original Copyright Notice xiv Original Advertisement xv Original Table of Contents (with pagination revised) xvii Author's Text (with editorial notes) 1 Index, by the Editor 431 EDITOR'S PREFACE.