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.... - ... .1 i . I Hi t I I , Fill DAY, OCTOBER 9. 1818;" J j nu 20. It I ; .1175. , I J .V ' r ftO tC I .. ,j Toad; I stepped up to one that had holsters to them in the :Creeic ttoi&ue, or before iiirfji a ho fold him that I ua . i . .-i u P . ftrli.sl. K A LKlt 11, (N C.) , before hirn, and told him that I had i twelve, knew a few vor&f&'it I MM n Indian ....-r, unnKLT. BT A. LuOAS. .; i!rhwnv rolthern unflai, nv1 .n.n i , rm. .- i ,.. . . i,',r"" n hair ""o""" v,.. um wuiuuirtiiu. .aim iury uiu not unacrsianu me. line ot mv "irfeoous"BTtii v-- ,tk. ., ma iv i i ii i .. - . . .7 onor- . - .... , ia;- -;0iii 'p.r nt ni rai ..1 any cm.- ,w.r.. . No; jn-.d rto d'.scon t - ' Ci vi in n-lvance: !sd S i,,rn.,mni nr arrears. uiilfS at tm ;i m:i.nic - w 11 I'-.- ' 1 l)o,i.cstie. ro-n fAe' traxhivzlon City Oa&Uc'ef Sc)L 9, Tli. mns'in Hfn1.. one l the mail robbers, h'J waff rxcrutnl at P;fl5--roiVre. n tbo 1 Otli of Sep'ein'b'T. 1 o 1 8. Writ ton bv. binv.rlf. Bltimore, published fa'r'Josera Darlinff. 8fS. Tlie publisher states (bat he Ins ths M5.! (i f Fare's hand-wiitin. V'e have chosen, not uc seen ten leet frona the road..:. It, was a clouur flay, end every thins: looked verv black and gloomy, and the sound oi the "cane, though it did not frigliten me,, made nic feci very strange nd out of the ivav ; my two men said we had not painted our laces, which vc ought to have done, and that we should be known, and it was better to murder ras cats, than let tlicm live and tell talcs on u. An oldish man tpke ai:d said, For God's sake spare triy lifi." 1 told him it was well ihoiigiit of f that if there should one 'man move till I gave leave, they would all be land ed in e ternity ; ami with this. I called to one of my C(i!nr.tfiiiris to come up and take the iniiKy.i Up stepped one, with a pair of dou ble barrelled iis uU fKtnglntf in.ia belt buc- kl.'d round Iiih imdv, and a dagger hwngiug nu his Im-as' in sight, and a goad Vide in his inch extracts as will give the reader a con- hm.,!. 1 ! ,,1 U m not to fir in them, Hntil jnectod virw of the prniripal robbm'cs 1 : the thy should make battle. We took all that Jmin.ir parts, with tlje'rellcrtions of he ctil : tley had, and after 1 had talked a litUe while vr, ae wmitted, on account f tlieir ter'gtii. lonecr wiin my men, wc set them on their P'o 'person in this coinry, bvre the pabli-frond. catnm of hi pamphlet, could n.-jsnibly Have, A n tn ilpftirH'li -a. .v,! believed' that ti;e United such an extraordinary and btaas coniaiueu.huntjgjH tik; W()0f3 Wc came ar,ro-s a were spt . t h.tt Kre:ed ii verv rrmu ril rp.it Trnm nnv Joseph flare is i-qn-esented to b . it we arc.,..',. r iei nvprtau hv r,r,.. t-t to give credit to the story, (ami there is liat ' r,nnTrtPt;i!',ln hnm 'iv nn. ? 1 .... ..-. 1 .0 41 ... ., w " ' " U true,; .,: m. jt, 01 uir. n?g:iwy n hi .,.... l,;r !c an:! tnll an l uo.iM riot .iv.lH, i, .uTpetnitioa.of dari,g (fm f(.( S n,wn (hc bcU ey nca, UlJ Chickasaw ano-ate'ieicoas exploits, the xmst - n-jtan ms ; j ju it any. harm to take 'money from white neau pie ; and if they raised tne of their arms to fire on us, we would send them tp eternity, cier( man of therm ; One of thenreaid, tnke every thing we have we have more at home, and only wish you 'to-be ci vil to'onr persinSs, The two men 1 had with me, stood still with tlicie rifles cot ked. and each had his pistols at his side and a dagger. I took away the Arms from the travellers,-who' made nd more resi? tanc. On the pack horse wV:. found S'OO dtiublotms and 701 piwecs , of diCerent sizes, nd a large quantity of j.;old in bai-s, six inchTS in length and eight pquarc SO weightof.it With the ownrsl found doubloons and S silver dollars, nrtd 00 French guineas, and 67 ieces, the value of w hich I rould not tell, t'.H I weighed thorn. I got 12 or J3.000 dol !ar. altogeliicr, from the companv, all in g'dd. , v ; On the fifth dav Xd, run, until they had delivered up their mo ney to us, we wonld stop them with powder and ball , I tbld- ihem to dismount from tUeii -horses, or we woald fire and b' ingthem ddwo , They hesitatcd'at first, but seeing us rraotute, with our rifles rocked, and presented to riwra, , : and ready to fire, (hey cot down;from licir horses. 1 then steniied un to them Withtmv . dagger in my hand, and took from them two' , pair of pistols and three daggers j my : tiro v highwaymen stood Off about i 5 feet with tbeirMl rifles cocked, a dagger in their hands.- and each a pair of pistols belted around thenu. A would hot Suffer them to speak to eachi oilier . whilst I was'r)bbing them, as 1 did not tutdtjv stand their 1mgfr and was afrrvid of some scheme. We got 40 weight oi gold frbm?thr?i company of five,' and 2$ in silver.. ..Viy fitarjr. of this robbery amounted to 233 -doubioot (s;;r28) , - V ..-r We were forty miles from our cave, ma 120. -from 'ensanda. It was 4 o'clock in the t-. ternoon when we left tlm, ami at 48 mioute,; pastseren wcrcacheiTour - drve-and foimd" 9- targe grey wot J in jit. t He i had been drawn cane crew have conceal- mu'jcrs rnar ever p-ocici i'v lyEii.v, Riualdo iit':!!:ii:i ; : Moor wfi-e notiiin tr him Tl env:? f)'i . . t of dr ,iy ' ' his Here laid ourselves down to sleep, as we had slept hut little for two or three, riighls hack As for me, I could locking Siimelimes in the fire n t sSei'i). bat lav WQ i I kiu accohi,; lor the possibi'ilv of ilvc ass.'Piales ohtainir.er o inuru tnnl v n ?-,;J ;md silrer:is.therKt.,m ihat tmed'fo frevnil ; (ilwJ- ad sometimes at the .stars, and tTuMU'lIers from NVOrleatiS.Tfi'Jvl-.eu here !inS. to ,!,e wi,:-t? in l fac b' fta3Dortinethiiou?b iw ' wi!,Wrtrp.q i hpfore! wi-ii mace such a mouintui, rustling ijoise, hn;ik notes were in such amend rirculationy fliat cftcn thought something .-rif .mebdy ike. ir.'1 rr.teeug ot nei? mcrri'iit'tiisc in snecie. 'ti' total Jh':efice :f dtes. however, ihrough out the. confession brows strong suspiciun on many circumstances, thouch wlut is rela ted as'having taken place i this iei;iibor liood carries with it some -color of prubalmi- to l'hiladelpbia, and sailed with an old friend of my- faihci-'s, a sea captain, t i New 4)j leans, and worked my passage the. e. In New Orleans 1 suffered a girtd deal of trooble, for 1 had no money bu! what I Uixsde by dnrC!'!U!S thieving and giiinbl Frg. At iaSt 1 enlisted iu the G ivern ir's guai-i, and and .at this time I ass iriatcd myself wi li some defjierate allows wh) vicro in th? habit of jenorkir.'. people down in the streets, and rob bing them. The first person we robbed jn this wanner ..was the capt. i! the ship Ocean in corupaiiv with a zcatleman New-Oilcaus. I took the wiHcn ue musi nave pvio uity guineas in Frnttf. As I was pi tying at Cards some time alter 1 having staked his Watch agaiust three others, in camft a French Gentleman drrseff in uniform,' and ?sked me if 1 w as Cot Art officer belonging tor the Governor guard, as he had seen me at the Governor'K diiflScd'iri unifirni -j i;toItl him I was ; he sr.idhc. had vGcasi4u fjij proper 6!Ec.ra to. gel bar k- some money lio had been nibbed of i;vst Jiight. It was I and tny companions that hacfi robbed Jtira, and b d got a gn at deal o'f ,riw ney from him. ".What made us 'stop him w..s Jo'tir hearing hfs money jiogio iu his pockets and seeing so hiut Ii p wuer i n his hair. This was good eiicourapeu.ent to iisp.Tml as for me, I should have been loth to .- change my . place for a coloncTs'.'tmjmission. Jjut now. as we feared we should gct'noto rionsiii Ncw-Orleans, and saw' every few -day'a com jianystarl from New-Orleans on horse and were told tiicy cr.rrj j a great deal of money with them throng!) the Choctaw and Xhichesaw. nations to get io Keuturky? Teoi '-nrs?cc, and Pittsburg ; vve .thought we shuuhl do hitter on the highway. Dm before "we went, wc made, tw.iothei robberies. One of my men took . 237 dollars from a countryman; he told me, when 1 came up, it was ail that ht had i 1 gave him up 10 "dollars' in silver. The same evening went and slopped a Span iard, and he gave roc his watch and 1 7, dol lars. Hej?eemedpoor,-and I kft his watch and part of the money where he got it again. Now I rgaw it was slow and dangc'rnus.work to, to make money in the city of New-Orleans. So we all agreed to get . some good rifles, and three first rate horses, that were '.swift-rand genteel. , We left the' town and Went as far as Nashville in the tAte--f Ten nessee, without meetine with anv thin. Wei raked the'wilIeins from' the Muscle Shoals the Choctriw iUicn. One day when we tfrcmucli fatigued' with luintine:. fvve de. :,p Med on this'l our call ng) we pmecrosH r: cohjpauy of lour weiv-C 1 -had ' linrd work Osav6(their lives, u We stbujied thun : we 5ad ULdNdi the horsca from the sicht of the was coming through the cane after us. b'o I got up, r.:::l went t fce ii our h irst's were near, which we. had let loose near ...lb? brake ; and after. I found them 1 employed myself count ing the m 'Oey, .while my twn'comjianions slept on if nothing- had happened. 1 had not n;fiercjd lie two men to'dpeif the months of till the bag4, to see what amou-i was . in nccV?-lo;in'.wV.iVPi bag : ! ? them they wheti'it was got out of his sailjlc-bags, Lord bless my soul.' and give a very hea vy sigh. I remember I thought he was frigh tened, for his life, and told him I had never asked any man for his life and if we wert not so strongly armed, ho would take mine ; but that he should not be hurt ' A good deal of the money wc took was in g dd and specie, and in bags, of hiukskin. Toe one he sighed f:ir; I t!ul I SO pieces in it, :md a good deal 'of thein trohi.,- I mr.de each msn a belt, and put ?man f tli city of al l,,e tld ,n t,,rtP bcltR 1,13 0 a e " enpia n's w atrh for!hi(If 'V'S1'1 r an. Indian that lived ,i V.r. ; in the Chcrokev natnn when he was at lioma. The whole that I bad to mV-share from -that robbery earn to 700J dollars. Vre lay in tlie mountain a month, in which time, we lived 'n wild meat, wild turkey and there by soma fresh meat ve? had left. i tle after this wc reached our, cave. Herfrane: 7 feet down fromlhe rack J cave again. Shortly after this I left the cave, hut we put two balls m him. -as he jumpfe .Vp , ' aid on my way met a man on horseback, staid in our cave si weeks before we went on with a rifle on his shoulder. I joined com ; UrcTnad again. : '--..- .m .A!i)? pany with him, and he told mo he had been atf One day as I was walking near the road,.I ,j sr. ijouis to ouy lanu. in a tew moments we saw a gentleman pass, 'with a waiter behind T came to a beautiful spring, and dismounted to him, both armed. The waiter had a broad. $ take a drink. He laid his rifle ag'.uiist a tree, j sword hung to his side, and a pau )f pistola.' asked me to take some br?ndy and water with , Tins was a noted sisjn for money. We mount- f him. Whilst he, was stooping to get some , cd. our horses, and overtook them at 32 miles : " water from the spring. I seized his l i Iroin from nur camp. The'nian:iii..-irjDntasiuxl:iis the tree, aud told him 1 was a high-way rob- who gave us leave to carry arms liwkassault . j.bcr aud would take a drink or water with him people on the highway ? J told him was an ,- ! after 1 had counted what in mey he had officer (I had a uniform on ;) that, war .was jlhat 1 never drir-k hran:ly or any kiad of. declared between Spain avid the United States, spirits, as 1 always Ijatl spirits enough, in me, and that he must surreuder all -his. money or without taking brandy, and that if , he . did wo would put powder and ball into him. See- ... not instantly deliver to iae every cent hehauV ingnui pistols cockud in our hands, they dis-, l would sontl him w here be would get vomc-j mounted and gave tip their money,1 after taking, thine hotter than brandy, "lib was very much their saddle baers and portmanteau. Wefuu'd Hila'nned and trembled worse than I d now 774 pieces of gold in the portmanteau. got t; V....I , ri'-l..i:V I...'. II 1 if... rni ... 1, ... . ' ' uuuer iije ganowr, uu uuipcreu up a.'l ms wr niy soaru A3 pieces oi goiu, amounting tft money, to mo,,,,, 'gat from him 700 dollars " S5,300. We had been in this cave altogether, . In gold and a small bag of. silver, but as I j about two months, and had made during that never wished to bring a; man: t ) )overty," I ;t im 26,700 dollars. J n a few days we stat ted gave him back the bag of silver uh1 his fr Peiisacola, -and put up at the boarding-, watch. . : ;t j bouse of Madame St. Yaley, .-.-.Our time pass-t Wo went to NashviiJe, JYnn. I; bought a ed with great pleasure, and we staid b rnonthsv black boy, and two hoisesanda gig, and after There never iv-ns a week without a ball I oeing i. few days we started to Knoxville together, given by one of the French or Spanish gen- y. From there we went tn Lexington. Ky. n wdf tlemen iu town.- ?Onc day one' of- thcmskcd Hero swopped niy Ii6r1it 2dia j&C Ohio" in if I had heard (lift news. I , told him no. - a gentleman from Georgia, for a blaclc boy, inrm, . r.;i i..nHitbe was i , - i i c i,,nri- imv ii was on v inai i nnu mr viu ano a i;oiti: r t.aivi . .muni mov "." ; . . " .. . , r ..i.i mv ,;.rVvvuvinprifiir fiKu'buh. i nicked ottfc to give the next bail, impanitB-w?- :ht on ikt-nij A C.r.v. ,l,.IUru ,f v (an rn Uvu J,V.i VVecK; J. lOltl OIK 01 my.JiiguWHJ uicii ,i Bite . 'SiVVl nil1! s i. j - t till t " in- .bl their horses, avc Icft'-ttfslaVe in h i "all at my expence, as he could sjicak their llt topped bout, and wont Oownflie'Ohib to Natches, and from there to Mew Orleans. . lancuace. - V e then left rensiicola, and when we arrived at Baton Kougc, th governor sect a priesi to bring us into the garrison ; this Uovernor uranu and intended to nb on the. road between Ua tori' Rouge and IViisacoIa.' . ". ' . . , We started fr.um Baton Rouge, to find a fit ilare for our camp. 'About 80 miles from deer and racoon. I was in Nashville once in I losacola, au4 near a track that led r to toe that time; l took my horse with me, and my j (;(,ld Mities,. we found a cleft of rocks tliat money J hid ylejre, no man knew, v It was no grcSfcwbihi after this, that vve rob bed another party In the Cheroket nation; two r,f them were fnmi St. Augustine, and one from Charleston, S. C. llii-t e in company. I rode in company with them. On evening I told the men I w as agent for the Cherokee na tion, as they knew no hotter, .and found out all their business. .7 hey "spke Spanish aud broken English: tf.ey had, a horse, with a a paik-sadtile on him, - with a- lar?e pair o saddlt'-bags lashed on the pack-saddle.. One f the men had a watch that w ould run, he told mei eeven days without winding up, and ask ed me if I wonid change my hVnso.for it. 1 told him i-" My two men were iu a bouse five or xix miles from the Chickasaw, nation, with'a man that called his name Hay foot, a halt bread Indian ; , they had taken their horses to his houscV which " stands between C'eiw Creek and Tennessee river; 1 rode, on before iny company to' inform my men that we might likely get something from these men !.!.. ,v omv snn:(! i li" was 1(1 !fi ll r.O. ' l' .esi W as Ills nun nuu. I set my black b5v fVee. in New Orleans, which ' pw d me if was from tlm United States place we left, after purchasing, three good ttd him " No, Sir,? and.: taking n my horses, and started for Baton .R-iugf. ' Hcrej pocket hook, gave him tl,c I'assport winch he I irot a passport from G .vcrnor Grand prce, nao given meo monuw """"b"? nestly at us, and said we hud been passing through the provinces to sec the fortifications," and that he would send us to the miues, unIe'S3, we could give a more satisfactory accium of Ourselves. - lie gave ns in charge of an o'hc.er. formed aa ndmiral cave, ' which no man visit ed before, I 'pcct suicc the noTMv Game was identv, . .. ... ' We huuTcit- herft nine days : at tins end Hifi that lime we began to wa:!t powder ntid sbot and thought jlhat two of s sliotild go to. Ven- arnlar(ti tret it. I was tlie one to stay at home.; i hey wera away nine oays. uue vvlio parried there then began to tell me oi" all the new he had heard at" the hotel in l'eri sacoln. wlicre he hail pjt it-p a?.' lie said that lie had sev.t a" Spanwh' grittleman .t.hereCfi'o'm old Spain, that was going fim IVnsaCola to Baton Rouge in ten days, '"and that he had seon tltat he had a "good deal of gold about him. We immediately put our anus in order I had a pair at pistols, a tin k, a cutlass and a rifle ; my two robbers had each of them a ri fle, a pair of pistols, and r. dagger. On the eighth day, I suw.a. company pass? as i watch ed the road, and' directly went back " to our cave, had our liorsws. caught and saddled . and we'mounted them, with our arms, in pursuit One of my fellows vould hardly hear m to of them. On thenextday we came uptothrm. the end, so creudy was ho after the pack-sad die 1 mentioned. Wo left the neighborhood of Bear Creek, took to the great road again, and make as fast as possible after the compa ny I Vhad left, which, i was much afraid we should miss. About twenty ' miles Irom'tlie house of Thomsyn, who. was kno'wn in th.se parts at that time," I overtook the company a- gam. I Iii3 1 liomspn is a wuiie man, inar riodloa squaw. ; We made off into the woods when we got the travellers in sight, made a bend, and in a cane braJteV just off tlfe road, verpain'tcd onr faces' like tho Indian when he is" going" to war. The party was pretty well atined I rde up to them they all started very much at . seeing us, as. we showed our arms and looked Teiy threatening, '. 1 spoke My Spanish talkina; . man, who hail seen the old Sjraniard in Pcnsat ola, said that it was the right company, for be knew fjic.rdd Span iard by the "cut of. bis jib." I rode past them to see what arms they had, and saw as r nst them, there were live in compaey, and that they had two pair of pistols, I turned in the woods to Ict'them pass, and waited uni til mv two robbers came up. I had tied a liana kerchief about my face, when I passed them, so that they could not know me ; we all paint ed-our faces red. and having primed our pieces aerain started after: them. We came up to tnem, and "passed' them, -'tenor fifteen paces, when wc suddenly wheeled round, and present ine rifles told them wc wefo bighway.robbi?rs', until he got some' word from lVnsac a. We were put in toe guard nousr, ami our.money, from us. hired a man t .' go to iViaeoIa and to get .a trap account of us from the house, where he had boarded,, an'-J to bnog a letter from some: Spanish and French. oSt'ert who boarded, with us in the same bouse. Qn tht foiHteeuth day my messeiger returncd,,.ac2 companicd by the son of the)aly at ,'wboso bouse we hadboarded. Jle yVs Un"' govcrnor,and had a nu mb, e'ft.O teif ff 0 the FrenchOfflccrs in favor f :$'4, and he gav.O so good an account of n's tht Ujtn governor or dered us to be released, fif.er it had cost xi 2000 do'llari'. -" . . . - '" " 1 ' " ' " ! 3 We colon board of a barge and went tt Nashville, Tennessee. Finding there was, a; man going from jN'fshville -to . Georgia, wo left the town, and 'layTnwait Cor and. robbed him, , ,ye!lad'n!rh)i-scs, but! as, he came along the rpad I rushed from lie w.Kids, and seized bis horsc.by the bridle. I told hiai he . must alight and deliver up his; money. e mg that we were well armed, ha dismounted very peaceably and gave up what he had. I got 970 dollars, id bank notes and eilver. We determined now to get omo - cave be tween Knoxvillc and South West Point, as we thought it; would be a good place to rob. -I therefi'a'left my two robbers at a tavern in Khoxvdle & wcnttoNasbviUe, tomake some previous arragements. Upon my ,( return, I fell' in, and joined company with a driver, on bis, way to Virginia. A I supposed he was pretty flush uf money, I determined td rob him When we got into Franklin county,. Va. a favorable .spot prctcnted itself, about 16 miles froth the court-bouse, when I -robbed if bis horse and 3p0 dollars, and rode off as 7- fast as possible ?Tbe r.ight alter I was, talc and that if hey madeany resistance or offered en, 1 had retired to bed, at a bouse on th 1 ... a 3iS 1 J!l-
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