Narrative Of The Captivity Of William Biggs Among The Kickapoo Indians In Illinois In 1788
William Biggs
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Eighty-one Copies Re-Printed In Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-two. —— In the year 1788, March 28th, I was going from Bellfontain to Cahokia, in company with a young man named John Vallis, from the State of Maryland; he was born and raised near Baltimore. About 7 o'clock in the morning I heard two guns fired; by the report I thought they were to the right; I thought they were white men hunting; both shot at the same time. I looked but could not see any body; in a moment after I looked to the left a
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