he narrative of John Dodge is one of the records of frontier life during the period of the American Revolution that displays the intense feeling of hatred and unfairness evinced by the British soldiers to the American rebels. It was written and published during the time of the greatest excitement in the West—the scene of the Narrative—and is historically valuable because of being contemporary with the events in question. It was considered of great importance at the time of its first appearance,

It is worthy of remark, that the three persons who make a principal inglorious figure in the following Narrative , viz. Governor Hamilton , De Jeane and Le Mote , were afterwards taken by the brave Colonel Clarke , of Virginia, at Fort St. Vincent, and are now confined in irons in a goal in Virginia (by order of the Legislature of that State) as a retaliation for their former inhuman treatment of prisoners, who fell into their hands, particularly Mr. Dodge , who has the pleasing consolation of v

[1] Almon's Remembrancer , 1779. [2] First edition, Philadelphia, 1779, and second edition, Danvers, Massachusetts, 1780; also printed in Connecticut Gazette and Universal Intelligencer , February 2, 1780. [3] Virginia State Papers , 1, 321. [4] Dodge Genealogy , page 137. American Ancestry , 6, 192. The sketch in The Magazine of Western History , 4, 282, contains many errors. [5] Wayne County Records , B. 9, 91. [6] If this date is correct it would appear that Dodge was in Detroit before he was