Col. William Christian, who served in Lord Dunmore’s War. He was killed in April, 1786. John May, writing to Governor Henry from Crab Orchard, Ky., April 19, says: “The Indians about the Wabash had frequently been on Bear Grass, and Col. Christian, in order to induce others to go in pursuit of them, has upon every occasion gone himself. And last week he with about twenty men crossed the Ohio, and overtook three Indians, whom they killed; but his men not obeying his orders, which were to rush altogether on them, he with three others only overtook the Indians, and was so unfortunate as to receive a mortal wound himself and Capt. Isaac Kellar received another.”––R. G. T.
The time for rendezvous was September 10, 1786 (letter of Col. Levi Todd to Governor Henry, August 29).––R. G. T.
Clark was roundly scored in contemporary accounts, for being much of the time under the influence of liquor. His futile expedition was against the Indians around Vincennes, while Logan’s party, which appears practically to have revolted from Clark, had a successful campaign against the towns on Mad River. See Green’s Spanish Conspiracy, ch. v., and Roosevelt’s Winning of the West, iii., passim.––R. G. T.
Col. Benjamin Logan to Governor Randolph, Dec. 17, 1786: “Sept. 14, 1786, I received orders [from Clark] to collect a sufficient number of men in the District of Kentucky to march against the Shawnee’s Towns. Agreeable to said orders I collected 790 men, and on the 6th of October I attacked the above mentioned Towns, killed ten of the chiefs of that nation, captured thirty-two prisoners, burnt upwards of two hundred dwelling houses and supposed to have burnt fifteen thousand bushels of corn, took some horses and cattle, killed a number of hogs, and took near one thousand pounds value of Indian furniture, and the quantity of furniture we burnt I can not account for.” The force was on duty “not above twenty-seven days ... and I would venture to say the expenses will be found to be very moderate.”––R. G. T.
William Lytle, born in Carlisle, Pa., September 1, 1770. He came to Ohio with his father, at the age of ten, and subsequently became surveyor-general of the Northwest Territory. His father served as a captain in the French and Indian War, and as a colonel in the Revolution, and headed a large colony to Ohio in 1780.––R. G. T.