This is to inform you that the misfortune that has happened to the two American men on the main road from Kentucky ... : Big Rock, [Ohio], to Colonel W[illia]m Ward and Major Simon Kantun [i.e. Kenton] : letter, 1799 Aug. 25.

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This is to inform you that the misfortune that has happened to the two American men on the main road from Kentucky ... : Big Rock, [Ohio], to Colonel W[illia]m Ward and Major Simon Kantun [i.e. Kenton] : letter, 1799 Aug. 25.

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Explanatory letter, Aug. 25, 1799, from eight Wyandot chiefs to William Ward and Simon Kenton (who had recently settled in Springfield, Ohio), outlining the events leading up to the murder of two Americans by two young Wyandot Indians.

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