A Narrative of the Sufferings of Massy Harbison, From Indian Barbarity —— Giving an Account of Her Captivity, the Murder of Her Two Children, Her Escape, With an Infant at Her Breast

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ISBN: 9781333634889 出版年：2016 页码：193 Massy Harbison Forgotten Books

The same motives which prompted the Editor of the affect. Ing and interesting narrative of widow Harbison, to write the first Edition, from her lips, and to assist in presenting it to the public without any remuneration for his labor, has again prompted him to revise the work; to obtain fresh evidence of its truth; and to enlarge it considerably, by giving some ac count of the manners, customs, wars and subjugations of the Indians. Most of the certificates hereby presented to the pub lic, have been given to attest the truth of the narrative, by old and respectable men, under all the sanctity of an oath. All of them have been given by unimpeached and unimpeachable witnesses, who were well acquainted with the circumstances detailed, and active agents in the scenes referred to, and who have no interest but truth to answer in their developements.