Letters from Carlisle... Indian attacks...
Item # 693396
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THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, August 25, 1763 Beginning on page 5 is an: "Extract of a letter from Carlisle, July 12, 1763" which includes: "... I embrace this first leisure, since yesterday morning, to transmit you a brief account of our present state of affairs here... flying families, obliged to abandon house and possession, to save their lives by an hasty escape' mourning widows, bewailing their husbands surprized and massacred by savage rage; tender parents, lamenting the fruit of their own bodies, cropt in the very bloom of life by a barbarous hand; with relations and acquaintances, pouring out sorrow for murdered neighbours and friends, present a varied scene of mingled distress... And our advices received since the above, say that the Sheriff's party had returned: That about 18 or 20 miles from Carlisle, they fell in with a number of Indians at a house, and shot down one of them; upon which the others took to the fields, when our people pursued, and knocked down two or three more of the enemy; but though they followed for some time, they could not come up with them, nor find some of those that were wounded...".
Many other reports headed: "America" taking a bit more than a full page. An unusual wealth of reporting from America in a single issue.
Eight pages, 8 14 by 11 inches, very nice condition.
Many other reports headed: "America" taking a bit more than a full page. An unusual wealth of reporting from America in a single issue.
Eight pages, 8 14 by 11 inches, very nice condition.
Item from our most recent catalog - #370 - released for September, 2026
Categories: The 1600's and 1700's, British
Price
$64
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.