Western Sun, Volume 5, Number 10, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 March 1813 — Page 4

i D I lit excellency James Madtfon, fVeliderrt ot the United Sujet, the iitmofial of ihc LegiQative Council tk Houfe of fteprcfefttatives ot t fe Indiana Territory rcfpeufully fhewctli: ' Uacii is the opinion of your memorialing your exccilcncv i n lot be acquainted with ihe prefent deplorable, unguarded bnd dillrelfcd fuuation of the people of this terr i tor yt or fome means more adequate thari any hitherto adaptedfe would, ere this, have betn provided for our defence. Your memerialifls beg leave to inform your excellency that within a few days pad ievc ral murders have been committed in i he vicinity of Vincennes, our prefent feat of government! by our rutblefs and unrelenting lavage neighbors fcarce a day pdics without a frefh alarm, or an account of fome ad. dittonal depredations, cither by Staling horfes or the (laughter ot tome Unfortunate and defencelcls inhabitant fuch are the terrors created by thole murders and depredations that whole j: 'mors nay, w hole townfliips arc precipitately abandoning their homes, and fleeing with the wrecks of ther property to the adjoining dates, w here their lives at leaf!, will be fate from the'totnhavvk and (calping knife of the lavage. Such me a fines or defence as the decreafintr and (battered population or our territory w ill admit of, have been, and are about to be adopted, but Was every man in the territory well armed and determined to light it out to the laft, they are too few in numbers to do fo with any hope of fuceefs. Will then the L . States, becaofe we are a territory, few in numbers. & at a dtdanee from the Federal head, abandon us to our fate fltall we, tor thefe reafons, be left to the totnhawk and fcalping knife of our barbarous roc. Wc trull not, we would fondly hope fuch will not be our fate ;Mid w e confidently be ieve 1 cm Our real (ituatton is know to you (ir, to whom w e look our guardian Sv protector, lome means of defence tu cou n c (urate with our exigencies will be provided. lake into view then, a fettled frontier of 300 miles in 1 m -.D, and on an average not 30 miles in width, tk.c this exool hi J extreme frontier has at this time (owing to con. Rant cm ition) not mote than 3000 effective militia t-o thirds bl tvhoni are unarmed and unprovided with any of the

& of war lituated in a country where arms or amm cannot be procured undid iplined, and till now un med town, or any of its attendant horrors--.ill of

them cultivators of the foil depending on their daily labor fo the fupport of themfelves and families w hat refinance C m I hey tnakc, or u hat can be expcclcd from them bur. even admit that one third cl this force could be brought into the li Id without endanger! iff thefafety ot the remainder what could 1000 1 a w, undtfeiphned, unarmed militia do, again!) an lio(l of cunning, blood timity favagts: AVe ftnfwer, they t uld lefvt no ot her pur pole but to glut the fury c vengeance ot the fa v ages, or the more than lavage vengeance ot their Britith fup nrtersa V e wool 1 therefore fir, beo leave to foffgefl as the opinion of this legiflature that 1000 men furitifhcd by the U. State s, well armed, well equipped and properly conducted, together with the force which couldconvenlentiy be (pared from the a territory, b means were provided for arming a:;d equippii g this latter force, would be atnply futfictcnt to the objt ti ot not Only driving from our borders thole hor des or' fvasres which at prefent infen them but would al fo by a proper d if pofal of t' : force at the end ot the Campaign en To re future lafety to our frontier our meniot ialifts bc- leave to obferveto your excellent v that although this information has been procratHnated atmott to the ver) end of our feflioOi it was done not becaufe it v believed to be unnecefTary ; but becaufe your memoriatiUs tontt airily chertfhed the idea that before this time fome force Would ha vi been lent to our relief. All which is refpedful-

lv lubmitted by order Of the legiflative council and houfis reprtltntativts ot the iodiana territory JAMES Oil L, Speaker of the IIoulc of Keprefentativeti I At. BEGOS, Pre fid en t of the I rgiflatlve Couruil. Done at Vincennes. tliis itth March, 1S1

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BLANKS OF ALL KINDS a E A T I. f A N D ACCURATELY I RIXTLD A t T HIS 0 Y V 1 C B CA S ! I, or good R EC 15 1 PIS WILL be given at the office of the Weftern Sun for good TAl LOIV, peilons in ancars will Ho w II to call. THE PRINTZR.

ALEXANDER BUCKXER t- AS eftabliOred bis refulcr.ee in Charief jl ton, in the County of Clark and Tcrritory of Indiana, and will practice law in the ( urts ot Clark County, Harrifon and Jeffii)ii Atfo in the General Couit at Vuicennrt All bufinefs ith which he m ay be intrufted with, will be attended to with punctuality All letters diredcd to

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LAND-OFFICE AT VINCfcNNS, A A Fibru ary 10,131.;. j Public Notice is hereby Given, r 'HA? Fourth part of the arrt is ot the purchlfic money of the following X tracts v t I 1, a nd intcreft thereon, having no: occn paid on the fo It ilcy of jfw nuiry Lsi:, gre ) to the rrqutfittooa ot an itt of Conrets, pa (Ted April twenty third eighteen hundred and twelve, tnti: 1 d, An act giving furthei nnu to the purchafers of Public Lands North W tit cl the river Ohio to conii.lv u d ii i n .-nts, tin- laid trft Hill be rxpoicd .it public irendue during the fitting ol ;he 1. rt it Vincennes, on the twenty ninth) thirtieth, and ti..it fit it day a oi March, and the 6r ft, fecondand third day ol Ajm il next And where s, by an aft of Gongrefs, entitled 4 An ?.tTt for the relief of the ofheera and (oldie rs arho ferved in the late campaign on the Wabafh,' a further time of three years to complete-the ir pay met! t is allowed to the Lt ir s or legal reprtft ntativej of eveiyper fori who was killed, and to evety ptrfon who was wounded in the fa id campaign, it is hereby turthcr made known, that latisfaclory evidence hti;g piven prior to tht i.de, of the circumfiancea entitling fnchperfoni to tlie benefit c.t the wid act, il eir rcfpe&ivc tra,s (hall be exempted from the fa id i ale, conformably tn the intent thfrr f. The i ;le will begin at ten o'clock on Monday, and dole at three o'clock on S-.turdsy, on which lait mentioned dav, if any tract be punh.fed, the amount n uQ he paid to the Receiver of Public Monies, and the receipt deposited with the Ucgi'Aer.

Original Purchasers Names

7".ihn Ananony, jramei Arrnttronp, yaleph Brownleyi 71111 s ii ren ton, J fi ph Hin ion, k e Chapmani s one Pt r Coopritefi S -me Robert Dunn, Natl in Dealt) Touffainl Dubois, Robert M. Kvanc, Tacob hunk, ?ame ofeph Oarrifon, ohn Ci ray ton, Hervey Heth, same lamo same same William II. Harrifon, V tt In 1 I lawcork, Qeul. W. 7oh niton, li me y n itban 'ennings, I it r 7 nes,

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litter, U m s Mo . VVitliam M 'Crmick l.iros ",'1arne, Wiliiam M'Auooe, 7 rob Pnttai lame, n PaterfeAa a ' hn ( ' . frtmntcf, Dennh Pi nningtofl Ettii R.clor, 5 a me y r- mih B iaityj ( , ules Riah v, ( e blnlon, Hobett Pufh, rohH Shively, hn Smith J Sloef. VV llei Ttylof,

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IF the DWtier or owntrt of any of the above trt&af land, or any per ton in his or their b half, rti 11 pay the whelp of the a-rears ol the por chafe r onry ntul intrrefl thre m t jetl ai wi h ( il 1 d( tiWj n:;or to the day de fig n a ted ttoerefcr, no f.t!r oi fuch trilt Rial! take U e. JOHN BADOUUET, Regiucr J tin Land OJiw.