Text Appearing Before Image: " We have no late Advices from Fort Prince-George, or any Consequence from Places in that Route. But from Fort Moore, we learn, that a Grang of about 18 Cherokees, divided into 3 or 4 Parties, on the 15th Instant, way-laid, killed, and scalped Ulric Tobler, Esq; a Captain of Militia in those Parts, as he was riding from his Father's to that Fort; and shot Mr. William Calhoon, who was with him, in the Hand: 3 other Persons, who were in Company escaped unhurt: the Indian who killed Capt. Tobler, left a Hatchet sticking in his' Neck, on which were 3 old Notches, and 3 newly cut."26 Patrick Calhoun subsequently erected two stones to mark' the site of the Long Cane massacre, upon the larger of which appears the following inscription:
PATK.. CALHOUN Esq IN MEMORY OF MRS. CATHRINE CALHOUN AGED 76 YEARS WHO WITH 22 OTHERS WAS HERE MURDERED BY THE INDIANS THE FIRST OF FEB.. 1760
—————————— 25The South-Carolina Gazette, Saturday, February 23, 1760. 26The South-Carolina Gazette, Saturday, February 23, 1760.
THE CALHOUN FAMILY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 87 Text Appearing After Image: 88 SO. CA. HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE.
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