 | James Bradley Finley - Frontier and pioneer life - 1853 - 474 pages
...make an attack. Just below the mouth of the Great Scioto, where the town of Portsmouth now stands, a long and desperate effort was made to get some of...feigned to be in great distress ; but the fate of William Orr and his family was too fresh in the minds of the adventurers to be thus decoyed. A few... | |
 | James Bradley Finley - Frontier and pioneer life - 1854 - 470 pages
...make an attack. Just bulow the mouth of the Great Scioto, where the town of Portsmouth now stands, a long and desperate effort was made to get some of...who feigned to be in great distress; but the fate of William Orr and his family was too fresh in the minds of the adventurers to be thus decoyed. A few... | |
 | J. W. Klise - Highland County (Ohio) - 1902 - 546 pages
...the banks watching for an opportunity to make an attack. Just below the mouth of the Great Seioto, a long and desperate effort was made to get some of...Orr and his family was too fresh in the minds of the adventurera to be thus decoyed. A few months previous to this time this gentleman^ and his whole family... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - Fiction - 1919 - 698 pages
...make an attack. Just bulow the mouth of the Great. Hsioto, where tlr town of Portsmouth now stands, a long and desperate effort was made to get some of...man, who feigned to be in great distress ; but the late of William Orr and his family was too fresh in the minds of the adventurers to be thus decoyed.... | |
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... of William Orr and his family was too fresh in the minds of the adventurers to be thus decoyed. A few months previous to the time of which I am writing, this gentleman and his whole family were murdered, being lured to shore by a similar stratagem.... 