second edition, 16mo, 98 pp., original muslin backed plain paper covered boards, somewhat rubbed, text tanned, contemporary ink date on front pastedown "April 22, 1828 Carlisle" with penciled ownership signatures of William Spahr. Upper blank margins of pp. 45-48 nicked affecting no text. Very good copy of this rare and fragile book. In 1835 the Widow Harbison presented a petition to Congress in which she gave the following account of herself. In 1787 she married John Harbison in Washington Co., Pa. "

In the year 1789 my husband and I removed to the Allegheny River, near Reed's station; about four miles and a half below where Freeport now stands. In the year 1791, in March, my husband enlisted under Captain John Guthrie, and marched out under the command of General St. Clair, in Major Clark's battalion, to the Miami. During the period of my husband's enlistment, which was six months, although out nearly nine, I remained at Reed's station, washing and working for the scouts, until my husband returned, wounded in the body. My husband having recovered from the wound, was, in March following, engaged as a spy, and continued as such until Wayne's treaty with the Indians, on the 22d of May, 1792. During my husband's absence on a scouting party, a party of Indians came to my house and destroyed everything they could not carry." Two of her children killed, Massy Harbison was compelled to carry the youngest to the Connequenessing in Butler County. Shortly afterwards she escaped and made her way to Fort Pitt. Her narrative, as given to Winter, also describes the defeat of St. Clair. "Notwithstanding the singular and almost incredulous nature of this narrative, it is considered truthful by good authorities." - Thomson 502. The work is one of the best and most important of all narratives of frontier adventure and captivity in the Ohio country.

Ayer 336; Eberstadt 168:389; Sabin 30291; Howes H-179