Portrait of Colonel William Crawford, who commanded the Virginia militia during the Massacre at Salt-Lick Town.
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Image Credit: By Robert O. Chadeayne 1732-1782 (Wyandot County Historical Society) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
This file appears in: William Crawford & the Destruction of Salt-Lick Town
William Crawford & the Destruction of Salt-Lick Town
Jonathan Alder, a native of Virginia, is best remembered for his life as an Indian captive in Ohio during the 1780s and 1790s. He was taken prisoner and adopted into a Mingo family in 1782, towards the end of the American War for Independence. …