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Don's Memoirs

POP GUNS, TRICYCLE RAMPS, AND BOWS AND ARROWS I don't remember how old I was, but I was quite small. For some reason I was staying with my aunt Elsie, who was married to an antique dealer. She lived in Sellersville in what I think was half of a twin Victorian house. I don't know why I was there. I don't think it was because my sister was being born because if that were the case I would only have been about six and a half years old years old and I am pretty sure that I was older than that. I think I was about eight years old. Maybe my parents, who would have been in their mid to late thirties when I was eight years old, went on a vacation of some sort and farmed their four children out to various relatives. Then again, perhaps I was only about six years old. The thing I recall most was that I was allowed to use a very small rifle, about 15 inches long, that shot corks at little celluloid birds that sat on a wire strung between two small posts. I would lie on the f

A Narrative (kidnapping by the Shawnee in 1779)

A Narative of the Capture & Detention of my Paternal Grand Mother by the Shawnee Indians September 23,1779A. R. Erskine M.D. Copied Feb. 20th, 1872 The following is a Copy from a Copy, as written by my Cousin Allen T. Caperton of Union Va, related to him by our Grandmother. Albert Russel Erskine Son of Alexander Erskine Sr. M.Dô€€Œ Copied Feb, 20th 1872. An exact Transcription from photostats of original copy of a copy made by Dr. Albert Russel Erskine in 1872, prepared by Susan Fowler and presented to her father Alex. D. Fowler, Christmas in the year 1956. Margaret Erskine died June 3, 1842 in the 90th year of her age. It was in the Fall, 23rd Sept.of 1779 that Margaret Paulee with her husband John Paulee ( Polly ), with one infant male child about one year old, Set out from the County of Monroe VA,   on a journey to Kentucky, for the purpose of establishing themselves, when they were attack