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few mm* letemiiac Pme*» #fMeat niatory .. OM Clreem« ffc« Mine, Home*Frtm-He DfciteMtaa Ce. • laws, ISM, «*•* erer OneBmm*re* Ymr».In tfao Baton, 0. Register of Aug. 8th last, we find a letter dated “Mus-keto Point, Dallas Co., Iowa. July 29, 1872/’ signed G. D. Heqdrioks? from which we make the following extract. The writer met with a Mr. Joseph B. Mills, long a resident of Western Ohi, who' gave him the facte given below concerning the last days of an Indian chief, quite notorious in the early history of the Whitewater Val-ley. The writer says:An old Indian resident, once of notein the regions aronnd about Baton and the Whitewater settlement, was resurrected by meeting Mr. Mills, to wit: Captain John Green, a ohief of the Po-tawatomies, whose hunting grounds tor these many years have been in this immediate vicinity, and he frequently oamped, in the trapping season on Mr. Mills’ lands.Uncle Levi Purvisnee and may be a few more of the early pioneers of Preble, Darke and Wayne eounties willrecollect, that the big Indian, John Green, pretended to he a friend to the whites at the commencement of thewar of 1812, but if my recollection serves me, he was considered both deceptive and treacherous; and was bus*nan tad nf Kaiikt Annnprnotl In
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Richmond Julians Radical
Richmond, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 24, 1872
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