When Spies Meet in Corydon Indiana Territory 1811
David Lawrence arrives in Corydon to kill an old enemy and becomes a store clerk. He befriends Patrice O Bannon and his daughter Toinette while Doctor Elliott schemes to win Toinette and poisons opinion. David overhears spies plotting at night in the courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Lawrence
Corydon
Indiana Territory
Patrice O'Bannon
Toinette
Colonel Posey
Job Cranmer
Lydia
Britain
David
Doctor Elliott
Elliott
Cranmer
Traitors Plot at Midnight Forge in Indiana Wilderness
David overhears a covert meeting between a British agent and a backwoodsman planning to coerce a man with money and threat. The pair discuss meeting at a smithy near Oak Lane and Walnut at midnight to secure a "Yankee" for a kings command, amid tensions with Cranmer who mistakes David for a drunken woodsman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David
Satan
Oak Lane
Walnut—Israel Butt
Cranmer
John Wesley
Shadows in the smithy and a rock of treachery
David hides in a rear passage to spy on Girty Scull and Cranmer in a dim smithy where Tecumseh’s league plots are discussed. Scull warns of watchfulness as David stealthily retrieves a weapon, then escapes into darkness and follows to the river. Cranmer and Girty vanish. Scull is chased, and David alerts Governor Harrison via a letter while Cranmer’s daughter departs with Cranmer toward Vincennes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
David
Malden
Captain Girty
Girty
Israel
Simon Girty
England
Edward Scull
Cranmer
Scull
Ned
Tecumseh
Mr. Cranmer
Colonel Posey
Nobuddy
John Tipton
Johnny
Harrison
Old Post era party in a frontier home
In a Kentucky Territory manor, Mrs Bullett hosts a lively gathering as Derriere chez-nous hills and Creole fiddling frame a moonlit night. David, an uneasy young man, is urged by friends and Toinette to enlist, while talks turn to governors, diplomacy, and frontier law amid looming tensions with Indians and England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helas
de Long Tamago
Vincennes
Michel de Richardville
Cardinals
Andres
Burdaleaux
Racines
Laderoux
Corydon
Buleit
Indian Creek
Mr. O’bannon
Hal David
David
Blackford
Madison
Hampden- Sidney College
College
William and Mary
Harvard
New Haven
Princeton
David Lawrence
Toinette
Mr. Blackford
Harrison
Governor Harrison
Philip Freneac
Judge Brackenridge
Pittsburgh
Sutan Springs
England
Spier Spencer
Deavid
Britain
the Blackford
Spencer
Militia
Ike
Possible spy turn for David and Blackford hinted
The note questions whether David and Blackford could serve better as spies than militia men and promises an unusual turn in the next installment with a prompt to be continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David
Blackford
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Tippecanoe
Samuel McCoy
Jak and
Randolph Bullett
Lord Cornwallis
Derriere
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