Men and times of the revolution, or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson

16 August 1780

Battle of Camden

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Itforavian Settlement Quaker Settlement Salem, described. The Yad- kin. Salisbury. Yisit the Catawba Indiana Educated Indian. Con- dition of the Tribe. Hanging-rock. General Sumter. Flat-roek. Camden. Battle-field. Ghites and Green. Camden, described. Chatham. White Sayage. Drinking Scene. Western Emigratiou. Yankee Trick. Virginia Cock-fight Federal Constitution. Baptist Preacher, a Politician. Scene in his Church. Preacher, caricatured. Return to the North. Materials fen* the Memoirs. The Author's Marriage. His first Sight of his future Bride. Springfield, described. City of Albany, described. John de Neuville. Schenectady, Colonel Talbot Johnson HalL Mohawk Valley. German Population. Revolution- ary Sufferings Site of Utica. The Author's Privations. Whites- borough. SetUer& Mohawk Indians. Fort Stanwix. Indian Treaty. Wood Creek. Inland Navigation. Indian Territory, eeded. Inland Navigation. Peter Otsequett Descent of the Mohawk. Site of Troy, New York. Lansingburg. Half Moon. Cohoes Falls. Hudson River. Albany. The Overslaugh. Romance in Real Life. Rich Usurer. His son John. His Cargo of Rum. John, among the In- dians. John, a Wood-sawer. John's Restoration to his Father. John's Wealth, Penury, and Death. Story of Mr. H. His Wife, a reformed Courtesan. His Boarding-house. He induces the Author to visit the Devil's Hole. He steals the Author's Money. He is arrested. The Money is returned. His Confession of Theft^ and of intended Murder. He is a Homeless Vagabond. The Author's Certificate of the Freedom of the City of Albany. Improvements in Albany. The Author, as- sailed as the " Paving Yankee." Bank of Albany. Grave of Franklin. Tribute to Franklin. Estrangement of Adams and Franklin 292-880

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A flag was despatched to Newport, with an open letter, from the fiither to the son, appointing the time and place of the proposed interview. The place was the south end of Providence Island. Lieutenant Coleman, of the Virginia Ar- tillery, a gallant soldier, who was afterward killed at the battle of Camden, under Gates, was designated to escort the father ; and, at his solicitation, I accompanied them. Sulli- van exacted a pledge of honor fix^m Mr. Winslow, that he would make his son no communications of a public nature.

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From this interesting and novel excursion, I continued my journey to Camden, South Carolina, along tJie Waxhaw set- tlement, passing Hanging-rock and Mat-rock. HangiDff-rook. At the former, General Sumter annihilated, by

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Camden is situated on a plain, near the river Wateree, and then contained about fifty dwellings. It commanded a valu- able interior trade in tobacco, flour, deer-skins, indigo, and beef. These commodities were ^SorfSd. transported to Charleston, by a circuitous and expensive water-carriage, down the Santee, and round Bull's Island The construction of a canal was then contemplated, to unite the Wateree with the head waters of the Cooper, which has since been accomplished, and much shortens and facilitates this communication. After remaining several days at Camden, occupied in exploring this highly interesting dis- trict, I returned to Hillsborough, without the occurrence of any important incident.