Jennings Family

Killing of Jonathan Jenning's Son and Negro Slave
                      By Emory L. Hamilton
                                
     From the unpublished manuscript,
Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and
Holston Rivers, page 23.

     In a letter written by Captain William
Russell to Colonel Preston, on September 21, 1776
(1) he states:
     The Indians have killed a son, and a
Negro of Jonathan Jennings, at Blackmore's
(Fort) since I last wrote you.
     This killing took place sometime between
July 7th and September 21, 1776, and the writer has
been unable to recover the name of the Jennings
boy or the Slave who were killed.
     Johnathan Jennings left Ft. Blackmore in
1779, with Captain John Blackmore's party when
they rafted to the Cumberland settlement at
Nashboro (now Nashville). While enroute his boat
was attacked by Indians after it became fouled on 
a rock and another son and Negro slave were killed
at this time. (2) After settlement at Nashboro,
Johnathan Jennings was himself, killed by the
Indians on the Cumberland River above the
settlement at Nashboro.

(1) Draper Mss 4 QQ 73.
(2) Journal of Capt. John Donaldson, whose rafting
party went out from the Holston and later joined up
with the Blackmore party from the Clinch.

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