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Identifier: chicagomassacreo01kirk (find matches)
Title: The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894
Subjects: Fort Dearborn Massacre, Chicago, Ill., 1812 Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: Chicago : Dibble Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd on thenorthwest side of the South Branch, within the presentLumber District, about half way between HalstedStreet and Ashland avenue. It was first known as Lees *See Appendix F. tThis name I find sometimes spelled Lee, and sometimes See. BITII.DINC. OI TmC IIKST lOKT IH! AKIIOK V. Plaoc, afUrwanls as I lanlscrahhlc. Il was occupiedby one TJberty White, witli two oIIkt iikii and a hoy,the vSon of Mr. Lee; This spot was not far from the place where Pere Mar- (pietle j)ass- ■4- ^^^V! >r / ed tlu- winterof 1674-75 ;perliajjs thevery s a ni eground.(SeeM n n s e 11sHistory ofChicago for acopy of thegood Fath-ers journal,with jxiralleltranslation.) Mrs. JohnKinzie, firstin a pamph-let dated in1836, andpublished inI 844, a n dlater in Wau-Bun, givesan extremelypicturesqu er->>^=*^r ace o u n t of ^.. _,.. the alarm, evidently ta-ken d o w nfrom the lips of those who had been present; namelyher husband (then a boy), his mother, Mrs. John Kinzie,and his half-sister, Mrs. Helm •
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CABIN IN THE WOODS. 72 THE CHICAGO MASSACRE OI^ I Si 2. It was the eveuiug of the 7th of April, 1812. The children ofMrs. Kinzie were dancing before the fire to the music or their fath-ers violin. The tea-table was spread, and they were awaiting thereturn of their mother, who was gone to visit a sick neighbo-r.(Mrs. John Burns, living at about where is uow the crossing of Kin-zie and State Streets, had just been delivered of a child.) Suddenlytheir sports were interrupted ; the door was thrown open and Mrs.Kinzie rushed in pale with terror, and scarcely able to articulate. The Indians ! The Indians ! The Indians! What? Where? Up at Lees place, killing and scalping! With difiiculty Mrs. Kinzie composed herself sufficiently to givethe information that while she was up at Burnss a man and a boywere seen running down with all speed to the opposite side of theriver ; that they called across to give notice to Burnss family tosave themselves, for the Indians were at Lees place, from whichthe

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