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Excerpt from A Narrative of the Wonderful Escape and Dreadful Sufferings of Colonel James Paul: After the Defeat of Col. Crawford, When That Unfortunate Commander, and Many of His Men, Were Inhumanly Burnt at the Stake, and Others Were Slaughtered by Other Modes of Torture, Known Only to Savages The object of the publisher of this narrative is two fold to preserve from oblivion the deeds of our anoes tors, that the rising generation may be instructed and improved by their perseverance and triumphs over difficulties that surrounded them - and that the future historian may be furnished with material with which to do ample justice to our past history. The facts incidentally stated, that Colonel Paul was the uncle of the late Judge George Paul Torrence, the father of the present Mayor of the city of Cincinnati, and that he built on Brush Creek, in Adams county, the pioneer furnace of Southern Ohio, and that Colonel Samuel Paul was born in 1760; his father, George Paul, moved on the farm in 1768, and died in 1778; and that Colonel James Paul died July 9th, 1841, aged eighty-one years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.