Incidents Attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston of Virginia.; Reprinted from the original, with introduction and notes

by Edwin Erle Sparks by Charles Johnston

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First edition

Cleveland, OH : Burrows Brothers, 1905. First edition thus, 1/267 copies, in the publisher's Narratives of Captivity series first published New York, 1827 . 8vo. 156 pp. Frontispiece map, facsimile title page. Johnston was taken prisoner by Indians on the Ohio River in 1790, along with four companions, one of whom was burned at the stake; he was eventually ransomed and made his way back home to Virginia by way of the Great Lakes and the Hudson River. Howes

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