Word: brantz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia. In them he criticized the white settlers for their inhuman treatment of Indians and he used as an illustration the alleged murder of a friendly Indian family by Captain Michael Cresap. That charge has been answered time and again. First by John Jacobs in 1820, second by Brantz Mayer, a Baltimore lawyer, in 1851, and finally by Professor James A. James, of Northwestern University, in his life of George Rogers Clark. Dr. James discovered that George Rogers Clark and Captain Cresap were together on the Ohio River many miles away from the scene of the tragedy...
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