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Description Giclee Info   This image first appeared on the cover of ''Muzzleloader Magazine's'' Sept./Oct. 2006 issue.   Features... Blue Jacket, Warchief of the Shawnee Nation, led a small group of warriors into Kentucky to strike against settlers at Strode’s Station and McGee’s Station. The party stole approximately twenty horses and headed for the Ohio River. Men from the two stations, under Captain John McIntyre pursued the Indians and crossed the Licking River near the mouth of Fox Creek. One of the men in this party was Thomas Jones, who is the inspiration for the painting "Frontier Life". It was wet and raining, and many of McIntyre’s troops were drinking whiskey. After a considerable trek, they came upon fresh tracks and saw smoke just ahead. The stolen horses became spooked and alerted the Indians of the approaching white men. David Hood and Joseph Hughes chased after an Indian, who took off running down a stream. The whites found all their stolen horses, as well as eight or ten others belonging to the Indians. Hughes and Hood captured the Indian they were chasing. Their catch was Blue Jacket himself. They returned to the white’s camp with their prisoner. The men were drunk, and most of them wanted to kill Blue Jacket. No one had the heart, however, to murder him in cold blood, because he had been instrumental in arranging a prisoner exchange during the previous war. One member of the group, James Beath, approached Blue Jacket and struck him so hard with his musket that it knocked six rings off the chieftain’s ear. John Hawks picked these rings up and kept them. The men were wet and drunk, and were uncertain of the name of the creek along which they had camped. Blue Jacket knew that it was Cabin Creek, and he told the whites he could lead them to Daniel Boone’s cabin at Limestone. They were very drunk, and were excited over the recovery of their horses. The men finally agreed to Blue Jacket’s proposition. He guided them to Limestone and they spent the night. During the trek southward back to Strode’s Station, the party made stops at several cabins to show off their important prisoner to the settlers. On Stoner Creek, they stopped to spend the night at a new cabin. The men got drunk again that night. When they awakened at daybreak, they discovered that Blue Jacket had escaped. The “Draper Manuscript” – 12CC233, quotes Thomas Jones as follows; “A young man who afterwards came away (escaped from the Shawnee villages) was at the town when Blue Jacket arrived back. He came in naked, greatly torn and bruised. He lost his leggings and coat (running through the bushes, they were found by some pursuing (him). Blue Jacket told the young men never to go there (Strode’s) any more to steal horses, for they would be sure to catch them.” Thomas Jones died in Mason County, Kentucky, and his estate was appraised on June 18th, 1791. It’s not often we get such insight as to what a pioneer actually accumulated during his life on the frontier. An inventory and or appraisement of the estate of Thomas Jones deceased as follows to wit: Pounds Shillings Pence A roan horse 18 a feather bed 3-10.. ..................................................................21.....10 Silver watch 60 Rifle gun 100 Smoothbore 12.......................................................18.....12 Vest & breeches 22/6 a pair of breeches 28 ..........................................................2.....10.......6 Vest pattern 9 overall vest & one yard of watered worsted 11..................................1 Two hunting shirts 9 two pair trousers 2 pair of breeches 2 .....................................0......13.......0 Two grass scythes 9 pocketbook Testament and a looking glass 3 ...........................0......12.......0 Old felt hat 4 breech cloth & leggings 3 iron candlestick 1/6.....................................0........8.......6 7 pewter platters 14 six pewter plates 15 3 pewter basins 12...................................2........1.......0 4 tin cups & one quart mug 1/6 a razor 1...............................................................0........2.......6 3 knives and seven forks 2/6 washing tub 3...........................................................0........5.......6 Hammer 1 Keg 2 dung and pitchforks 5.................................................................0........8.......0 Pair iron traces 5 toung chain of wagon 4..............................................................0........9.......0 Hand saw and drawing knife 5 grid iron 5..............................................................0......10.......0 Shovel plow 2/6 4 Hock buckles 1 iron pot ľ.........................................................0........6.....10 Dutch oven 12 iron pot 17 four chest 3 blankets 6..................................................1......18......4 Appraised by: Phillip Drake George Wood John Wilson Author’s notes 20 shillings equaled 1 pound

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