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nearly struck together, ere they fired. The guns went off almost on the same instant.Vann's horse gave a slight dodge, and the charge scratched out grazed Vann as it passed. Falling dropped dead. This event occurred in 1807. It caused much excitement and it was thought prudent that VAnn should not be seen until the excitement could have time to cool.

       Until 1809, he was not word scratched out seen again in the nation. That year he made his appearance, very unexpectedly, at the unclear relation & my informant house of Major Waters. He was accounted as heretofore: a double pair of pistols, a rifle scribble a dirk: he had a black slave with him, armed in the same way.
      At this time there were loud complaints of the depredations committed in the nation by horse thieves, white and red, as well as other negroes, emanating from the whites upon the border. James Vann gathered some followers and paraded the country to punish the aggressors. They caught & flogged several of each complexion. Vann was not returning words scratched out from his judicial & patriotic expedition; and at Buffington's, on the Etewee Tryh Tower, he stopped to wind up his