In May 1794 I again entered the service in a company of Spies of sixty it called out by Col. Butler under the immediate command of Captain WILLIAM WELLS., Lieutenant Robert McClelland and myself as ensign. We started from Louisville without any field officers with us crossed the Ohio just below the falls, and the two white rivers and on to Vincennes where we found Col. Butler with as was said from 12 to 15 hundred regulars. We arrived at Vincennes the evening staid three nights & two days & started out as a spy expedition with only our company. We proceeded a northwest direction & fell in with no indians until we got near the old Shawnee town on the waters of the Maumee where we took three squaws & an indian boy about 15 years old. One of the squaws having an infant was turned loose with a message to the indians from WILLIAM WELLS the captain to come in and make 'Peace, the other two squaws and the boy we took back to Vincennes. We remained in Vincennes about-, 5 days and started out on another spie expedition again taking a northwestern direction but lower down the river. We first came to deserted Delaware vilage & proceed on to the second Delaware village where we met with five indian men & succeeded in making a prisoner of one the others escaping. With this indian we proceeded to Cincinnati and gave him up to some regulars under whose command I do not now recollect if I then knew. From Cincinnati all the company returned to Louisville except Captain WELLS who remained and I understood to go with a flag to the indians, he having been a prisoner of the Delawares when a youth and speaking the indian language. I reached home in the month of August having been engaged in this expedition three months and some days but the number I cant state. In the month of July 1795 our spie company was again called into service but whether by an order from Col. Butler or General Wayne I cannot now state. We started from Louisville on the 10th day of July 1795 with the same officers and privates in the company as the year before except one private whose place was supplied by another. We crossed the Ohio below the falls & took the nearst rout to the Shawnee towns on the Maumee under the guidance of WM. WELLS & McClelland who best knew the woods & who had both been prisoners of the indians. When we had passed three deserted villages we came across three squaws & two indian boys whom we made prisoners & took into Cincinnati. We gave them up to the regulars & in about three days returned into the same indian settlement & succeeded in taking two squaws , 4 boys and took them likewise to Cincinnati & gave them up, remained about three days & started out again to the waters of the Maumee & caught two indian boys on our return from this trip we came across five tents full of indian warriors supposed to be between

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