The last boat which brought immigrants to the country down the Ohio, that was known to have been attacked by the Indians, was assaulted in the spring of 1791.  This circumstance gives it a claim to be mentioned in this place.  It was commanded by Captain Hubbel, and brought immigrants from Vermont.  The whole number of men, women, and children amounted to twenty persons.  These persons had been forewarned by various circumstances that they noted, that hostile Indians were along the shore waiting to attack them.  They came up with other boats descending the river, and bound in the same direction with themselves.  They endeavored ineffectually to persuade the passengers to join them, that they might descend in the strength of numbers and union.  They continued to move down the river alone.  The first attempt upon them was a customary Indian stratagem.  A person, affecting to be a white man, hailed them, and requested them to lie by, that he might come on board.  Finding that the boat’s crew were not to be allured to the shore by this artifice, the Indians put off from the shore in three canoes, and attacked the boat.  Never was a contest of this sort maintained with more desperate bravery.  The Indians attempted to board the boat, and the inmates made use of all arms of annoyance and defence.  Captain Hubbel, although he had been severely wounded in two places, and had the cock of his gun shot off by an Indian fire, still continued to discharge his mutilated gun by a fire-brand.  After a long and desperate conflict, in which all the passengers capable of defence but four, had been wounded, the Indians paddled off their canoes to attack the boats left behind.  They were successful against the first boat they assailed.  The boat yielded to them without opposition.  They killed the Captain and a boy, and took the women on board prisoners.  Making a screen of these unfortunate women, by exposing them to the fire of Captain Hubbel’s boat, they returned to the assault.  It imposed upon him the painful alternative, either to yield to the Indians, or to fire into their canoes at the hazard of killing the women of their own people.  But the intrepid Captain remarked, that if these women escaped their fire, it would probably be to suffer a more terrible death from the savages.  He determined to keep up his fire, even on these hard conditions; and the savages were beaten off a second time.  In the course of the engagement, the boat, left to itself, had floated with the current near the north shore, where four or five hundred Indians were collected, who poured a shower of balls upon the boat.  All the inmates could do, was to avoid exposure as much as possible, and exercise their patience until the boat should float past the Indian fire.  One of the inmates of the boat, seeing, as it slowly drifted on, a fine chance for a shot at an Indian, although warned against it, could not resist the temptation of taking his chance.  He raised his head to take aim, and was instantly shot dead.  When the boat