Chapter 128

expedition of, against the Indians on the Scioto, in 1774, i. 472; willingness of, to make peace, i. 473; suspicions excited against, by his conduct of the campaign, i. 474; powder of the province seized by, i. 517; flight of, from Williamsburg, i. 520; enmity of, toward the colonists, ii. 21; defeat of the forces sent by, to destroy Hampton, ii. 22; freedom proclaimed by, to slaves--republican printing-press, stolen by, from Norfolk, ii. 23; defeat of, by the Virginians, near Norfolk, ii. 24; Norfolk laid in ashes by, ii. 25; atrocious plans of, discovered by means of an intercepted letter,