The Farmers' Cabinet

Amherst, New Hampshire

August 11, 1803, Volume 1, Issue 40

MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY ROBBERY

Natchez, July 4 -

    A Nattrocious (sic) robbery was committed on the morning of the 23d ult., by a gang of armed bandits on a party travelling (sic) thro' the wilderness, about thirty-six miles from the Grindstone Ford.

    They attacked the travellers (sic) about an hour before day, with a discharge of 6 or 8 guns, and rushed upon them with a savage ferocity, calling out "clear the camp you d___d rascals for Mason's men."  The villains carried off about 1200 dollars in cash and bank notes, a number of saddles, bridles, and saddle-bags, with nearly all the provisions of the party: Seven of the company followed the tracks of the robbers on the following morning and came near enough to discover ten white men, all well armed, who, on observing the travellers (sic), turned upon them, and on their retiring followed some distance.  A number of citizens from the Bayoupierre (sic) settlement have armed themselves and started in pursuit of the robbers.

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