New England Palladium

Boston, Massachusetts

October 15, 1805

MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY

DARING OUTRAGE!

NATCHEZ, SEPT. 6.

    We are informed by a gentleman from the neighborhood of Pinckneyville, that a party of armed Spaniards (number not known) entered that place, late on Monday evening last, and forcibly seized and carried off Messrs. Reuben and Samuel Kemper. - When our informant left home he understood that Col. Baker was employed taking depositions respect this event , for the information of the executive.

    An agent of Mr. Edward Randolph's, who kept a store, at the mouth of Rayan Sarah, has been also driven from thence at an hour's notice.

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