Friend Cathie Schoppenhorst of Marthasville, Missouri sent me copies of Stephen Hempstead’s interview with Lyman Draper in 1814 when in Boone’s Lick Country, Missouri recalling Indian Phillips. As I compiled La Charrette it was not possible to include every detail on each topic or individual. Yet I became facinated with the elusive Phillips. I’ll be posting several items about him, when he and friend Daniel Boone roamed the environs shown on Margy Mile’s web page at http://www.mpcps.org/boone/missouri/marthasville/main.shtml  Here is the first installment:

Indian Phillips was a tall spare man - was at one time with the Shawnees; It was said he was with the Marauders who invester the Ohio River [about 1790] & decoyed boats ashore; it was said too, that he whipped Simon Kenton, when a pioneer in 1778 with the Shawnees with his ramrod, & in Missouri (probably when Kenton was in ‘Boone’ county) the whites would scare him by saying Kenton was coming to kill him. Don’t know what became of him. He was apparently 50 years old or more in 1814.  

Notes transcribed from page 130, under heading “Indian Phillips - Boone’s Lick Country - 1814.”