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THBExtraordinary Quarter Plate Tintype of Jesse Gray, Noted Indiana Frontiersman, Indian Fighter, and War of 1812 Veteran
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LiveNov 17, 2017 - Nov 18, 2017
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Quarter plate tintype of Jesse Gray (1789-1871), dressed in hunting gear and posed with flintlock-to-percussion conversion rifle, spike tomahawk, and 10+ point rack, and wearing a powder horn and other hunting accoutrements.
Born in Newberry, South Carolina, in 1789, Jesse Gray moved with his family to the Indiana frontier as a child, where they made sugar which they traded with the pioneer and native populations. When he was around 20 years old and living in what is today Wayne County, just west of the Ohio border, he went out on a routine hunting trip and returned to find his entire family slaughtered and their home in flames. He conducted his own investigation and, with the help of friendly Indians, determined a roving band of six Miami Indians to be responsible. Over the next several years, though interrupted by Gray's volunteer service in the First Kentucky Infantry under the command of Old Tippecanoe in the War of 1812, all six were found dead, and in 1824 Gray tracked down the man who tipped off the Miami band and executed him as well. He was indicted for the final murder and forced to move across the border into Ohio, but serious attempts were made to bring him to trial due to respect for Gray and the locals' hatred of all the deceased. He lived the rest of his years relatively quietly but with a reputation as one of the most skillful trappers and fearless hunters in the region until his death in 1871.
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