This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: House, Brinley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SFk.2ACIB/1308 Message Board Post: I just got back from St. Charles today 03-07-2002. I checked the various records there for Adam House and family. The only reference to this family was the marriage of David HIdebrand to Elizabeth Polly Houseand Isaac Hildebrand to Marguerita House. Here is a copy of a report dated March 19, 1800 which is a transalation from the original French: "I, Pierre Treget, commandant at Carondelet, pursuant to orders from Don Carlos Dehault Delassus, commandant at St. Louis, repaired to the Renault Forks, with the few militiamen I couls assemble, in pursuit of the Indians. On reaching the place, I found an old man dead, head cut off and laid at his side, scalp taken and body full of wounds from musket shots; and a few paces off, a boy eight or nine years old, head cut off and lying near him, face smeared with blood, with a small piece of maple sugar in his mouth, no wound on his body from either musket or knife; a dead cow, one horn carried off, dead calf, head cut off, beds in the house cut to pieces, utensils broken and strewed about the house. Ascertained that the murders had been committed by the Osages; buried the bodies, not known at this time. (End of exact quote) Highlights from another report: Almost a week later, on March 25, 1800 Pascal Leon Cerre, Ensign of the militia, visited the scene of the tragedy and learned that the victims were Adam House and his son, Jacob. It is believe by many people that the entire House family was wiped out. But the same entry goes on to state that another son, John, managed to escape, and that the Ensign appointed Robert Owen of Maria des Liards to be the guardian for the boy and his two sisters, Betsey and Peggy. There are some posting where I printed the research notes for Adam House to brinley.net. We upgraded Internet Servers and the forum software is not compatible with the forum thus the file is not there. If anyone needs anything on Adam House I would certainly send it, if I have it. I purchased land from the same property almost 40 years ago and lived right across the highway from the spring. Clyde Brinley