This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Hill, Evans Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/3924/mb.ashx Message Board Post: At the May election, 1850, my sons Samuel and Thomas, the one in his 19th and the other in his 17th year, were by themselves in Lancaster. About 3 o'clock in the evening they went from Kincaid's store to a saddler's shop, to get a new saddle they had bought, and from there to go home. Samuel walked across the square, and went above stairs into the shop to get the saddle. Thomas rode his own horse and led his brother's across. Just as he alighted from his horse to receive the saddle when his brother should bring it down out of the shop, Isaiah Hill saw him and made toward him at the same time drawing his pistol, Thomas drew his pistol, and two of the Hills fired at the same time. Isaiah and Russell Hill caught him and cut him down with a bowie knife, and, while they were cutting at him as he lay at the foot of the stairs, Samuel came down and commenced firing at them. In the meantime, some fifteen or twenty of the Hill party closed in on Thomas as he lay weltering in hi! s blood, and were also engaged in firing up the stairway at Samuel. After four of the Hills had been shot and dangerously wounded, the rest left and got their rifles, which they had brought with them and deposited in different points in town, and on their return, it was with difficulty they could be kept from shooting Thomas, who, everybody that witnessed the scene, believed already dead. He was taken from the square, and here the encounter ended. It is proper to remark my sons were under bonds to keep the peace at the time, and had been bound over by the Hills sometime before. As soon as I was assured that I would not be murdered by the Hills while in custody of the law and in despite of its officers, I surrendered myself up to justice, was tried, and unhesitantly acquited by my peers of any blame for the killing of Jesse Hill. At the next circuit court, the grand jury returned indictments against nearly all the Hills for their assault on me and the attempt to murder my sons. None of my family or myself were indicted, not withstanding the Hills went before the grand jury and testified against me. The foregoing statemtn contains substantially the facts elicited on my trial and the investigation before the grand jury. They were taken down by a skillful and faithful hand under the direction of the court, and read and signed by the witnesses and are now on file in the office. I leave a just and enlightened public to form their own opinion, which they could not have done with any degree of correctness from the imperfect statement of your Boyle correspondent. H. Evins Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.