This item below was on the "Indian Captives" mail list recently. Since KY was still part of VA at that time (I think) I wonder if this is speaking of the same Rev. John Craig so well known in Mercer Co History? > A. William DAUGHERTY > > <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Emadgenealogist/ > DaughertyMichaelM-sonWm.html> > the blacksmith was born circa 1712? at Muff, Inishowen, > Donegal, Ireland. He married Elizabeth BUNCH circa 1732? at > PA? > Three of his children were baptized by the Rev. John Craig > in 1749 at Augusta Co., VA. > He was officially granted the land > on Cowpasture River on 3 Nov 1750 at Botetourt Co., VA. > Neither he nor Charles Dougherty over on Kerr Creek could be > served summonses because the Indians were so bad. A series of > forts was built the following year, but the Indians continued > to raid, and William's neighbor Archibald Clendenning, Jr., > was killed by them in 1761 in 1755. His wife Elizabeth was a > heroine in the terrible raid by Cornstalk; the Shawnees were > seen from Fort Young on Jackson River and an express was sent > to William Dougherty's, but he was away from home and > Elizabeth mounted and raced up the Cowpasture valley warning > settlers, who fled to the mountains before the Indians > arrived. The settlers of Kerr Creek were less fortunate and > Charles Dougherty, among others, was killed 17 Jul 1763 in > 1763 at VA. He died on 6 Jul 1773 at Montgomery Co., VA. Hugs, Carolyn Remember, you have a friend in Oklahoma! http://homepage.mac.com/carolynleonard