From: "Faith Keahey" <keahey@cyberhighway.net> To: LONGHUNTERS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:58:36 -0600 Sontent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Of a Monday morning, several cabins outside the fort, Jonathan Zane among them. The first notice of Indians, Dr. McMahon intended to move away, some alarmed. Lt Sam Johnson was applied to for two soldiers to go out and hunt his (McMahon's) horses. John Boyd and one Greathouse went out on the hillside. They were fired on. Boyd was killed and scalped, and Greathouse escaped to the fort. Perhaps a Negro may have been along. Still thinking it was only a scouting party, Tomlinson and all that could turned out. Greathouse went along to show where Boyd was. They found his body. They kept along the Indian trail, untill around the hill, where the Indians were secreted. They rose around them and killed 15 men, Lt. Tomlinson among them. Capt Mason was wounded. Capt Ogle hid in the fence corner, and wounded, and got in during the night. This fight was early in the morning. One Harkness fled to Shepherd's Run, then the siege commenced. The people fled from their cabins outside, leaving everything. They surrounded the fort and commenced firing on the fort. Col Shepherd brought his family in the day before. In the afternoon, Francis Duke came along alone on horseback, and came near, when he found his way surrounded. He put his horse to the speed, and was shot, but he fell so near the fort that they did not get his scalp until evening. He dragged his body into a cabin. Capt Ogle got to Wheeling with his company the day before the siege. In the fight he got wounded and hid in the fence corner, and the 2d day was discovered and taken in. Capt Mason got his thigh broke. Lt Sam Tomlinson and 14 others were killed in the fight. William Shepherd, son of Col David Shepherd, was one, and left a wife and child. John Harkness escaped to Shepherd's Fort. Elizabeth Zane carried powder - an the balls kicked up the dust around her. She was a cheerful, and fearless girl, full of joy. She was at Ebenezer Zane's, outside the fort, and she went and got powder. She went to the fort, to the small gate on the creek end. John McCulloch came and he was chased. No relief party of Col Swearingen or anyone else the first siege. In the evening, the Indians fired the cabins. They fired on the fort all night, and next morning, by daylight, they went off. It was allowed that Indians were killed, but none were found. Not over 10 or 15 fighting men were left after mason's and Ogle's men were defeated. A few men brought in Boyd's body, while others went on and were attacked. The next day the dead were buried. No British recollected at first siege. Foremen's Defeat Foreman's and Linn's companies came. Next day they went down to see of there was any sign of Indians at Grave Creek, where there was a deserted blockhouse. 46 turned out to go. They camped, and next morning Linn, Daniel McLane, and a few others went up the hill, the others marching in Indian file. The Indians had made blinds and were under the river bank, etc., and when the whites were opposite, Foreman, at the head of the file, was the first shot down. The others stopped suddenly, and were fired on and shot down. McLane said he ran part way down the hill. He said he heard tomahawks as if Indians were cutting up beef. In the afternoon, a fugitive with his gun, but without his hat, gave the first mournful intelligence of the defeat, not knowing of any other beside himself who had escaped. Others returned that night, and kept dropping in. Next day a party turned out to bury the dead. Second Siege of Wheeling With Ebenezer Zane was George Green, Andrew Scott, and young Bob Scott. Molly Scott loaded guns for them. Old Sam in the kitchen was slightly wounded. Capt Pratt and 40 British were present. Jonathan Zane did speak to Capt Pratt, in the upper river corner bastion. Jonathan Zane was asked if he had not a brother among the Indians. Yes, said Zane, and tell him all his brothers here are able, ready and willing to fight. The Indians were under the bank. They threw gravel over into the fort. They throwed stones over. We had water heated to scald, in case they attempted to come in. Sullivan was wounded that night. We fired grape-shots at Rigger's (Reagan's) house and drove out the Indians. Next morning a Negro came in handcuffed. Wheat stood sentry over him with a tomahawk. The women stood their tour a part of the day, giving the men a chance to sleep. The wooden cannon was fired in the evening of the second day, it was made of sugar-tree maple. The 2d night the attack was brisk until day-break. They left in the morning. The relief arrived under Capt Williamson, of 40 men from Washington, PA, shortly after the Indians left. Other Information Silas Zane and George Green - Zane took goods to trade with the Indians, they sold out and on return, were both waylaid and killed in the Indian Country. Lewis Wetzel and another (perhaps young Boggs) tomahawked Kill Buck. lewis and Jacob were suspected, and thumbscrewed in a vise, but would not divulge any knowledge. The Indian was placed in his blanket and sunk in the river. She thinks it was after George Wetzel had been killed. THE END ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.