Here is some info from Volume II The Pioneers-MONONGALIA STORY Zechariah Piles pg 29 This is about the battle of Dolls Run....Eighteen settlers were killed and scalped by the Indians, making the battle the most sanguinary ever fought on Monongalia County soil. Among those killed were Joseph Wade, Jacob Statler, Michael Kidlinger, James Piles, John McDaniels, and John Core. Names of the others are unknown. Zechariah Piles son of James with an arrow in his heel, escaped on horseback. pg 73 Zacariah Piles, heir at law of James Piles, 400 acres on Hurst Run, a branch of Dunkard Creek, at a place called the Pedlars camp. Hurst Run is now called Dolls Run. The "Pedlars camp" is on Pedlar Run, a branch of Dolls Run. pg 392 This is about overseers of road repair from early court records: October 1 1806. " I John Statler doe state by this I have sarved two yeare as overseer of the rode and I pray the Corte to put Zacharyah Pilese or Jacob Myers." pg 418 This is about building Gristmills. "Upon the oaths of George Snider, William Willey, Samuel Lemley, Zechariah Piles, John Stradler, Abraham Shriver, Patrick Kelley, Christopher Core, John Launce, Peter Hinkins, Andrew Corbley, and Richard Chew, good and lawful men of the county aforesaid, who being sworn and charged to enquire whether building a dam across Dunkard Creek on the land the said Adam Brown(who owns the lands on both sides of the said creek) for the purpose of erecting a grist mill thereon will cause the lands of any other person to be overflowed, whether the mansion-house, offices, curtilage, garden or orchard of any person will be overflowed. This was sent to me by a friend on one of the WVA lists. Sara