"The Attack on Vause's Fort" June 25, 1756 Upper Roanoke Valley, VA "According to Preston's Register, those killed, wounded or taken prisoners at Vause's Fort were: Capt. John Smith, prisoner, returned; Peter Looney, prisoner, escaped; William Bratton, prisoner, returned; Joseph Smith, prisoner; William Pepper, prisoner; Mrs. Vause, her two daughters, a negro, two young Indians and a man-servant, prisoners; James Bell, prisoner; Christopher Hicks, prisoner; Benjamin Davis, prisoner; Lieut. John Smith, killed; John Tracy, killed; John English, killed; Mrs. Mary English, prisoner; William Robinson, wounded; Thomas Robinson, wounded; John Robinson, killed; John Walker, prisoner; --- Cole, prisoner; --- Graham, prisoner; "Thomas Callaway came from Hickey's Fort and found the mangled bodies lying in heaps. All of Vause's family, he thought, killed, except a daughter Levice, and two sons who had gone to mill that day. He followed the Indians over the mountains and down the Leevice Fork of Kentucky, crossing the Ohio River at Leevice Ford near Cincinnati...." pg. 232 Source: VIRGINIA FRONTIER, by F.B. Kegley, ©1938