This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/760.4 Message Board Post: In the book on the Corbly Family: there are two versions of the Corbly massacre. One was written by John Corbly to Reverend William Rogers of Philadelphia, three years after the massacre. The letter was written at the request of Mr. Rogers, to whom Corbly had related the story when he made a trip to Philadeophia to get medical aid for his daughters, Delilah and Elizabeth, who survived the massacre. The other was written nearly one hundred years later (1875) by L.K. Evans. Records now show Mr. Evans did not have correct information concerning the age of Priscailla and John Corbly, Jr. who he says were children of Elizabeth Tyler Corbly. Here is the account by Mr. Rogers The massacre occurred on Sunday morning, May 10, 1782. A party of Indians were on Indian Point. an elievation of land from which they could see John Corblys cabin, the log meetinghouse which was located on the edge o fthe graveyard. and the fort which was about four hundred yard east of the meetinghouse! . Because of a rise of ground the fort was out of view of the massacre, but it was within hearing distance, for the screams of the Corbly family were heard there and in a very few minutes men on horseback rushed out fromthe fort to give help. The Corbly family had left their home and were proceeding on their way to worshiip where Mr. Corbly was to preach, when it was discovered that the Bible, which he thought was in Mrs. Corbly's care, had been left at home. He returned to get it and then followed his family, meditating upon the sermon he soon expected to preach. The Indians descended the hill, crossed Whitely creek and filed up a ravine to the palce, about forty-nine rods north of the present John Corbly Memorial Baptist Church, where the helpless family was massacred. On the second Sunday of May in the year 1782, being about to keep my appointment at one of the meeting houses, about a mile from my dewelling. I set out with my dear wife and five children for public worship. Not suspecting any danger, I walked behind with my Bible in hand, meditating. As I was thus employed, all of a sudden, I was greatly alarmed with the frighful shrieks of my dear wife before me. I immediately ran with all the spped I could, vainly hunting a club as I ran, till I got within forty rods of them, my porr wife seeing me, cried to me to make my escape, an Indian ran up to shoot me. Seeing th eodds too great agains me I fled, and by doing so outran him. My wife had sucking child in her arms, the little infant they killed and scalped. Then they sstruck my wife several times, but not getting her down, the Indian who aimed to shoot me ran to her. My little boy, an only sone, about six years old, they sand a hatchet into his brain and thus dispatched him. ! A daughter besides the infant they killed an scalped. My oldest daughter who is yet alive was hid in a tree about twenty yards from where the rest were killed, and saw the whole proceedings. She seeing all the Indans go off, as she thought got up and deliberately came out from the hollow tree, but one of them spying her ran hastily up, knocked her down and scalped her. also her only surviving sister, one on whose head they did not leave more than an inch round either flesh or skin besides taking a piece of her skull. Shea and the before-mentioned one are miraculously preserved, theough as you must think, I have had and still have good deal of trouble besides anxiety aobut them, insomuch as I am, as to worldly cicurmstances, almost ruined. Taken from the first volume of "Life and Times of Reverend John Corbly and Genealogy"