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/760.2 Message Board Post: Here is what I've found on it... As recorded by tombstone in Whiteley Chapel Cemetery. (Nannie Fordyce informs the Bible record gives 1765 as the date of his birth). John Fordyce (#10) b. Sept. 17, 1775 at Morris Cty., N.J. m. Elizabeth Gerard, d/o Justus and Rachal Corbly Gerard, d/o John Corbly, a preacher b. ? 25, 1733 and emigrated to Va. and from there to western Pa. There is a story about John Corbly when, as a preacher, on the way to church at the Fort one Sunday, noticed they had forgotten his Bible. "Since they were near to the Fort, Eliz. and the children continued on their way while Rev. Corbly returned home to get the Bible. In his absence his wife and children were attacked by a small band of Indians. The son who had been in the lead of the little group started running towards the fort for help. The Indian braves tried to catch him but his dog turned on them and forced them back. Eliz. was killed and scalped and the little daughter she carried in her arms was also murdered. One of the twin daughters hid herself in a hollow tree. The other was scalped and left for dead. The little girl in hiding, thinking the indians had left! , came out into the opening where she was attacked and scalped by an indian and left for dead. Rev. Corbly arrived at the scend a few moments before the men from the fort. He was unarmed and tried to find a piece of wood to use against the attackers. Before he was able to find anything, as it all happened so fast two indians saw him and he was forced to flee towards the fort, where he ran into the party his small son had brought. The indians were driven off, and they retrieved the body of Eliz., she had been thrown across the back of an indian's horse and her shirt had been ripped from her dress.