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By \‘ Mrs. Livia Nye Simpson-Poffcnbarger

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POINT PLEASANT’ BATTLE TMONUMENT, COMMEMOR­ ATING THE FIRST BA’1‘TLEOF THE REVOLUTION, OCTOBER 10, 1774. Battle of Point Pleasant.

Andrew Lewis, who command­ er and hence granted her sons, ed the colonial troops in the Bat­ together with one Benjamin Bur­ tle of Point Pleasant, October den a land warrant for 500,000 10, 1774, was the son of John acres of land in the James and Lewis and Margaret Lvnn Lew­ Shenandoah Valleys, with the is, his wife. proviso that they were to locate John Lewis was of Scotch Irish one hundred families within ten descent, having been born in years. They induced their France, 1673, where his ances­ friends from Scotland and the tors had taken refuge from the north of Ireland, and the Scotch­ persecution following the assas­ Irish of Pennsylvania, to emi­ sination of Henry IV. He mar­ grate to Augusta County, Vir­ ried Margaret Lynn, the daugh­ ginia. In her diary, Mrs. Lewis ter of the “Laird of Loch Lynn,” says: “It sounded like the gath­ of Scotland, and emigrated to ering of the clans to hear the Ireland, thence to A In e ri c a names of these settlers viz: Mc­ in 1729,and became the founder Kees. McCues, McCampbells, of Staunton, Virginia. Here, he McC1ungs,McK0uns, Caruthers, planted a colony and reared a Stuarts. Wallaces, Lyles, Pax­ family that have given luster to tons, Prestons and Grisbys.” American History. We quote the following from Governor Gooch, of Williams­ the Ohio Archaeological and His­ burg, then the seat of Govern­ torical Quarterly, July, 1903,pp. ment of Virginia. was the per­ 288, 289, 290: sonal friend of Mrs. Lewis’ fath­ “When John Randolph said that Pennsylvania had produced Randolph possibly did not know but two great men-Benjamin that the first Declaration of In­ Franklin, of Massachusetts, and dependence by the American Albert Gallatin, of Switzerland—— patriots was issued by the mem­ - he possibly did not know that the bers of Hanover Church out best blood of his own State was there in Dauphin county, when that of the Scotch-Irish people on June 4th, 1774, they declared who went down from Pennsylva­ “that in the event Great Britain nia and settled in the Valley. attempting to force unjust laws He likely did not know that the upon us by the strength of Arms, great and good Dr. Archibald our cause we leave to heaven and Alexander, the founder of Lib­ our rifles.” This declaration erty Hall, now Washington and was certain y carried to Meek­ Lee University (so much loved lenburg to give the sturdy peo­ by Washington,) the very seat of ple of that region inspiration for culture and power of the Shen­ the strong document issued by andoah and James, the greatest them a year later, and which factor of the State’s prowess, gave Jefferson a basis for the . was a Pennsylvanian. He possi­ Declaration of 1776. There was bly did not know that Dr. Gra­ much moving from Pennsylva­ ham, the first president of this nia ‘into Virginia and North Car­ institution, was from Old Pax­ olina before the Revolution, and tang; that many of the families Hanover Presbytery in the Val­ whose names are in the pantheon ley was largely made up of peo­ of old Dominion achievement, the ple from Pennsylvania, whose - families that give Virginia her petition of ten thousand names prominence in the sisterhood of for a free church in a free land, States, had their American ori­ made in 1785, was the force back gin in Pennsy1vania—iu the of Jetferson’s bill for religious Scotch-Irish reservoir of the tolerance, a triumph for freedom Cumberland Va1ley—the Mc­ that has always been considered Bowells, the Pattersons. the a Presbyterian victory by the McCormacks. Ewings, McCor­ Scotch-Irish of America. cles, Prestons, McCunes,Craigs. We know that Dr. Sankey of McCul1oughs, Simpsons, Stew­ Hanover Church was a minister arts, Moflats, Irwins, Hunters, in Hanover Presbytery, and that Blairs, Elders, Grahams, Fin­ he was followed into Virginia by leys, Trimbles, Rankins, and large numbers of the Hanover hundreds of others, whose congregation, who kept up a con­ achievements mark the pathway stant stream into the Valley. _By of the world’s progress. John’ the way, two settlements were made by this congregation in them, within the dark Wilderness Ohio. Col. Rogers, Gov. Bush­ of forest, when all hope of rescue nel’s secretary, derives his de­ seemed forbidden; undaunted scent from them. The popula­ by the fiendish revelings of their tion of North Carolina at the out­ savage captors, they sang aloud break of the Revolution was with the most pious ferver— largely made up of Scotch-Irish “On Babel’s stream we sat and wept when Zion we thought on, immigrants from Pennsylvania In midst thereof we hanged our harps the and the Virginia Valley who had willow trees among. For thenasong required they whodid us a public schoolsystem before the captive bring, war. These were the people Our spoilers called rormirth and said, a. who stood with the Rev. David song of Zion sing.“ Caldwell on the banks of the Al­ It was this blood ' that fought amance May 16th, 1771, and re­ the battle of King’s Mountain, ceived the first volley of shot which victory gave. the patriots fired in the contest for independ­ the courage that is always in ence- This same blood coursed hope; it was the winning force at the veins of the patriot army Cowpens, at Guilford, where with Lewis at Point Pleasant. the Rev. Samuel Houston discharged first battle of the Revolutionary his rifle fourteen times, once for War. fought October 10,1774, each ten minutes of the battle. Lord Dunmore having no doubt These brave hearts were in every planned the attack by the Indians battle of the Revolution, from to discourage the Americans Point Pleasant in 1774to the vic­ from further agitation of the then tory of Wayne at the Maumee pending demand for fair treat­ Rapids twenty years later, for ment of the American Colonies the War of Independence con­ at the hands of Great Britian. tinued in the Ohio Country after It was this blood that coursed the treaty of peace. And yet, the veins of those courageous after all this awful struggle to people who, having survived the gain and hold for America the Kerr’s creek ‘massacre, were very heart of the Republic, one ‘car/ried toia Shawnee village in of the gentlemen referred to by Ohio, and on being bantered to Mr. Randolph wrote pamphlets sing by the Indians in their cruel in which he derided as murder­ sport, sang Rouse’s version of ers the courageous settlers of one of the Psalms. “Unappalled our blood on the occasions they by the bloody scene,” says the felt it necessary to “remove” In­ Augusta historian, “through dians with their long rifles. Af­ which they had already passed, ter all the struggle, he too would and the fearful tortures awaiting have made an arrangement with England by which the Ohio river and colonization, new lands for ' would have been the boundary their children, and on the other line.” ' wrought out their national inde­ These were the people who in pendence of the British King.” , coming to America had not only Kercheval’s History of the secured for themselves that per­ Valley, p. 120, says: “Be it re­ sonal religious freedom of a membered, then, that this Indian church without a Bishop and ul­ war was but a portico to our rev­ timately a state without a King, olutionary war, the fuel for which but they became recruits in the was then preparing, and which Army ofAndrew Lewis, the hero burst into a flame, the ensuing of the Battle of Point Pleasant, year. Neither let us forget that and like many of their country­ the Earle of Dunmore was at this men, continued in the army, time governor of Virginia; and (those who had not met the fate that he was acquainted with the of battle,) and became the flower views and designs of the British of Virginia’s Colonial Army. Cabinet, can scarcely be doubted. What then, suppose ye, would be The Status of the Battle of Point the conduct of a man possessing Pleasant. his means, filling a High, official While the Battle of Point Pleas­ station, attached to the British _ant has always been conceded to government, and master of con­ have been the most terrific con­ sumate diplomatic skill.” flict ever waged between the Dr. John P. Hale, in writing of White man and the Indian, its full the Battle of Point Pleasant. significance has not been made says, in the Historv of the Great the text of American history. Kanawha Valley, Vol. I, pp. 114, We quote however, from a few 115.“Early in the spring of 1774, of the American writers, ‘show­ it was evident that the Indians ing their estimate of it. were combining for aggressive Roosevelt, ‘in “The Winning of action. * * * It was decided the West,” Vol. II, chap. 2, says: that an army of two divisions “Lord .Dunmore’s War, waged should be organized .as speedily by Americans for the good of as practicable—one to be com­ America, was the opening act in manded by Gen. Lewis, and the the drama whereof the closing other by Lord Dunmore, in per­ scene was played at Yorktown. son. * * * Gen. Lewis’army It made possible the two fold rendezvoused at Camp Union character of the Revolutionary (Lewisburg,) about September War, wherein on the one hand 1st, and was to March‘from there the Americans won by conquest to the mouth of Kanawha; while :»;.:.~.,-.«..'.2v..4 5

Gov. Dunmore was to go the rent version of matters: but an­ northwest route, over the Brad­ thorities differ. dock trail, by way of Fort Pitt, Some say the messenger ar­ and thenceidown the Ohio river rived on the night of the 19th, and form a junction with Gen. tafter the battle was fought; Lewis at the mouth of Kanawha.‘ others say they did not arrive * ’*‘Theaggregate until the 11th, the day after the strength of this southern divi­ battle. and Col. Andrew Lewis, son of Gen. Andrew Lewis, says sion of the army was about elev­ his father received no communi­ ” en hundred; the strength of the cation whatever from Lord Dun­ northern division, under Lord Dunmore, was about fifteen hun­ more after he (Lewis) left camp Union, until after the battle had dred. On the 11th of September beenfought, and Lewis of his Gen. Lewis broke camp, and, with Captain Matthew Arbuckle. own motion, had gone on into an intelligent and experienced Ohio, expecting to join Dunmore frontiersman, as pilot, marched and punish the Indians. when he through a pathless wilderness. received an order to stop and re­ They reached Point Pleasant on turn to the Point. This order the 30th day of September, after (by messenger) Lewis disre­ a ‘fatigueing march of nineteen garded, when Lord Dunmore days. Gen. Lewis for several came in ‘person, and after a con­ days anxiously awaited the arri­ ference and assurances from Dunmore that he was about val ot Lord Dunmore, who, by appointment, was to have joined negotiating a :peace, Lewis re­ him here on the 2nd of October. luctantly retraced his steps. In Having no intelligence from him, the very excited state of feeling Lewis dispatched messengers then existing between the col­ up the Ohio river to meet him, onies and the mother country, It or learn what had become of was but natural that the sympa­ him. thies of Lord Dunmore, a titled English nobleman, and holding ‘Beforehis messengers return­ his commission as governor of ed, however three messengers Virginia at the pleasure of the (probably McCul1och, Kenton crown, should be with his own and Girty) arrived at his camp country; but it was not only on Sunday, the 9th of October, strongly suspected, but general­ with orders from Lord Dunmore ly charged, that, while he was to cross the river and meet him yet’ acting as governor of Vir­ before the Indian towns in Ohio. ginia, and before he had declar­ This is, substantially, the cur­ ed himself against the colonies, 6

he was unfairly using his posi­ reported, was himself in the tion 'and influence to the pre­ field, but a few miles distant, judice of his subjects. * “‘ * and Gen. Lewis was expecting According to the account of Col. that the two divisions of the Stewart, when the interview was army would be united withina over between Gen. Lewis and few days; and, in the third place, the messengers of Lord Dun­ the “strained relations” between more, on the 9th, Lewis gave or­ the colonies and theimother ders to break camp at an early country were such, and the re­ hour next morning, cross the cent action of Gov. Dunmore so river, and take’ up their march ambiguous, that Gen. Lewis was towards the Indian towns; but probably not inclined to report. the fates had decreed otherwise. to him at all." At the hour for starting,’ they found themselves confronted by * :11’ * :;< an army of Indian braves, eight The same author, in the same hundred to one thousand strong, volume, at pages 122,128,129, ­ in their war paint, and com­ 130, 131 and 132, says: “Col-. A manded by their able and trust­ Stewart, one of the first to write »ed leaders, Cornstalk, Logan, about the battle, after Arbucl;le’s Red Hawk, Blue Jacket and short account, was himself pres­ Elinipsico, and some authors ent, was well known to Gen. mention two or three others. Lewis (and a relative by mar­ Instead of a hard day’s march­ riage), says Gen. Lewis received ing, Lewis army had aharder a message from Gov. Dunmore, day’s fighting—-—the important, on the 9th, telling him to cross ' desperately contested, finally the Ohio and join him. Burk,

«‘.-.-u. victorious, and ever-memorable and ._others, say the messengers battle of Point Pleasant. No came after the battle, and men­ “oficial report" of this battle tion Simon Kenton and Simon has been preserved, or was ever Girty among the messengers. written. so far as can be learned. Col. Andrew Lewis says his There are several good .-reasons, father received no communica­ apparently, for this omission. tion of any sort from Gov. Dun­ In the first place, the time, place more, until ordered to return and circumstances were not fa­ from Ohio. "‘ * * It has“ vorable for preparing a formal been stated that there were not official report. In the second only suspicions, but grave place, Lord Dunmore, the sup­ charges, that Governor Dunmore erior oflficer, to whom Gen. acted a double part, and that he Lewis should, ordinarily, have was untrue and treacherous to 7

the interests of the colony he of western white encroachments governed. As he is inseparably upon their hunting grounds, and connected with the campaign prepare the wayfor getting their (often called the Dunmore War), co-operationwith England and its accompanying history, againt the colonies, when the and the inauguration of the Rev­ rupture should come. In De­ olution, it may be well to briefly cember, 1773, the famous “cold­ allude to his offlcial course just water tea” was made in Boston before, during and after the harbor. In retaliation the Eng­ campaign that his true relations lish government blockaded the to it, and to the colony, may be port of.boston, and moved the understood; and. also, to show capital of the colony to Salem. that the “Revolution” was really When this news came, in 1774, in progress; that this campaign the Virginia assembly, being in was one of the important early session, passed resolutions of moves on the historical chess­ sympathy with Massachusetts, board, and that the battle of and strong disapproval of the Point Pleasant was, as generally course of England; whereupon claimed, the initiatory battle of Governor Dunmore peremptori­ the great drama. In the sum­ ly dissolved the assembly. {"3 mer of 1773.Governor Dunmore They met privately, opened cor­ made, ostensibly, a pleasure trip respondence with the other col­ to Fort Pitt; here he establish­ onies, and proposed co-operation ed close relations with Dr. Con­ and a colonial congress. On the ’ nally, making him Indian agent,‘ 4th of September, 1774, met, in land agent, etc. Connally was an Philadelphia, the first continen- ­ able active and efficient man, tal congress—Peyton Randolph, who thereafter adhered to Dun- Vof Virginia, president; George more and the English cause. It Washington, R. H. Lee, Richard is charged that Connally at once Bland, Patrick Henry, Benjamin began fomenting trouble and ill­ Harrison and Edmund Pendle­ feeling between the colonies of ton members from Virginia. Virginia and Pennsylvania in re­ They passed strong resolutions; gard to the westernifrontier of among others; to resist taxation Pennsylvania, then claimed by and other obnoxious measures; both colonies, but held by Vir­ to raise minute men to forcibly ginia, hoping by such course to resist coercion; and, finally resol­ prevent the friendly co-operation ved to cease all official inter­ of these colonies against Eng­ course with the English govern­ lish designs; and, also to incite ment. In the meantime, Dr. the Indian tribes to resistance Connally had been carrying out 8

the programme of the northwest. mouth of Kanawha, as had been He had taken possession of the arranged, but which was proba­ fort at Fort Pitt, and renamed bly not intended, he struck off it Fort Dunmore; was claiming from the Ohio river at the mouth lands under patents from Gov­ of Hockhocking and marched for ernor Dunmore. and making set­ ' the Indian towns on the Picka­ tlements on them; had been him­ way plains, without the support self arrested and imprisoned for of Lewis army, delaying long a time by Pennsylvania; had the enough for the Indians to have Indian tribes highly excited, annihilated Lewis division if united in a strong Confederacy events had turned out as Corn­ and threatened war; then came stalked had planned. He (Corn­ the massacre of Indians above stalk) said it was first their in­ Wheeling, at Capitina and at Yel­ tention to attack the “Long low creek, said to have grown Knives” and destroy them, as out of Connally’s orders. While they crossed the river, and this the continental congress was plan would have been carried passing the resolutions above out. or attempted, but for the mentioned, and which created a long delay of Lewis’ awaiting 7.9 breach between the colonies and the arrival of Lord Dunmore. _the mother country past healing, They afterwards, upon consulta­ Governor Dunmore and General tions, changed their plans, and Lewis were organizing and determined to let Lewis cross marching their armies to the the river and then ambush him west. Instead of uniting the somewhere near their own ~ forces into one army, and march­ homes, and farther from his ing straight to the Indian towns (Lewis‘) base; but the Indians and conquering or dictating a had no organized Commissary or lasting peace, Lord Dunmore . transportation a r r a n g ements, took the larger portion of the and could only transport such army by a long detour by Fort amount of food as each brave Pitt, and thence down the Ohio, could carry for his own susten­ picking up on the way Dr. Con­ ance;' this was necessarily, aj1im­ nally and Simon Girty, whom he ited amount, and Lewis’ delay Amade useful. At Fort Pitt, it in crossing had run their rations is said, he had held a conference so short that they were obliged with some of the Indian chiefs, to cross, themselves, and force and came to some understanding a fight. or break camp and go to with them, the particulars of hunting food. They crossed in which are not known. Instead the night, about three miles of uniting with Lewis at the Vabove the Point, on rafts previ­

gm-,..---,.w-m~...-_...«,.,....w..,.,.._....=.--—.... . "ously constructed, and expected straight from there to the Point, to take Lewis’ army by surprise; and some of them went to con­ and it will be seen how near they fer with Lord Dunmore immedi­ came to accomplishing it. It ately after the battle.’ It is also was prevented by the accident of said that Lord Dunmore, in con­ the early hunters, who were out versation with Dr. Connally, and before daylight, in violation of others, on the 10th, the day of orders. the battle, remarked that “Lewis Dr. Campbell says there was is probably having hot work c 0 n s i d e r a b l e dissatisfaction about this time.” in Lewis camp, for so m e When Lewis had crossed the days before the battle growing river, after the battle, and was out of the manner of serving the marching‘ to join Dunmore, a rations, and especially the beef messenger was dispatched to rations; the men claimed that him twice in one day, ordering the good and bad beef were not him to stop and retrace his dealt out impartially. On the steps—the messenger in each 9th, Gen. Lewis ordered that the instance, being‘ the afterward poorest beeves be killed first, notorious Simon Girty. Gen. and distributed to all alike. The Lewis had, very naturally, be­ beef was so poor that the men come much incensed at the con­ were unwilling to eat it, and, al­ duct of Lord Dunmore, and took though it was positively against the high-handed responsibi1ity— orders to leave camp without advised and sanctioned by' his permission. about one hundred officers and men—of disobeying men started out before day, next the order of his superior in com­ morning (the 10th), in different mand, and boldly marching on directions, to hunt and provide towards his camp. When with­ their own meat. Many of these in about two and one-half miles of did not get back, nor know of the Lord Dunmore’s headquarters, battle until night, when it, was which he called Camp Charlotte, all over. This was a serious re­ after Queen Charlotte, wife of duction of the army at such a his majesty, George III., he time. came out to meet Lewis in per­ Col. Andrew Lewis (son of son, bringing with him Corn­ General Andrew,) in his account stalk, White Eyes (another noted of the Point Pleasant campaign, Shawanee chief), and others, says: “It is known that BlueJack­ and insisted on Lewis’s return­ et, aShaWnee Chief, visited Lord ing as he (Dunmore) was nego­ Dunmore’s camp. on the 9th, the tiating a treaty of peace with day before the battle, and went the Indians­ He sought antin­ 10

troduction to Lewis’ officers, and v.iewof all the facts above noted," paid them some flattering com­ that Lord Dunmore would have pliments, etc. Evidently it did been responsible for the disaster? not comport with Lord Dun Who can doubt. as it was, that more's plans to have Gen. Lewis he was responsible for the un­ present at the treaty, to help the necessary sacrifice of life. at the negotiation by suggestions. or to Point, on the 10th? Who can have the moral support of his doubt that, with the two divisions army to sustain them. So much of the army united, as per agree did Lewis’ army feel the disap­ ment, and Lord Dunmore and pointment and this indignity, Lewis acting in unison and good that Col. Andrew. his son, says faith, they could have marched that it was with diffic_ulty Gen. to the Indian towns, and utterly Lewis could restrain his men destroyed them, or dictated a (not under verv rigid discipline, favorable and lasting peace, and at best) from killing Lord Dun­ maintained it as long as they more and his_ Indian escort. pleased, by holding importent But the result of the personal hostages? But, clearly, the pol­ conference was that Gen. Lewis, icy of the governor was dictated at last with the utmost reluctance by ulterior and sinister motives; of himself and army, consented his actions were not single-mind­ ‘to return. and to disband his ed. Col. Andrew Lewis says: army upon his arrival at Camp “It was evidently the intention Union, as ordered. of the old Scotch villain to cut off Suppose Lewis had attempted Gen. Lewis’ army.’ Burk the to cross the river, and been de­ historian, says: “The division stroyed, or had crossed and been under Lewis was devoted to‘ de­ ambushed and demolished in the struction, for the purpose of forest thickets of Ohio, or that breaking the spirit of the Virgin­ Cornstalk had succeeded, as he ians.” Withers, Doddridge, and cameso near doing, in surprising others, express the same views. him in his own camp, on the morn­ Gen. Lewis and his army were ing of the 10th, or after that; sup­ convinced of the fact; Col. Stew­ pose the Indians had succeeded art had no doubt of it, and nearly in turning the so evenly balanced every one who has written on the scale in their favor, during the subject has taken the same view fight, as they came so near doing, of it. A few only are willing to and had annihilated Lewis’ army, give him the benefit of a doubt. as they might have done, having If this design to destroy Lewis’ them penned up in the angle of army had succeeded, it is almost two rivers. who can doubt in certain that the English, through

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Lord Dunmore, would have per­ the campaign, passed a vote of fected an alliance, offensive and thanks for his “valuable ser­ defensive, with the victorious In­ vices,’ etc., which, it is said, dians, against the colonies, and they very much regretted when every white settlement west of they learned more of the facts. the Alleghenies would proba­ Just after the battle of Lexing­ bly have been cut off. ‘It ton (April 19, 1775), he had all would have been difficult the powder that was stored in or impossible, for a time, the colonial magizine at Williams­ to raise another army for the de­ burg secretly conveyed on board fense of the western border; the an armed English vessel lying tory element would have been ofl"Yorktown, and threatened to encouraged -and strengthened, lay Williamsburg in ashes at the the revolutionary element cor­ first signofinsurrection. respondingly discouraged, the Patrick Henry raised a volun­ rebellion( ?) crushed, and Lord teer force to go down and com­ Dunmore would have been the pel him (Dunmore) to restore hero of the age. Upon what slen­ the powder; but as this was im­ der and uncertain tenures hang practicable, he agreed to pay, the destinies of nations, and the and did pay for it, and then is­ fate of individuals! The closely­ sued a proclamation declaring won success of Lewis was not “One Patrick ‘Henry and his only an immediate victory over followers rebels.’ He had pre­ the Indians, but a defeat of the viously threatened Thomas Jef­ machinations of the double-deal­ ferson with prosecution for trea­ ing governor, and the projected son, and had commenced pro­ Anglo-Indian alliance. If this ceedings. About this time, hav­ view of it is established the claim ing previously sent his family on of the battle of Point Pleasant an English naval vessel, he made as being the initiatory battle of his own escape, by night, to the the revolution; and, although English fleet and commenced a small in itself, when its after re­ system of depredations along the sults and influences are consid­ coast, burning houses, destroy­ ered it stands out in bold relief ing crops, etc. He tried to bring as one of the important and de­ his scheme of Indian co-opera­ cisive victories of history. ‘A tion to bear, and sent a message few words more and we shall be to his old friend, Connally, with done with Lord Dunmore." Up­ a commission as Colonel, and in­ on his return to Williamsburg, structed him to secure the co­ the Assembly, upon his own ex­ operation of as many of the west­ parte statement of the results of ern militia commanders as possi­ 12

ble, by large rewards; to form an ginia, knew that the war of the alliance with the Indians, collect Revolution was inevitable. John his forces at Fort Pitt, and Adams dates the opening of the march through Virginia and Revolution in 1760. The people meet him. Fortunately, Col. had tired of taxation without rep­ Connally was captured and im­ resentation. In 1764we find an prisoned, and the scheme ex­ organized opposition to oppres­ posed and thwarted He (Dun­ sive taxation in Boston. In 1765, more) issued a proclamation was passed the Stamp Act and in granting freedom, to all the that year was organized the Sons slaves who would flock to his of Liberty. In 1766 the Royal standard, and protection to the Artillery was in Boston. In Tories. Among other acts of 1767, a duty was imposed on tea. violence, he burned Norfolk, the In 1768British troops were sent then largest and most important to Boston. In 1768 in Virginia town in Virginia. Upon his was passed the non-importation . flight, the Assembly met and agreement, followed in 1770by declared his office vacant, and the Boston Massacre. proceeded to fill it; and, for the in the Parliament of England, first time, Virginia had entire the discussion of the taxation of “home rule.‘ Upon the, petition the colonies did not tend to allay of citizens of Dunmore county, their determination to thwart all which had been named in his oppression and when George honor, the name was abolished. III determined at all odds to im­ and the county called Shenan­ pose taxation the matter was set­ doah. In 1776, Lord Dunmore tled in the heart of“every loyal and his fleet and hangers-on American, whether the vow was wereat Guynne’s Island, inthe expressed or implied. It is well Chesapeake Bay, where, as an authenticated that, to occupy the interesting example of poetic or attention of the colonial forces retributive justice, Gen. Lewis that they might not haveso much in command "of the Virginia (time in which to brood over the troops, attacked, defeated, and oppressioh of the mother coun­ drove them off, with heavy loss, I try,) it was necessary to incite Gen. Lewis himself, firing the the Indians to attact the frontiers first gun, soon after which the and so divert the attention of the ex-Governor, a sadder and wiser colonists from their quarrel with man “left the country for the the mother country and at the country's good.” same time impress upon them a It will thus be seen that Dun­ feeling of dependence upon Brit­ more, the Tory Governor of Vir­ ish arms and means for the safe­ 13 /

itypof their lives and homes. One burgesses was with express ref­ of the , quickest to avail himself erence to his opposition to the of this method of resisting the stamp act, and the adoption of a onfloiwingtide of this demand for series of resolutions in 1765, Liberty was Governor Dunmore. chief among which was the one Virginia had been the first in .abovereferred to. 1764to pass a Resolution, defy­ Upon the death of Mr. Henry, ing’the British authority as is‘ in his private papers, was found seen by the following, introduc­ the original manuscript, embrac­ ed by Patrick Henry, in the ing the above Resolution with House ofBurgesses, and carried: ~others, bearing the following “Resolved, therefore, That the narrative,»written on the back of General Assembly of this colony, it by Mr. Henry, himself: together with his majesty or “The within resolutions pass­ substitute, have, in their repre­ ed the house of burgesses in sentative capacity, the only ex­ May, 1765. They formed the clusive right and power to lay first opposition to the stamp act, taxes and impositions upon the _ and the scheme of taxing Ameri­ inhabitants of’ this colony; and ca by the British parliament. that every attempt to vest such All the colonies, either through power in any person or persons fear, or want of’ opportunity to whatsoever, other than the Gen­ form an opposition, or from in­ eral Assembly aforesaid, is ille­ fluence of some kind or other, gal, unconstitutional, and unjust,‘ had remained silent. I had been . and hasa manifest tendency to for the first time elected a bur­ destroy British, as well as Amer­ gess. a few days before, was ican, Freedom.” young, inexperienced, unac­ In this same year 1764,Pat­ quainted with the forms of the rick Henry originated the great .house, and the members that question which led to the final composed it. Finding the men independence of the United of weight averse to opposition, States. and the commencement of the When, in January, 1765, the tax at hand, and that no person famous stamp act was passed was likely to step forth, I deter­ that for a while stunned the mined to venture, and alone, whole country, and confounded unadvised, and unassisted, on a the people, it was Virginia, led blank leaf of an old law book by the matchless Henry, that wrote the within, ‘ Upon offer­ stood forth to raise the drooping ing thefn to the house. violent de­ spirits of the colonists, and it is bates ensued. Many threats said his election to the house of were uttered, and much abuse 14

cast upon me, by the party for lieved. as Patrick Henry had so submission. After ‘a long and eloquentlyasserted, that the war warm contest, the resolutions was inevitable, and the people passed by a very small majority, were ready to voice his senti­ perhaps of one or two only. ment, “Let it come.” Consider­ The alarm spread through Amer­ ing all these facts, we can well ica with astonishing quickness, credit Howe, the Virginia histo­ and the ministerial party were rian who says, “While Virginia overwhelmed. The great point was employed in animating her of resistance to British taxation sister states to resistance,.her was universally established in governor was employed in the the colonies. This brought on ignoble occupation of fomenting the War, which finally separated jealousies and feuds between the the two countries, and gave in­ province, which it should have dependence to ours.” been his duty to protect from The Virginia house of bur­ such a calamity, and Pennsylva­ gesses continued to pass resolu­ nia, by raising difiicult questions tions of defiance until the session of boundary, and exciting the in­ of 1768-9, when the house was habitants of the disputed terri­ dissolved by the governor. This tory to forswear allegience to the house had the merit of originat­ latter province; hoping thus, by ing that powerful engine of re­ aifording a more immediately sistance, corresponding commit­ exciting question, to draw off the tees between the legislatures of attention of these too important the colonies, a measure so nearly provinces from the encroach­ coeval in the two states of Vir­ ments of Great Britain. This ginia and Massachusetts that it scheme, as contemptible as it would have been, at that time was iniquitous, wholly failed, with their slow methods of com­ - through the good sense and munication, impossible to have magnanimity of the Virginia borrowed the idea one from‘the council. Lord North, full of his other; so that they are equally feeble and futile schemes of entitled to that honor, although cheating the coloniesout of their Mrs. Warren, a Massachusetts rights, took off the obnoxious historian of that time. admits duties with the exception of three that the measure originated in pence per pound on tea; and, Virginia. _ with the ridiculous idea that he A It will thus be seen that when might fix th.e principle upon the the colonists met in Congress in colonies by a precedent, which Phi1adelphia,_September 4, 1774, should strip .it of all that was that all over Virginia it was be­ odious, offered a draw-back equal 15

to the import duty. This induc­ general Congress,’ and they in­ ed the importation of tea into structed them how to proceed. Boston harbor which, being The Congress met in Philadel­ thrown overboard by some of phia, on the 4th of September, the citizens, called down upon 1774. " their city all the rigor of the cele­ While Virginia‘ was engag­ brated Boston port bill. ed in her efforts for the gen­ A draft of this bill reached the eral good, she was not without Virginia legislature while in ses­ her peculiar troubles at home. sion; an animated protest, and a The Indians had been for some dissolution of the assembly by time waging a horrid war upon the governor, of course followed. the frontiers, when the indigna­ On the following day the mem­ tion of the people at length com­ bers convened in the Raleigh pelled the reluctant govenor to tavern and, in an able and man­ take up arms, and march to sup­ ly paper, expressed to their con­ press the very savages he was stituents and their government thought to have encouraged and those sentiments and opinions excited to hostility by his intri­ which they had not been allowed gues. to express in a legislative form. Lord Dunmore marched the This meeting recommended a army in two divisions: the one a cessation of trade with the East under General Andrew Lewis India Company, a Congress of he sent to the junction of the deputies from all the colonies, Great Kanawha with the Ohio, ‘declaring their opinion, that an while he himself marched toa attack upon one of the colonies higher point on the latter river, was an attack upon all British in with pretended purpose of de­ America,’and calling a convention stroving the Indian towns and of the people of Virginia. The joining Lewis at Point Pleasant; sentiments of the peopleaccorded but it was believed with the real with those of their late delegates; object of sending the whole In­ they elected members who met dian force to annihilate Lewis’ in convention at Williamsburg, detachment, and thereby weaken on the 1st of August, 1774. the power and break down the This convention went into a spirit of Virginia. If such was detailed viewof their rights and his object he was signally defeat­ grievances, discussed measures Ved through the gallantry of the of redress for the latter, and de­ detachment, which met and de­ clared their determination never feated the superior numbers of to relinquish the former; they the enemy at Point Pleasant, af­ appointed deputies to attend a ter an exceeding hard-fought Vday, and the loss of nearly all its ed its total destruction. The oflicers. The day after the vic­ conduct of the Earl at the treaty, tory, an express arrived from shows a good understanding be­ Dunmore with orders for the tween him and the Indian chiefs. detachment to join him at a dis­ He did not suffer the army of tance of 80 miles, through an en­ Lewis to‘ form a junction with emy’s country, without any con­ his own, but sent them back be­ ceivable object but the destruc­ fore the treaty was concluded, tion of the corps. As these or­ thus risking the safety of his ders were ‘givenwithout a know­ own forces, for at the time of the ilege of the victory, Col. Lewis treaty, the Indian warriors were was proceeding to the destruc­ about his campin force sufficient tion of the Shawanee .vil1iages, to have intercepted his retreat when he was informed the gov­ and destroyed his whole army.” ernor had made peace. Again, Kercheval says: “We . . Another evidence of Dun­ now proceed to_ examine the more’s intention to have the ar­ question, how far facts and cir­ my of Andrew Lewis destroyed cumstances justify us in suppos­ at Point Pleasant, is" found in ing the Earl of Dunmore himself _Kercheval’s History of the Val­ was instrumental in producing ley, p. 118, as follows: “It was the Indian war of 1774. ' the generel belief among the of­ It has alreary been remarked ficers ‘of our army, at the time, that this Indian war was but the that the Earl of Dunmore, while precursor to our revolutionary at Wheeling, received advice war of 1775—that Dunmore the from his government of the pro­ then governor of Virginia, was bability of the approaching war one of the most inveterate and between England and the colo­ determined enemies to the revo­ nies, and that afterwards, all his lution—that he was a man of measures, with regard to the high talents, especially for intri­ Indians, had for their »ultimate gue and diplomatic ski1l—that -object an alliance with those fe­ occupying the station of com­ rocious warriors for the aid of mander-in-chief of the large and the mother country in their con­ respectable State of Virginia, he test with us. This supposition possessed means and power to ‘ accounts for his not forming a do much to serve the views of junction with the army of Lewis Great Britain. ‘And we have at Point Pleasant. This devia­ seen. fromthe preceding pages, tion from the original plan of the how effectually he played his campaign jeopardized the army part among the inhabitants of of Lewis and well nigh occasion­ the western country. I was 17

present myself when a Pennsyl­ ing the severe conflict of our rev­ vania magistrate, of the name of olutionary war, had the very ef­ Scott, was taken into custody, fect, I suppose, Dunmore had in and brought before Dunmore. at view namely, dividing our forces Prestone old Fort; he was severe­ and enfeebling our aggregate ly threatened and dismissed, per­ strength; and that the seeds of haps on bail, but I do not recol­ these subsequent wars with the lect how; another Pennsylvania. Indians were sown in 1774 and magistrate was sent to Staunton 1775,appears almost certain. . jail. And I have already shown “And the first we shall men­ in the perceding pages, that tion is a circular sent by Maj. there was a sufiicient prepara— Connoly, his proxy, early, in the tion of materials for this war in spring of the year 1774,warning the predisposition and hostile the inhabitants to be on their attitude of our affairs with the guard—the Indians were very Indians; that it was consequently angry. and manifested so much no diflicult_ matter with a Vir­ hostility, that he was apprehen­ ginia governor to direct the inci­ sive they would strike some pient state of things to any point where as soon as the season most conclusive to the grand end would permit, and enjoining the he had in view, namely, in weak­ inhabitants to prepare and re­ ening our national strength in tire into Forts, &c. It might some of the best and most efli­ be useful to collate and compare cient parts. If, then, a war with this letter with one he wrote to the Indians might have a tenden­ Capt, Cresap on the 14th of July cy to produce this result, it ap­ following;see hereafter. In this pears perfectly natural and letter he declares there is a war reasonable to suppose that Dun­ or danger of war, before the war more would make use of the is properly begun; in that to Capt. power and influence to promote Cresap, he says, “the Indians it, andalthough the war of 1774 deport themselves peaceably;” was brought to a conclusion be­ when Dunmore and Lewis and fore the year was out, yet we Cornstalk we are all out on their know that this fire was. scarcely march for battle. ‘ extinguished before it burst in­ “This letter produced its nat­ to a flame with tenfold fury, and ural result. The people fled in­ two or three armies of the whites to Forts, and put themselves in­ were sacrificed before we could to a posture of defense, and the get the Indians subdued; and tocsin of war resounded from this unhappy state of our affairs Laurel Hill to the banks of the with the Indians happening dur­ Ohio river. Capt, Cresap who 18

was peaceably at this time em­ The same author further says, ployed in building houses and on pages 128-130,inclusive, improving lands, on the Ohio “The Governor of Virginia, River, received this letter, ac­ whatever might have been his companied, it is believed, with a viewsas to the ulterior measures, confirmatory message from Col. lost no time in preparing to meet Croghan a'nd Maj. McGee, Indian this storm. He sent orders im­ agents and interperters; and he mediately to C01.Andrew Lewis, thereupon immediately broke up of Augusta county, to raise an his camp, and ascended the River army of about one thousand men. to Wheeling fort, the nearest and to march with all expedition place of safety from whence it is to the mouth of the Great Kan­ believed he intended speedily to awha, on the Ohio River, where, return home; but during his stay or at some other point. he would at this place, a report was join him, after he had got to­ brought to the Fort that two In­ gether another army, which he dians were coming down the intended to raise in the north­ River. Capt. Cresap. supposing western counties, and command from ‘every circumstances, and in person. Lewis lost no time. ‘the general aspect of afiairs, collected the number of men re­ that war was inevitable. and in quired, and marched without de­ fact already begun, went up the lay to the appointed place of ren­ River with his party; and two of 'dezvous. his men, of the name of Chemo­ "But the Earl was not quite weth and Brothers, killed, these so rapid in his movements, two Indians. Beyond controver­ which circumstance the eagle sy this is the only circumstance eye of old Cornstalk, the gener­ in the history of this Indian war, al of the Indian army, saw, and in which his name can in the re­ was determined to avail himself motest degree be identified with of, foreseeing that it would be any measure tending to produce much easier to destroy tw'osepa­ this war; and it is certain that rate columns of an invading army the guilt or’innocence of this af­ before than after their junc­ fair will appear from this date. tion and. consolidation. With It is notorious, then, that those this view he marched with all ex­ Indians were killed not only af­ pedition to attack Lewis before ter Capt. Cresap had received he was joined by the Earle’s ar­ Connoly’s letter, an d after my from the north. calculating, Butler’s men were killed in the confidently no doubt, that if he canoe, but also after the affair at could destroy Lewis, he would - Yellow Creek, and after the peo­ be able-to give a good account of ple had fled into the Forts.” the army of the Earl. \ 19

“The plan of Cornstalk ap­ story, that a great revolution pears to have been those of a con­ took place in the minds of the summate and skillful general. Indians after the battle. and the prompt and rapid execu­ “Dunmore, immediately upon tion of them displayed the eu­ the report of White—eyesthat the ergy of a warrior. He, there­ Indians were not disposed for fore. without loss of time, attack­ peace, sent an express to C01. ed Lewis at his post. The at-_ Lewis to move on and meet him tack was sudden, violent, and I near Chillicothe, on the Scioto believe unexpected. It was river, and both wings of the ar­ nevertheless well fought, very my were put in motion. But as obstinate. and of long continu­ Dunmore approached the Indian ance; and as both parties fought -town, he was met by flags from with rifles, the conflict was the Indians, demanding peace, ‘dreadful; many were killed on to which he acceded, halted his both sides, and the contest was army, and runners were sent to only finished with the approach invite the Indian chiefs, who of night. The Virginians, how­ cheerfully obeyed the summons. ever. kept the field, but lost and came to the treaty——save many able officers and men, and only Logan, the great orator, among the rest, Col. Charles, who refused to come. ' It seems, Lewis, brother to the command­ however, that neither Dunmore er»in-chief. nor the Indian chiefs considered This battle of Lewis’ opened his presence of much importance, an easy and unmolested passage for they went to work and finish­ for Dunmore through the Indian ed the treaty without him—re­ country; but it is proper to re­ ferring, I believe,some unsettled mark here, however, that when points for future discussion,at Dunmore arrived with his wing atreaty to be held the ensuing of the army at the mouth of the summer or fall at Pittsburg. Hockhocking River, he sent Capt. This treaty, the articles ofwhich White-eyes, a Delaware chief, to I never saw, nor do I know that, invite the Indians to atreaty, they were ever recorded, con­ and he remained stationary at cluded Dunmore’s war, in Sep­ that place until White—eyes re­ tember or October, 1774. After turned, who reported that the the treaty was over, old Corn­ Indians would not treat about stalk, the Shawnee chief, accom­ peace. I presume, in order of panied Dunmore’s army until time, this must have been just they reached the mouth of the before Lewis’ battle; because it Hockhocking. on the Ohio River; will appear in the sequal of this and what was more singular, 20

rather made his home in Capt. more’s war; and all of which as a Cresap’s tent, with whom he history may be interesting to the continued on. terms of the most present and especially to the ris­ friendly familiarity. I consider ing generation; yet it is proper this circumstance as positive to remark that I have two lead­ proof that the Indians them­ ing objects chiefly in view—first, selves neither considered Capt. to convince the world, that who­ Cresap the murderer of Logan’s ever might be the cause of the family, nor the ca.use of the war. Indian war in 1774, it was not _It appears, also, that at this place Capt. Cresap; secondly, that from the Earl of Dunmore received the aspect of our political affairs, dispatches from England. Dod­ at that period, and from the ridge says he received these on known hostility of Dunmore to his march out. the American Revolution, and But we ought to have mention­ withal to the subsequent con­ ed in its proper place, that after duct of Dunmore, and the dread­ the treaty between Dunmore and fullndian war that commenced the Indians commenced near soon after the beginning of our Chillocothe, Lewis arrived with war with Great Britain—I say, his army, and encamped two or from all these circumstances, we three miles from Dunmore, have infinitely stronger reasons which greatly alarmed the In» to suspect Dunmore than Cresap; dians, as they thought he was so and I may say that the dispatches much irritated at losing so many above mentioned that were re­ men in the late battle that he ceived by Dunmore at Hockhock­ would not easily be pacified; nor ing, although after the treaty, would they be satisfied "until were yet calculated to create sus­ Dunmore and old Cornstalk went picion. into Lewis’ camp to converse But if, as we suppose, Dun­ with him. more was secretly at the bottom Dr. Doddridge represents this. of this Indian war, it is evident affair in ditferent shades of light that he could not with propriety from this statement. I can only appear personally in a business say I had my information from of this kind; and we have seen an oflicer who was present at the and shall see, how effectually his time. ' sub-governor played his part be­ But it is time to remind the tween the Virginians and Penn­ reader, that, although I have sylvanians; and it now remains wandered into, such a minute de­ for us to" examine how far the tail of the various occurrences, conduct of this man (Connolly) facts and circumstances of Dun­ will bear us out in the supposi­ 21

tion that there was also some destroyed at Point Pleasant. foul play. some dark intriguing Then at the mouth of the Great" work to embroil the western Kanawha river on the 19th (10th) country in an Indian war.” day of October, 1774, there went Hon. V. A. Lewis who is the whizzing through the forrest the author of the History of the tirst volley of a struggle for lib-‘ Virginias compiled in Hardesty’s erty, which, in the granduer and Historical and Geographical En­ importance of its results, stands cylopedian 0t 1883 pays the fol­ without parallel in the history lowing tribute to the Battle of of the world. On that day the Point Pleasant: soil upon which Point Pleasant, “To the student of history no now stands drank the first blood truth is more patent ‘than this, shed in defense of American lib­ that the battle of Point Pleasant, erty, and it was there decided was the first in the series of the that the decaying institutions of Revolution, the flames of which the Middle Ages should not pre­ were being kindled by the op­ vail in America, but that just pression of the mother country laws and priceless liberty should and the, resistance of the same be planted forever in the domains by the feeble but determined of the New World. colonies. It is a well known fact Historians, becoming engross­ that the emisaries of, Great Bri­ ed with the more stirring scenes tain were then inciting the In­ of the Revolution, havefailed to dians to hostilities against the consider the sanguinay battle in frontier for the purpose of dis­ its true import and bearing upon tracting attention. and thus pre­ the destiny of our country, for­ venting the consumation of the getting, that the Colonial army Union which was then being returned home only to enlist in formed to resist the tyranny of the patriot army and on almost their armed oppression. It is every battlefield of the Revolu­ also well known that Lord Dun­ tion were representatives of that more was an enemy of the colo­ little band who stood face to face nists. by his rigid adherence to with the savage allies of Great the royal cause and his efi'orts Britian at Point Pleasant.” to induce the Indians to co-oper­ And, in conclusion, Kercheval ate with the English, and thus says, at page 139, “I say, from assist in reducing Virginia to all which it will appear that Dun­ subjection. It has been assert­ more had his views, and those ed that he iutentionally delayed views hostile to the liberties of the progress of the left wing of America, in his proceedings with the army that the right might be the Indians in the war of 1774, 22 the circumstancesof the times, of a Roman matron, called them -~ in connection with his equivocal to her, and bade them fly to the conduct. leads us almost natur­ defence of their native land. ally to infer that he knew pretty “Go my children.’ said she, “I well what he was about, and spare not my youngest. my fair­ among other things, he knew haired boy, the comfort or my that a war with the Indians at declining years. I devote you this time would materially sub­ all to my country. Beep back serve the views and interest of the foot of the invader from the Great Britain, and consequently soil of Augusta, or see my face be perhaps might Ieel it a duty no more.” When this incident to promote said war, and if not, was related to Washington, why betray such extreme solici­ shortly ' after its occurrence, he tude to single out some conspicu­ enthusiastically exclaimed, ous character, and make him “Leave me but a banner to plant the scape-goat, to bear all the upon the mountains of Augusta, blame of this war, that he and and I will rally around me the his friend Connolly might es­ men who will lift our bleeding cape?” country from the dust, and set Nothing could more fittingly her free.” Howe’s Virginia, describe the patriotic senti­ its History and Antiquities, p. ‘ment fell in Virginia than the 183. ' I heroic appeal of Mrs. Wm. From Wither’s Border War­ Lewis. It is related of her fare weiquotez “The army un­ that “When the British force der Gen. Lewis had endured under Tarleton drove the legis­ many privations and suffered lature from Charlottesville to many hardships. They had en­ Staunton, the stillness of the countered a savage enemy in Sabbath eve was broken in the great force, and purchased a latter town by the beat of the victory with the blood of their drum, and volunteers were call­ friends. When arrived near to ed for to prevent the passage of the goal of their anxious wishes, the British through the moun­ and with nothing to prevent the tains at Rockfish Gap. The accomplishment of the object of elder sons of Wm. Lewis, who the campaign, they received then resided at the old fort, were those orders with evident chag­ absent with the northern army. rin. and did not obey them with­ Three sons, however, were at out murmuring. Having, at his home, whose ages were 1'2,15 and 13 years. Wm. Lewis was own request, been introduced confined to his room by sickness, severally to the officers of that but his wife, with the firmness division, complimenting them for 23

their gallantry and good conduct kindled by t_heoppression of the in the late engagement, and as­ mother country, and the resist­ suring them of his high esteem, ance of the same by the feeble Lord Dunmore returned to his but determined colonies. It is a Camp; and Gen. Lewis commen­ well lmown fact that emissaries Vced his retreat.” of Great Britain were then incit­ “This battle (says Col. Stuart, ing the Indians to hostilities in his historical memoir) was, in against the frontier for the pur­ fact, the beginning of the revo­ pose of distracting attention and lutionary war, that obtained for thus preventing the consuma­ our country the liberty and in­ tion of the union which was then dependence e n j o y e d by the being formed to resist the tyran­ United States— and a good pres­ ny of their armed oppressors. age of future success; for itis It is also well known that Lord Wellknown that the Indians were Dunmore was an enemy to the influenced by the British to com­ colonists, by his rigid adherence mence the war to terrify and con­ to the royal cause and his efforts found the people, before they to induce the Indians to co-oper­ commenced hostilities them­ ate with the English, and thus selves the following year at Lex­ assist in reducing Virginia to ington. It was thought by Brit­ subjection. It has been assert­ ish politicians, that to excite an ed that he intentionally delayed “Indian war would prevent a the progress of the left wing of combination of the colonies for the army that the right might opposing parliamentary meas— be destroyed at Point Pleasant. ures to tax the Americans. Then, at the mouth of the Great The blood, therefore, spilt upon Kanawha river, on the 10th day this memorable battlefield, will of October, 1774, there Went long be remembered by the good wbizzingthrough the forest the penple of Virginia and the United first volley of a struggle for lib­ States with gratitude.” erty which, in the grandeur and Virgil A. Lewis, West Virgin­ importance of its results, stands ia State Historian and Archivest, without a parellel in the history says, in his History of West of the world. On that day the Virginia, published in 1889, at soil on which Point Pleasant now page 133, “To the student of stands drank the first blood,shed history no truth is more patent in defence of American liberty. than this, that the battle of and it was there decided that the Point Pleasant was the first in decaying institutions of the Mid­ the series of the Revolution, the dle Ages should not prevail in flames of which were then being America, but that just laws and I“.

24 priceless liberty should be plant­ among the most highly edudated ed forever in the domains of the men of the colony and it is said New World. Historians, becom­ that, to this date, in no army of ing engrossed ‘with the more a similar number. has such a stirring scenes of the Revolution, large percentage had a knowl­ have failed to consider this san­ edge of the Greek and Latin lan­ guinary battle in its true import guages. That they were men and bearing upon the destiny of of education and influence will our country, forgetting that the be seen by following the survi­ colonial army returned home on­ vors of that battle, not only ly to enlist in the patriot army, through the Revolution, where and on almost every battle-field many of them distinguished of the Revolution represented themselves, but out into the civ­ that little band who stood face to il life of the country, during, and face with the savage allies of subsequent to, the Revolution. Great Britain at Point Pleasant.’ That the battle was the most Owing to the importance of fruitful, in its results, of any the question, we have, at the battle ever fought upon Ameri­ risk of tiring the reader. given can soil, is apparent from the these many details of evidence history of the country. The that the Battle of Point Pleasant, great Northwest Territory,ly.— while not ,a battle between the ing north of the Ohio and east English and Colonial forces, of the Mississippi. had long been nevertheless shed the first blood a bone of contention between on American soil for national in­ France and England and France dependence. It can be plain­ did not relinquish her claim un­ ly seen that, though at this time til driven to recede as the result these sturdy pioneers were fight­ of the battle upon the Plains of ing to protect their homes and Abraham before Quebec, where hresides, the very foundation the intrepid Montcalm was de­ of national government, Great feated by the invincible Wolffe. Britain,‘through her Tory Gov­ The treaty that followed at ernor of Virginia, intended thus Paris, in 1763,ceded all this terri­ to destroy the flower of the Col­ tory to England, whose failure onial army of Virginia. It was to open it to the colonists was a stroke which, had it succeeded, a subject of discussion and dis­ would have averted the War of trust and rightfully so, as En­ t h e Revolution Inan y years. gland maintained it to the ex­ The army that Lewis gathered clusion of the colonists, not only were -not the unlettered men of that she might, withflit,subsidize the forest,—they were from the savage Indians, but when 25 fr

necessary, secure their services such a wilderness, with no con­ in maintaining control of the col­ veyance for their munitions of onies. ’ war, save their own robust and By the treaty that followedthe hardy bodies? battle of Point Pleasant, that of The subjugation of this coun­ Camp Charlotte, the federation of try was not only comparatively the five great nations in control broad inits results, but was due of that territory ceded it to Vir­ alone to Virginia. Of course, ginia, to hold inviolate, and which such a vast territory opened up, treaty lasted without interrup­ as it thus was, to civilization and tion for three years, enabling habitation, necessarily called for the colonists not onlyto representation in the Congress of enter the Northwest Territor, the infant nation, and justly so. but to colonize Kentucky and Virginia would soon, by her Tennessee. In Dunmore’s ar­ great population, control the leg­ my was the intrepid George Rod­ islation of the nation. Such, how­ gers Clarke, a Virginian, the ever, was not the purpose of Vir­ Hanibal of the’ West, who was 'ginia. That ever generous present at the treaty of Camp mother state here had opportun­ Charlotte. The history of the ity to be the most mag­ * colonization and civilization of nanimous of them all. She -this territory is the-history of would not, if she could, dominate Geo. Rcdgers Clarke, too well the policy of the country, and, known here for extended com­ without a dollar, she donated, ac­ ‘ ment. Suflice it to say that, in tually gave away to the colonies the struggle led by Clarke to in fee simple the entire North­ drive the British from the North­ west Territory, to be the terri­ west Territory, it was not the tory of the colonists, and to be colonies, but Virginia, protect­ disposed of as they deemed best - ing her own territory, acquired When we review the acquisi­ by the battle of Point Pleasant, tion of the other territory of the that furnished the army for United States and compare the. C1ark’s expedition, Governor, $15,000,000, expended by our Patrick Henry supplying Clarke government, for the Louisiana, from Virginia’s funds, the sum of ‘ purchase, the cost of the acqui­ twelve, hundred pounds, and sition of upper and lower Cali­ supplies of boots and ammun­ fornia, of Alaska, of the Phillip­ tion from Pittsburg, then in pines, of the cost of the Mexican Virginia. Could any army have displayed more heroism, an acquisition in men and money, army of one hundred and and then remember that the fifty, starting out to conquer settlement of the states of Ken­ 26 tucky and Tennessee were made New York, brought to Falmouth possible, as well as the coloniza~ by the Harriot packet boat. tion of Western Pennsylvania and Capt. Lee. Western Virginia, together with Williamsburg. Va., the acquisition of the Northwest November 10th. Territory, and the settlement The followingletter is just re­ and civilization of the same, and ceived here from'the camp at all as a sequel,of the Battle of Point Pleasant, at the mouth of Point Pleasant, considering the the Great Kenhawa (as then history of the ever memorable spelled), dated October 17, 1774: struggle and the subsequent de­ “The following «isa true state­ velopment of the country, it is vment of a battle fought at this very apparent not only that the place on the 10th instant: On Battle of Point Pleasant was the Monday morning, about half an initial, the first battle of the hour before sunrise, two of Capt. Revolution, but also farther Russe1l’s company discovered a reaching in ' its results than_ large party of Indians about a any other battle ever fought upon‘ mile from the camp, one of which the American continent. men was shot down by the In­ As we have said before, no otfi­ dians;/the other made his escape, ' cial report of the battle was ever and brought in the intelligence. made, but aletter from Williams­ In two or three minutes after, burg, Va., ‘then the seat of gov­ two of Capt. Shelby’s company ernment. «under date of No­ came in and confirmed the ac­ vember 10, 1774, was publish­ count.‘ ed in the Belfast News Let­ “C01. Andrew Lewis, being, ter, yet preserved. Presum-I ' informed thereof immediately ably, it was contributed to that ordered out Col.Charles Lewis, paper b e c an s e many of the to take command of one hundred Scotch-Irish had emigrated from and fifty of the Augusta troops, Belfast, Ulster District, to Penn­ and with him went Capt. Dickin­ sylvania and ultimately‘ to Vir­ son, Capt. Harrison, ‘Capt. Wil­ ginia and settled in the sections son, Capt. ‘John Lewis of Agusta,, of Virginia from which the army ‘ and Capt. Lockridge. which had been for the most part been made the first division. Col. made up. This made" the event Fleming was also ordered to peculiarly interesting to the peo­ take command of one hundred ple of that portion of Ireland. and fifty m,_oreof the Botetourt, From that publication we quote Bedford and Fpincastley troops.: the history of the battle: . A “BELFAST. Capt. Thomas Buford, from Bed­ Yesterday arrived a mail from ford; Capt Love, of Botetourt; 27

I Capt. Shelby and Capt. Russell, cular; but the Augusta troops, of Fiucastle, which made the being shortly ‘after reinforced second division. from the camp by Col. Field, “Col. Charles Lewis’ division with his company. together with marched to the right, some dis­ Capt. McDowell, Capt. Mathews tance from the Ohio, and Col. and Capt. Stewart, from Angus­ Fleming, with his division on the ta; Capt. Paulin, Capt. Arbuckle bank of the Ohio, to the left. and Capt. McClannahan, -from _ “Col. Charles Lewis’ division Botetourt, the enem_v_nolonger ' had not marched quite halfa able to maintain their ground. mile from the camp when. about was forced to give way till they sunrise, an attack was madeon were in a line with the troops, the front of his division. ina C01. Fleming being left i11 action most vigorous manner. by the. on the bank of the Ohio. united tribes of Indians——Shaw­ “In this precipitate retreat nees, Delawares, Mingoes, Ta- ‘ Col. Field was killed. During was, and of several other. nations this time, which was till after —in numberpnot less than eight twelve, the action in a small d_e­ hundred. and .by many thought gree abated, but continued, ex­ to be one thousand. cept at short , intervals, sharp "In _this heavy attack‘, Col. enough, till after 1 o’clock. Charles" Lewis received a wound Their _long retreat gave them a which, in a few hours caused his m o s t advantageous s p 0 t of , death, and several of his men fell ground, fromwhence it appear­ on the ‘spot; in fact, Augusta di~ ed_to the officers so difficult to vision was obliged to give way dislodge them that it was thought ‘to the heavy fire of the enemy. most advisable to stand as the In about a second of aminute line was then formed, which was after the attack on Col. Lewis’ about a mile and a quarter in division, the enemy engaged the length, and had sustained till front of Col. FIeming’s division, then a constant and equal weight on the Ohio, and in a short time of the action, from wing to wing. the Colonel received two balls “It was till about half an hour through his left arm, and one till sunset they continued firing [through his breast, and, after on us scattering shots, which We animating the ofiicers and sol­ returned to their -disadvantage. diers in a _mostcalm manner to At length, the night coming on, the pursuit of victory, retired to they found a safe retreat. A the camp. “They had not the satisfaction “The loss in the field was sen­ of carrying off any of our men’s sibly felt by the officers in parti­ scalps, save one or two strag­ 28­ glers whom they killed before it, the principal of which are the engagement. . Many of their that they shall totally abandon dead they scalped, rather than the lands on this side of the Ohio we should have them, but our river, which, river is'to be the troops scalped upwards of twen­ boundary between them and the ty of their men that were first white_ people, and never more killed. take up the hatchet against the “It is beyond doubt their loss, English.” in number, far exceeded ours, “Thus, in alittle more than which is considerable. the space of five months, an end “The return of the killed and is put to a war which portended -wounded in the above battle, much trouble and mischief to the same_as our last, as follows: inhabitants on the frontier, ow­ —Kil1ed—Colone1s C h a r le s ing to the zeal and good conduct Lewis and John Field, Captains of the oflicers and commanders John Murray, R. McClannahan, who went out in their country’s Samuel Wilson, -James Ward, defense and the bravery and Lieut. Hugh Allen, -ensigns Can­ perseverance of all the troops.’ tiff and Bracken. and forty-four Copied from the Belfast News privates. Total. killed, fifty-three. Letter of February 10. 1775.” “Wounded——Col.William Flem­ ‘De Hass, in describing the ing, Captains John Dickinson, battle, says: ' V Thomas Buford and I. Skidman “The battle scene was now Lieutenants Goldman, Robinson, terribly grand. There_ stood Lard and Vance, and seventy­ the combatants——terror, rage, nine privates. Total wounded, disappointment and despair riv­ eighty-seven; killed and wounded eted upon the painted faces of one hundred and forty.” one, while calm resolution and And further from the same the unbending will to do or die publication : ‘ were marked upon the other. “AMERICA. Neither par_ty would retreat, Williamsburg, in V i r g i n ia, neither’ could advance. The December 1, 1774.‘. noise of the firing was tremend­ "We have it from good. authori­ ous:—no single gun could be dis­ ty that hisiexcellency, the gover­ tinguished—was one common roar. The rifle and the toma­ nor, is on his way to this capital, .....-AC1 having concluded a peace with hawk now did their work with the several.tribes of Indiansthat dreadful certainty. The confu­ have been at war with us, and sion and perturbation of the taken hostages of them for their camp had now arrived at its faithful complying with terms of greatest height. The confused 29

sounds and wild uproar of the climbing a large hill, we were battle added greatly to the ter­ saluted by a hundred I-ndians, ror of the scene. The ‘shouting encamped upon the top. Our of the whites, the continued roar captors told their adventures, no of firearms, the war-whoops and doubt, with every aggravation; dismal yelling of the Indians. for, after the most frantic ex­ were discordant and terrific.” pressions of grief and rage, I Col. J. L. Peyton, in his valu­ was bound to a tree, a large pine able history of Augusta county, tree, which stands to this day says: upon the brow of the hill, and “It was, throughout, a terrible the fire was kindled around me. scene——-thering of rifles and the I said my prayers; my time was roar of muskets, the ‘clubbed come; my body felt the scorching guns, the flashing ,knives—the heat: but. by a miraculous inter­ fight, hand to hand—the scream position of Providence, the clouds for mercy, smothered in the which had been lowering all day, death-groan—~t h e c r u s h i n g now burst out in showers, and through the brush—the advance quenched the flames.‘ The In­ —the retreat—the pursuit, every dians thought the Great Spirit man for himself, with his enemy looked over me, and directed the in view—the scattering on every shower for my safety. My side—the sounds of battle, dying bonds were loosened, and 1 was away into a pistol shot here and alloweda little jirk and hommony 3 there through the wood, anda for my refreshment. The next shriek the collecting again of day Igcouldperceive some great the whites, covered with gore expedition on foot; the Indians and sweat, bearing trophies of were running to and fro in every the slain, their dripping knives direction; some grinding paint in one hand, and rifle-barrel. and some cleaning up their arms; bent and smeared with brains and even the squaws and little and hair, in the other. Nolan­ boys were providing themselves guage can adequately describe with hatchets and scalping­ it." knives, and strewing themselves Mr. Stephen T. Mitchell in from the Ohio river all along the 1827 in a publication, “The cliffs of Kanawha.”

4..-AC1 Spirit of the Old Dominion” pub­ “Late in the evening, I saw an lished at Richmond Virginia uncommon anxiety on the faces gives the following account of of the savages; councils, grand the battle of Point Pleasant. and petty, were held in‘ various “We landed about a mile on the places, and so completely were left-hand shore of Kanawha, and my guards absorbed in the un­ 30 dertaking which was at hand, assistance. But. the whites had that they becameentirely remiss too often been decoyed by their in their attentions to me. I re­ own people to the savages, to be solved to seize the propitious easily imposed upon. They an­ moment, and make my escape. swered me they could give no as­ I sprang on my feet and ran as sistance. I could not swim, fast as my legs would carry me. but my ingenuity, never fer­ A loud whoop proclaimed the tile in expedients, befriended me event, and in a moment, I could­ now for the first time in my life. perceive myself closely pursued I rolled down adry log from the by half a dozen athletic young bank into the water, and getting fel1ows,with uplifted tomahawks. astride of it, I managed by great Fear added to my limbs the exertion of hands and feet, to agility of the deer. With my. row it across the stream. which head turned back over one at -that time, from the great shoulder, I bounded through the height of the Ohio, was as still pine-trees until my speed had as a mill-pond I was received carried me unawares to the brink by General Lewis,’the command­ of a precipice. I tried to stop; ant of the fort, with great cor­ it was too late; I gave a piercing dia1_ityand affection; and, being shriek and bounded over. A naked and necessitous, I enrolled rushing sound in my ears like myself as a regular in the corps; the roaring of a mill-dam, then and, being dressed in militaire, the crashing of branches and withatremendous rifle in my ' limbs recalled me to my recollec­ hand and a thick breast-work’ tion, and I found myself to my before me, I felt as brave as inexpressible delight, breaking Julius Ceasar.” ' my way through the thick The Battle of Point Pleasant branches ofa buck-eye tree. I “I was in hopes that I might en­ alighted without injury, and look­ joy, within the-walls of a fort, ing back upon the cliff above, some respite from the fears, could see my savage pursuers toils and anexieties which had: gaping over the precipice in for the last two weeks, worn me amazement. I gave not’a second out both body and mind. But h.e look, but darted oif towards ‘the who undertakes to settle in a point with a heart swelling with ‘newand savage country, must praise to the great Creator, who "lookout for no such respite, un­ had thus twice rescued me so til, by hardihood and persever­ miraculously from my enemies. ance, he has levelled the forest, Arriving at the mouth of the with its inhabitants, to the earth. Kanawha, I shouted aloud for On the 10th of October, 1774, 31

about sun-rise, the hunters came tated nothing less than an entire in at full speed, and gave ' the extermination of‘ the garrison. appalling information that a large ‘ General Lewis ordered out about body of Indians had spread them­ seven hundred of his rangers, selves from_river to river, and under the command of his neph­ were advancing by slow degrees, ew, Colonel Charles Lewis; with towards the fort; at the ‘same the remaining part of his troops, instant, we could observe the about five hundred in number, women and boys skulking up and he determined to act as a reserve down the opposite banks of the and defend the fort to extremi­ Ohio and Kanawha. ties.” The position of the fort was “I happened to be among those peculiarly favourable to a sur­ who were ordered out, very prise. As I have above mention­ much against my will; but it was ~ ed, it was situated at a right an­ neck or nothing; we advanced gular point formed by the con­ about three hundred yards in fluence of the Kanawha and Ohio front of the fort, toward a deep rivers. The country above the ravine which intersected the val­ fort was covered with a heavy ley at the right angles with the forest and impervious growth of Kanawha. All was still as death; underwood, through which an one moment more and ayell min­ invading force ‘might penetrate gled with the roar of a thousand completely undiscovered, tovthe rifles, rung from river to river, very walls of the fort. The gar­ and at the same moment every rison was composed of about bush and tree seemed alive with twelve hundred men entirely armed savages. Col. Lewis was Virginians, from the counties of killed at the first fire, but the Botetourt and Augusta. The rangers mantained their ground, Indians consisted of about the and a contest commenced more same number, the flower of the desperate and more rapidly fatal Shawnee, Wyandotte and Min­ than any which had ever ,been goe tribes, who were command­ fought with the Aboriginese, ex­ ed by the celebrated Chieftain, cepting that of Talledaga. The Cornstalk.” Indian Chief, with that prompt-. “From the large force which he ness for seizing an advantage, had collected for this expedition. ­ and that peculiar military tact and from the secrecy of his for which he was so much re­ movements, it was evident that nowned, extended his line from the Indian Chief, in this desper­ the Ohio as far as it would ate attempt to recover the coun­ stretch across to the Kanawha try east of the Ohio river, medi­ bank, for the purpose of out­ 3‘2

flanking the opposing forces. round his head, slung it at me But, in the execution of this ina­ with all his powers. I fell upon noeuvre, he was completely my face, and it whizzedharmless foiled by the superior address­ over my head and stuck into a and boldness of the whites who, sapling. I bounded up and animated with revenge for the forced it from the tree, but the loss of their leader and a con­ Indian was on me and rescued sciousness of their desperate the hatchet from my hands. I situation, fought with a fury seized him round the waist, en­ that supplied the inequality of closing both his arms at the numbers, and ‘set at defiance same time and tripping up his every stratagem of the savages.” heels, we rolled together upon “Finding that his method of the ground; I at last grew outflanking would not succeed, furious, gouged him with my the Indian Chief concentrated thumbs in both eyes, and seizing his forces, and furiously attacked him with my teeth by the nose, the centre of the Virginia line. I bit the Whole of it from his The savages. animated by their face; he yelled out with pain and warlike and noble Chieftan, rage, and letting loose the hatch­ Cornstalk, forgot the craftiness et to disengage my teeth, I of their nature, and rushing grasped the handle and buried from their coverts, engaged hand the sharp point into ‘his brains. to hand with their stout and He gave one convulsive leap hardy adversaries, until the which bounced me from his contest resembled more a cir­ body, and in a moment after ex­ cus of gladiators than a field .of pired. Iimmediately rose, and battle. I became desperate; hide gaining a secure position behind where I would, the muzzle of atree, remained there till the some rifle was gaping_in my close of the fight, and madea face, and the wild, distorted thousand resolutions, if I sur­ countenance of a savage, render­ vived this engagement, never to he more frightful by paint, was be caught in such ascrape again. trushing towards me with uplift­ I kept my word; for, I have never ed tomahawk One fellow in since encountered the savages, particular, seemed to mark me and if Heaven forgives me, I as his victim; I levelled my rifle .never will. There is no'fun in at him as he came yelling and it.” ­ leaping towards me, and fired. “But, to return to the history‘ The ball missed my aim. He of this ever memorable battle. rose upon his toes with exulta­ There was a peninsula extend­ tion, and whirling his tomahawk ing from a high, range of hills, 33 running parallel with. the Ohio ' fectual against the unbroken river, which jutted close to the and impenetrable column which Kanawha bank, about a half a was maintained by the whites; mile from its mouth. Knowing and the Indians were driven,. the importance of securing the with the loss of half their force, narrow pass which ran between back upon the main body.‘ Here, its base and the river, the Indian the fight still raged in the ex­ Chief despatched a picked body tremity ofopposition, every inch of his troops to take possession of ground was contested, from of it. They entered the dry bed behind every bush and decayed ofa small creek which skirted log the murderous flash arose. the foot of the hills, and pursued and the continued roar of a their route unnoticed till they thousand rifles vibrated through were about to enter the import­ the forest.” ant pass, when a shower of rifle “The savage Chieftian discover­ bullets pierced their body and ed that the chances against him swept down the foremost ranks. were desperate, yet, by his own A chosen band of rangers at the personal example of courage and same moment made their appear­ address, was the fight long‘ sus­ ance, with whom General Lewis tained, even after his line had in anticipation had guarded the been driven, step by step, from pass. _A yell of surprise and their original position. His voice rage burst from the savage line, could at intervals be heard, ris­ and they seconded their return­ ing above the din‘of the fight like ing fire by an unanimous and the shrill blast of a bugle; at one desperate charge with the hunt­ moment, his dusky form and ing-knife. The contest now as­ glittering ornaments could be sumed all the wild and terrific seen flitting through the trees cast which a personal struggle, upon the Ohio bank, and his war­ conducted with the deadly feel­ cry in the next would fill the ings of hate and revenge then echoes of the hill at. the farthest existing between the whites and extremity of the line. A sheer­ Indians, could inspire. The air ing ejaculation of triumph would was filled with the screams of one moment escape him, as an the savages and the deep impre­ advantage was gained by the de­ cations of the riflemen; every voted gallantry of some Shawnee blow brought death, ‘and the warrior; an imprecation upon ground was soon heaped with some . skulking Mingoe, in a the corpses of the combatants. short time afterwards, would be But the disappointed elforts of recognized in his voice. “Charge savage desperation were inef­ high and aim low” was his com­ 34

mand incessantly throughoutthe length illumined the scene, but day; and, it is one of the circum­ not a vestige of the Indian army stances remarked of that fatal remained; the living and the dead "fight, that most of the bullet­ had alike disappeared, and it wounds received by the whites was not until then, it was ascer­ proved mortal; but few of the tained or even suspected, that wounded ever recovered. Yet, the savages had secure them­ all the efiorts of the old warrior selves from interruption, under were vain; defeated and discour­ pretense of a night attack, had aged, the savage army almost thrown their dead, with weights abandoned the fight in the latter attached to them, in the ‘ river, part of the day, and it was re­ and retreated across it under duced to a mere straggling fire cover of darkness.” . ’ between individuals of the con­ Of the men who participated tending parties.” in the Battle of Point Pleasant, “Night closed upon the scene, we regret that no complete ros­ yet the ground was still occupied ter has been preserved. How- ' by the two armies. Although ever, the men ‘whowere in that victorious, the Virginians could army were friends and neigh­ neither press their advantage bors, and many of them related - nor retire to rest. An ambus­ by ties of blood and marriage, so cade or a night attack was ex­ that a review of a few of them pected from the savages, and will indicate the character of the their behaviour warranted the men composing the army. latter supposition. For, behind It will be seen by a review of along line of watch-fires, they the history of the colonies that could be discovered as' if cau­ tiously examining the points WOTeasant, to not the only Battle the of Colonists Point, most open to attack. The wild but England knew, as did Pat­ scream of a savage warrior, ap­ rick Henry when he made his parently advancing to the fight;' famous speech that “The War wouldat intervals break upon was inevitable." The British the death—like stillness of the Government seeing the fomenta­ night, and cause my heart to tion.in the colonies had made re­ leap almost out of my mouth. I peated concessions; willing to re­ confidently calculated that every linqnish, if necessary, all but the moment was the time for ‘their principle of the"Righ_tofEngland attack, and fancied divers times to levy taxes upon the Colonists could hear them stealing through without giving them representa­ the bushes upon us. The gleams tion in the British Government. of the morning sun, however, at The Colonists were astir with 35

intense excitement. The tea had ing Indians on the frontier, been thrown over board in Bos­ making it an absolute necessity ton Harbor and the Port had been that Virginia protect her homes, closed by a bill passed by Parli­ her women and children and her mentin March ofthatyear. Meet­ property rights, and this danger ings had been and were being held so eminent, could not be delayed. protesting against Royal oppres­ So calling together the fiower of sion. That powerful engine of the Colonial Army of Virginia, resistance, Committees of Corre­ which he promised should be spondence had been formulating united and together encounter their ideas of resistance and the the Indians in their homes, he Virginia Assembly convened at should cause, one branch to alone Williamsburg in May, had pass­ be attacked. hoping they would ed an independant resolution set­ thus be destroyed and if only ting forth that June 1st, 1774, temporarially defeated, they should upon the making elfective would be so busy protecting the of the Port Bill be made “a day frontier and their homes they of fasting and prayer to implore would have no time to go into the divine interposition for avert­ the Colonial Army, confederated ing the heavy calamity, which as they would be to resist the Brit­ threatens the civil right of ish Army, already many of whom America;” whereupon, the Earl were camping upon the plains of of Dunmore, then Governor of Boston. But to the surprise of Virginia, at once dissolved the Dunmore the Division of Lewis’ Assembly. The ContinentalCon- . Army was victorious and the tide gress had already convened and of American interests was its every breath was ladened changed. with resistance of British op­ Without the Army of Lewis, pression. ’ A which was the great mil­ Is it to be wondered at and itary training school of the C010­ is it not the most natural ny, many of whom went on into thing in the world, that Dun­ the Revolution and became many more would try to devise ways of them, oflicers of high rank, it and means to prevent Virginia would have been impossible for from participating in the federa­ Virginia to have raised her quoto tion of the Colonies; and what of men and oflicers to have partici­ more powerful instrument could pated in that struggle for liber­ he have set in motion to distract ty; and ‘without Virginia the their attention from the clouds‘ Colonists wouldhave thought it gathering in the East, than by impossible, as it would have been, setting in motion a band of howl­ to have undertaken that" strug­ \ 36

gle for independan-ce. Without it is a pigmy as compared with the entire support that Vir­ the fact that at last, after a lapse ginia gave George Rodgers Clark of One Hundred and thirty-four who was in the Dunmore divis­ years. the Congresszofthe United ion, but who later conquered the States has officially called it as it North WestTerritory, weakening is a battle of the Revolution. and the otherwise impregnable back­ if a battle of ‘the Revolution it ground that constantly threaten­ must of necessity be the first, as ed the frontier and in whose the hallowed Lexington was not territory did not close the strug­ fought, until ‘April 19th, ‘1775, gle for American Independance while that of Point Pleasant, was until Waynes treaty twenty fought October 10th, 1774. years later. The battle in its acquisition We think the opinions ogthe of territory ceded by the Indians early writers of history we have and previously ceded by France quoted, the natural circum­ to Virginia but literally in con­ stances surrounding Dunmore trol of the Indians until this at and previous to the Battle, time, this followed by the ceding makes it plain that although the of all the vast territory of the battle was between the Colonists Great North West by Virginia and lndiansit is beyond doubt to the infant republic at the close the first Battle of the Revolution, of the Revolution with the cessa­ and the Govermentof the United tion of Indian hostilities fol­ States; while it has been tardy, lowing the battle, permitting the is fully justified in making the . the Colonists to turn their atten­ declaration that the $10.000 ap­ tion to the expulsion of the Eng­ propriated for the erection of a lish army and the overthrow of monument is the British yoke, the moral ef­ “An act to aid in the erection fect that it had on Virginia, and of a memorial structure at Point and thus on the Colonies, made . Pleasant, West»Virginia, to com­ it the farthest reaching in its ef­ memorate the Battle of the Revo­ fect an battle ever fought lution, fought at that point*be­ on the American Continent. tween the Colonial ‘troops and The name of every man who Indians, October 10th, seventeen participated in that *7struggle hundred and seventy four.” whether he protected the fron­ While a shaft 82 feet high will .tier nearer home while the band stand as a sentinel upon the site of stalwarts went forth to con­ where the dead were buried, form iquer the Indians and make se- , whence the ‘battle was directed cure the wilderness, the men‘of and subsequently the fort, built, Wm. Christian’s Regiment who 37

rendered such valliant service, Lewis Army and together march comingas they did whenthe battle on to encounter the Indians was over. the army exhausted. upon the Pickaway Planes; wounded and bleeding and in so that as a part of the Army time to gather up and bury the they are entitled to be enrolled slain, should all be honored and with the heroes of that battle, preserved. Christain’s menwere which will be followed by the only delayed by their effort to roster so far as the writer has bring in supplies to the Army of been able to glean from all avail­ 54000pounds of flour on 400pack able sources, after many years horses but 108 additional head of of careful research. , Cattle. They expected to join G‘l.?INERAL ANDREW LEIWIS _ ’ Biographical __L.,_,,__,

Generalltndrew Lewis banded. In 1763 he was ap­ Gen. Andrew Lewis, the hero pointed to Lieut. for Augusta of the Battle was not only a gen­ Co. tleman of education and refine­ We next find him a member of ment§ but was a past master in the Virginia House of Burgesses the art of military tactics, hav­ and a member of a committee to ing entered upon his career in negotiate treaties. It was while 1742 as Captain of Malitia and thus engaged at the treaty of Lten years later. as head of Mali­ Fort Stanwix that the Governor tia of his county. He was with of New York said of him,"He Washington at Great Meadows looks like a genius of the forest, and Fort. Necessity in 1754, and, the very ground seems to when he was twice wounded. tremble under him as he walks ~ In 1755, he. was detailed to build along.” It is from Co‘. Stewart, forts hence. was not present at his biographer, ‘we learn that Braddock’s disaster. In 1756, “He was upwards of six fret he led the.Big Sandy expedition high, of uncommon strentrh ~-nd against the Shawnees. In-.1758, agility, and his form »f vh n when, with Washington and Gen. exact symmetry He had a Forbes, at Fort Duguesne, he stern countenance and was of a was wounded. reserved and distant deportment, He surrendered to a French which rendered his presence oflicer, was imprisoned at Mon­ more awful than engaging.” treal, was exchanged and saw While Mr. Alexander Reed, of active service. In 1762 at his Rockhridge County, Virginia, request his company was dis­ who~was with him ,at ‘Point 40

Pleasant, describes. him thus; to the East Hill Salem Cemetery, “He was a man of reserved man­ where, in 1902, they erected a ners, and. great dignity of char­ stately shaft to his memory. acter—'somewhat of the order of One of the six figures of Roger’s General Washington.” General equestrian statute at Richmond, Washington held him in such es­ commemorating famous Virgin­ teem that he recommended that ians, is that of General Andrew he be made commander-in—chief Lewis, but the greatest of his of the Continental army. monuments is builded in the The Battle of Point Pleasant hearts of a grateful American was not only the pivotal point in «Republic. the life of the nation, but in the Beside his brother Col.Charles life of General Lewis as well. Lewis, and John, son of his Heretofore he had fought as a brother William, Andrew had British subject. In defying the three sons in the Battle of Point * orders of Lord Dunmore, the Pleasant. What greater love Tory Governor, he was not only can a man have for his country among the first to defy Briton, than, like Jacob of old, to lay his but the first to take up arms in sons as a sacrifice on his coun­ defiance of British authority and try’s altar? from this time on we find him Col. Charles Lewis enlisted in the cause of the col­ AWhile Andrew Lewis is known . onists as against the English as the “Hero of the Battle of Crown. It seems the irony of Point Pleasant.” his brother, fate that he should not have Col. Charles Lewis, a brave sol­ lived to witness thesurrender at dier, too, was called “The idol Yorktown. While enroute home of the army.” While Andrew he.died of a fever at the home of had devoted his life to the cause his friend, Col. Buford, and was of his adopted country, he hav- V taken to his own estate “Rich­ ing been born in Ireland where field” where his remains were his parents were then residing, interred Sept. 20, 1731 near the it, was reserved for Col. Charles town of Salem, where they re­ to embody the completeness of posed for many years in an un­ American association, he having marked and neglected grave. been born in America, being A few years ago, the Ladies of the youngest child of John Lewis the Margaret Lynn Lewis Chap­ and Margaret‘ Lynn Lewis. ter, Daughters of the American Thus he had the distinction not Revolution.—ofRoanoke, Virginia, only of dying on American soil, had his remains‘ (which were but als oof having been born found well preserved)’ removed there; in 1733, in the county of

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Augusta,lState of Virginia. and him“ Howe says of him. was thus all his life known of “Charles Lewis was esteemed\_ _Virginia. loved of Virginia and the most skillful of all the lead­ he sacrificed his life, satisfied ers of the border warfare and that he had given to Virginia was as much beloved for his her full measure of devotion. noble and amiable qualities as he He was mortally wounded while was admired for his military leading a division of the army at talents." On page 182 of the outset of the Battle of Point Howe’s Virginia Its History & Pleasant and later was led to his Antiquities, we find a sketch tent where in a few hours he ex­ from his life; pired. Col. Andrew Lewis, his “Charles Lewis, the youngest nephew who was engaged in the son of John, is said never to have battle, says “He received his» spent one month at a time out of wound early in the action but active and arduous service. did not let it be known until he Charles was the hero of many had gotton the line of battle ex­ a gallant exploit, which is tended from the Ohio to Crooked still treasured in the memories Creek, after which he asked of the descendants of the bor­ Captain Murray, his brother~in­ der riflemen, and there are few law. to let him lean on his shoul­ families among the Alleghanies der and walk with him to his where the name and deeds of tent, where he expired about 12 Charles Lewis are not familiar o‘clock.” Captain A r b uc k 1e as household words. On one oc­ states that he received a wound casion, Charles was captured by which in a few hours caused his the Indians while on a hunting death. Roosevelt‘s winning of excursion. and after having trav­ the West says “The attack fell eled some two hundred miles. first and with especial fury, on barefoot, his arms pinioned be­ the division of Charles Lewis hind him, goaded on by the who himself was mortally wound­ knives of his remorseless cap­ ed at the very outset, he had not tors, -he effected his escape. taken a tree (the frontier expres­ While traveling along the bank sion for covering oneself behind of a precipice some twenty feet a tree trunk) but was in an open in height, he suddenly, by a piece of ground, cheering on his _ strong muscular exertion, burst men when he was shot. He the cords which bound him, and stayed with them until the line plunged down the steep into the was formed, and then walked bed of a mountain torrent. His back to camp unassisted, giving persecutors hesitated not to fol­ his gun to a man who was near low. In arace of several hun­ 42 dred yards, Lewis had gained of dying with hunger, ere I some few yards upon his pur­ could reach the settlement; but suers. when, upon leaping a rather wouldl have died, than prostrate tree which lay across made a meal of the generous his course, his strength sudden­ beast’.” ‘ ly failed, and he fell prostrate Kercheval’s History of the among the weeds which had Valley, describes the attire of grown up in great luxuriance Col. Charles Lewis on that day, around the body of the tree, at page 114, as follows: “ 'ol Three of the Indians sprang Chas. Lewis, who had arrayed over the tree within a few‘ feet himself in a gorgeous scarlet of where their prey lay conceal­ waistcoat, against the advice of" cealed; but with a feeling of the his friends, thus rendering him­ most devout thankfulness to a -self a conspicuous mark for the kind and superintending Provi­ Indians, was mortally wounded dence, he saw them one by one early in action; yet ivas able to disappear in the dark recesses walk back after receiving the of the forest. He now bethought wound, into his own tent, where himselfof risingfrom his un­ he expired. He was met on his easy bed, when lo a new enemy way by the commander-in-chief, appeared, in the shape of an his brother. ‘Col.Andrew Lewis, enormous rattlesnake, who had who remarked to him,“ I expect­ thrown himself into the deadly ed something fatal would befall coil so near his face that his you," to which the wounded fangs were within a few inches oflicer calmly replied, “It isthe of his nose; and his enormous fate of war.” The same" author rattle, as it waved to and fro, says at page 115, "Col. Lewis. a once rested upon his ear. A distinguished and meritorious single contraction of the eyelid­ officer, was mortally wounded a convulsive shudder——therelax­ by the first fire of the Indians, ation of a single muscle. and the but walked into the camp and deadly beast would have sprung expired in his o_wntent.” upon him. In this situation he Peyton’_s Historyof Augusta lay for several minutes, when County says “He abandoned the reptile, probably supposing himself too much to his passion him to be dead, crawled over his for glory and forgot the wide body and moved slowly away. difference between an oflicer and “I had eaten nothing,’ said a private. He was not inferior Lewis to his companions, after to his brother, the General, in his return, “for many days; I had courage, intrepidity and military no fire-arms, and Iran the risk genius; he surpassed him in 43 some respects, he knew how’to popular and beloved by all the oblige with a better grace, how western army. His loss was to win the hearts of those about a generalaflliction.” Dr. Ha1e’s him, with atnore engaging be­ “Trans-Allegheny says: ‘’C0l- I havior. He consequently ac­ onel Charles Lewis was said to quired the esteem and affection be theidol of the army. He had of his men, in a most remarka­ a large, active and honorable ble manner. To perpetuate the military experience from Brad­ memory of hi_spublic and private dock’s War down to death. And virtues, his eminent services in it is believed that he would have the field and his heroic fate, the achieved greater honors and dis­ General Assembly of Virginia, tinction in the Revolutionary in 1816, named Lewis County in struggle, .if his life had been his honor." spared, but his brilliant career Col. Charles lewis was ended in glory on this field.” By his kinsmen he was consid­ The charge he made at Point ered the “flower of the -flock.” Pleasant was in the" face of a Like his brother, he was a man fearless band of adversaries. of splendid physique and without WhenGen. Andrew Lewis select­ disparaging his kindred, he was ed his brother to‘ take command best loved because _ofhis high of the left wing of the army in degree of morality, spotless in­ the first attempt to repulse Corn­ tegrity and acknowledged brave­ stalk and his fearful braves, he ry. His long and active military selected his brother to bear that career had made him a hero in peril, not that he loved him less, the eyes of his comrades from but that he knew the army need­ the Braddock campaign to the ed his courageous example. Col. hour of his death, and while had’ William Preston, in writing of he lived, be doubtless would have his death to Patrick Henry‘, added new lustre to his name in said: “Poor Charles Lewis was the continued struggle of the shot in clear ground, encourag­ Revolution; after all, he had but ing his men to advance. If the one life to offer up to his country loss of a good man, a sincere and at this crucial moment no friend, a brave oflicer deserves a doubt it was needed most. His tear he certainly is entitled to it.” conduct inspired the army. At the close of the conflict, his The sacrifice of his ‘lifearmed mortal remains were laid to rest anew his companies and stimu- . upon the reservation of forty lated them to greater feats of feet square upon the present daring. Thwaite’s Dunmore sight of Tu Endie Wei Park, War says “Charles Lewis was where the Kanawha and Ohio 494

meet. Here, he is buried beside pepper County in 1720 of good the other dead of that battle. family is buried beside Col. No stone as yet has ever mark­ Charles- Lewis, his friend and ed his resting place. save the four comrade. He received his fatal granite corner stones erected in wound at the Battle of Point 1905by the Col. Charles Lewis Pleasant, while bravely checking Chapter Daughters of the Ameri the Indians. He rallied his can Revolutionat Point Pleasant. troops who had begun to waver, While no monument has as yet and, for a time, seemed likely to been reared to mark the last rest-. be repulsed. Col. Field had ing place of this great man, a been with Braddock and had tribute due him from his own seen frontier service from that loved ones, as well as from a date, both as a militia officerand grateful nation; it is equally a as a surveyor. In 1765he served matter of congratulation that in the Virginia Legislature, in though tardy the goverment has 1766 he was made Colonel of donated a small amount $10000 Malitia. His troops at Point which with the $6.000 in the Pleasant were a volunteer compa­ hands of the State Commission ny, raised by him in his own has been pledged in the contract county which he united with that let for a monument. But greater of Gen. Lewis. than this monument is‘the recog­ Col. William Flemming nition of the Goverment of the Col. William Flemming was status of the battle as regards renowed not only as a military the,Revolution, standing, as it ingenius, but as a learned physi­ does, on the heels of Indian cian and gentleman of culture.. depredations on yhe western While twice severely wounded at frontier and on the ‘threshold of the Battle of Point Pleasant. he the American Revolution for Am­ recovered and was subsequently erican Independence. This hon­ acting Governor of the State of , or so longdelayed, willat last have Virginia. He was a Scotchman written this page ,of American of proud lineage. Born Feb. 18, ‘ history correctly when -astately 1729. Prior to Dunmores war monument shall bear the inscrip­ he was Lieut. under _Gen.Forbes tion: ~ in 1760-61. In 1762he was Capt. Battle of Point Pleasant under Col. Adam Stephens at October 10, 1774. 'Vaux’s and Stonakers forts. In First Battle of the American 1763he married Anne Christian. * Revolution. ' His home was at “Belmont”in Col. John Field Montgomery Co. The wounds Col. John Field born in Cul­ he received at Point Pleasant. 45

disabled him for active perticipa— He early emigrated to Maryland. tion at the war of the Revolution, He commanded a company under but he ‘was County Lieutenant, Forbes in 1758. In 1771 he set­ in further defense, in his country tled on the Holston. In 177b he against Indians and State Sen­ was with Christian in the Cher­ ator1780-8l. actingGovernor dur­ okee expedition. In 177‘)he led ing the Cornwallis invasion 1781. a successful expedition upon the Twice commissioner to settle Chickamauga towns, having been local battles with Kentucky; appointed by Virginia a general member Virginia convention rat­ of Malitia. He continued inthe ifving the constitution of 1788. service throughout the Revolu­ He was benevolent and beloved tion engaged principally upon the and as a physician and surgeon sea board. He rose to the rank his ministration to humanity was of Colonel and before the close of most extensive. His death Aug. the war to that of General. He 24th, 1795 was the result of died at King’s Mountain, Dec.. Vwounds received at the Battle“ of 4th, 1794. Point Pleasant. Isaac Shelby Capt. Evan Shelby Isaac Shelby who served as a Capt. Shelby. who with his Lieutenant under his father two sons, was in the Battle of Capt. Evan Shelby at the battle Point Pleasant, was a ranking of Point Pleasant, was born at officer after the death ofColonels North Mountain, Md., Dec., 11th, Lewis and Field and the wound­ 1750, where his grand—father set- _ ing o’fFleming, until the arrival tled upon his arrival from Wales. ­ of ColonelChristian’s regiment. He had removed with his father It was Evan Shelby who, with to the present site of Bristol, his and the companies of Math­ Tenn., prior to the Dunmore ews and Stewart in the ruse, ex­ War and was engaged in feeding ecuted the flank movement up and herding cattle. He served Crooked Creek, that ledCornstalk throughout the Revolution dis­ to believe that Lewis had been re­ tinguishing himself at Camden, enforced, possibly by Dunmore King’s Mountain and Long who had played him false and Island Flats. Governor Patrick thus decided the fortunes of the Henry promoted him to a Cap­ day. Captain Shelby became taincy and commissioned him Colonel Shelby of the Revolution, Commissary general of the Vir­ ginia forces. When Sevier in Whose distinguished career is 1779 projected the expedition followed in- the history of Ken­ that captured the British stores, tucky and Tennessee. at Chicamauga, Shelby epuipped He was born in Wales in 1720. and supplied the troops by"the

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pledge of his individual credit. nah, daughter of Captain Na­ Governor Thos. Jefiferson com­ thanial Hart. He established missioned him a Ma_jor of Vir­ himself on the first settlement ginia, butla survey proved him and p‘re-emption granted in Ken­ to be a resident of North Caroli­ tacky which he made his home, na, when he was appoivnteda residing thereon 43 years. He Colonel by Gov. Caswell. He died July 18th,1826, aged 76 distinguished himself at Thick­ years. He was a strict Presby­ etty Fork, Cedar Springs and terian. ­ Musgraves Mills. Retreating John Jones. across the Alleghenies after the John Jones was born in Cul­ idjsasterous defeat at Camden, pepper County, Virginia, in 1755, he with John Sevier planned the and enlisted in the army of remarkable campaign which re­ Andrew Lewis and was in the sulted in the battle of Kings Battle of Point Pleasant, follow Mountain, the high water mark ing which, upon his return to of the Revolution that turned the Culpupper, he enlisted in the tide in favor of the patriot army. patriot army and served He did valliant service at ‘the throughout the Revolution. In battle of the Cowpens as well as 1792. he obtained patents for at Charleston. He was largely land for 359 acres on the unstrumental in preserving Ken­ Kanawha River and that same tucky to the Colonists as against year for 400 acres more. In 1797 an alliance with Spain. He was he obtained patents for 400acres six times chosen a Presidential in Teays Valley and land on elector for Kentucky. In 1812 Paint Creek, besides making he became the first Governor of purchases from the state. He Kentucky, which he accepted owned from Paint Creek to the with great reluctance and accept­ Narrows on Kanawha, including ed only that he might again aid the present sites of Pratt-and his country as against Great Dego. In the Clifton Cemetery Britain. He organized 4000 vol­ above. Paint Creek, his remains unteers and at the age of 63 were interred, a slab bearing in­ years led them in person to the scription, ' re-enforcement of Gen’l Wm. “In Memory of John Jones who HenryAHarrison enabling him to departed This life January 7, profit by the victory of Perry at 1838, Aged 83 Years.” Lake Erie. Congress voted him John Jones married Frances a gold Medal, and the Kentucky Morris, a sister of Wm. and Legislature’ a vote of thanks. Leonard Morris. He was hos­ In 1783he married Miss Susan­ pitable and a good citizen. The 47

Baptist Church founded at Kel­ daughters. she died in 1774. ley’s Creek in 1796 was largely aged 42 years, and in 1776, he due to his interest and generosi­ married Mrs. Jane Crockett, ty. I who bore him two daughters, His will, recorded March, Alice and Rhoda. By the first 1838,mentions his wife, Frances, marriage, the sons were George, and children, Gabriel, who re­ James, John and Silas. The turned to Culpepper County, Va.; names of the other two daugh­ William; Nancy who married ters are to us unknown. Huddleston; Thomas; Benjamir Logan. Levi; and Frances. who married Benjamin Logan, born in Shelton and were the progeni­ Augusta County. Va.. 1743, was, tors of the prominent Nicholas in 1764,a sergeant in Boquets’s County, W. Va., family of that Army. In 1771. he moved to the name. Holston Valley. He was a John Draper. Lieutenant in the Point Pleasant ‘Lieut. John Draper, of the Campaign’. In 1775, he moved to Battle of Point Pleasant, was Kentucky and built Logan’s born in 1730. and was one of the Station or fort which was besieg­ pioneer settlers of Drapers ed by Indians. Logan went to Meadows, where, in 1755, occur­ Holston settlement for ammuni­ red that dreadful massacre, in tion, returning on foot in ten which his wife and sister were days. In 1779, he was second in captured by the Indians. In 1765, command of the Bowman expedi« he removed to Drapers Valley tion. He was a noted Indian on the line between Pulaski and , fighter and allied himself with Wythe Counties, Va. He was K e n t u c k y, as against the commissioned a Lieutenant in Spaniards at NewOrleans. He oneof the Fincastle Companies removed to Shelby County. Ken­ in 1774. He died in 1828at the tucky, where he died in 1802. age of nearly ninety-four years. William Campbell. Prominent members of the William Campbell was born in family are still resident of Dra­ Augusta County, Virginia, in pers Valley. In 1886, John S. 1745, died at Rocky Mills, Han­ Draper, a great ‘grandson of over 630., Va. August 22, 1781. Lieut. John Draper, was the In 1767he moved to the Holston owner of the beautiful estate. Valley. In 1774he was appoint­ John Draper was twice married; ed Captain of militia and was in his first wife was Bettie C01. Christian’s regiment at After her return from captivity, Point Pleasant. In September, she bore four sons and three 1775, he commanded a company 48 at Williamsburg. in Patrick ed as a guide, receiving therefor Henry's regiment and under one thousand acres of land which — General Lewis assisted in dis- , be located near the present site lodging Governor Dunmore from of Louisville, Ky-. In 1772, he Gwynn’s Island in July, 1776. was a Justice of Fincastle County, In 1777he was made Lieutenant Va., and later a Major of Militia. of Militia in the new county of After the Battle of Point Pleas­ Washington. In 1779, he aided ant. 1775. he represented his in driving the Tories from the county in the Virginia Assem­ Holston Valley. In 1780."he was bly. In 1776, he was chosen promoted to a colonelcy of the re­ County Lieutenant for Washing­ giment and chosen to represent ton County, which oflice he held his county in the legislature. for thirty years.’ He joined At King’s Mountain he distin Sevier in the movement to estab­ guished himself and was com­ lish the state of Franklin for mended by Washington, Gates which Patrick Henry removed and Greene. He was with Gen. him from oflice and the legisla­ Greene at Guilford Court House ture re-instated him In his in March, 1781. He was made latter life he joinedhis sons at a Brigadier General of Militia Middlesburg, Ky., where he and served under Lafayette in died in 1811. the Battle of‘ Jamestown, soon John Campbeil. after which he died. Lafayttee Captain John Campbell, a said of him “His services at younger brother of Arthur, a King's‘ Mountain and Guilford lieutenant at Point Pleasant. would do his memory everlasting was a captain at the Battle of honor and ensure him a high Long Island Flats (1776) and rank among the defenders of served as County Clerk of Wash­ liberty in the American Cause”, ington County from 1779 to 1815. while Jefferson declared “Gen. Joseph Mayse. ‘ Campbell’s friends might quietly Joseph Mayse, who particii rest their heads on thepillow of pated in the Battle of Point his “renown.” His wife was a Pleasant, was from Bath County, sister of Patrick Henry. Virginia. In April. 1840, he Arthur Campbell. died, being in his 89th year. He Arthur Campbell, a cousin of had served as a magistrate in his Gen. Wm. Campbell, was born district for nearly fifty years. in Augusta County, Va., in 1743. He was a man of such remarka­ At fifteen »he was captured by ble memory he was considered Athe Indians and carried to Lake an “ofiicia'1 record.” He was‘ Erie. Escaping, he was employ­ twice high sheriff of Bath Coun­ 49

ty. His health was always per­ which ofiice he was filling at the fect and he boasted he had never time of his death. His son, taken a dose of medicine. Samuel Moore, represented Vir­ Gen. Andrew Moore. ginia in the Legislature and in Andrew Moore, a lawyer by Congress,—-a member of the profession, was born in Connie­ ‘Virginia Constitutional Conven­ cello, Augusta, now Rockbridge, tion 1829. In 1861, Samuel County, Va. In 1774, he was Moore opposed the secession admitted to the Bar. In October of Virginia, but, going with his of that year he was with Andrew state, he served in the Confede­ ‘Lewis’s Army at Point Pleasant. rate Army. The family have In 1776, as a .Lieutenant in the always been distinguished. patriot army, he participated at George Mathews. Saratoga, where he was promoted George Mathews was born in to a captaincy and served there­ Augusta County, Virginia, in after three years. The Virginia 1739, and died August 30, 1812. Legislature made him brigadier At twenty-two years of age he general of militia and in 1808 led a volunteer company against major general. the Indians. He was in com­ Gen. Moore had the distinction mand of a company of Augusta of being the only man west of troops at Point Pleasant, Oct. the Blue Ridge, prior to the civil 10, 1774. and participated with war, who ever represented Vir­ the patriot army throughout the ginia in the Senate of the United Revolution. He was engaged at States; which was during the ad­ Brandywine. At Germantown ministration of President Jeffer­ he received nine bayonet wounds, son. He was a member of the was captured with his whole reg­ Virginia Assembly from 1781to iment and confined in aprison 1789 and again from 1798 to 1800. ship at New York until Decem­ In 1788, he was a delegate to the ber, 1781. He then joined Gen. convention which ratified the Nathaniel Greene’s army in com­ i United States Constitution. He mand of the Third Virginia Reg­ was a member of Congress from iment. In 1785,he removed with Virginia during the entire ad­ his family to Georgia and settled ministration of President Wash­ in Oglethorpe County. In 1781­ ington. In 1800,he was elected 1791he represented Georgia in to the United States Senate, Congress; was Governor of where he served three years. Georgia, 1793-6. He was briga­ In 1810,President Jefferson ap­ dier general of Georgia. In 1811, pointed him United States Mar­ he was authorized by the Presi­ shall for the state of Virginia, dent of the United States to take 50 possession of West Flordia and a_ry service. He became Col. captured Amelia Island. His Sampson Mathews of the Revo­ son, George, became a Supreme lution. In 1781, he commanded Judge of Louisiana. He admit­ the regiment that repelled Ar­ ted no superiors but Washington. nold’s invasion of Virginia.’ He He was short, stout, erect, fea­ ,was one of a committee to draft tures bluff, hair red, ‘complexion­ instructions for the members‘ of florid. He died when on a visit the'Virginia Conventionat Rich­ to Washington and is buried in mond, Feb. 22, 1775. Col. Joseph Crockett. St.four .Paul’s chi ldren,’ churchyard. were Mrs. His Nothing can be truer than that Andrew'Barrv, of Staunton, Va., God provides men for the hour. Mrs. Gen. Samuel Blackburn, Among the one hundred men and Mrs. Isaac Telfair, of Staun- _ whoparticipated in the Battle of ton, and one son, Judge George Point Pleasant, and went on to Mathews, above mentioned. He become settlers of Kentucky, was three times married, (1) to that state so open,to the prey of the Indians that its first three Miss Amelia Paul, (2) to Mrs ....r.».-..-.—._--..-v--v Margaret Reed, of Staunton, and years saw more peopleslaughter­ (3) to Mrs. ‘Flowers, of Missis­ ed by Indians than that state had sippi. He was divorced from White population at the end of his second wife. that time, had among its other Sampson Mathews. emigrants who were in the Battle Sampson Mathews, Commis­ of Point Pleasant, Col. Joseph sary of Col. Charles Lewis’s Crockett, for asketch of whose Regiment, was called “Master life we are indebted to his illus­ Drover "of the Cattle.” In 1756, trious grandson, Col. Bennett H. Deputy Sheriff Sam pson Young, of Louisville, Ky. It is . Mathews assumed the functions as follows: of Chancellor of Augusta County. “My great grandfather, Col." . In 1764, he was appointed a Joseph Crockett, was born in” Justice of the Peace for Augusta. Alberm arle, and was one of the In 1776, with Alexander St. men who marched with Andrew Clair, he was appointed by the Lewis, with Charles Lewis, and state of Virginia as trustee “to with William Russell, and was erect at public expense and su­ engaged in the conflict at Point perintend a manufactory at such Pleasant. He was then a young place as they may think proper man. for the manufacture of sail duck,’ “He returned shortly after» <'..2.;;.4~..,u=»..L.:e."’l.-:"~*55’-"‘"*"”‘’"""-"“"‘l'.,:-.-‘ this preparatory for equipment the battle of Point Pleasant. and of a Virginia fleet for Revolution­ remained for several _monthsas 51

First Lieutenant in acompany of Miami Rivers, and helped to de­ Colonial Militia that was station­ stroy Chillicothe, and the Indian ed at Point Pleasant. When the towns on the Wabash, and fires of the Revolutionary War throughout the northwest, and were kindled, and it was neces­ in ‘these battles stayed the up­ sary for every man to go to the lifted hand of the cruel and ,front to resists British invasions, avenging Indian, who would the Indians were to be left a lit­ otherwise have wreaked his tle while to themselves.’ Vir­ cruelties upon the frontier set­ ginia and North Carolina were tlements of.both Pennsylvania then sending their pioneers to and Virginia and thus coming in make the settlements of Ken­ the rear of these enemies, aveng­ tucky which were, under God’s ed many of the wrongsiheaped providence and direction, one of upon the Virginia, Pennsylvania the chief agencies in the success and Kentucky settlements." of the colonies in their great James Robertson. struggle against the mother James Robertson, (by some country. My ancestor organized authors written Robinson), with acompany and marched to the Val. Sevier, discovered the In­ front. He was successively a dians before the Battle of Point Captain, Major and Lieutenant­ Pleasant. He was born in Colonel. He was a Major in Brunswick County, Va., 1742, Morgan’s riflemen. and recruit­ died in Chickasaw County, ed two companies for that cele­ Tenn., Sept. 1, 1814. He was brated organization. He, was :1 the personal friend of Daniel Lieutenant at White Marsh, was Boone. He did more to consum­ a Captain when Burgoyne sur­ mate a peace between the In-/ rendered, was engaged in all the dians and whites than any man battles previous to that great in Tennessee, when he became event. He was at Princeton the founder of Nashville, where and Trenton, and Valley Forge he withstood, with a handful of and Red Bank, and in 1779, he men, a siege of one thousand In­ raised a regiment known as the dians. Flattering offers were Crockett Regiment, which was made him by the Spanish gov­ sent west to assist George Rod­ ernment to»cut the territory of gers Clark in his war with the Tennessee loose from the gov­ Indians, and was with that dis­ ernment, and, with Watauga and tinguished soldier, second in Kentucky, establish anindepen­ command, in all the skirmishes dent country whichhe indignant­ and battles with the northwest­ ly declined. In 1790, he was ap­ ern Indians on the Ohio and pointed a brigadier general b-y 52

Washington. He shared with Judge Samuel McDowell. Sevier the honors and affections Judge Samuel McDowell who, of Tennessee. as Captain McDowell, command­ - John Smith. ed a company of Augusta troops at the Battle of Point Pleasant, Ensign John Smith, of the battle of Point Pleasant, left was a native of Rockbridge Coun­ sons, Abraham, of Rockingham ty, Va.' He married Mary Mc­ Co., Joseph and Silas H. of Clung, and, with his seven sons S Augusta Co., and daughter Nan­ and two‘daughters, in 1784, emi­ cy, who married Wm. Crawford, grated to Danville, Ky. He was His family have been distin­ one of the first Kentucky Court and was a member of the conven­ guished. tion that framed for Kentucky Beniamin Harrison. the first Constitution. He pre­ Benjamin Harrison command­ ed a company at Point Pleasant. sided over nine political conven-. tions which convened in Dan­ In July, 1775, he was appointed ville from 1784 to 1790. Captain of a company of Minute Men. In 1778, he was appointed In 1776, he was amember of Lieutenant Colonel of Militia for the Virginia House of Burgesses, Rockingham County. He was a representing Rockbridge Coun­ native af Loudon County, Vir­ ty. As Col. McDowell, he com­ manded a Rockbridge Company ginia. He was the founder of Harrison-burg, _Va. He died in during the Revolution. On 1819. April 20, 1781, he wrote the Gov­ Hugh and James Allen. ernor of Virginia, when a draft had been ordered from his coun-I‘ ’ Hugh Allen yvasa Lieutenant in C01. Charles Lewis’s Regi­ ty for April 26th, that if the men ment at Point Pleasant. where were drawn the county would be he lost his life and was buried ruined, as two thirds of the men beside Col. Lewis. His three had been engaged in the servi _ sons, John, William and Hugh, ces all the time and there were all settled in Kentucky. His no new ones to put in the brother, James Allen, who lived crops, and that he had marched with 200 men to join Gen. eight miles from Staunton, was Greene before the battle of Captain of Militia in 1756and was in the battle of Point Pleas­ Guilford _Court House. ant, and witnessed the death of John Sevier. his brother. He died in 1810, John.Sevier, born in Rocking­ aged ninety-four years and was ham Co., Va., Sep. 22, 1745, died an elder in the Augusta Stone near Fort Decatur, Ga., Sept. Church for sixty-four years. 24, 1815, was educated at Fred­ 58

ericksburg, Va., married at 17 which ofiice he filled for three years of age and became the years. He three tiines repre­ the founder of New Market on sented Tennessee _as a state in the Shenandoah. In 1772, he Congress. He was in the ac­ was appointed Captain of the tice service of his country from Virginia line and moved to Wat­ the age of 17 years to 70. As auga. In the Dunmore War, he long as he lived he was the real resumed his rank in the Virginia seat of power in Tennessee. A line and participated in the Bat­ monument in Nashville attests tle of Point Pleasant. When to his memory and Sevier Coun­ what is now Tennessee was or­ ty in Tennessee commemorates ganized into Washington Dis­ his fame. trict, North Carolina, John Valentine Sevier.­ Sevier was chosena delegate to Valentine Sevier, who wasa the legislature. In 1777, he seargent in Evan Shelby’s com­ again represented Watauga and pany and a younger brother of procured for his state, courts and , Gen. John Sevier, in 1779, was a rights of extension. He was ap­ Captain in the Chickamauga pointed clerk of the court and Campaign and led a company district judge and, with his against the British in North Car- " friend, James Robertson, was in olina, 1780, which culminated in control of the judicial and admin­ the Battle of King’s Mountain. istrative functions of the settle­ He rose to the rank of Militia ment. He“ was elected colonel Colonel and died at Clarksville, and-enlisted without exception Tenn., in 1800. ‘­ every able bodied man between James Harrod. the ages of 16 and 50. With Col. James Harrod who had been Isaac Shelby he planned the bat­ in Kentucky in the spring and tle of King’s Mountain. He summer of 1774, was with C01. continued to command the forces Charles Lewis. He built the against the Indians. Whenthe first cabin in Kentucky. He be­ new state, Franklin, afterwards came Col. Harrod of the Revolu­ Tennessee, was organized, he tion. e was a member of the took the oath of Governor March first Kentucky Legislature. He 1, 1785. When the new state be­ was an able assistant of Geo. came a part of the Union, he was Rodgers Clark in securing am­ the first .representative to Con­ munition. He declined to accept gress from the valley of the Mis­ ‘the appointment of Major of the sissippi, 1789-1790, and in 1796, first Regimental Militia of Ken­ when Tennessee became a state, tucky. Harrodsburg Kentucky, he was elected its first Governor is named for him. A man named 54 William Christian. Bridges with whom he "hadhad While Col. Wm. Christian was litigation murdered him,——the not an actual participant in the date is thought to be July, 1793. Battle of Point Pleasant, he, William Russell. with his three hundred volun-, _Willia1n Russell was but fif­ teers troops, not arriving until teen years of age when par­ 11 p. m., the night of the battle, ticipating in the Battle of yet they did noble services to the Point Pleasant. During the bleeding army and the valiant Revolution he rose to the Rank dead. He was a native of Angus­ of Colonel. He was a Lieutenant ta County and educated at Staun­ at the Battle of King’s Mountain ton. He participated in the and Guilford Court House. Af­ Braddock campaign. He mar-' ter the Revolution he settled in He’ ried a sister of Patrick Henry Fayette County, Kentucky. and settled in Bottetourt County. was appointed to command a In 1775.he settled in Kentucky regiment in the regular army. and Christian County is named In 1792,he represented Fayette in his honor. In April. 1776, he County in the Kentucky legisla­ was killed by a party of Indians . ture, which was repeated a dozen who had stolen his horses and in times until 1825, when he con­ whom, with a party of friends, tracted a cold at a public meet­ he was in pursuit. ing where he was called to pre­ side, which resulted in his ‘death. . George Slaughter. Col. George Slaughter, a son­ James Montgomery. in-law of Col. Field, after the Captain James Montgomery. Battle, settled in Kentucky and I who was in the Battle of Point was done.of eight delegates to Pleasant, _settled in Kentucky, Congress out of the city of as did James Knox, who was in Louisville. Isaac Hite’s Company. Others James Trimble. of Isaac Hite’s Company who James Trimble, a participant A settled in Kentucky were James in the Battle of Point Pleasant, McCullosh, John Shelp, William aged then but eighteen years, Field, Thomas Glenn, David .Wil­ had in 1770, been a prisoner of liams, James Brown, John Cowan, the Indians. In 1780 or 81, he John Wilson, Abraham Chapline emigrated to Woodford, Ky., be­ and John Clark. ing one of the earliest settlers. John Crawford. In 1804, he died in Kentucky, John Crawford represented having made preparations to - Montgomery County, Kentucky, move to Hillsborough, Ohio, in the Legislature in 1812. where his family removed after 55 his death. The Trimbles be­ Kentucky. He left sons, Adani came eminent. Allen Trimble and John and daughters Nancy, became Governor of Ohio. Wm. married Joseph Kinkcaid, Mary, A. Trimble was a Major in the married SamuelShrewsbury and War of 1812, and in 181‘)a Lieu­ Jane, who was the wife of Char­ tenant Colonel in the Regular les Lewis son of Col. Charles Army and a United States Sena­ Lewis, some of the descendants tor from Ohio. of the latter still being residents John Dickenson. of this county. Captain John Dickenson, who Anthony Bledsoe. commanded one of Col. Charles Anthony Bledsoe, born in Cul­ Lewis Companies of Augusta pepper County, in 1733, in 1774,. County troops and who was moved to the neighborhood of the wounded during the Battle of Shelby’s. He was a magistrate Point Pleasant, was left with of Botetourt, F i n c a s t l e and C01. Fleming at the forbwhen Washington Counties, and a Andrew Lewis, with his troops, member of the Virginia Assem­ advanced into Ohio. In 1785, he bly from Washington County, surveyed 502 acres of land at the 1777-78. He moved to B1edsoe’s mouth of Campbell’s Creek on Lick, North Carolina, and repre­ the Kanawha River. In 1777,he sented his district in the assem­ commanded. as a Colonel with bly of his state from 1785, to Major Samuel McDowell, the 1788, .when he was killed by In­ Bottetourt troops, as well as dians. He was in charge of the troops, from Augusta County, Commissary under Col. Christain and marched to the defense of at Point Pleasant with the rank the fort at Point Pleasant, ac­ of major. He commanded the companied by Capt. Hal1’s com­ forces at Long Island until July, pany of Rockbridge volunteers, 1777, and in 1779, went out numbering in all about 700 men, against the Chickamaugas and and he witnessed the murder of did not participate in the Battle Cornstalk, which with the oflicers of King’s Mountain because he in command he tried to prevent. felt it was his duty to remain at In 1791, when Bath County was home and protect the frontier. organized, he was appointed one William Cocke. of the first gentlemen justices of Captain William Cocke, of the thatcounty which honor he ‘de­ Battle of Point Pleasant, served clined. He died in 1799, owning in the legislature of four states large tracts of land in Bath, and in the federal senate, as well Greenbrier and Kanawha Coun­ as was prominent in his military ties; besides large holdings in career. He was born in 1748,in

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Amelia County, Virginia He before the battle. James Moon­ studied law and removed to the ey, who accompanied him, suc­ Holston Valley.’ He was a ceeded ‘in reaching the camp, brilliant orator and popular. but was killed during the battle. » After the Dunmore War he settl­ Philip Love. ed for a while in Boonesborough, Capt. Philip Love later served Ky., but returned to'the Watauga as a Colonel in Christian’s and participated in the Chero­ Cherokee Campaign in 1776. kee Campaign. In 1777,he was a Ellis Hughes. I member of the Virginia Assem­ Ellis Hughes, who is thought blyf In 1780 he led a company to have been the last survivor of at King’s Mountain. He was the patriots of the Battle of Point made a Brigadier General of Pleasant, went, after Wayne’s Tennessee and, in 1796,one of treaty, to Ohio and died March, I the federal senators and was re­ 1845, at Utica. N. Y., where he elected in 1799. . was highly respected. He was . ” In 1809he was elected a circuit buried with military honors. judge of Tennessee. In 1812he Reared in his native state Vir­ removed_toColumbus, Miss., and ginia, nurtured amid the scenes enlisted as a private in the war of forest savagery, wherein by of that year and soon rose to dis­ I [ndian depredations he lost his tinction, He died in 1828 at father and sweetheart, it is not Columbus, Miss. surprising that he pursued the John Sawyer. dusky foe until he had disappear­ Col. John Sawyer, born in Vir­ ed from Virginia and from his « ginia 1745, died_in Knox County, adopted home, Ohio. Tenn., in 1831,and was with the John Steele. Shelby’s at Point Pleasant. In John Steele, who was wounded 1776,he served in the Cherokee during the engagement at Point Campaign and in 1779 in the Pleasant, was born in Augusta Chickamauga expedition land County, Virginia, about 1755. commanded under Gen. Shelby a He was an ofiicer in the Battle of company at King’s Mountain.‘ Point Pleasant »and served He wasaMajor, nexta Colonel‘ throughout the Revolution. He and was a representative to the was again wounded at the Battle state assembly, of Tennessee‘. of Germantown. He was for Joseph I-iughey. many years a member of the Ex­ Joseph Hughey, of She1by’s ecutive Council of Virginia and Companyfwas killed when at in the administration of Presi­ tempting to bring the news of dent John Adams, was a commis­ the Indians’ presence to camp sioner to treat with the Cherokee

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Indians. From 1798 to 180] he in Bath County, Va., where he was Secretary of the Mississippi located, about four miles from Territory. ' Warm Springs. He accumulat~ Azariah Davis. ed large land interests. His Azariah Davis, of the Battle of residence of stone was magnifi­ Point Pleasant, was a member of cent for its time _and overlooked Harrod’s Company. He was the Jackson River. Major Cam­ one of themembers of the First eron became the first Clerk of Kentucky Legislature and is Bath County, serving both courts mentioned (1775) among the for a number of years. After first settlers of Harrodsburg. the Revolution, he became Colo­ Kentucky. nel of Militia. As a personal friend of Gen. Lafayette, he was John Todd. presented by him with a beauti­ John Todd became one of the ful cane which he used and prized founders of Louisville, Ky.. He until his death, which occurred was with C01.George Slaughter. June 14, 1829. He was survived by his widow, Mrs. Rachel Prim­ Chas. E. Cameron. rose Warwick and one son, An­ Chas. E. Cameron and his drew Warwick Cameron. brothers, Hugh and George Cam-' Silas Harlan eron, were with the Virginia Silas Harlan, of Berkeley troops at Point Pleasant in which County, Virginia, was in Captain engagement George Cameron Harrodfs Company and, after the was killed. They were brothers­ Battle of Point Pleasant, emi­ in-law of Col. Charles Lewis, grated to Kentucky. In 1779, who was killed in that battle, he commanded a company of whose wife Sarah Murry, was spies under Gen. Geo. Rodgers their half sister. George Cam­ Clark in the Illinois campaign. eron resembled in person and Gen. Clark pronounced him one being his distinguished father, of the bravest and most accom­ Dr. John Cameron, of Staunton, plished soldiers who ever fought who had emigrated from Scot­ by his side. He was a" Major at land. Charles Cameron served the Battle of Blue Licks, where throughout the Revolution, asa he fell. He was but thirty years Lieutenant and was with the of age and unmarried. Virginia troops at the surrender Jacob Warwick of Yorktown In 1790 he was Jacob Warwick, of Bath Coun­ one of the gentlemen justices of ty, Virginia, on the morning of Augusta County. On December the Battle of Point Pleasant, had 14, 1790, he received a land grant gone out early to kill beeves and 58

prepare rations for the army. John Van Bibber was written of He and the men who accompa­ by all historians as Captain and nied him hearing the first shots family notes say he was made of battle, thought Dunmore had Captain after the Battle of Point arrived and that the guns were a Pleasant and Commissary of salute. Later they thought it a Fort Randolph. The Van Bib­ practice exercise, but, determin­ ,bers continued to defend the bor­ ing to see for themselves, they der although Isaac, the son of joined the army in time to help Isaac, fell at Point Pleasant, materially in turning the tide of while Jacob and Mathias Van victory. _ Bibber died twenty years later. Jacob Warwick is buried be­ As late as 1843, Captain Jesse’ side his wife at Clover Lick Cem­ Van Bibber was still residing on etery in Barth County, Va., Thirteen Mile Creek in Mason where he died Jan., 1826, in his County, now West Virgipia. I 83rd year. He died at the home He with his brother, John Van of his daughter, Mrs. Major Bibber vxere among the earliest Charles Cameron, on Jackson settlers of that County.” River. ; \ Howe, the Historian, who in The Van «Bibbers. writing the History of Virginia The brothers, John, Isaac and in 1836, said “There is living Peter Van Bibber, and Jesse, upon Thirteen Mile Creek, Mr. son of Peter, were participants ‘Jesse Van Bibber, and aged in the Battle of Point Pleasant. , pioneer in this county. His life, Mrs. Miriam Donley, a—VanBib­ like his own mountain stream ber descendant, writing for the therein, ‘wasrough and turbulent ' July, 1903, West Virginia His­ at its commencement; but as it torical Magazine,says “Isaac had nears its close. calm and peace­ come from the Carolinas on a ful, beautifully reflecting the visit to his brother in Bottetourt Christian virtues.” County, when the call to arms Leonard Cooper. resounded through the land. Captain Leonard Cooper, an­ Although aBaptist minister, he other Revolutionary soldier who could and would not resist, as is buried in Mason County, West hearts were that day attuned to Virginia,, participated in the martial music, and he responded Battle of Point Pleasant. Prior to its call. He fell mortally to the Revolution. he held a com wounded besides Colonel Charles . mission in the Colonial army of Lewis. Peter fought with such Maryland. Learning of Dun­ bravery he was promoted _and more’s War, ~ he‘ hastened to complimented on the battle field. Staunton, Virginia, and entered 59 the Army of General Lewis. He savagerv the vast domain in remained in the service until the which his expedition laid. He close of the Revolutionary strug­ was not only with General An­ gle. In 1789 Major Cooper re­ drew Lewis at the Battle of Point moved, with his family from Pleasant. where as a pilot (having M.aryland to Fort Randolph, first visited the mouth of the later erecting a Block House, Kanawha in 1764) he safely con­ known as Cooper’s Block House, ducted that wing of the army, (where Mr. George W. Pullin but when Geo. Rodgers Clark now resides) in Cooper District, was organizing his expedition nine miles from the mouth of the against the French Forts in Kanawha, on the upper side. He Illinois from which the Indians there removed with his family. were known to receive supplies, In 1804, when the new County he (Capt. Arbuckle) tendered of Mason was organized, Major his services which were accepted Cooper was appointed a justice and he acquitted himself with of the peace _inwhich capacity credit in that ever memorable he served until his death which campaign, He defended the fort occurred in 1808. His remains at Point Pleasant. He married were buried near his home. His Catherine Madison, widow of son, Leonard, born in 1791, was Capt. Robert McClannahan, who the first white child born at fell in the Battle of Point Pleas- ‘ Point Pleasant. Another of ant. He remained in command Leonard Cooper’s children, Mary of Fort Randolph until 1795when became the wifeof William Trot­ Wayne made his treaty with the ter, son of Richard Trotter, kill­ Indians, when he bought land and ed in the Battle of Point Pleas­ located on the Kanawha four ant and Anne (Trotter) Bailey, miles below the present town of who, going from Cooper’s Block Buffalo, where he and his wife House, by canoe to Gallipolis, passed a"peaceful and honored wherein 1800, their marriage old age. Among their descend­ ceremony was performed. This ants yet on the Kanawha are the is said to have been the. first families of Arbuckle, Craig, Virginia marriage performed in Alexander, Miller and others. the French Settlement. William Arbuckle had two child­ William AI-buckle. ren born within the fort at Point Captain William Arbuckle, of Pleasant. He and his wife both Rockingham County, 'Virginia, are buried in the church yard at deserves to rank with Daniel the Arbuckle Church in Mason Boone and Simon Kenton in the County West Virginia, Simple valor displayed in wresting from stones are thus engraved: 60

“Wm Arbuckle, born" March, Virginia Regiment, serving un­ '1752, Died March 21, 1836, til April, 1779. In 1780, be was Aged 84years.” elected a Justice of the Peace, of “Kitty Arbuckle, Died July 18, Greenbrier County, which oflice 1818, Aged 64 years.” . he held in 1787, the time of his John Young. death. He was survived by his widow who died May 28, 1819, John Young became a settler and children,- Samuel, John, in the present Kanawha County, Margaret, James, Jean and and, in the ‘military organization William. John and Samuel in­ of the County, was a lieutenant herited the lands on Kanawha, of militia. He left a son, Jos. where they made permanent Young, from whom descend homes. Samuel building his many residents of the valley. cabin home at the mouth of Ka­ John Henderson. nawhaand in 1810 burned the John Henderson, about 1740, brick and erected a commodious with his brothers James and brick house. the second one in Samuel, came toiAugusta County, the county, now occupied by his Virginia, from Scotland. \ grandaughter, Mrs. Ella M. Descending from'James, John Henderson H u tc h in s o n and his second son, was born 1740, family. and died March 24, 1787. In 1765 JohnHenderson second, he married Ann Givens, sister to son of Capt. John Henderson, the wife of Gen. Andrew Lewis, was a man prominent in the and buying 300acres of land, he public atfairs of Mason County, settled in Greenbrier. In 1786, and he occupied and inherited he was granted by Governor that part ‘ofthe tract of land ad­ Randolph 350 acres, now in joining his brother Samuel but ­ Greenbrier County, and 1400 running further up the Kanawha. acres on the South Side of the Luman Gibbs. ‘ Kanawha in what is now Clen­ Luman Gibbs was but 16years dennin and Arbuckle Districts, of age when, with the army of Mason County, West Vriginia. General Andrew Lewis, he par­ In Greenbrier County, he be­ ticipated at the Battle of Point came a Lieutenant of Militia and Pleasant. He was left as a_part ranked as such in Captain Her­ of .the Garrison at the Fort. He bert’s Company at Point Pleas­ becameva noted scout and for ant. Later he was Captain of twenty years he served in that the Greenbrier Militia and later capacity, wandering over the was a Corporal in Capt.Gregory's hills of the present County of ~Company in Daniel Morgan's Mason." His weekly route pro­ 61

ceeded from Fort Randolph up gaged in that battle. He partici­ the Kanawha to the Mouth of pated in many struggles through­ Eighteen Mile Creek. thence out the Revolution. He married across to Letart Falls, thence (1) Susan Woodside,.who bore down the Ohio to Point Pleasant,‘ him nine children. among whom and his ‘‘All’s Well” for twenty was Col. Lawson Eastham; his years dispelled the fears of the second wife, Mrs. Mary Brown, earl_v settlers in and about the widow of James Brown, bore tort. 'l‘he early settlers knew him three children, viz., Lucinda, the route as “Gibb’s Track." Albert G. and Saunders: In ~ He married and locatediperma­ 1817, he moved to Arbuckle dis—_ nently in Mason County, where trict, Mason County, ‘Virginia, he has many descendants. known as Five Mile Creek, and He had emigrated to Augusta in the following year died. His County Virginia in 1755 son, Albert G. Eastham, horn in coming from New Hampshire 1805, father of a large family in where he was born. He engaged Mason County, died Feb. 23, at once in the«Co1onia1Army in 1890, at his home in Arbuckle that year with Andrew Lewis in District being the last real son of the Braddock campaign and “The Revolution”‘in the county again enlisted in his command of Mason. He left many descen­ for the Point Pleasant Campaign. dants in that County who do He was as noted for his sunny honor to his name. disposition as for his bravery. John Stuart. He lived to a great old age and Col. John Stuart was the son died 1837 _and is buried in the of Col. David Stuart, County Gibbs family burying ground Lieutenant of Augusta County, eight miles from Point Pleasant. when that county extended from In the same grave yard are buri­ the Blue Ridge to the Mississippi, ed Revolutionary soldiers James 1755. Ball and Isaac Robinson who too John Stuart, son of Daniel and participated in the Battle of Margaret Stuart, ‘was born in Point Pleasant and became resi­ 1749, in Augusta County and dents of Mason County. emigrated to Greenbrier in 1769 George Easthaflh and builta house of hewn logs George Eastham, of Far­ two and a half stories high, quier County, Va., who was in which he used as a residence and one of the companies with C01. fort, knownas Fort Union. Field at the Battle of Point When his cousin Andrew Pleasant, was born in 1758,and Lewis rested his army at Fort hence was but a youth when en­ Union and was ready to continue 62 the march to Point Pleasant, his land »o w n e r s of Greenbrier forces were augmented by Col. County. In the splendid stone Stuart's and one company com­ mansion he had built, he lavishly , manded by Capt. Robert McClan­ entertained. Here were wont naham. ' to meet the most intelligent, pol­ At Point Pleasant Captain ished and distinguished men, Stuart’s Company was one of not only of Virginia, butofpother the three sent up Crooked Creek states a n d nations, and his in the flank movement that suc­ generosity was only bounded by cessfully put'C0rnstalk to rout. the demands of his neighbor­ Col. Stuart did not go on with hood, the further battles of the Revo­ 1788,he was a member of the lution, but continued the defense Virginia Constitutional Conven of Fort Union and organized a tion. In 1793, he was appointed force and went to the successful Lieutenant Colonel of the 79th relief of Fort Donnallywhen that Regiment of Militia. In 1776, fort was so vigorously attacked he and his wife each contributed by‘the Indians. 500pounds sterling to build the November 25. 1780, Col. John old stone church at Lewisburg, _ ‘Stuart became clerk of Green­ yet beautifully preserved-. He brier. At the close of the first was a member of seven‘ literary deed book he makes valuable his­ societies includingithe American torical notes including an ac­ Philosophical Society. His li­ count of the Battle of Point brary was extensive and valu­ Pleasant. able. He built in his own yard . Col. Stuart married Agatha, the rst clerk's oflice of the the widow of John Frogg, killed county which is still standing. in the Battle of Point Pleasant, He presented the county the lot. she the daughter of Thomas upon which the f.rst court Lewis, hence already his kins­ house at Lewisburg was built. woman. They had four chil­ He died August 23, 1823, and is dren, Margaret, who married interred in the old family bury- a General Andrew Lewis. son of ing ground. Col. Char_les Lewis; Jane Thomas Posey. married Robert Crockett; Char­ Thomas Posey -was born on les A. married Elizabeth Robin­ the Potomac~River in Virginia son,'and Lewis, who married, July 9, 1750. He early participa­ Sarah, the second daughter of ted with the Virginia militia and Col. Charles Lewis. ‘‘ -with the rank of Captain, was Col. Stuart became one of the Quartermaster ‘to the Army of‘ best business men and largest General Lewis. ‘ 63

In 1775. he was appointed a Indian alfairs from 1813 to 1816. member of the Committee of He died at Shawnee Town, Ill., Safety and that year raised a March 19, 1818. His first wife company which he commanded was the daughter of Colonel and assisted Gen’ Andrew Lewis Sampson Mathews, of Virginia; in driving Governor Dunmore his second wife, widow of Major from Gwinn’s Island, July 8, Geo. Thornton, and daughter of 1776. In 1777, he joined the John Alexander. Continental Army at Middle Posey County, Indiana, com­ Brook, N. J. Here he became memorates his name which name one of the distinguished picket adds lustre to the roll’ of the men of Morgan’s Riflemen, dis­ army of General Lewis. tinguishing himself at Piscato-v John Lewis. ‘ way. Bennington Heights and Major John Lewis, a nephew Stillwater. In 1778,he was pro­ of General Andrew Lewis with moted to the rank of Major, in whom he was engaged at Point command of the Morgan Rifle Pleasant, died in 1823. at his men. In 1778, he commanded home at Sweet Springs. He was the 11th Virginia Regiment, At the son of Wm. Lewis, brother of the close of that year he entered Gen. Andrew Lewis. IHe was the artillery service and was in noted for his courage, integrity charge of a battery under Wayne and high sense of honor and con­ in the attack upon Stony Point, tinued in the service of the Col­ one of the most thrilling incidents onies throughout the Revolution. of the Revolution, being the first As a Lieutenant he was engaged field oflficerto enter the enemy’s at Monmouth,Saratoga, Trenton works. He witnessed the sur­ and spent the winter of 1777 at render at Yorktown. He retir­ Valley Forge. He rose to the ed with the rank of Brigadier rank of Major, which rank he General, settling at Spottsylvania held at Monmouth. In 1783 he Court House, Virginia. 1793, returned to his Virginia home, he removed to Kentucky, where but was much engaged on the he was elected Lieutenant Gov­ frontier until the close of ernor and, as such, President of Wayne's Campaign. He was the Senate. Moving to Louisiana five feet, ten inches high, com­ in October, 1812, he was chosen pactly built, muscular,. strong to filla vacancy in _the United and courageous. At the time of States Senate, President Har­ his death, he was an Elder in the rison appointed him Governor of Presbyterian Church. Indiana Territory which honor William Clendernin. he declined. He was agent of William Clendennin was a pri­ 64

vate in the Battle of Point Pleas­ Martha Young Bing, born in ant. Later he was commission­ Gallia County. Ohio, Oct. 24. ed Major in the Kanawha Militia. 1805. died Oct. 30. 1900, was the He represented Kanawha Coun­ -ancestor of the Filson and Cable ty in the Virginia Assembly in families of Mason County, West 1796-1801-1803. He was a C01­ Virginia. lector of Levies 1792-1793-1794. Archibald Clendennin. He was a justice of the peace‘ {Archibald Clendennin, brother and member of the first Court in of William and George. married the County, held at his house in Nancy Ewing andlived ona 1789. In 1790, he settled in farm a mile from Lewisburg. what is now Mason County, W. The family were attacked by In­ Va., In 1804, he carried the dians, and Archibald Clendennin petition to the Virginia Assem­ was killed. His wife was cap­ bly asking for the organization tured by the Indians, but made of Mason County Virginia and in her escape. 1805,was the first representative _Benjamin Logan of that county. Benjamin Logan was born in Major Clendennin had settled Agusta County, Virginia, in about 1797at Eight Mile. Mason 1752. He emigrated to Penn­ County. In 1802he purchased a sylvania from Ireland, when a part of the Hugh Mercer tract child, and when but fourteen, and built the first log cabin in emigrated with his parents from Clendennin District, Mason Pennsylvania to Virginia, where County, and many of his descen­ hisfather died. By the law of_ dants are living in Mason and ad­ entail then prevailing in Virginia joining counties in West Vir­ he became the heir of his fathers ' ginia and Ohio. By his son estate, but he divided it with Charles. whose son William mar­ his mother,'brothers and sisters. ried Sophia Neale of Gallipolis, He married and settled on the their son, James B. Clendennin, Holsten river and was with C01. is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Henry Boquet in his expedition George Wallis, of Apple Grove. against the Indians. He was in Sophia, daughter of William the battle of Point Pleasant. In - Clendennin, married John Miller, 1775he emigrated to Kentuckey and her sister’ Ann, married with Daniel Booneand establish­ Henry Miller, both of Gallipulis. ed Logans.Fort, where he moved Another sister, Elizabeth. mar­ with his family the followingyear. ried John Bing of Gallia ’County,­ He was one of the most daring Ohio, from whom decended a of Kentucky pioneers and his large family. Their second child, defense and relief of his fort is 65 a one of the most thrilling pages in afterward called Fort Clenden­ Kentucky history. His expedi­ nin. In 1794, the town of tion against the Indians at Chil­ Charleston was laid off, which licothe in which the Indians were was not named, but finally called put_to rout and their supplies Charlestown, in honor of Charles captured, including 150 horses, Clendennin, father of George. was admirably planned and exe­ The first court was held in Kan­ cuted. In41788 he led a regi­ awha County, Oct. 5, 1789, at the ment of 600 men against the In» residence of George Clendennin, dians of the North West. He a County Lieutenant. He was passed his declining years in one of the first representatives Shelby County, Kentucky, on his of Kanawha County, 1790-1791­ extensive farm, dying, Dec., 11, 1792 1794-1795. In 1794 he was 1802. He was six feet three made a trustee for the newly tall, powerfully built with nerves laid off town of Point Pleasant. and courage like a lion. His son His wife was Jemima, claimed Wm. was the first white child by some to be the sister of Thos. born in Kentucky and became an Ewing, of Ohio, but which has eminent lawyer, being twice ap­ been found to be an error. He pointed appellate Judge of Ken­ died after 1795,when his name tucky and in 1820 was a United last appears as signing a deed "States Senator from Kentucky. and in 1797his wife appeared in John Logan. court as his widow, when she John Logan brother of Benja­ gave bond as administratrix. min was engaged in the Battle Parthena, daughter of George of Point Pleasant. \ He emigrat­ and Jemima. Clendennin married ed from Virginia to Kentucky John Meigs of Marietta, Ohio. where he was a military leader Johh Meigs dying, his widow and several times was a repre­ married Major Andrew Bryan, sentative. their daughter Mary married George Clendennin. John McCul1och, from Whom de­ George Clendennin who par­ scended Mrs. M. M. Moore, Mrs. ticipated in the Battle of Point P. S, Lewis, Mrs. J. J. Bright, Pleasant, represented Green­ John A. and Charles E. McCul­ brier County in the Convention loch, who were reared on a farm at Richmond, 1788, that ratified below Kanawha in Arbuckle Dis­ the Federal Constitution of Vir­ rict, Mason Co., West Virginia. ginia. In that year, he purchas­ Mary, the third daughter of ed 1030acres of land, the site of G eorge Clendennin, married the present city of Charleston, Major John Cantrell whose only and in that year built Fort Lee, daughter became the wife of the 66 late C. C. Miller, of Mason ‘county, a Captain of‘ Fincastle Militia, who has left many descendants. who participated in the Battle of Alexander Breckenridge Point Pleasant. He died 1776. Alexander Breckenridge nam­ Walter Crockett. ed for his maternal grandfather Captain Walter Crockett was Alexander Breckenridge was in _born on the South Fork of the the Battle of Point Pleasant, and Holston River. He was a coun­ later served as Colonelin the 7th. ty magistrate. He continued in Virginia in the Revolution, re­ the patriot army after the Battle signing in 1778. He was for many of Point Pleasant and distin­ years Clerk of Augusta County. guished himself at King’s Moun­ He and Patrick Henry married tain, 1780. sisters. . John Floyd. Capt. John Lewis John Floyd, who was a school Captain John Lewis eldest son teacher, made his home with Col. of Thos. Lewis was a nephew of Wm. Preston, of Fincastle Coun­ -Gen’l Andrew Lewis. He was ty, was a native of Virginia, born born in 1749. He was wounded 1750. In _1774,'hewas appointed at the battle of Point Pleasant. a deputy sheriff. In the spring He engaged in the struggles of of 1774,he led a surveying party the Revolution, was at Valley to Kentucky and, returning, Forgeand Jersey, and witness­ joined Wm. Christian in the ed the surrender of Cornwallis. Point Pleasant expedition, arriv­ Stephen Trigg. ingtoo late to actively engage in Capt. Stephen T rigg, of the the battle, but was active in the Battle of Point Pleasant, was a good offices of his company in member of the Virginia Assem­ ministering to the needs of the J bly from Fincastle in 1774,when army. He married Jane Buck­ Governor Dunmore dissolved hannon, niece of Col. Preston, that body. He signed the Arti­ and in 1779located in Kentucky, cles of Association of the C010­ where, in 1783,he was killed by nies in 1775 and was active’ in Indians. His son, John Floyd, protecting the frontier during who was born in Jefferson Coun­ the Revolution. In 1779he emi­ ty, Virginia, 1770, represented .grated to Kentucky and repre­ Virginia in Congress 1817-1829, sented that county in the Vir­ ——Governor of Virginia 1829­ ginia Assembly 1780, ’While . 1834. South Carolina cast leading a charge at the Battle of her electoral vote. for him for Blue Licks, 1782,he was killed. president in 1832. His son, William Herbert. . John B. Floyd, grandson of the Captain William Herbert was John Floyd of Point Pleasant 67 campaign, was a member of the Oflice, Washington, D. C., under Virginia Legislature 1847 and date March 28, 1908, is authori­ was Governor of Virginia 1850­ tative that after the Battle of 1853 and was Secretary of War Point Pleasant, he continued to under President James-Buck­ serve in the patriot army: “It hannan. He was indicted by is shown by the records that one the government, -charged'with Benjamin Lewis who served as the misuse of government sup­ a seargent in Capt. ' John Spots­ plies and funds. He demanded wood’s Co. 10th Virginia Regi­ a trial and was exonerated. He ment Commanded successively resigned his position and became by Col. Edmond Stevens and Gen. John Floyd of the Confed­ Major Samuel Harnes and Col. erate Army. He married Sallie John Green, Revolutionary War. Buckhannan, granddaughter of He enlisted November 29, 1776, Wm. Campbell, of the Battle of to serve three years and was dis­ Point Pleasant, and a niece of charged July 5, 1778. Patrick Henry. They had no Signed, F. C, Ainsworth children. The Adjutant General." Benjamin Lewis. That Benjamin Lewis above Quoting from the biography of referred to was not a descendant his decendant, State Historian of John Lewis, the founder of and Archivest ‘Virgil Anson Staunton, -we quote from a mem­ Lewis, in “Men of West Vir­ orandum of Mrs. Sarah Lewis ginia” (1903) page 31, “His pa­ Rodgers, who was raised at the ternal ancestors were among the old Lewis home on Muddy Creek, first settlers of the Shenandoah in Greenbrier County, who mov­ Valley, Where they were found- . ed in pioneer days to Illinois. ers of the city of Staunton. Writing to her nephew, Rev. They were active frontiersmen «JacobH. Lewis, a Presbyterian and participants in the Revolu­ minister, of Greenbrier county, tionary and Indian Wars. His the latter dying at 92 years of great ‘grandfather, Benjamin age, the manuscript is yet pre­ Lewis, was wounded in the Battle served and says: of Point Pleasant and after the “Our Lewis family in Green­ wars were over in 1792settled in brier county originated from what is now Mason County, West three brothers, John George and Virginia, and is buried in Wag­ Benjamin Lewis, who came to goner District, near the spot the county in an early day from where he thus found a home.” the Valley of Virginia. About The following from the War the close of the Revolution, Ben­ Department Adjutant General’s jamin went to the Ohio. George 68

Lewis never married; John given name of thewife of Benja­ married Miss McCrary and their min Lewis to have been Nancy, sister, a Mrs. Van Orzel, is and their children to have been buried in the old Caraway grave­ Sarah, who married Samuel Ed­ yard.” wards, John who married None of the sons of John Lew­ Edwards, Benjamin, Jr., who is founder of Stauntori Virginia emigrated to Iowa, Catherine left descendants such as those who married Michael Newhouse, above described, but it has been George who married Margaret claimed that the above Benjamin Winkleblack, William who mar­ was the son of Thomas, he the ried Lucinda Clendennin, An­ son of John. Mrs. M. L. Price, drew, Isaac and probably others. ‘ West Virginia historian of the A Josiah Ramsey. John Lewis family from whom After being engaged in the she descends, says T h o m a s Battle of Point Pleasant, Josiah Lewis’ son, Win. Benjamin, was Ramsey returned to Augusta born 1778 (four years after the County. He served as ascout Battle of Point Pleasant, in which in the Cherokee campaign of the family traditions and papers 1776. In 1778, he removed to V have always shown Benjamin Kentucky. In 1779, he moved to Lewis to have been) while L. L. Cumberland Settlement, where Lewis, of Richmond, recognized ‘he was appointed Major of Mili­ as an authority on the John Lew­ tia and was frequently engaged is, Staunton, b r a n c h, says: against the Indians. He lived “Thomas Lewis had a son Ben­ to an advanced age spending the jamin, but he lived and died in close of his life with a son in" Rockingham County, Virginia.” Missouri. ' ' As early as 1812 we find in William Bowen. . Mason county ‘that Benjamin William Bowen, often related a Lewis conveyed land which was hand to hand encounter with an acquired, before Mason County Indian antagonist at Point Pleas­ was formed, as the land books ant whom he finally overpowed. show-notransfer to him in that He was a native of Maryland. county prior to 1812and he con­ born 1744. In 1759 he engaged tinued to buy and convey lands in the border warfare with Wm. as the records show, and that in Christian. In early life, he had i 1831there was_ much conveying moved to Augusta County, Vir­ of titles of his lands by his chil­ ginia. In 1784 he removed to dren which would indicate that Summers County, Tennessee, he‘ died on or before that year. where he passed the remainder Land conveyances show the of his life. 69

Joseph Drake. William lngles. Joseph Drake who was with Major William lngles, who, at Wm. Christian’s Regiment at the Battle of Point Pleasant, Was Point Pleasant, had served as a "in charge of a commissary with private in Boquet’s expedition the rank of Major, was a native in 1764. He was one of the of Ireland, born 1729,emigrating Long Hunters 1770-71. In 1773 with his father when a child to he married Margaret, daughter Pennsylvania, settling with John of C01. John Buchhanan. In Draper at Draper’s Mead­ 1775.he visited Kentucky and in ows in 1748. In 1750_ he June of that year led an explor­ married‘ Mary Draper, whose ing party on Green River. He capture by, and escape from, resided at Abington, Virginia the Indians, is one of the -until 1778, when he moved to thrilling pages of pioneer history. near Boonesborough. Ky., and During the Indian Wars, Wm. in August of that year was killed Ingles was active in defense of by the Indians. He was a typi­ the frontiers. In 1756 he wasa cal frontiersman. .Lieutenant in the Sandy Creek William Edmiston. expedition. In 1758-60, he de­ fended the fort at Ingle’s Ferry. Lieutenant William Edmiston In 1777 he was made Colonel of (Edmondston) a native of Mary­ ' Militia in the organization of land, born 1734, moved at an Montgomery County. In 1782, early date to Augusta County, he died at his home at Ingles Virginia. He was a private in Ferry. the French an Indian War and Thomas lngles. ’ the Cherokee Campaign 1760. Thomas Ingles was with his In 1763 he was appointed Lieu­ mother, Mary lngles, who was tenant of Militia for Augusta captured by the Indians, remain­ County. He was in Capt. Wm. ing with them until 1768, practi­ Campbell’s Company at Point cally becoming a young Indian in Pleasant and was his second in his habits. Returning to his command at King’s Mountain, home for a few years, he tried to in which eig h t members of adopt the habits of civilization his family were engaged, three and education, but he never for­ of whom’ were killed. One of got his Indian friends. He was those who survived of that fami­ in the battle of Point Pleasant, ly was James Edmiston who has remaining the following winter descendants living in many coun­ in the Fort, during which time ' ties in West Virginia, including he visited the Indians at Scioto. the county of Mason. In 1782,his wife was captured by 70

the Indians and his home burned. Louisville. Ky., joining him the ­ He removed ‘afterward to Ten­ following June, after which he nessee, thence to’ Mississippi, _returned to Virginia and in 1784 where he died. A ' ' represented his county in the i ‘Henry Pauling. ’ house of Delegates. Later he Capt. Henry Pauling who com­ moved to Jefferson county, Ken­ manded ‘acompany of Bottetourt tucky, thence to Charleston, Ind., troops at Point ‘ Pleasant. con’ where he died June 17, 1819. tinued in frontier service and in The McAfeeBrothers. 1777 wientwith Col, ‘Bowman to the‘ reli"ef« of the Kentucky‘ 'Mc-Afee ‘station on Salt River, V frontier soon after which he set­ in Mercer County, Kentucky, tled ‘inthat state and represented commemorates the name of five Lincoln County, Ky,, in the con­ McAfee brothers, James, Robert, I venti0n=‘ofthat state, that "ratified George, William and Samuel, I. the Constitution of the United who lived on Sinking Creek, States,‘but he voted against the Bottetourt County, Virginia, ratification of that instrument. from which place they finally all i ' Francis Slaughter. emigrated to Kentucky, in 1779. ‘Col. Francis Slaughter who The first three named with was at the battle of Point Pleas­ James McConn, Jr., and Samuel ant was a "member of one of the ,Adams, were Kentucky explor­ be s t Virginia Families. He ers in" 1773 with C01. Bullit and » miiafrriied‘a daughter of Robert Hancock Taylor. They all par­ Coleman of Dunmore and in 1785 ticipated in the Battle of Point , moved to Kentucky, settling in Pleasant. ‘ ‘ Hardin County. . William McAfee was in the Lawrence And George Slaiighter. George Rodgers _Clarke expedi­ jLawr'ence and George Slauigh-' tion and was killed in 1780. ter each married a daughter‘ of George died in 1803at his home Col, John Field and both were on Salt River. Samuel died in in his‘ regiment at the Battle of 1801,James in 1814, and Robert Point Pleasant. Col. ‘George who was one of the early dealers, Slaughter in 1776 raising a com­ who, by flat boat, took large car- ~ pany, participated in the 8th Va. 1 goes of produce to New Orleans, Reg; at B_r_andywine'and‘German­ in 1795, when on such a mission, to‘v‘vjn._’In 1779 he_ joined’ Shelby " was killed by a Spaniard in in ‘the ’Chickamai1ga ‘Campaign that city. who was attempting to ' and in that winter started to re­ rob him. They left descendants, enforce George Rodgers Clark, many of Whomare yet residents biit was -obliged to winter at of Kentucky. 71

, James Knox. Major James Knox served un­ where he resided until the time­ of his death. So pleased, how­ der Col. Chester in the capacity ever, were his sons with his de­ of scout in 1774. During the Revolution‘ he commanded a com­ scription of the Kanawah Valley, that his four sons, Joseph, I pany of Morgan’s Riflemen en­ James, Jacob and Nathaniel emi­ . gaged at Saratoga and Stillwater, grated to Mason County. West­ returning with the rank of Ma­ Virginia and located on farms in. jor. Settling in Kentucky, he _Union District, near,Arbuck—le,. married Mrs. Logan, the widow Postoffice. They, _bec_arn;e;_tl;,t;“­ of Benjamin Logan, who was in the Battle of Point Pleasant. progenitors of a large _-a,’nd",infl¢1y;;. James Knox died in 1822. He ential family -in the.Ka.vna_.wh,a,,; Valley. Among , whom were had accumulated a good -fortune Elijah Kimberling, for many. and was respected byall who years a public oificial of Mason ‘knew him. County, who married Margaret John Madison. Catherine Jones, a native of Cul­ John Madison was of the.dis­ pepper County, Virginia, daugh­ tinguished ‘Virginia family that ter of Joseph Jones, and? Ann gave to America the president of Winn, his wife. that name, being a first cousin of William Ewing... . President-- Madison. His son­ William Ewing, a member of James Madison, was the first Arbuckle’s company at Point American IEpiscopal B is h o p. Pleasant, settled on Swago Creek, Other of -his sons- who distin­ tributary to the Greenbrier,-. guished the mselves were near Buckeye, Va. He was one ' Thomas, Rowland and George, of thegarrison at Point Pleasant who emigrated to Kentucky. and witnessed the murder, of, John Madison Jwas the first Cornstalk. « 5 . a Clerk of Augusta County and William McKee. . , g represented that ‘county in the William McKee, born-' in ‘Ire-;,, Virginia Assembly in 1751-52. land in 1732, and,‘ emigrating. He married a Miss Strother, sis­ when a youth to the Valley of». ter to the wives of Thomas Lew­ Virginia, wasin the Brad,doc_k; is and Gabriel Jones of Augusta Campaign. At P_oin.t:»P1easa,n.t_:., County. he was a lieutenant ,,‘in,Captai,n_,'w' Kimberling. Murray-’S Company.-.. 31:16.-.-:1ate.r.a:-.. ‘Elijah Kimberling of Bath represented Rockbridge: Q01;-nty,,g County, Va., -who was-engaged in the Virginia Legislature and in the Battle of Point Pleasant, voted in ,'favor of the adoption of returned to Bath County, Va., the Constitution. He emigrated -­ .72

to Lincoln County, Kentucky, abrother-in-law of Col. Charles ' where he died in 1816. Lewis, and a half-brother of Charles Simms. Charles Cameron, and Geo. Cam­ Charles Simms was in the divis­ eron. the last named, was killed’ ionpcommandedby Col.Lewis who in the battle. expired in his arms. In the con­ William Trotter. tinental army he was first major William Trotter who was en­ of the 12th Virginia, later Lieut. gaged in the Battle of Point ‘Col. of the 6th Va. and later of Pleasant. was an Englishman by the 2nd Virginia Regiment. On birth, coming to America and an Dec. 7; 1777, he resigned from v indentured servant. Coming at the army and practiced law,at the same time with.Ann Hennis, Alexandria, Virginia, where he who, like him, was “sold out”_ to -continuedto reside until the time defray the expense of their pas­ of his death. sage. They were bought in George Moflatt. Augusta County, Va., and when Captain George Moflatt was his term of service had expired. born in 1735. His father was he enlisted with C01. Charles killed by indians in 1749,enroute Lewis, and was killed in the Bat- ‘ to South ‘Carolina. In 1763, tle of Point Pleasant. This so George was Captain ofacom­ incensed his widow that she don­ pany of Rangers in'pursuit of ned a semi-male attire and with rifle and tomahawk she was seen 7Indians that had killed his step­ father, John Trimble, and cap­ at musters like a man. Later tured his sister and half brother. she married James Bailey. He rescued his loved ones. Col­ James Bailey. Wm. Christian was his uncle and James Bailey, who was with Samuel McDowellhis brother-in­ C01. Charles Lewis and who law and in the, battle at Point afterward married Ann Hennis, leasant, with him were many the widowof Richard Trotter, is of his kindred. In the war of more noted for being the hus­ the Revolution he was active and band of Ann Bailey, the heroine of the Kanawha Valley than for commanded a regiment at Guil­ his own achivements. He was ford Court House. From 1781­ assigned to garrison duty at. 83 he was County Lieutenant of Fort Clendennin where the pres­ Augusta. He died at his home ent city of Charleston is now eight miles northwest of Staun­ located. Ann Bailey was the ton in 1811. mother of one son, William Trot- , John Murray. ‘ ter, who located in Harrison Capt. John Murray, killed in Township, Gallia, Ohio, where’ the battle of Point Pleasant, was his descendants yet reside. 73

Walter Newman. served as high sherifi" of Rock­ Walter Newman, a native of bridge for two terms. He died Pennsylvania, was in the Battle in 1841, aged 93 years. His wife of Point Pleasant and was one of the first to locate here when the was Miss Nancy McC1ung, by whom he had children, Samuel, new town was laid off. He pur­ David, John, Eliab, Joseph. Isa­ chased the grounds upon which bella, Elizabeth ahd Nancy. the Mansion House in Tue Endie John Lyle. Wei Park now stands and built John Lyle, of Capt. McDowell’s the first hewn log house in the Company, became Rev. John county, which, for its beauty and Lyle, of Hampshire County, now size, was called the Mansion West Virginia, a pioneer minis­ iHouse. The house was built in ter, who proved to bea power 1796. In August, 1804, he was for good in that region. ‘licensed to establish a ferry William Robertson. across both the rivers, Ohio and William Robertson of Augusta Kanawha, and granted a license County, was commissioned a to sell spirituous liquors and Lieutenant July, 1775. He dis­ keep an ordinary at his house in tinguished him.self at Great the town of Point Pleasant. Bridge, Brandywine and Ger­ This was the first place in which mantown. ' He died Nov. 12, liquor was ever legally sold in 1831. the county. Mr. Newman was John Lewis. also the first man in the county Captain John Lewis, son of to support a missionary, sending Thomas Lewis, of Augusta Co., his nephew, Rev. James New­ was with his uncle, Andrew nian, as a missionary to South Lewis, at Point Pleasant, where America. he was wounded. He_was born Willianl Moore. ‘ in 1749, died 1788, leaving four Willia_mMoore, of Rockbridge children. He served under County, after the Battle of Point Washington at Valley Forge and Pleasant, became Capt. Wm. in the Jerseys and witnessed the Moore of the Revolution. He surrender of Cornwallis. was a merchant of Lexington, John F1‘-ogg. , Virginia, and purchased the first The Sutler of the Army. was bag of cofiee ever purchased in killed at Point Pleasant, Oct. 10 Virginia, which he found slow 1774, by the Indians and was sale for. Later, he built an iron there buried. furnace at South River in Rock­ He came to Staunton from the bridge Co. He was a Justice of Rappahannockand married, the Peace for many years and Miss Agatha Lewis, a daughter 74 ___..._,, ._;).: »~:-’ -7 ‘of 7*Thomas’Lewis a brot'her‘of Capt John‘Stuar3'tof Qreenbrier Gerieral A-’nd re w and»vttC’o1. who was filso intsaid battle; and (13-harl'es- Le’wis,. anivltfivhen‘. the his" d a ug hit e r-‘married a Mr. Army ‘starred for-the Ohio river, Estill; - ‘ Mr.”~Frogg was appointed 'the It may nothaver been the duty ‘ Su‘d1er'and-wehfwith them.. ~17 of Mr.‘ Frogg totgoiinto the bat­ He was -~-a'4handsome’ “"_vouh‘g' tle~a‘t‘all, but ftl'is—certain he was man, gallant, generous and fond not required to ‘attire himself in of c1*rsp~layLémd'spoken ‘gms a a brilliant red‘jacket‘an'd make of v'é’i‘yvworth y Lgentleeman aniiliépopé himselfa mark forsharpshooters iilar. »'\‘&iith the ‘lmen, »2i‘«i§dby.one and-loose his“life,‘but, it required v\?'ritéi',“’when5g‘iving'a;list of the five Indians to pay for his life. dead, spoke -of-""him,:as “poor Agatha Lewis, his wife, was ( John Frogg.«’-’.-7*" ” A -s *’ born May 18, 1753 and she_ Wherwhe went into the battle, married Capt. John Stuart Nov. l}‘e”_,had‘ona brilliant red jacket, 18, 1776. which made him a prominent William McCoI-kle. mark for Indians and when he William McCorkle, who engag­ fell, there were no less than five ed in the Battle of Point Pleasant, ‘ Indians that had made an at­ was the son of Alexander Mc­ tempt to secure his scalp. and Corcle (McCorkle) who had his all five of them were found dead American origin in Pennsylvania, on the ground where poor John in the Scotch-Irish reservoir of * lay. It is tradition that the little the Cumberland Valley, among daughter was awakened from the other Scotchlrish. who, emi­ her sleep at three several times grating to the Valleys of the by. the dream of her father he­ Shenandoah and James, became ing killed by the Indians, which. he very seat of culture and the Ishe related to her mother several greatest factors in_ Virginia’s days before’ it was‘ known that power, and gave that state her there had been a battle. Mr. prominence in the sisterhood of Frogg wasrelated to the Strother states. , family, one of whom was the wife In the spring of 1774 Wm. Mc­ ofJohn Madison, Clerk of Augus­ Corkle was making preparations ta Co., one was the wife of to~emigrate with a great body of Gabriel Jones, the Crown's At­ Virginians to Kentucky and, on torney for said County and the June 3rd_of that year, a survey other was the wife of Thomas of 1,000acres of land was set Lewis, the Surveyor of said aside for him near the present County. city of Louisville. His widow became the wife of Indian hostilities necessitating 75

the protection of_the frontier, heredity has made him revere­ ~ and although:._notayoung‘-man, the past as it has made him boun­ Wm. McCorkl_e,enlisted as a vol­ tifully prepare for the future. unteer in‘Captain John‘ Murry’s Robert Campbell. Company from Botetourt and en­ Robert Campbell, who was en— gaged in the Point Pleasant gaged in the Battle of Point Campaign. He returned to Pleasant, was born in the Valley Rockbridge County to the lands of Virginia in 1755. He was en-v be held near Lexington, and gaged tnroughout the Revolution. which had continued in the pos­ He displayed great bravery in session of his descendants until his conflicts with the Cherokees. 1894, when it passed into the He was in command ofa Regi­ hands of strangers. ment at King's Mountain, Oct, Soon after the Battle of Point 7, 1780. For forty years he was Pleasant, Wm. McCorkle died a magistrate of Washington but he had offered upon his County, Virginia. In 1825. he country's altar his son, John Mc­ emigrated to Tennessee with Corkle, who, when but twenty­ his children and there died. three years of age, was killed at John Carter. the Battle of Cowpens, while John Carter became a pioneer serving under Gen. Morgan. of Tennessee. During the Rev­ John McCork1e married Re olution, he was elected with John becca Nutt, and was survived Sevier and Charles Robertson to by his two sons, Alexander and the Convention that assembled Samuel, the younger Samuel be­ at Hartford, N. C., in 1785,and ing the progenitor of five sons, framed a Constitution for the the youngest of whom was Wil­ State of Franklin, which was re­ liam McCorkle, whose oldest son united with North Carolina in is Ex-Giovernor William A. Mc­ 1788. Corkle. who served as Governor ‘ Matthew Bracken. of West Virginia, from March 4, Matthew Bracken had been a 1893, to March 4, 1897, and is surveyor with Thomas Hanson now located at Charleston, West from Virginia in the exploration Virginia, where, as ahistorical and surveying expedition to Ken­ memorial, he has erected the tucky. which left Fincastlei on most beautiful home in the state, April7th, 1774. “Bracken Creek" “SUNRISE”, on the summit of in Mason county, Kentucky, the mountain; embellished with commemorates his name. He historic stones and furnished returned to Kentucky in time to and decorated with historic mem­ enlist as an ensign in the comp­ entoes, demonstrating that his any of Capt. Robert MicClena­ '76

han’s Company of volunteers Gaines, M. C., Mr. Walter Ash­ from Botetourt. He was killed by andmany others. in the Battle of Point Pleasant _Thomas Hacket. and his remains were buried Thomas Hacket (Haket) of within the forty foot reservation, Rich Creek Virginia was a mem­ now a part of T-u-Endie-Wei ber of Capt. Michael Woods Park, at the mouth of the Company at Point Pleasant, soon Kanawha. after which he settled at Peters­ burg Virginia where he continu­ Capt. John Lewis. ed to reside until after Waynes ICapt John Lewis eldest son of ' Treaty. Lured by the beauty Gen’l Andrew Lewis married and fertility of the Ohio Valley Miss Patsy Love of Alexandria he settled at Kyger Ohio in Gal­ Virginia who had four children. lia County where he died and is His eldest son Andrew married buried having lived to the ad­ Jane McClenahan of Botetourt vanced age of 104 vears. County Virginia and they were Among other children he left ' the parents of six childrenlwho a daughter Mary Ann Hacket lived—tomaturity. John, William who married_Nimrod Kirk whose and Samuel locating in Kanawha daughter Elizabeth (Betsey) Kirk CCounty near the mouth of Scary. married George Knight. I From John Lewis known as Coal Riv­ George Knight descended the er John was a man of great wealth distinguished Dr. A. L. Knight -and prominence and from him of Mason County, prominent through his daughter Marjorie farmer James‘Knight of Pleasant who married 1st Edward Kenna Flats, the late Samuel Knight of and 2nd Richard Ashbey has de- , Marietta, Ohio, ‘Mr. George scended' through this first mar­ Knight of Clifton, and Mrs. riage Hon. John E. Kenna who Louise Meeks of Dallas, Mrs. represented the old third dis­ Rebecca Brown of Hartford, trict of West Virginia three and Mrs. Susan Hogg of Point times in Congress and was twice Pleasant» and their descendants. _ elected to the United States Sen­ Capt. James Curry. at each time being the youngest Capt. Jas. Curry served under member in either branch of Con Gen’l Andrew Lewis and was gress. There are many desceni severely wounded in the right dants of Captain John Lewis arm at the battle of Point Pleas­ living on the Kanawha including ant. His home at that time was Mr. Kenna’s family the fami­ near Staunton Virginia. When ly of Mr. Kenna’s sister Mrs. at the age of 22 years he enlisted Gentry, the family of Hon. Jos; as a private; 7'7 Michael See. families more than a century While at- work outside the since. fort at Point Pleasant in a Anthony See married Julia field near where James Capehart Leonard; Adam See married now resides, in August 1791 Margaret Warwick, daughter of Michael See and Robert St. Clair Jacob Warwick, the pioneer of were killed by Indians. Thomas whose name appears in the I Northrop and a colored boy be­ Pocahontas sketches; Polly See, longing to See were captured of Michael married George See. and carried away prisoners. Her daughter Georgiana became Michael See who had been en­ Mrs. Capt. J. W..Marshall, a guged in the battle of Point noted confederate oflicer and Pleasant was living with his fam­ promoter of public improvement. ily within the fort‘ where the Barbara See married William night of his death his wife McCleary; John See married gave birth toa son, Wm. See. Miss Stewart, and Noah married from whom descend the Sees of Margaret Long Mason County West Virginia. Col. James Curry. We are indebted to Rev. Price, March, 1900. Mr. W. S. of Marlinton and Rev. C. W. Curry of Columbus, Ohio,’ McDonvnald,ofHuttonsville. Registrar of the Sons of the Rev­ Randolph Co., descendants of olution. sent us an account of his Michael See who send the follow­ grandfather Col James Curry, ing gleaned from the historv of above referred to. It follows: Randolph county: “Michael See. “James Curry was closely en­ of German ancestry. and using raged throughout the greater the language in his family is be­ part of the day fighting from be­ lieved to have been born in hind first one tree and then an­ Pennsylvania. He came from other but later in the day was that state to South Branch, what shot through the right elbow. is now Hardy County, W. Va , It is said he asked the surgeon about,l765. His father’s name who dressed his wound ‘If it Awas Frederick Michael See, of would hurt him to take a drink him but little is known except he of wine?’ to which the surgeon re­ had a son Adam. but Adam never plied ‘No if you take it with the lived in Randolph county‘ Surgeon.’ He remained in the Michael See, son of Frederick garrison until recovered from See was among the early settlers his wounds. of Tygarts valley, Randolph Co., He served in the army through­ and his children intermarried out the Revolution as’ Captain in with the following prominent the Fourth Va. Inft., participa­ 78 ting in the battle of‘Brandywine, at the begining of the century. Yorktown.’ He was wounded at It was he who financed the build­ the siege of Charleston. S. C. and ing of the Zanesville road the taken prisoner May 1'2, 1871 by great highway of Ohio that prov­ Gen. Linco1n’s Army. ed to be the great artery of com­ After the Revolution he settled merce of that successful. pro­ at Staunton, served a term as gressive new state. Clerk of the Court for Augusta John Murry. Earl of Dunmore. Co. In 1797 he moved to High­ (LORD DUN MORE.) land County Ohio where been­ In reviewing, (by many histor­ tered aVirginia Military tract ians.) the life and character of of land.” ‘ Lord Dunmore, there are none Solomon Brumfield who have more truly recorded Solomon Brumfield who enlis­ his character than Hu Maxwell, ted under Gen’l. Andrew Lewis in his history of Hampshire at Staunton resided where the County. who says on page 51: city of Washington is now built. “Before proceeding to a narra­ Wm. Hamilton. tive of the events of the Dunmore \ Wm. Hamilton was an orderly War. it is not out of place to in at Point Pleasant in the army of quire concerning Governor Dun­ Gen’l. Lewis and when the battle more, and whether from his past began was sent as a’ messenger acts and general character he to hasten the regiments in would likely conspire with the command of Capt. Wm. Chris­ British and the Indians to de­ tion whom he met at the stroy the western settlements in mouth of 13 mile creek, the pres­ Virginia. Whether the British ent site of the village of Leon. were capable of an act so savage Here a few were left in charge ‘ and unjust as inciting savages to of supplies while the remainder harrass the western frontier of of ‘the companies marched on to their own colonies is not a mat­ Point Pleasant arriving at about ter for controversy. It is a fact 11 o’clock. that they did do it during the Bazaleel Wells Revolutionary War.” \ Bazaleel Wells, afterward Gen’l As to a confirmation of the Wells of the Revolution, became character of Dunmore and his the founder of Steubenville, methods we quote again from Ohio, and helped to form the the same author, relating to first Constitution of Ohio. He events subsequent to the Battle was then a member of the Ohio of Point Pleasant: Senate and was probably the “Dunmore had trouble else­ wealthiest man in Eastern Ohio where. His domineering con­ 79

duct and his support of some of 1779, he returned. to England, Great Britian’s oppressive and, in 1786, was appointed Gov­ measures, caused him to he ernor of the Bermudas. hated by the Virginians, and led Logan. to armed resistance. Thereup­ Tah-gah-jute, son of Shil(ellan­ on he threatened to make Vir­ ny, chief of the Cayuga Indians, gnia a solitude using these word; was born in about 1725. He was “I do enjoin the true and loyal named Logan by the whites for subjects to repair to my assist­ James Logan, (the Secretary of ance. or I shall consider the Wm. Penn.) who had been such whole country in Rebellion and a friend of the Indians, that they myself at liberty to annoy it by accepted the name as a badge of every possible means, and I honor. shall not hesitate to reduce Logan was reared near the houses to ashes, and spreading Moravian settlements and his devastation wherever I can reach. relation to the whites had been With a small body of troops and most friendly. Throughout Vir­ arms, I could raise such a force ginia and Pennsylvania he was from among Indians, negroes and known for his commanding pres­ other persons as would soon re­ ence and engaging qualities. duce refractory people of them." Residing with his family near The pntriots finallyrose in arms Readsville, Penn., he supported and drove Dunmore from the them by hunting, and trap­ country. Some of these events ping and dressing hides which occurred after the Dunmore War, he disposed of to the whites. At but they serve to show what this time, the Mingo tribe of In­ kind ofa man the Governor was.” dians chose him as their chief. He was born in England in About 1770. he moved to the .\Iay, 1709,descending from the banks of the Ohio, where, in the house of Stuart. He succeeded spring of 1774, his family were to thc peerage in 1756;appointed massacred, whereupon he sent a Governor of New York 1770;of declaration of war to Michael Virginia, July, 1771. With a Cressap, whom he believed had" band of Tory followers, he plun­ ordered the massacre. Thus dered the inhabitants, residing began the fearful depredations on the James and York Rivers. that burst upon the frontier and He and his followers suffered Logan is said to havetaken thirty defeat at the battle of Great scalps himself before the termi­ ‘Bridge, shortly after which be nation of hostilities at Point burned Norfollr, then the most Pleasant, where he was engaged prosperous city in Virginia. In that fearful October day. Sub­ 80

sequent to the ‘battle when the mourn for Logan? Not one." other Indian chiefs sued for Thespeech was.written down, peace, Logan disdained to partic­ when Gibson repeated it to an ipate in the treaty. Governor officer, and published in the Vir­ Dunmore sent John Gibson to ginia Gazette. Thomas Jeffer personally invite him to the coun­ son, a great admirer of Logan, cil and he then gave out that took pains to establish its classic in English literature that authenticity and published it in has made so famous the name of his Notes on Virginia. Logan. It is ‘as follows: ‘Logan was killed by, his neph­ i “I appeal to any white man‘to eiwat" Lake Erie in the summer say if he ‘ever entered Logan’s of 1780. cabin ‘hungry, and he gave him Cornstalk. not" meat; if he ever came cold Cornstalk, the c e 1e b r a t ed and naked and he clothed him Shawnee warrior, is first men­ not. "During the course of the tioned in Colonial History in 1763, last long and bloody War, Logan when about sixty Indians. led by remained idle in his cabin, an ad-. Cornstalk attacked the settle­ vocate ofpeace. Such was my ment on Muddy Creek, in Green­ love for the whites that my brier Gounty, Virginia, when Countrymen pointed as they they pretended to be on a friend­ passed‘ and said: ‘Logan is the ly mission, «at which time they friend of the white men.’ I had arose and murdered all except even thought to have lived with a few women and children, whom­ you but for the injuries of one they took prisoners. From man. Cresap, thelast spring, in there the Indians went on to the cold blood and unprovoked, mur­ Levels. in the same county, to dered all of the relations of the home of Alexander Clenden­ _Logan, not even sparing my nin, where many were gathered woman and children. There enjoying the fruits of a success­ runs nota drop of my blood in ful chase and the Indians, too the veins of any living creature. were treated with the utmost This called for my revenge. I hospitality, but they again mur­ have sought it; I have fully glut­ dered most of the inmates of ted my vengeance. For my that place. Mrs. Clendennin .country, I rejoice at the beams was carried away a prisoner and a of peace. But do not harbor with others taken to Muddy ' the thought that mine is the joy Creek. of fear; Logan never felt fear. For a year theilndian dep­ ' He will not turn on his heel to redations were continued, un­ save his life. Who is there to ti1_there .was not a white set­ 81

tlers left in Greenbrier County the noted Deleware Chief and which was not againinhabited others commanding the most by whites until 1769, when Col. formidable army every arrayed John Stuart and a few others be­ as an Indian phalanx. The came permanent settlers.- . story of their bravery has al­ It is said that Cornstalk was ready been related in the ac­ born in the Kanawha Valley counts of the Battle of Point about ‘1727. ‘ Pleasant, here in published. In the Battle of Point Pleasant, It were well for the white set­ he commanded the army consist~ tlers. if the history of Cornstalk ingof the flower of the Shawnee, could have ended with the Battle Delaware, Wyandotte, Mingo and at Point Pleasant. The treaty Cayuga braves, he being the with the whites following the King of the federation, in their .battle, was maintained in the herculian efforts to stay the on­ highest sense of honor by Corn­ coming tide of Saxon civilization. stalk. These Indians were fighting to In the spring of 1777, when I maintain their homes and their the great Indian uprising was hunting grounds, and, if the again taking place, Cornstalk whites were ever to be repelled, came to Fort Randolph at Point it must be now. Pleasant to warn the whites of This was not the first time their danger and was retained in battle array that the Shaw­ as a hostage, during the wholeof nees had shown their skill the summer. In November, his as warriors. In the Braddock son, Illinipsico, came in search of defeat and other campaigns his father, hallooing to he they had proven themselves val­ brought across the river. The iant. They despised treaties next day two hunters crossed and had chafed under that with the Kanawha and, returning, Boquet so that at the Battle of one was killed by Indians. Point Pleasant, they had deter­ Some of the whites made a rush mined to be victorious. It was for the Indians detained at the not that they favored Great fort. Captain Arbuckle in com­ Briton. All whites were alike to mand tried to stay them, but them except as they availed to incited by one of the Gilmores help them save their hunting whose kindred had been massa­ grounds; and here were gathered cred at Muddy Creek, Corn­ their ablest leaders: Cornstalk, stalk and his son, Illinipsico and Red Eagle, Scoppathus. Blue ‘Red Hawk were murdered in Jacket, Logan, Chief of the Ca cold blood, by Captain James yugas, Illinipsico, Red Hawk, Hall and Hugh Galbraith leading 82

the men. The bravery of. Corn­ intersects with First Street, but stalk called forth the admiration in ‘August 4, 1840, when Viand of even his brutal murderers, "as Street was opened.‘ his remains , he thus addressed Illinipsico. were removed to the Court “My Son, the Great Spirit has House yard. Dr. Samuel G.‘ seen fit that we should die to­ Shaw made a memorandum at gether, and has sent you here to the time of his burial. His that end. It is His will and let grave is thirty yards in the rear ussubmit; it is all for the best!” of the Court Housewhere the and then turning his face to his grave is neglected. A murderers at the door, he fell ,Qn October 13, 18_99,a monu­ without a groan pierced with ment to Cornstalk with the sim­ seven bullets.” ple inscription ' Cornstalk said the day before “CORNSTALK” he was killed while attending a was erected in the Court House conference with the whites. yard near Sixth Street. ' The “When I was a young man and monument is of grey limestone i ‘ went to war, I often thought each the stone for which was donated might be my lastadventuire, and by Mr. S. H. Reynolds, then I should return no more. I still Superintendent of Construction lived. Now I am in the midst of at Kanawba Lock 11. The you and if you choose you may money for the completion of the kill me. I can die but once. It ‘monument was raised by-private is alike to me whether now or subscription and the dedication i _here’after.’T of the monument was the_occa­ From the records of Rock­ sion for a public ceremonial with bride County we quote the fol­ a dedicatory address by Hon. C. lowing. E. Hogg, Mayor John E. Beller "At a court held in Rockbridge receiving the monument for ’the County, April 18, 1778, for the town. ‘ ‘ ’ examination of Capt. James Hall Port: Blair,- Randolph and Point and Hugh Gailbraith. charged Pleasant.» . with the murder of Cornstalk, no Goveno.rDunmore under date witnesses appearing, they were of June 12‘,f177‘4,directed Gen’l. acquitted for the murder of ,Andrew Lewis “to collect abody Cornstalk and two other Indians of men immediately; go ‘down to _in November, 1777, they denying the mouth»of'theGreat Kanaway their guilt.” and THERE BUILD. A‘FOR'I"; The remains of Cornstalk and then if you have-" force were intered‘ at ‘Point Pleasant enough to invade the Indian Coun­ outside the fort, where Viand. try, do so." ' 83’ \

Before these orders could be By whom or when distroyed his­ carried out the battle of Point" tory does not record. On May, Pleasant had ensued. The 16,1776, Captain Matthew Ar.­ wounded of the army must be buckle passed through Wheel­ cared for, and sufiicient of the ing enroute to Point Pleasant army must remain to protect where upon the ruins of Fort and care for them while the ma­ Blair be erected Fort Ran­ jority marched on with Gen’l. dolph. This fort was much Lewis to Camp Charlotte. larger than Fort Blair, called So frail was the hastily impro­ Fort Randolph in honor of Hon. vised stockade that it was in­ Peyton Randolph of Virginia. adequate to withstand an attack It was from thence garrisoned but fortunately Capt. Wm. Rus­ at expense of the colony of ‘Vir­ sell and fifty Fincastle men were ginia. Captain Arbuckle con­ delegated by General Lewis to tinuing in command until the return to Point Pleasant and close of 1777. He was succeed­ erect a fort. They arrived ed in command by Capt. Wm. there * November 11, 1774. McKee of 'Rockbridge County. Thus Captain Russell be In 1778several were killed by came the designer and builder Indians while outside “the fort of this small rectangular pal1is­ at work, including Lieut. Moore. ade, eighty yards long with block In 1779, for a week Indians be? houses at two corners with cab­ sieged the fort but to no avail ins for barracks. which he call­ except that they captured all the ed Fort Blair. It was erected cattle. In 1779 prior to July 12, upon grounds on the North Bank Ft. Randolph was evacuatedafter of the Kanawha as it emptied in­ which it was burned by Indians. to the Ohio. Here in January, Capt. Andrew Lewis visiting at 1775, Cornstalk complying with Point Pleasant in 1784reported. the termsiof the treaty at Camp There was then but little or no Charlotte delivered a number of sign of the fort_ to be seen. In white prisoners. 1785a third fort was built at On June 5, 1775, Governor Point Pleasant, on the Ohio Riv­ ' .Dunmore reported that the gar­ er abovethe present First street. rison at Point Pleasant had Commanded by Colonel Thomas been o r d e r e d discontinued, Lewis and from that year on the but the Virginia convention white man has never ceased to ordered that one hundred reside at Point Pleasant. men should be hastened to Point Pleasant. Upon their arrival they found Fort Blair in ashes. Participants of the Battle.

No otficialroster having been preserved either by the Government or State. the followinglist has been gleaned from the sources .availabe after years 01 research by the writer. Albe, Jeremiah i Babbit, Ishmae-l Adams, John » Baker, Martin Adkins, Parker Barker, Samuel Adkins, Wilton Baker, Thomas Atkins, Wm. Baker, Markham Agnew, (Aggnue), John Baker, Ensign Samuel Alexander, ‘James Ser.= Bailv, John Allen,James Bailey, Campbell Allen, Thomas Ball, James _Alley, Thomas Baret, Edward Alden, Andrew Barton, Samuel Allen, Hugh Lieut. Basel John Allen. James Barkly.§John -Alliet (Elliot) Robert Bambridge, ..James Alsbury, Thomas Barnes. Arbuckle, Capt. Matthew Barnett, James Anderson, James Barnett, S. L. Anderson, Samuel Bates,­ Andrews, Samuel Baugh, Jacob Arbuckle, John Boylstone, Wm. Ard, James. Bazel, John Arnold, James Bellew, Daniel (Canoe man) Arnold, Steven Bell, Thomas ‘ Armstrong, Geo. Bergman, Christian Armstrong Thos. Berry, -Francis Armstrong, Wm, Bishop, Levi Arthur. John Blackburn, Arthur Astle. Samuel Blackford, Joseph Atkins, Blackburn Blair, Daniel Atkins, Charles Blair Wm. Atkins, Henry Blankenship, Richard 85

Bledsoe, Abraham Lieut. Buchanan, Ensign Wm. Blesly, Jacob Buford. Col.Abraham Blesly, John Bunch, Joseph Bojard, Abraham Buchnell, John Bob, Adam Burch, Richard Boh, Jacob Burcks,Samuel Boles, John Burk, ’l‘hos. 0 Boniface, Wm. Burk, John Borg. Francis Burnes, Thos. Boughman, John Burnsides, James Boughman, Jacobs Barrens, James Burney, Thomas Burroughs John Bowen, Moses Burton, Litton Bowen, Reese Burtchfield, James Bowen, Wm. Buch, Sergt. John Bowles, —————-—Sergt Buch, Wm. Bowles, Robt. Buster, David Bowyer, Henry Butler, Joseph , Boyd, James Butler, Shabrick Boyd. Robert Byrd, Richard Boylstone Byrne, Chas Boyer, Henry 4Boyles, Barney Calloway. Dudley Bracken, Matthews Ensign & Cameron, Geo. Lieut Cameron, Hugh Bradley, John Campbell, Arthur Maj. Bradley. Wm. Campbell. John Capt. Brambradge. Jas. _ Campbell, Robt. . Bramstead, Andrew Campbell Joseph A : Breckinridge, Alexander Campbell, Samuel Breden, John Campbell, Wm. Capt. Breeze, Richard Canady, Thos. Breeze, Robt. Caperton, Adam Bradley, John Caperton. Hugh Brooks Geo. Carlton, James Brooks, Thos. Carmack, John Brown, Chas. Carney, Martin Brown, James Carpenter. John Brown, Low Carpenter, Jeremiah Brown, Robt. Carpenter Solomon Brown. Wm. Carpenter, Thomas § Brown, Thos. Carr. Geo. ‘ Brumfield Humphrey Carr, John Brumfield. Solomon Carr, Wm. Brumley, Thos. Cartain, James Bryans Shorgan \ Cartain, Joel Bryans, Wm. Sergt. Cartain. John Bryant, Wm. Carter, John Buchanan (Commissariat) Carther, Edward Buchanan Col. John Cary, Jeremiah Casey, Wm. I Constantine Patrick Cashady, Simon Cook, David ‘ Cashaday, Thos. Cook, Henry Catron, Adam Cook, John Catron, Francis Cook, Wm. Catron, Jacob‘ Cooper, Abraham Catron, Michael Cooper, Francis Catron. Peter ' Cooper Leonard Catron. Philip Cooper Nathiel Cats. Roger Cooper, Spencer Cattes, John _\_ Cooper, Thomas Cavenaugh,Charles V Copley, ’l‘hos. Cavenaugh, Philemon Cornwell, Adam Cavenangh, Philip Corder, John Cavenangh Wm. Cormick, John Cecil, Saul Cornwell, Adam Champ, Wm. Cornwell, John Chapline, Abraham Courtney, Chas. Chapman, John Courtney, John Chapman, Richard Cuwan, Jared Chesney, John Cowan. John Charlton James Coward — Christian. Col Wm. Cox, Lieut. Gabriel Clark, John ' Cox, Capt. John Clark, James Coyl, James Clark. Samuel Crabtree, Wm. (scout) Clay, Mitchell Craig, George Clay, Zekel Craig, John Clay-, David Craig Wm. Serg Clendinen Adam Crain, John I Clendinen, Alexander Craven, Joseph Serg. Cleudinen Chas. Cravens, James Clendinen Geo. Cravens, John Clendinen. Robert ‘ Cravens, Robt. Clendinen, Wm. Crockett, Capt. Walter Clerk, John Crawford, Bonard Clifton, Wm. Crawford, John Serg. Clinding, Wm. Crawley, (Croley) James . Clinding, Geo. Creed, Matthew . Cloyne Nicholas Crisman. Isaac Cochran, Wm. Crockett. Joseph Cocke, Capt. Wm. Croley, Samuel Coile, James Crow, John Serg. Coller, John Crow, Wm. Coller, Moses Sergt. Curwell, Alexander . Collet. Thos. Cummins, Geo. Collins, Richard Cundiff. Johnathan Ensign ‘Condon, David (canoe man) Cunningham James — Conner, Patrick Cunningham John Conner, Wm. ‘ Current, Joseph 87

Curry, James, Capt. Downy, John Custer, Wm. ‘ Drake, Joseph Cutlep, David Drake. Ephriam Cutright, John Draper Lieut. John Culwell Alexander Dulin, James Duncan, John Serg. Dale, James Dunkirk, John Serg. Davis Capt. Azariah Dunlap, Robert Davis, Charles Dunn, John Davis, Geo. Dunowho, James Davis, Robert (scout) Duttsn. Philip Davis, Samuel Dyer, Wm. Davise, Johnathen Day, Joseph Eager, John Day, Wm. Eastham, Wm. Deal, Wm. Eastham, Geo. Deek, John Edgar. Thos. Demonse, Abraham Edmiston (Edmondson) Wm. Denistun, John Lieut. Denton, John Edward, James Dickinson, Col. John Edwards, Johnathan Dillon. —— Lieut. Egnis, Edward Dingos. Peter — Elkins, Jesse Divey, John Ellenborough, Peter Doack, Robt. Capt. Elias, Thomas Doack, David Elliott Capt. Robert Doack, Samuel Ellison, James Doack, Wm. Ensign Ellison, Charles Dobler, Jacob Elswick. John Dodd, John English, Joseph Dodd, James English, Joshua Dorherty. John English, Stephen Dorhertv James Estill, Samuel Dollarhide Samuel Evans, Evan Donaley, Serg. James Evans, Andrew cDonaley. John (fifer) Ewing, Alexander Donalsun.‘ Col. John Ewing, — Jr. Ddnalson, Robt. Ewing, Robert Donalson, ‘Thos. Ewing Samuel Donleyi. Jacob Ewing, Wm. Serg. & Maj. .Dooley, Thos. Lieut. Doran, Patrick Fain, John Doss, Joel Fain, Samuel Daugherty, Geo Serg. Fargison, Thos. Daugherty, James Farley (Farlen) Francis Daugherty John Farley. ———-—John Daugherty, Michael, Serg. Farley (Farlor) Thomas Douglas Geo. Farmer. Nathan . ‘Douglas, James Feavil. Wm. Downy, James Serg. Ferrill, Robt. 88

Ferrill, Wm. Glascum, David Field, Col. John Glass, Serg. Samuel Fields, Wm. Glass Wm. Fielder, John Serg. Glaves, Michael Fielder, Wm. Glenn, Davis Fen uay, Isbam(canQe man) Gofi, Andrew , Find ay, Geo. Goldman, Lieut. Edward Findlay, John Goldsby --——-—— Fendlay, Robt. Serg. Goodall, John Fisher, Isaac ' Gordan, Moses Fitzhugh, John Gorman, David Fitspatrick, Timothy Graham, Benj. Fleming, Col Wm. Green, John Flintham, John Griffin, Robt. Fliping, Thos. Grigger, Michael Floyd, John Grigger. Peter Fourgeson,Thos. Grigs, John Fowler, Jas. (scout) Grimp, John Fowler, Samuel Grigsby——~ Fowler,‘ Wm. Gufiy, James Franklin, James Guillen, Edward James Franklin, Wm. Gullion, Barney Frazer, John Gurden, Michael Freeland, John Friel, Jeremiah , Hackett, Thos. Frogg, Lieut. John Hackworth, Augustine Fry, Geo. Hackworth Wm Fry, Geo. Jr. Haines, Lewis Fry, John Hale, Edward Fullen, Chas. Hale, Thomas Fullen, James Hale, Wm Fullen, Daniel Hall, James Fuls, Geo. Hall, Thos. Hamilton, Francis Gardner, Andrew Hamilton Isaiah Garrett, Wm. ' Hamilton, Jacob Gass, David (Messenger) Hamilton, Jas. Gatliff (Gatlepp) Squire Hamilton, John Gibbs, Luman Hamilton Thos. « Gibson, Joseph Hammond, Philip Gilberts, Thos. Hamrick, Thos.‘ Gillihan (Gilliland) John Hamrick, Wm. Gilkenson, Jas. Handley (Herrill) R_obt. Gill, Prisley _ Handley (Hensley) Sam’l Gillespy, Thos. Hanee, Philip Gillass, ,Wm. I-Iansburger, Adam Gillman Duncan Hanson W-m. Gilmore, John Harlan Elijah Gilmore,Capt. Jas. Harlan, Silas Givens, Lieut. Harmon, Dangerfield 89

Harmon, Geo. Holwell, Walter Harmon, Israel Homes, Lewis Harmon, John Hooper, Wm. Harrel, Wm. (scout) Hopton. Stephen Harriman, Skid Serg. Hopton, Wm. Harris Grilfin Horne, Joseph Harris, John Iloward, Charles Harris. Stephen Howard, Henry Harrison, Andrew Hutchinson, Lewis Harrison, Benj. Capt. Huchisen (Hutchinson) Wm. Harrison. John Lieut. Hufi‘. Leonard Harrod, James Capt. Huff, Peter Hart, Thos. Huff. Samuel Hasket, Thos. Huff, Thomas Hatfield Andrew Hughes, Davy Havens, John Hughes, Ellis Havens James Hughey, Joseph Hayes’, John Humphries, John Haynes. Benj. . Hundley, John Haynes. Capt. Joseph Hunter, Robert Hays. Chas. Hutson, John Henly, Geo. Hynes. Frances Henly, Wm. ' Hensley (Hadley) Sam’l Ingles, Wm. Major(Commissary) Herbert Wm. Capt. Inglis, Joshua Herd Richard Inglis, Thos. Herrill, Robt. Inglish (English) Joseph Henderson Sam’l Irvine. John Hendrix, Peter Inglish (English) Joshua Henderson, Lieut. John Isum, Wm. ' Henderson Daniel Jackson, Yerty Henderson, Alexander Jameson, John Hays, Samuel (scout) Jenkins, Jeremiah Head, Anthony (Messenger) Jennings, Edmond Hedden, Thos. Jewitt, Matthew Hedrick, Peter ' Johns, Wm. Hepenstahl‘(Hempinsta1l) Abra­ ham Johnson~Capt.Arthur Johnston, John Hckman -——i— Johnston, Patrick Higgans (Higans) Peter Jones, Benj. Higgans, Philemion Jones, John Hill, - Capt. Hill James Jones, Thos. Hill, Robert Jones, Wm. Hobbs, Vincent Kasheday, Peter Hogan, Henry Keeneson, Charles Hogan, Wm. Keith, Samuel Holley, AWm. Kelley, Alexander Hollway (Holloway) Richard - Kelsey, John Holston, Stephen Kendrick, -James Kennedy, Ezekiel Lewis, Samuel Kennedy, Thomas Lin, Adam . Kennedy, Wm. Serg. Lihrough, Henry Kenneson. Chas. Litton, Burton Kenneson, Edward Litton, Solomon Kennot, Zacariah, Litz, Wm. Kerr, James Lockhart, Jacob Kerr. Wm . Lockhart, Queavy Kinder, George Lockridge, Andrew Capt. Kinder, Jacob. Logan, Beni. . Kinder, Peter Logan, John‘ _ King, James Logan, Hugh King, John Logan, James King, Wm. Long, Joseph Ensign Kincaid (Kingkeid) David Lord (Leord) Lieut Kincaid Jr. Love. Joseph Kincaid “ Geo. Love, Philip Capt. Kincaid " James Luallen, Thos. Kincaid “ John Serg. Lucas, Chas. Kinsor, Chas. Lucas, Chas. Jr. Kinsor Michael Lucas, Henry. Kinsor, Jacob­ Lucas,‘John Kinsor, Walter Lucas, Wm. Kishoner, Andrew Jr. Luney. Michael Kishoner, Andrew Sr. Lybrook (Librough) Henry Kissinger, Andrew Lybrook " Palser Kissinger, Matthew Ly man, -Richard Knox. James Lyle, John ­ Lyn, James Lammey, Andrew “ Lynch. Lapsley, John Lyons, Wm. Larken, John Serg. Lashly, John McAl1ister, Wm. Laughlin. James McBride, James Lawrence. Henry McBride, Joseph Lee, Sefinah McCallister, James Learned (Lord) Lieut. McCallister Wm. Lee, Zacarias McCandless, John Lemaster, Richard McCartney, John Lesley Wm. McCastem, Wm. Lesley, John McCarty, James Lesley, Wm. Adj. McC1anahan, Absalom Lester, Samuel McClanahan, Alexander, Capt. Lester, John McC1anaham. John, (Canoeman) Lewis, Andrew Gen. McC1anahan, Robt. Capt. Lewis.-Benjamin McAfee, Geo. Lewis, Chas. Col. . McAfee, James Lewis, John Capt. of Augusta McAfee, Robt. ‘Lewis. John Capt. of Botetourt McAfee, Samuel Lewis, John l)_rivate McAfee, Wm. I ‘91

McClintic, Wm. Maxwell, John McClure, John Maxwell, Thomas McClure, Thomas Mayse, Joseph McCorl(le. Wm. Mead, Nicholas McCoy, Wm. Lieut Mead, Thos. McCune, Wm. Meader, Israel McCutchen, Wm. Mecrary, Thomas McDonald, Daniel Meek, Wm. McDonald, James Messersnuth, Barnett McDowell. Archibald Messersnuth, John McDowell, M. Capt. Micalister, Wm McDowell, Samuel Capt. Milican. John . McElhane~y, Francis Miller, James McFarland, Wm. Miller, Robert McFarland, Robt. Mills, John McGee, John‘ Milwood, Geo. ,McGeehey, Samuel Miner, Henry . McGinness, John Mitchell, James Capt. McGlahlen. John Mitchell, James McGuf1‘, John Mitchell, Thos. McGuFf, Patrick Mofiat (Manfurd) Robt. Capt. McKee. Wm. Capt. Moffat, George Capt. McKinnett. Alex Montgomery, Jas. Capt. McKinney, John Montgomery, Samuel .McKinsey, Hensley Moody, John McKinsey, Moredock Moon, Abraham McLaughlin, Edward Moor, Moses McMu1li.n, John Moor, Frederick McMullen, Wm. . Moor, Wm. McNiel. Peter Moor, John McNeal (Niel) John Moor, Hugh McNiell,:Daniel Lieut Mooney. Nicholas McNutt, James. Mooney, Frederick McNutt, Alexander Mooney, Hendly Ensign Madison, John Mooney, Hugh Mooney. James Monadue, Henry Mooney, John Mann, John Mooney, Moses Mann, Wm. Mooney, Samuel Marks, John Mooney, Wm. . Martin, Brice Morris, Wm. ­ Martin, Christian Morrow, James Martin. Geo. Sr. Morrow, James Jr. Martin, Geo.Jr. Mullin, Thos. Martin, Philip Mnngle (Mongle) Daniel Martin, Wm Col. Mungle “ Frederick Matthew Capt. Geo. Murry, John Capt. Matthew, Sampson Murry, James Maxwell. Bezaleel Myers. Wm. Maxwell, David Mercer, Hugh

\:..;...‘.(-.$$Ia.;?&...._-:9.-gs-s.—..-....$47.,’ Nail. Dennis Pate Jeremiah Nail, Thomas Patten, John Nalle, Martin Lieut Pauling, Henry Capt.. Nail. Thomas Paulley, James Naul (Nowl) Wm. Capt. Paulley, John V Nave, Conrad Pawlings. Moses Neal Wm. Paxton, Samuel Neaville, John, Peary, Thomas Neaville, Joseph Pence, Jacob Ensign Neely James (Cadet) Perce, Thomas Neely, Wm. Peregin, Molastin Neil, John ' Persinger, Jacob Nelson, John Pettv, Benjamin Newberry, Joseph Peyton, John Newel], James Peyton, Rowzie Newland, Abraham Pharis, Wm. Newland, Isaac Pierce, Lieut Newland, John Pierce, John Newman, Walter Plunkenpel, Zacarias Nicholas, John Poage, Wm. Serg. Nickels, Isaac Poling, Mathew Nowell, John Portor, Robt. Noland, John Posey, Thos. (Commissary) Null, Jacob Potter, Thos. Null, John Preston, Wm. Price, James Odear, James Price, Reese Oguillen, Barnett Price, Rickard Oguillen, Duncan Price, Thomas Oguillen. John V Price, Wm. Oguillen, Hugh Pricket (Pucket) Drury O’Haara, Chas. Capt. Priest, David ‘ O‘Haara, Robt. ­ Priest, Samuel O’Haara, Wm. Priest, Wm. Oharron, Henry Pright, John Olverson, Joseph Prince, Wm. Ormsbey, Daniel Prior (Pryor) John Overstreet, Wm. Ower, Thomas ' Ranis, Robert Owen, R-obt. Ramsey. Josiah Owens, David Rains, Robt. Owler, Henry Rapp,Frederick Owler, John Ratcliff, Wm. Ratclifl‘, Matthew Pack, George Razor, Michael Pack, Samuel Ray, Wm. Packwood. Richard Ravenscroft, Thos. Pain, Joseph Read, John Ensign Parchment, Peter Reagh, Archibald Parsons, James Reagh, John 93

Reary, James Sayres, John Reburn, John Scails, Wm. _ Rediford. Benj. — Scard, Lieut. Reed, Alexander Scarbara, James Reese, Andrew Scott, Archelaus Reid; Andrew Scott, Archibald Reid, Thos. Scott, Daniel Capt. Reynolds, John Scott Geo. Richardson, Benj. _ Scott, James Richardson, Wm. Scott, Wm. Riley, John See, Michael Roay, Joseph Sedbery, John Roberts,‘John Seed, Francis Robinson, Elijah Selby, James Robertson, Jas. Capt. Sevier, John Gen.­ Robertson, Wm. Lieut Sevier, Valentine Robinson, Hugh Shain, John Robinson, John Shannon, John Robertson, James Shannon, Samuel Robertson. Thos. Major Sharp, Abraham Robertson, Wm. Sharp, John (Scout) Robison, Jas. Lieut. Sharp, Edward Robison, Julius Shaw, Henry Robison, Wm. Shelby, Evan Capt. Robison, Isaac Shelby, Isaac Lieut. Roay, Joseph Shelby, James Roe, Capt. . Shelby, Wm. Capt. Rogers (Rodgers) Andrew Shell, Arnold Roger, “ Chesley Shelp, John Rogers, “ ' David Shillin. John Rogers, “ James Shoatt, Emanuel Rogers, “ Thos. , Simpkins, Daniel Rogers, “ Wm. Simpkins, James Rollens, Richard Simms, Chas. Ross, Edward Simmerman, Geo. oss. Tavener Simpson, James Rowan, Francis Simpson, John Rucker. Geo. , Simpson, Wm. _ Ruddle, (Riddle) Geo. Skaggs, Reuben _Rue, Abraham Skaggs, Zach _ Russell, Wm. Gen. Skidmore, John Capt. Rutheford, Benj. Slaughter, Capt. Slaughter, Francis Col. Samples, Samuel Slaughter, Geo. Col. Sanders, James Slaughter, Lawrence Sappington, Daniel Smith, ruten Salsbury, Wm. Smith, David Savage, John Smith, Daniel Capt. Savage, Samuel Smith, Edward Sawyers, John Col. Smith, Ericus

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Smith, James Tipton, John Smith, John Todd, James Smith, Mecagh Todd, John Smith, Moses Trent,———— .(Canoe Master.) Smith. Robt. Trent, Obediah Smith, Wm. Trimble, Isaac Smithers, Gabriel Trimble, James Sobe, Geo. Trotter, John Spicer, Wm. Trotter, Richard Spratt, Isaac Serg. Tucker, Wm. Squires, Uriah Tyler, Isaac _ Staffy, Michael Stailey, Martin Vails, John Steele. Andrew Vallendingham, Geo. VanBibber, Isaac Steele, John VanBibber, Jesse" Stephens, John Lieut VanBibber, John Stephens, Thomas VanBibber. Peter Stephens. Wm. Stephens, Stephen VanBibber, Mathias Stephenson. Hugh Capt. Vance, Edward Stephenson, Robt. Vance, Samuel Lieut. Sterns, Conrad Vanhook. Samuel Stevens, Vaut (Vaught) Andrew Steward, John Vaut “ Christian Steward, Walter Vaut “ V Geo. Stewart, John Venable, Wm. Stewart, Wm. Vaughan (Vaun) John Stewart, John Capt. Vanhook, Samuel Stull, Martin Stump, Michael Waggoner, Andrew ’ Sullivan, James . Waggoner, Henry Sullivan, Sam’l Waggoner, Henry Jr. Summers, Charles Walker, Adam Walker, Henry \ Swoop, John Walker, James . Tate, T. Lieut. Wallace, Adam Ensign Tate, Wm. Wallace, Andrew Wallace, David Tarney (Farney) Peter Wallace Robt. Taylor, —-——Capt. ‘ Taylor, Daniel Wallace, Samuel Lieut. Taylor, Isaac Walter, Michael. Taylor, Sieltor Wambler, Geo. Taylor, Wm. Wambler, Mitchell Teasy, Wm. Ward, David Ensign Terrence (Torrence) Andrw Ward, James Capt. V, Thomas, Edward Ward, Wm. Serg.. Thompson, Andrew Ensign Warwick, Jacob Thompson, Richard Washburn..James Thompson, Robert Washburn, Steven Thompson, Wm. Watkins, Robt. Watson, Johnathan Wilson, Samuel Capt. Waugh Cadet Wood, John Weaver, Christian VV00d,Adam Weaver, Michael Wood, Andrew 'Welch, James Wood, Archibald . Welch, John Wood, James Serg. Welch, Thomas Wood, Jos. Capt. Welch, Thomas Jr. Wood, Michael Capt. Wells, Bazaleel Wood, Richard Wells, Samuel Woolsey, Richard Welsh, Christopher Workman, Daniel Whish, Richard Woodburn, Steven Wetzel, John Woodburn, James Wetzel, Martin Young, John Whitley, Moses White, David History of the Monument Building White, Joseph In our research for informa­ White. Solomon tion relative ‘to efforts being White, Wm. Whitticor, Joseph made to erect a battle monument Whitton, Jerremiah at Point Pleasant, the earliest Whitton, Thomas record of which we have an ac­ Whitton, Thomas Jr. count is aletter yet preserved, Wiley James Wiles, Robert written by Hon. J. M. H. Beale, Wiley, Robert Jr. who, in 1848, represented that Wiley, Thomas district of which Mason County, Williams, Alden Virginia, was a part, in the lower Williams, David branch of Congress, in which he Williams, Isaac Williams, James says “I have introduced a bill Williams,Jarrett in Congress asking for $50,000 Williams, John with which to erect a monument VVilliams, Mack to commemorate the Battle‘ of Williams, Philip Point Pleasant.” As nothing’ Williams, Richard came of it, it died in a commitee Williams, Rowland» Williams Samuel room. ‘ Williams, Thomas Serg. That amount of money in’pur­ Williamson, Aldin chasing power,.equal in value to Williamson, David twice that amount of money at Willis, Henry, J Wilmoth, Wm. the present time, only demon­ Wilson, Benj. strated the magnitude in which Wilson, Edwaad the battle was held when not so Wilson, James many years had intervened since Wilson, John Capt. that terrible struggle. Wilson, George We find byreference to an old __Wilson,Thomas Wilson, Wm. Serg. minute book preserved by Mrs‘ 96

John Daniel McCulloch, that a end.SallieHend erson and E. monument committee had been Smith, South Side K a n a w h a, organized in the year 1860. The Ginnie Neale& Maria Menager, exact date of organization is not Mercer Bottom. given. ,The first meeting record­ “On motion it is resolved a. ed is‘as follows: committee of two be appointed “Monument Association Rooms to wait on Col. Beale, & see if Sep. 17, 1860. , we can procure the Hall. _The Regent being absent, ‘Signed, E. Smith 'Mrs. James Hutchinson, Vice Recording Secretary Regent, called the association to M. T. Lewis Regent order. Nov. 14-1860" On motion the minutes of the There is left no written record last meeting was suspended.” of that supper given at Beal’s “The committee on By Laws Hall, but there are many living reported series of laws by Mrs. here yet who recall it as one of Wm. Smith, Chair ladv, & under the greatest social events of the discussion said By laws were town up until that time, as there adopted,& on motion the com­ was gathered here all of the elite mittee was discharged.” of the county. The In o'n e y “On mot on a permanent com­ raised at that time by the supper mitee composed of Mrs. Charles was about $200.00, {which was Lewis, Mrs. Barlow, Miss Sallie supplemented by $800,00 more Henderson, Miss Kimberling, in subscriptions, ‘Mrs. John S. Miss Till Stribling, Miss Sue Lewis (Mrs. Mary T. Lewis) Waggoner to collect historical the Regent riding horseback facts connected with the battle over the county_soliciting funds, of Point Pleasant. The society applied fora char­ “On motion of Mrs. Smith, it p ter which was granted under is resolved this association will the laws of the State of Virginia. celebrate the anniversary of the The money was loaned to Mr. battle, 10th of October. Peter Steenbergen Lewis, a “On motion it is resolved com­ descendant of Col.Charles Lewis mittee be appointed to see what killed in the battle, and was will be contributed for a supper. faithfully accounted for and in­ “On motion a committee com­ terest paidtuntil turned over to posed of Sallie Lewis, Fannie,‘ the Point Pleasant Battle Monu­ for the Flats, MissPatrick, Sehon 'ment commission provided for for Mason Cit y, Miss Stribling in 1901, by the State of West & Hall, upper part of town, Miss Virginia. Jones & Miss Murdock lower The only two. surviving char­ 97

ter members of the original whom were descendants of par­ monument association are Miss ticipants in the battle. Sallie Elizabeth Smith, of McCausland, Lewis (Mrs. J. D. McCulloch) and Mrs. J. D. McCulloch (Miss descended from Col. C h a rl e s Sallie Lewis) of Point Pleasant. Lewis; Sallie Henderson, the late We find in the above mentioned Mrs. Jos. George, of Five Mile, record book the following entry: descended from.Samuel Hender­ “Monument Association Room. son; Misses Sue and Eliza Wag­ Nov. 14, 1860. goner descended from Gen. An­ The Regent having called the drew Lewis; Mrs. Charles Lewis meeting to order on motion of Was the mother of Mr. P. _S. E. Smith, the historical com­ Lewis, a descendant to whom mittee is requested to wait upon, the first funds were entrusted; or otherwise communicate with Mrs. Kimberling was the wife all the early settlers of the coun­ of Elijah Kimberling, for many ty, that is practicable, to obtain years clerk of the county court; all the information they can in Fannie Lewis, wife of Judge regard to the battle of the Point. John W. E n g 1i sh, descended and all other interesting events from Col. Charles Lewis, as did of the early Indian times. Miss Lizzie Sehon, of Mason City; On motion it is resolved, the Miss Hall was the late Mrs. B. J. monument be placed on the spot Redmond, daughter of Hon. ' where the brave men who fell in John Hall; Miss Jones is Mrs. the battle have so long lain un­ J. W. Bryan; Maria Menger, be­ honored, by vote was unanimous­ came the wife of Rev. George ly carried——affirmative Nannie Lyle; Miss Till Stribling became Smith, Kate Murdock, S a lli e the Wife of Mr. Chap. Waggoner Lewis, Sallie Henderson, M. J. of Pleasant Flats: Mrs. Ro s e Stribling, Ginnie Neale, Rose Barlow was the wife of a resi­ Barlow, Fannie ‘Lewis, Eliza dent physican; Miss Kate Waggoner, E. Smith—Negative. (Beale) Murdock was the second “On motion it is resolved afine wife of the late Col. C. B. Wag­ of five cents be imposed on those goner, Ginnie Neale now Mrs. who are not present by half after Otis Stribling. two o’clock, P. M. The CivilWar breaking out, “On motion it is resolved that the efforts to erect a monument this meeting adjourn to meet were put aside for the stirring the first Wednesdayin January.” incidents then agitating the It is well that the names of minds of the people and no elforts these patriotic women have been were again made until the 100th preserved to history, many of anniversary of the Battle, 1874, 98

when the proper celebrat-ion , of Charleston Courier, reproduced the battle was taken up by, in the Weekly ‘Register of March ‘Messrs. John O..-J Dickerson, 19, 1874, which we quote in part: John D. Lewis‘. C. C. Lewis, Wm. “It was at this place that oc­ Dickenson, of Charleston, P. S. curred one of the bloodiest and Lewis, J. P. R. B. Smith, Judge severest battles in which the John W. English, of Point Pleas­ whites and Indians have ever en­ ant. These largely financed the gaged. On the morning of the celebration assisted by other of ,10th of October, 1774, an army the most patriotic citizens of composed almost entirely of Vir­ Point Pleasant and an effort was ginians, under the command of made to gather together as many General Andrew Lewis, and as possible of the descendents numbering about elevenhundred of the Lewis’s of that b a t t l e. men, was attacked by alargely In fact so little attention was superior force of savages under paid by other descendants and the command of the famous so highly had the Lewis’s honor­ chieftain Cornstalk. The battle ed the services of their sires raged furiously the entire day, that the proposed monument and ended in the defeat of the was spoken, of as the “Lewis Indians, whothroughout the_bat­ Monument” and, for years, the tle, are said to. have displayed writter, who was present at that the most determined bravery. celebration, scarcely knew there The Virginia army sustained in . were other heroes participating this engagement a loss of seven­ worthy of being published in the ty-five killed and one hundre school histories, there being no and forty wounded.” ­ available books to be read and no one mentioned by word of mouth “Among the slain were Colonels but the Lewis’s. Charles Lewis and John Field and eight subordinate oflicers, All honor, _however, to‘ this family who honor their heroic all of whom were of the best dead. It was’the most splendid families of.Virginia.” palm they could place upon -the “The loss of the savages was brow of their ancestors to teach never ascertained, as it was their the world as they have done their custom to bear ofi and secrete descendants to revere the names their dead. Some twenty. or of Andrew and Charles Lewis. more bodies. however, were The first published agitation found on the field, which the In­ for the proper observance of the dians had been unable to carry 100thanniversary of the Battle of away.” Point Pleasant, we find in the “Th e‘ wounded whites were

_...,_..,=‘;~‘.-,.­ 99 placed within entrenchments, rest these dead, we turned thrown up at the point of the away.” confluence of the Kanawha and The writer who signs himself Ohio rivers, and a garrison left “Virginiout,” relating an inter­ there to protect them, the dead view with Mr. Andrew Darst, were buried immediately outside residing upon the extreme point of the entrenchments, though where the rivers meet, who not in a scattered manner. General only’ exhibited a grind stone, Lewis then pursued his march cannon ball, and shovel, taken northward.” from an old well that had been “Finding our selves at‘ Point within the fort, but he exhibited Pleasant with considerable lei­ the site of the old magazine long sure and time. we proposed to an since gone over the bank, and the old friend and resident of the site of the cottage wherein Corn­ “Point” to take us to the graves stalk was murdered. of the heroes of the battle of Quoting further from article Point Pleasant. With a willing­ of date above given, Mr. Darst ness to oblige which is a promi­ said in that published interview: nent characteristic of that gen­ “About 1832 thar came by tleman, he readily assented, and here an old man who had been in a few moments we found our­ here in Injin times. Some folks selves close to the junction of the were wondering whar Cornstalk two rivers, standing on tip-toe had been buried. The old man looking over a high bank on said he knowed, and if they’d which we were standing com­ follow him he’d show ‘em. So pleting the bounds. A few in­ he took ‘em out toaditch just dentations or depression were back of that drug store you see all that indicated that within that there, (2nd and Viand Streets) small enclosure were buried told them to dig in at a certain some fifty or sixty heroes of the place and they’d find Cornstalk times that’ tried men’s souls. about four‘ feet under ground. The place was strewn with filth They dug in there and sure and refuse and seemed to bea enough they found him. They general depository for the rub­ then took him up and buried him bish of the neighborhood. With in the Court House yard.” afeeling of disgust at the cold “The spot of land here on the neglect so plainly manifested by point was once a big Injin grave the authorities, not only of the yard, and if you will take the governments of the States of trouble to look over the bank Virginia and West Virginia, but where it has been washed you’ll of the county and city wherein find bones a plenty. All of ‘em’s ‘ 100

across beads and trinkets among Virginia had her Yorktown. the bones.” . West Augusta had already pur­ Acting on the suggestion we chased a victory at Point Pleas­ took: a look over the bank and ant. To no event transpiring discovered many fragments of within the limits of our State has bones which were lying loosely ever attached the importance and on the soil or projecting from grateful recollections as has to the face of the bank. After the Point Pleasant battle. It is sauntering around a few mo­ well suggested then that the ments longer we bade “Andy” people all along our Valley take farewell and walked off to take some steps to celebrate the one a look at the town.” hundredth anniversary of this “The heroes of Bunker Hill event at Point Pleasant in Octo­ have their monument to com­ ber next. Our neighbors in memorate their deeds, but the Mason will readily adopt the brave little band sleeping so si­ suggestion, as well as all other lently on the bank of the Kana-­ counties that feel an interest in wha, have nothing but an old de­ preserving afresh both the mem­ cayed, worm eaten fence to mark ory of the gallant dead and their their graves-. Point Pleasant resting places.” and Bunker Hill, were each “For many reasons the Mason fought in the same cause, and county people should take the those acquainted with the history lead in this matter, and we feel of “Dunmore’s war’ will not confident they will. Let every contradict the assertion that the community then from the Ohio battle of “Point 'Pleasant,” was to the Greenbrier, fall into line really the first battle of the Rev­ and adopt some harmonious ac­ olution.” tion to.fitly celebrate the day, The Weekly Register of May and to raise suitable funds to re­ 17, 1874, editorially’ comments move the disgrace of the neglect­ on the importance of the battle ed graves. There is not a super­ of Point Pleasant and quotes abundance of time, and we pre­ again from the Charleston Cou­ dict a prompt response from rier,'as follows: Mason. Who will take the ini­ “Is there any event connected tiatory for a grand celebration with our past history which so of this event, which if of all .closely affects the people of the others the on.e great shrine Valley as the battle of Point which every creed, every politi­ Pleasant, where V i r gin i a n s cal faith and every class in the bared their breast to protect it State can pay their homage.” from invasions? While Eastern “A correspondent from Mason 1 101

County to the Charleston Courier a very happy one. It is an event contributed the following: in which every true West Vir­ “There is considerable talk -ginian should take pride. Our just as this time about our cen­ state embraces a large boundary tennial anniversary. and a good of territory of “West Augusta," deal of patriotic feeling is being whose sons rendered themselves exhibited in that direction. His­ so famous in the days that “tried tory records that on the morning men’s souls,” and to whom the of the 10th of October, 1774,. great Washington looked fo r there was fought at this Point raliance when all others should V one of the severest and most hot­ fail him,” V A ly contested and bloody battles “Many descendants of the par­ between the whites under Gen­ ticipants in the famous Indian eral Lewis and the Indians un­ battle at the Point, are now liv­ der command of the great war­ ing in this State. In the coun­ ‘rior, Cornstalk, that ever took ties of the Greenbrier Valley as place in the early times of this Well as in the Kanawha Valley country. It is in fact. claimed are living those who hear the that this was the first battle of name and through whose veins V ‘the Revolution, and for freedom run the blood of the Captain of from the British yoke. On the the Virginia forces, Andrew 10th of October, 1874, one hun­ Lewis, as well as those who de­ dred years will have elapsed scended from the brave men since that memorable battle, in that followedhim in that remark; which the troops under Gen. able campaign. The result of Lewis achieved such‘a triumph.“ the battle at the Point saved all the Virginia frontier from the On Tuesday, May 26th, the invasion of the Indians. If Corn­ Directors of the Second Annual stalk had been successful who Mason County Fair decided to can imagine the fearful desola­ hold their Fair on October 6th, tion that wonlcl have been 7th, 8th, and 9th, butlno mention wrought from the Ohio to the is made of the observance of the Alleghanies. ” 10th, the anniversary of the Bat­ “Is it not alittle remarkable tle. Plans, however, were going that while this battle should have forward from Charleston, as the become so famous in history, that Charleston Courier, in its last is­ so little should be known of the sue of May 18, 1774, gives the particulars of the fight? While following: ' K history is silent, we have tradi­ “The idea of the Centennial tions that should be gathered, V.celebration at Point Pleasant is and the most authentic ones he 102

placed in some shape as to be re­ evening with a grand ball at Iliably transmitted to posterity. Beale’s Hall. On Saturday the There are many households of Centennial Celebration will come .West Virginia, where stories of of. ­ grand father's experience in the The issue of the Weekly Reg battle of the “Pint” are related ister of October 15, 1874, gives, to day, and many of them told the following detailed account of by those who have heard the the Celebration; written Oct. relation from the lips of the vet­ 10th. 1874. erans himself. What a pleasant “The Centenniel celebration of task then for some one to collect the Battle of Point Pleasant is these tradition-2 and weave his­ now over. Just one hundred\ tory from them.” A years ago to-night. brave men * * >k * >l< and true were mourning over the “Just as the battle of Point dead. and ministering as best Pleasant was the prelude to the they could to the wounded and war of Independence, so let the dying. Let us as best we can, celebration at the Point in 1874 look back upon the day that has be the prelude to the grand af­ just been closed by the setting fair to come off at Philadelphia sun of the 10th day of October, in 1876,and let every West Vir­ 1874, and tell our readers what giniatl. and every Old Virginian, has been done. Many an eye and every one who sees proper looked out anxiously this morn­ to join us, take part in the jubi­ ing to see what was to be the lee on the 10th of Oc‘ober next." prospect for a beautiful day. To further stimulate the inter­ For one I was sadly disappointed est in the Battle Celebration, the and'feared that the Heavens Register, on June'25th. copied would soon be sending down the from Nile's Register, of ‘May 3, rain. 1817,an account ofthe battle and “How anxiously we watched in the issue of August 27, 1874, every appearance indicating like the Register L'O||l€d De Hass’ a breaking away of the lowering History and Indian Warsin West clouds. Soon after an early Virginia, the account in full of breakfast, the clouds began to the battle of Point Pleasant. look thin, and then spot after The Register of October 8, has spot of blue sky was seen. failed up until that time to give Anxiously did the eager gather­ any program or details of the ing crowd, look for the promised celebration, but, in speaking of published programme. About the Fair then in session, says: 9 o’clock A. M.., the Register of­ “The Fair will close on Friday fice sentout the first, which were 103 4 eagerly seized by the hungry Relatives. crowd; then another and another Music. . handful of programmes were Knights of Pythias and other distributed. so that before the Orders. hour of 10 A. M., all seemed to Distinguished Guests. be posted as to what was to be Citizens. done. About l0o’clock the Com­ Funeral Procession. pany of Cadets from the Univer­ Escort of State Cadets. sity of West Virginia, at Mor­ Re-interment of the remains of gantown, were formed in line by the heroes who fell in this battle, their Captain, H. [-1.Pierce, in with becoming ceremonies at3 front of the Kline House, near o’clock p. m. the wharf-boat, on the Ohio, and Under the effective Marshals waited to receive the Knights of who had been on duty at the Pythias, from Gallipolis, Ohio. Fair Grounds for the last four accompanied by the Gallipolis days, the column was formed­ Brass Band. Soon the Knights The Cadets were headed by their came marching up, splendidly own drum corps; the Knights of dressed, and a fine looking body Pythias by the Gallipolis and of men they were. passing in Point Pleasant Brass Bands front of the Cadets, they halted combined, whilst the Ravens­ on Main btreet. The Cadets, wood Brass Band marched up moved in column of fours up to the side walk and waited for the Main Street, then Wheeling to formation of the column, after the left, were halted opposite the which it took the place assigned Court H0use—the site of which it. is supposed to have been on the Just before 11 A. M. the col­ line of battle as it was formed, umn was put in motion and just one hundred years ago to­ marched in the order assigned, day. Here let us give the pro­ to the Fair Ground, where more gramme. as follows: than a thousand people were Centennial Celebration found waiting the arrival of the of the column. So densly crowded was Battle of‘Point Pleasant. the amphitheater before the head

Order of Exercises. of the column reached its front 31;...-..._.~_»..:..~.v.-:...».-.;.l...... ~;.v7.~.»....-_-.,.a_..u.v,~,__ Procession to form in front of that it was with the utmost dif­ Qourt House at 10 A. M. in the ficulty that the-Committee of followingorder: Mayor, Orator, Arrangements could clear away and Committee of Arrangements. . space enough for the Company State Cadets. of Cadets. A stand for the’ The Clergy. speakers had been' erected just 104

opposite the center of the am­ written and interesting address phitheatre. This stand was oc­ at 12 o’clock and 22 minutes, just cupied by the followingpersons: five minutes after the 13th gun Col. Lewis Ruffner, Col. C. B. of the salute was fired by the Waggener, Col. Benj. _H. Smith, Artillery Company from Ga1lipo­ Capts. H. H. "Pierce, Command­ lis, Ohio. This occupied about ing the Cadets, Geo.C. Sturgess, thirty-five minutes. The speak­ Corresponding Secretary of the er took his seat amid deafening Historical Society of the Board roars_ The following resolution of Regents University of West was oifered by Dr. Barbee: Virginia, J. W. Screntz, Treas­ Resolved, That the thanks of urer of the same, Dr. Thomas’ this audience be returned to Col. Creigh, of Greenrier County, Dr. Smith, for his interesting ad- ' S G. Shaw, President of the dress, and that, with his permis­ Centennial Society, F. A. sion, it be published in full in the Guthrie, Attorney at Law, and Point Pleasant Register. ‘ member ofthe Committee of Ar­ This resolutions‘ was carried rangements, Jno. E. Timms, At­ without a dissenting voice. torney at Law, Secretary of the After this the following pream­ Mason County Agricultural So­ ble and resolutions were offered ciety, Col. (Dr.) A. R. Barbee, by Rev. VV.E. Hill: G. W. E. Mitchell, of Ports- , Whereas, Just ‘one hundred mouth, Ohio, John D. Lewis and years have passed by since the Jno.‘Waddell, who was wearing battle of Point Pleasant was théishot pouch and powder horn fought and won. carried by his father, Alexander t 2. In’ this battle‘ there was Waddell, in the Battle of Point -displayed gallantry of such char­ Pleasant. The Clergy occupy­ acter, as to merit a lasting mon­ ing the stand were Father Fran­ ument. cis Guthrie, one of the Pioneer 3. It is the opinion of some, Methodist Preachers of the Ka­ whose opinion is worthy of re­ nawha Valley, Revs. S. E. Lane spect, that this battle bore an T. H. Rymer, T. H. Lacy, G. important relation to the war of C. Wilding, and W. E. Hill. the Revolution, by which the The exercises‘ were introduced original thirteen colonies gained with a prayer offered by Father their independence. Gut-7h.rie, which was full of­ 4. The battle of Point Pleas­ thanksgiving and praise, then ant hastened the material pros­ the orator, Col. Ben Smith, was perity of t-his and other States, introduced by Mr. Timms. He by the sacrifice of noble blood, commenced reading his well therefore be it Resolved. 105

lst. That a committee of olutions by a motion to resolve 4 three with power to engage the vast audience into aMonu­ others, be appointed to solicit mental Centennial Organization. contributions for the purpose of After the reading of the resolu­ erecting a monument and pur­ tions a motion was made to adopt. chasing the ground round about Pending this, Dr. Creigh arose the spot where the remains of and asked to be allowed to speak our heroes now repose. on the question. Permission That this committee be em­ was granted, and the Dr. per­ powered to raise a subscription fectly thrilled those within reach on the ground to-day; to write to of his voice. After the Doctor’s the descendents of the brave eloquent speech, the motion to men who were engaged or fell adopt the resolutions was carried on the field of Point Pleasant, with but one single dissenting asking them to aid in this work voice, whose “no” was. followed by contributions; to ask the Leg­ by cries “of “put him out!” islatures of Virginia, West Vir­ “Knock him down,” &c. ginia, Kentucky and Ohio. to Mr. Mitchell, of Portsmouth. make appropriations to this Ohio, was then introduced and work; and to request also the made a short speech, which Congress of the United States to could not be heard very far oif, make an appropriation to the owing to the noise of the moving same end. crowd and the low pitch of voice, 2nd. That this monument be and its efiectiveness was_marred erected" within the next twelve to some extent. Loud cries months, and of West Virginia were head for (Walker). It was marble. 1 announced that Mr. Walker was 3rd. That it be unveiled on at the ' Point, and had been sent the 10th of October, 1875. for, but could not get here for 4th. I That the committee be some time. empowered to arrange for funer-‘ A cry for Sturgess brought al oration and an historical ad­ that gentlemen to his feet, and dress on the occasoin: and to he made a very happy address. make such other arrangements The President, Dr. G. S. Shaw, as may be necessary to gather announced as a temporary com­ together the military organiza­ mittee to wait upon the crowd, tions of the State; the various to solicit contributions for the secret societies of abenevolent monument, viz: E. L. Neale, character; the legislatures of the Dr. C. T. B. Moore, and F. A. State, &c. Guthrie. The latter gentlemen Mr. Hill introduced these res­ being a member of the Commit­ 106

tee of Arrangements, suggested faces. Frequent outbursts of Rev. W. E. Hill, as his substi­ applause interrupted the speak­ tute. »Recess was taken and er, and=a hearty vote of thanks ample provisions were made to was returned for his eloquent fill the inner man_. Many_fami­ address. We must say one thing lies gathered in groupsabout about Mr. Walkerls address; it the grounds, in picnic fashion. was written and written too in a and ate their dinner whilst a few hours. for he was captured roast ox was served up at the as‘ he was aiming to pass the public table. During the recess Point. In this case captured the committee raised by sub­ property proved to be A No. 1. scription about six hundred dol­ After the address by Mr. Wal­ lars. One gentleman subscrib­ ker, the procession was reform­ ed two hundred dollars in cash ed in the same order and /took on two papers, and we do not up the line of march from the think he indends to stop at that point at the head ofViand Street if more is necessary from him, the column received the Hearse to erect the monument. There and Casket containing the re­ was such a‘ dense crowd and mains of some of the heroes of suchlhurrying to and fro that it Point Pleasant that were killed was almost impossible to get the in the battle. These were ex­ attention of ‘the people long humed on yesterday andtoday, enough to get them to subscribe, under the supervision of the or we doubt not, more than a Committee, Dr. Barbee Superin­ thousand dollars could have tending in person: Here the been raised. Cadets with reversed arms and After dinner the crowd was tnuffled drums, took their posi­ called together to listen to Hon. tion as an escort. The column Henry S. Walker, who delivered moved down Main street, to the a most appropriate and thrilling­ Kanawha River, and filed to the ly eloquent address. We would right,where the bone of ourslain not attempt to given even a syn­ heroes were re-interred with opsis of it, so carried away were military honors. At the grave _we with its effect upon the peo­ the beautiful burial service of the ple that we could not take -a note Church was read by the Minis­ but stood, feeling with delight ters present in the column. its efiect upon our self and watch­ As the procession was moving ing the feelings ofothers as their downMain street, first the Court animated countenances told that House Bell, then the bell of the the touch of eloquence was forc­ M. E. Church, South, were tolled, ing the tell-tale blood to their . whilst the minute gun was fired 107

by the Artillery Company. The of today, and the three days of drums were muffled and the the Fair. May it still continue­ band played an appropriate piece, to improve—we can stand the thus giving solemnity to the ex­ hum drum of practice for the ercises. sake of such a treat as they have Just before the benediction given us in the last few days. was pronounced, a voteof thanks Let us all now go to work earn­ was returned to the Morgantown nestly and determinedly to make Cadets, to the‘ Knights of the “unveiling of the Monument” Pythias, Band and Artillery, of as decided a success as the Cele­ Gallipolis, Ohio, to the Ravens­ bration of today—but le t us wood Band, and all others who make it wider in its extent. Let had aided in the Centennial Cele­ us make it State and National. bration. Come up, one and all with what‘ . The crowd then dispersed, the you can do with money and influ­ Cadets marched to the Kline ence, and we shall have the House, ,where three rousing, pleasure of chronicling at the . hearty cheers were given them end of another year, the success by all present; the Knights took of the enterprise inagurated to­ up their line of march toward day. There will be some croak­ their homes, at Gallipolis, and ing as a matter of course—some the other organizations went al­ men grumble even at the wisdom so to their homes. The Cadets and benevolence of the Infinite took the steamer Clara Scott for God—but let us, who are deter­ Charleston. mined to succeed in the enter-' Thus ended the First Centen­ prise before us, turn a deaf ear nial Celebration of the Battle of to all croaking, and the more Point Pleasant. We say in con­ they croak, the more determined cluding our description of it, let us become. One hundred from morning till night; each one years ago was a great historical that had a given part toperform, epoch of Point Pleasant. Today vied with the other as to which has been another, let one year could do it best. All acted well from today be another. Who their parts. dares say “nay?” What citizen There may have been, but we of Mason .County, or West Vir­ did not see, a single drunken ginia, or Virginia, or Ohio, or man on the ground. _ Kentucky, or the'United States, The Point Pleasant Bras s could refuse to aid in doing honor Band has'done better than its to the heroes of Point Pleasant?” most sanguine friends had hoped BRIEF MENTION. for it, both during the celebration ‘ “In the midst of the throng of 108

the Centennial celebration, we ered on the occasion of the anni­ noticed many of the direct de­ versary of the battle. which we scendants of the warriors of‘one quote in part: hundred years ago. and will re­ "I am glad I am here because call the names of them as far as I witness a scene. (and I appeal we can: There were the East­ to the best and oldest historians hams, the Somervilles, Jas. Ar­ here present for the truth of the buckle, Jr.. of Greenbrier, John remark, that such a scene of D. Lewis, of Kanawha, the Lew­ moral suhlimity, except the sign­ ises, of Mason. Mrs. Agnes Se­ ing of the Declaration of Inde­ hon, who had two grandfathers pendence, has never been pre­ in this great battle, (Col. Charles sented to the people of these Lewis and Col. John Stuart.) United States as is presented who is also the first representa­ here today.) And what is that tive of four living generations scene? I see around me some who were upon the ground and two thousand people with the who are liniel decendents of the descendants of the heroes of the ’ two pioneers—C0ls. Lewis and battle of Point Pleasant. to the Stuart. The fourth generation third ‘and fourth generation, on was represented by her great this 10th day of October, 1874,—— grand child, little Grafton Tyler, under a bright October sun, one who is now some three or four hundred years after the battle,­ years old. Mrs. Sehon was assembled on the battle-field, fol­ probably the only person on the lowing the lofty instincts of our ground that could say as much—— nature. to gather the bones of John Waddell, of Ohio, was also their ancestors. place them in a present and had swung around metallic coflin, catch the inspira­ his shoulder the powder-horn tion of their ever living virtue and bullet pouch, carried by his and valor, and determining_ to father in the Battle of Point place a high, and enduring. monu­ Pleasant on the 10th day of Oc­ ment to their memory. Yes sir, tober, 1774. The Hannans, the to erect a monument high and Clendennins, the Millers, of Ma­ lofty on the banks between the son.County. the Clendenins, the Great Kanawha and Ohio, to’ Hannans, the Millers of Ohio. overlookthese two great rivers, , There were a number of others the music of whose Waters will present whcise names we did not mingle with the names forever,‘ ascertain." ’ where the passengers on ‘board On October 22nd, the Register your vast merchant steamers, published the speech of Dr. sailing on these great commer­ Thos. Creigh, of Virginia, deliv­ cial highways, shall see it and as 109

they pass by uncover their heads much excited in telling what and toll from the bell a requiem each had done. Dick says the to their memory. and where the Indian is taller than the white valiant youth of our country man for I killed Indians as high shall in all future time come to as the court house. No, says worship at this shrine,’ study Pool, if you could have seen Mas. their character, imitate their vir­ John and Charles and James, in tues and be inspired by their the fight at the Point, when fire lofty deeds of patriotism, and flew out of their eyes like the fire where boys and girls i11happy out of their guns; they were just bands shall come for long cen—' as tall and grand as the‘old trees turies and cover this marble ‘on Kanawha. That is 'the rea- — column with the cypress and the son why I say they were “tall vine, and the immortal flower.” and grand old warriors.” “Yes, sir, build this marble “But, sir, history informs us column to their memory, for that there was aman by the they were “tall and grand” old name of George Washington. warriors. Do you know whyl say "tall and grand?” they are who had a high opinion of the companies of these Point Pleas­ not original terms with me. I ant, warriors, for he said ina will tell you where Igot them. Old Pool, a colored man, was the dark hour of his campaign to his wearied and dispirited army on body servant of Col._JohnStuart, of Greenbrier at the battle and the plains of New Jersey, ‘only give me the men to place the witnessed the fight at Pt. Pleas­ standard of my country on the ant, and took part in it. Old Dick Pointer, another colored man, mountains of West Augusta, and I will call around me the men was the hero of Donnalley’s Fort, who shall make my country free. n e a r Lewisburg, Greenbrier . These ‘tall and grand’ warriors county, and for his bravery, was were West Augusta men, and freed by the Legislature of Vir­ Washington knew them.” ginia, and received a. pension. Col. Ben Smith, our orator, was “Yes, build a monument of en­ no doubt a member of the Vir­ during marble to the memory of ginia Legislature at that time. those old grand warriors, for Old Pool and Old Dick were you may»look down the long pic­ talking over their battles in ture gallery of history and you Lewisburg one day when I was will find no brighter or grander a school boy, and we school boys names than the men of 1774and were all standing by and listen­ 1776. Nor let‘ us forget their ing. Pool and Dick became very‘ characters, or their great princi­ \ 110 ples of civil liberty, or insult ‘the of Col. Charles Lewis introduc­ spirit of liberty.” A ing the bill in the lower house,­ While the Register of Decem­ while Hon. P. C. Eastham, de­ ber 10, 1774, gives the following scendant of George Eastham, of account of the committee. the Battle of Point Pleasant, in­ The Point Pleasant Monu­ troduced the bill in the upper ment Association held their first house. On Feb. 25, 1875, the meeting in the law oflice of John Legislature passed a bill carry­ W. English, Esq., December 4th, ing an appropriation of $3,500.00 1874. All the members of the to aid in the purchase of land Committee, viz: W. E. Hill, F. and the erection of a monument» A. Guthrie and John W. English, in commemoration of the Battle ­ were present. On motion, John of Point Pleasant, the President W. English, was called to the and Secretary of the Monument chair; and on further motion, Association to have charge of the was made permanent Chairman. erection of said monument, the On motion, C. E. Hogg, was parties investing the money with elected Secretary, and T. Strib— approved security, awaiting as ling, Treasurer. On motion,the sistance from other states. Committee was ordered to in­ No further action was taken un­ quire into the title of the land on til Feb. 26. 1897, when the Leg­ which the monument is to be islature adopted a Joint Resolu­ erected. On motion, the Com­ tion by which Governor Geo. W. mittee was directed to see Drs. Atkinson appointed Judge‘ John Shaw and Moore with reference W. English, Dr. A. R. Barbee to subscription papers, and also and Judge F. A. Guthrie as cus­ ascertain how much money is in todians of the fund appropriated their hands belonging to the by the Legislature. , Association, and to paythe same The matter again lay dormant to the Treasurer. On motion, and no effort was made either to the Association adjourned to collect the funds or secure fur­ meet Thursday evening, Decem­ ther appropriations. ber 17th, 1874.” That the State\ and Point While no report has been pre­ Pleasant was not free from cen­ served of the Monument Associ­ sure for their dereliction of duty,­ ation, founded on October 10, we quote in part from the King­ 1874, the work of procuring wood Argus of June 29, 1899, funds was taken up by the Ma­ copied in the State Gazette July son County representatives in 4th, of that year: “We were at the Legislature of West Virginia, Point Pleasant and visited the Hon. Edmund Sehon, descendant graves of the almost forgotten 111 dead who fell in that memorable a fence around it, and erect a battle and we were surprised handsome monument on the cen­ and indignant to find the place ter of the site and make a decent almost surrounded by stables way to get to it by removing and hog pens and lyingalonga some of the adjoining stables back alley with not a mark of and hog pens.” any kind to designate the spot; The State Gazette appended not even a fence or wall around the following editorial comment: the place and no one could find it “We think the suggestion that withouta guide who knew just the park and monument should where it was. It was only a very be contiguous to the resting small plot of ground, in some one place of the dead heroes and else's back yard, with stables on should include it as well as the two sides of it and a garden on site ofxthe old fort is the cor­ another side and the only way to rect solution. The Argus get to it is down a dirty alley. will no doubt be surprised to Nearly a hundred pioneers of learn that there are suggestions that section who fell in that bat­ now made that the monument be tle, fighting old Cornstalk for placed away up on the Ohio possession of the beautiful land .bank twelve squares from the along the Ohio river lie buried site of the old fort and grave of there, unmarked and almost for­ Col. Lewis and others, and sug­ gotton. It is a burning shame gestions that it be placed back and disgrace on the town to al­ on the hill overlooking the town.” low it. We went up to anews­ There is no mention of the paper office and made a vigorous 1celebrationof the anniversary of kick about it and learned that that year 1899 save the local money had been appropriated newspaper account that, by the'State and also quite a sum “To-day, October 10,1899, is raised by -the ladies of Point the one hundred and twenty-fifth Pleasant to erect a monument to anniversary of the battle of Point these heroes, dead defenders of Pleasant, fought between Gener­ our country. Now let justice al Andrew Lewis and Cornstalk, and decency compel a disposition the sachem of many nations and of this matter. The State or no citizen evidenced any inter­ the town should take charge and est save Col. G. B. Thomas, the secure some contiguous ground Post-master, who decorated the to the resting place which can­ Post Officewith flags.” not be called a cemetery or even No further agitation of the a graveyard, as it is now, and subject appeared in the local makeia little park out of it with newspapers’ save that of the _ 112

State Gazette of April 21; 1899, tion of the battle as that of the urging the organization of a first Battle of the Revolution. Chapter. of Daughters of the On Feb. 26, 1901, a call was is­ American Revolution and Sons sued for the organization of a of the Revolution‘ here, looking Chapter of Sons of the Revolution forward to proper recognition of and the State Gazette of that is­ the Battle of Point Pleasant in sue said editorially. “This is a which it said: “Here was move in the right direction. fought the first battle of the Rev­ This is the historic spot of the olution and whv should not this first battle of the Revolution. town and county boast of the In order that history may accord largest patriotic organizations in —usthat place with due credit, we the State.” . must first showthat Point Pleas­ No further steps were taken ant appreciates this fact. If the at Point Pleasant looking to a spot is to be properly marked monument appropriation until and receive from the National Feb. 11, 1901, when Mrs. Livia Government th e appropriation Simpson-Poffenbarger issued a and recognition for a splendid call for the organization of a monument that the battle de­ Chapter of the Daughters of the serves, we must first show that American Revolution which is of the memory is dear to us.” ' date of Feb. 14, 1909, reported On Feb. 29, 1901, the Daugh­ as follows in the State Gazette: ters of the American Revolution “A sufficient number of ladies were formally organized and ‘the met at the home of Mrs. George name selected was that of-Col. Polfenbarger yesterday to organ­ Charles Lewis, named for one of iseaChapter of the Daughters the best beloved heroes of those" of the American Revolution. As who fell at the Battle of Point soon as the requirements are Pleasant. At that meeting the duly met, a Charter will be Daughters_in conformity with granted. This is a most com­ the statement of Governor White mendable move and should meet that he would appoint one man with the support and best wish­ outside of Point Pleasant and es of the entire town.” two resident members of the At this meeting it was explain­ commission to look after the ed that the chief motive inorgan­ funds the ladies recommended izingthis patriotic society was V. A. Lewis of Mason and P. S that an organized effort might Lewis and C. C. Bowyer of Point be made to secure funds for the Pleasant, but the Governor later erection of a Battle Monument at decided to appoint but one man Point‘ Pleasant and the recogni­ in Point Pleasant and the com­ 113 .

« mission named .was John P. rounding hills is perfect and it Austin, .C. C. Bowyer and V. A. would give‘strangers a different Lewis. On.Manch.1-1, 1901, Mr. opinion of the town from the Joe Friedman not only present­ ragged appearance it now ha .\-.ed the Col. Charles-Lewis Chap­ from rail and river. ’ ii ter the money with which to pay for their charter, but also for :On April 18, 1901, the newly I t..t-he purchase of their record appointed Monument Commis­ ! books» and proflered when a sioners gave bond before the I»-monument was completed to Mason County Court with ap­ -donate a splendid Band and proved security and when they Speakers stand. had met for organization, John The State Gazette of March P. Austin was elected President 11, 1901,says: “The new com­ and C. C. Bowyer Treasurer and mittee to be appointed should V. A. Lewis Secretary. first secure the grounds. This The issue of May 28, 1901,of Uwould be the beginning looking the State Gazette says: “The. toward the end. Then the old Battle Monument Commission buildings could be cleared away, held a meeting at the Merchants grading done, grass sown, trees National Bank Saturday last. set out and the grounds beauti­ The members composing the fled. These all take time to commission Hon. John P. Aus­ bring them ‘to perfection. tin, President, Hon.V. A. There is suflicient money all Lewis, Secretary and Hon. C. C. .’ready subscribed, together with Bowyer, Treasurer, together what could be secured, by pri­ with other citizens and a State vate subscription to do this much Gazette Reporter went down to handsomely. The government the Kanawha point where. had could then be presented the stood the old_fort and where ground as a National Historic some of the heroes of the battle Park and the War Department of Point Pleasant were buried ‘ under the head of Rivers and and made a careful inspection. of Harbors could be induced to the grounds. The publiciseem grade the banks bordering on generally united in the belief both rivers and they would then that this is the proper place to be forever taken care of. Be­ erect the monument and it might A. sides, its historic significance, it be said that the property bound­ is in point of beauty of location ed by Main and First Streets the ‘most desirable site in town. and the two rivers will be pur'- _ The view is splendid from both chased shortly by the commis­ rivers. The viewfrom the sur­ sion provided the owners of the - 114

property do not demand too ex­ garded it as the first in the ser­ orbatant a price.” ' 7 ies of the Revolution which gave On Decoration Day, May.‘30th, the continent to liberty. It was 1901, ‘for the first time a public the chief event of Dunmore’s memorial exercise was held, War." whereby the graves of the heroes On August 29, 1901, the State i of the battle of Point Pleasant» Gazette announced that the Com­ were decorated, in charge mittee had decided to commence of the D. A. R. and G. A. R. so­ clearing the grounds at once and cieties of the town. A large con­ that paper made the first appeal course of people attended the ex­ ‘forthe Celebration of the Battle. ercises. ' The State Gazette of “It is the intention that the June 18, 1901,records that John clearing of the grounds shall be ' D. McCulloch had given an op­ completed by the anniversary of tion on his property onthe mon­ the great battle of Point Pleas­ ument site for -$1,00000; C. H. ant, Oct. 10, 1774.” Varian $1,200.00; Geo. ’l‘., Chas. “The significance of the battle and Henry Stone $3,000.00;Thos. has not been wholly overlooked. Durst $600.00, a total of $5,800.­ Thousands know of its impor­ 00, which includes all the.contem­ tance and it remains for Point plated territory needed except Pleasant herself to appreciate the Geo. Comstock property, up­ her relation to history _and de­ on which a price had not been mand from the State and from agreed.” Congress the substantial recog­ Later Mr. Comstock’s proper­ nition due this spot. -Our citi­ ty was secured at $2,200.00. zens should join in one glorious From t h e issue of August, celebration of ,.this anniversary 1901, of the Charleston Daily Oct. 10 . We trust that there is Mail’s report of the Monument enough patriotism in the town Commission, held at that place to observe it. If in no other we glean the following: “Hon. way, let it be one grand V. A. Lewis reported that the union picnic. The weather will Commission had about $11,000.00 be fine and all can come together in the treasury, but that the at least in the spirit of patriotism _’work,as planned would necessi­ and good fellowship”. ' tate the expenditure of $25,000.­ Mrs. Pofienbarger, editor of 00 more.” Speaking ofthe Bat-‘ the State Gazette, not only is- f _.tleof Point Pleasant, the Daily sued a call for a citizen’s meet­ ‘Mail quotes Mr. Lewis as fol­ ing on Thursday night Septem- ‘ lows: “All careful painstaking her 5th, looking toward the cele­ thoughtful historians have re­ bration, but she had secured the 115 ‘

co operation of Col. J. P. R B. tal of $409.00, besides generous Smith and, at that meeting do­ subscriptions, of exhibits for the nated the services of her paper museum. The children of the to advertisethe meeting, supple­ public schools contributed $8.50 mented by a subscription secur­ to be used in decorating a wagon ed by her of over $200.00with for the parade. The newspa­ 'which to begin the work. The pers of the country stood up and paper of that issue contained the took notice of the big celebration following full page advertise­ and helped advertise it. ment, besides the names of the In the issue of Oct. 10th, The donors of cash: State Gazette announced the 127thANNIVERSARY presence of distinguished visit­ The First Battle of-the Revolu­ ors, among whom was Gen. C. tion to be celebrated at" H. Grosvener of Ohio, faithful POINT PLEASANT, W. VA. advocate for an appropriation . Thursday Oct. 10th, 1901. from Congress to commemorate Great National Speakers the battle. Virgil A. Lewis, in will be present. an article published in the State Entertainment for the ‘people. Gazette of that date, said: Excursions on all railroads and “After all, even though it be steamboats will be arranged for. here, is it best to assert without The Old Log Mansion built in reference to the proof that the 1796, that has lived in three cen­ battle of Point Pleasant is the turies will be used. to exhibit the first battle of the Revolution and (I greatest lot of Historic Relics then array against us the whole ever brought together in West of New England where the peo­ Virginia, outside the Historical ple are jealous of the claims Society at Charleston. of ‘Lexington. It is easy to EVERY ONE INVITED. make assertions, but to ‘exam­ The monument Park and ine hnndreds of volumes and ob­ Court House yard will make fine tain records from both Europe - picnic grounds. and America in proof of the Watch this space for attrac­ same, is quite another thing. tions as they are secured.” Do not throw the burden of As a result of the meeting at proof of this matter on a com­ K"thecourthouse committees were mittee before a Congressional organized and Mrs. Pofienbarger Committee.” ‘participated in the work of The State Gazette of October all the committees. The issue 17, 1901, announced that the .-ofSeptember 19 shows an addi­ Mansion House had been turned tional subscription, making a to- .over to of three ladies who had 116

accepted it as‘ a headquarters the Court House tothe Kanawha for the Col. Charles Lewis Chap­ River, with fully five thousand ter D. A. R. Also that work on people upon the.Park. Tu-Endie-Wei Park had been The K. & M. Railroad rana discontinued for want of funds dollar excursion from Athens to and made an appeal that the this place, and Point- Pleasant Commission set out trees on the can never forget the kindness of edge’ of‘ the Park or permit the that road. When we solicited citizens to do so. Also the list them for a cheap rate they re­ of subscribers to the expense of plied if it would be any accommo­ the Celebration. dation to Point Pleasant and While the following is the pub­ they only made it pay expense of lished account of the big cele­ running the train they would bration: give it to us to show to Point “THEY CAME. Pleasant hhe kindly feeling of that road toward our town. From Every Direction. They not only gave us just the Ten Thousand People Celebrat­ service we asked for but they ed the 127th Anniversary of the put out. l5,000 attractive hand First Battle of bills and advertised their rates The Revolution. —Tu-Endie-Wei Park. in the newspapers along the route, and when they came in On last Thursday _the good here they brought us not only citizens of Point: Pleasant cele­ the Nelsonville and Middleport brated the 127th anniversary of bands, but they brought a big the battle of Point Pleasant, the train packed with people from first battle of the Revolution. Athens and way stations; they It only needed for our people brought us Gen. Chas. ‘H.Gros­ to arouse themselves and make venor, one of the stalwarts sons the efl°ort to have one of the big­ of the Revolution who came to gest celebrations ever held in the aidress our people and promote state. Beside our people, who the success of the day. The K. were for the most part upon our & M. brought us a train of eight streets, enough more swelled the or ten coaches from Charleston crowd until we had fully ten that had standing room only and thousand celebrating. Hereto­ while the excursion was profita­ fore, when we had any demon­ ble to the K. & M. and we are stration in the town, the crowd glad it was, we must not forget was from the Ohio river landing that it was run wholly to compli­ ‘ to the Court House. This time -ment Point Pleasant.‘ -The con­ the streets were crowded from duct of the K. & M. was greatly 117

in contrast to that of the Ohio can Continent—the first battle of River Division of the B. & O. R. the Revolution—the battle that R., who were importuned by let­ broke the power of the red men ’ ter, in person, and by telegraph,_ in America; the battle that to give us a rate, but of no avail, brought the treaty that enabled and notwithstanding full fair was civilization to mareh on to the charged, that road brought in west and southwest and great crowds of people with a crowded northwest territory; the battle train from the north aud stand­ that resulted in ceding to Vir­ ing room only coming in from ginia and thence to the colonies th e south end. Steamboats the great Northwest; that battle brought in excursions and hacks that defied at its close Tory mis­ run between here and Gallipolis rule, the first battle-ever fought while six hundred persons cross­ after the tea had been thrown ed the Kanawha Ferry, and as overboard at Boston_Harbor the many more had tobeferried in preceding March. The Boston private boats in harbor. The Port Bill, of May, 1774, the sig­ farmers came in carriages, bug­ nal for actual conflict had been gies, expresses, big wagons, passed. The House of Burges­ horseback and on foot, any way ses, of Virginia, had declared so they came, and they came as the first of June of that year to a multitude. be “A day of fasting, imploring “Notwithstanding the rain, the the Divine interposition to avert night before, which was just the heavy calamity which threat­ enough to lay the dust, the sun ened destruction to their civil shone out about eight o’clock rights and the evils of a civil and the day was ideal.” war.” Massachusetts had pas­ “Never before did the old town sed resolutions deploring the op­ wear such a gala dress. Old pressionof Great Britain. Glory and buntings galore waved Patrick Henry had made this from every residence and busi­ famous speech before the House ness house. There was neither of Burgesses, of Virginia, de­ the difference ,of politics or reli­ claring that “The war is inevita­ gion or even the distinction of ble. andlet it come,” and asked secret organizations to mar the “Is life so dear or peace so sweet occasion, but all came together as to be purchased at the price upon a common level for one of chains and slavery?” -grand glorification of the cele­ “England, too, recognized be­ bration of the battle, the farthest fore the Battle of Point Pleasant reaching in its effect of any bat­ that the war was inevitable, and tleever fought upon the Ameri­ determined to keep the colonists 118 ­ so busy defending themselves (and in face and figure'he is typi­ from hostile Indians armed with cal of theefigurative head of the English muskets and English nation,) all the city fathers, ex­ amunition, that ~they would‘ cept Mayor Somerville, who act­ have'no time to think of the ed as a marshal], were in the wrongs inflicted upon them by parade in carriages, The fire ‘the mother "country. Great department were out with their ­ Britain never had a better tool wagon decorated. There were than Lord Dunmore, the Tory floats galore, put in by the .-busi­ Governor of Virginia, as his sub­ ness men of ‘the town, vying sequent condnct proved. Hence, with each other to see which the battle of Point Pleasant, (in Acould make the finest di-splay. _which ‘Lord Dunmore intended The three splendid bands, the flower of the Colonial Army Cheshire, Middleport and Nel­ of Virginia to be destroyed but sonville,Vdiscoursed sweet music ~ which, victorious to his surprise) along the route and the children became the first battle in which of the white schools marching in the blood of patriots ‘was .spilled line wearing bouteniers of na­ upon American soil for the cause tional colors, waving flags, which of National Independence, and little girls representing the was so creditedby Alexander S. states and territories, and the Withers, in his chronicles of colored children on a wagon Border‘ warfare, later by Ban­ beaptifully decorated made the croft, the Government historian, prettiest parade ever seen in by , President Rosevelt, in his . Point Pleasant. “Winning the West,” and by What might have been a seri­ many other historians, ofrepute. ous accident, but. proved to be a ' Is it any wonder that we point fortunate escape, occured when with pride to this battle and in­ awagon with 103 children on it vited the whole country to cele­ passed over a" culvert on 14th brate with us? Street. The culvert went down ' “At ten o’clock the parade be­ and the top of the wagon was gan to form on First Street and separated in the lunge from the it was of such magnitude that it platform and the children were took Col. J. P. R. B. Smith, the precipated to_ the ground. Grand Marshall of the day, and Fortunately no one was hurt and his corps of splendid assistants, the procession proceeded down an hour to get them all in line Main Street» to First, the chil- ' ready for march. It was headed ‘ dren fal1ing‘in line with the by James Somerville, of Pleasant others in the line of march, Flats, dressed as Uucle- Sam, where‘ they disbanded Three 119

open air concerts were given planation or detail, that it has from 1 to 2 o'clock, when the been rather thrust upon us. We speaking began from a platform are simply doing that which has at the grounds recently purchas­ been denied to others who have ed as a site for a monument yet been invited to do it, by their to be arected. The grounds are «situation a n (1 present circum­ situated at the junction of the stances. We have accepted the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, with­ trust and assumed the duty in out doub_tthe most beautiful site the absence of others who might. for a park oh the Ohio river.” and we sincerely believe, would The large audience was called have preformed it better. to order by Col. J. P. R. B. However, I wish to premise Smith, who called our distin­ that it is not at all unappropriate guished fellow townsmen, Hon. that the Societyof the Daughters C. E. Hogg to the chair. Mr. ' of the American Revolution per­ Hogg in his usual pleasing man­ form this most important func­ ner did the.honors of the occa­ tion. Ours is purely a patriotic psion with credit to himself and organization and our work is to Point Pleasant. Mr. Hogg carried on in the name of patri­ then introduced ‘ Mrs. Livia otism and inspired by love of Simpson-Poffenbarger, Regent country. The objects and pur­ of Col.vChas. Lewis Chapter of poses of our society are set forth the Daughters of the American in our constitution, Article 1, as Revolution, who had been desig­ follows: nated by her Chapter to dedicate ’(1) “To perpetuate the mem­ and name the park which she did ory of the spirit ofthe men and in a short address, as follows: women who achieved American “Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Independence, by the acquisition Gentleman: .and protection of historical spots, It has been deemed fitting and and the erection of monuments; appropriate,. that, by so m e by the encouragement to histori­ means this beautiful and historic cal research in relation to the 9 spot of ground he dedicated to Revolution and the publication of the noble purpose for which it‘ its results; by the preservation has been purchased. and given a of documents and relics and of name by which it may be known the records of individualservices in the future. The important of Revolutionary soldiers and‘pa­ duty has not been sought by the triots, and by the promotion of organization I have the honor to celebrations of all patriotic anni- * represent. I wish to emphasize versaries. _ the fact, without going into ex­ (2) To carry out the injunc­ 120

tion of Washington in his fare­ tive of that proposition then the well address to the American first battle shall not be lacking people, “To promote as an ob­ "in display of heroism and pa­ ject of primary importance, in­ triotism, exhibited in the midst stitutions for the general diifu­ of an almost interminable wilder­ sion of knowledge,” thus devel­ ’ ness and hand to hand with a oping an enlightened opinion, savage and at the same time and aifording to young and old valorous foe." such advantages as shall develop in them the largest capacity for “The memory of -that great struggle, will we think, be well performing the duties of Ameri­ can citizens. and fittingly preserved upon these grounds._ A splendid and . (3) To cherish, maintain, and to extend the institutions of enduring monument is to be erected commemorative of the American freedom, to foster batt_le. On some part of it will true patriotism and love of coun­ be a bronze statute of the heroic try and to aid in securing for Andrew Lewis, the commanding mankind all the blessings of lib­ general. On it will be inscribed erty.” . . in imperishableletters the “Another "thingI wish to im­ names of the brave Col. Chas. press upon all here to-day is the Lewis and Col. Fields and all fact that ours is the only society‘ professing to be founded exclu­ those who fell with them in de­ fense of liberty and the homes of _sively upon our Revolutionary our race. On these grounds. struggle that recognizes the Bat­ tle of Point Pleasant as a part of will be laid down and preserved the outlines of old Fort Ran­ the war for American indepen­ dence. Reputable historians, in­ dolph. A . cluding Bancroft, P r e s i d e n t ­ Without some reference to the Roosevelt and others have as­ stubborn foe which drew the serted that it was the initial, the brilliant flash of fire from the first battIe‘of the Revolutionary steel of these heroes, in the_ war. Moreover, they have pro­ shades of primeval forests, far duced the indisputable evidence from the abode of any White upon which the assertion is bas­ man, this .history written in ed. What the concensus of g r o u n d s, stone, marble and American opinion will be as the bronze wquld be incomplete. years shall roll on and historical The red men were fighting ‘for research shall bring to light the their homes _and h u n t i-n g‘ whole truth, we cannot say. If ‘grounds. From their stand­ the verdict shall be the afiirma­ point, their conduct was patri­ 121

lotic. They were defending the a “long knife, ” leather breetches lgraves of their fathers.” and a coon skin cap. Herman “To the end, therefore, that‘ Snyder was selected to wear the history, as far as possible, may suit, being smooth shaved and cor­ be fully preserved and patri­ responding in weight and height otism, in its broadest sense may to Daniel Boone." be recognized, it has been decid­ “Co1. Young was followed by ed to give this park the oldest our poet la_ureate, Louis Reed —first name it has ever been Campbell, who recited in splen­ known to possess—its Indian did style his poem, written for name. By authority of the Mon­ the occasion: ument Commission appointed by OUR HEROES. Grave by grave, where the rivers meet, and the Governor of this state, and gently now, The patriot sleeps,and by his sidea van­ in the name of the Society of the quished silent foe. Year on year with wondrous-wiftness glid­ Daughters of the American Rev­ e And yet no stone was reared where brave olution, we now dedicate this men dared to die park, the property of the State 'i‘ime‘shand wasin the game that drove the Indian from his land, of West Virginia, to patriotism In it the shadow of a. wrong that greed couldnot withstand. and the preservation of history Morethan a century goneare right doth o'er wrong prevail, and name it “Tu-Endiei-Wei Alike we honor. now, who faced the Park,” which signifies in the feathered shaft and rifles’deadly hail. Departed chieftan of a mighty race. so soon Shawnee tongue “the mingling of to disappear! What doesthe future ho1d,savememory, waters," this being the junc­ softened by a tear‘! For even now adown the changing slope of tion of two rives.” fleeting time The painted warrior glides away,,toleave Mr. Hogg next introduced Col. no trail behind. VBennett H. Young, of Louisville, No powercan dim the luster nowofthat vic­ torious band, . Ky., who had been previously in­ Who fought and fell and fired again where now we stand. vited to address the Assembly, I! fairness to the ice isdue,what honor must be theirs, and no happier selection could Whose names too sacred for an eulogy, have been made. The people as driit upward with our prayers." a unit fell in love with the man. The following is taken from He talked directly to their hearts, the Point Pleasant Observer of ‘and we fortunately secured his October 17, 1901.5 speech which is reproduced in “TU-ENDIE-WEI PARK.”_ this issue of the State Gazette­ A Great Outpouring of the Peo­ Col. Yciung also loaned, for the ple at j‘,its Dedication Last occasion, his pioneer suit, which Thursday. AGala Day consisted of a hunting shirt and For Point Pleasant. »flintlock gun which had belong­ "We have not space to tell of ed to Daniel Boone, which he the big celebration on Thursday had completed by the addition of the 10th. This means that if we 122

were to take up every ‘inch of Grand Marshall J. P. R. B. space in the whole paper we Smith, the large procession mov­ could not tell all about it. So we , ed over the principal streets of will have to tell a little about it the town and at last ended at the and let the rest go.” beautiful park at the junction of “Day dawned bright and clear the two rivers.” ’ with never a cloud to remind one “The parade consisted of the of the little sprinkle of the night town oflicers in carriages, citi­ before, The town was pro­ zens in carriages, citizens on fuselv decorated with flags and horseback, people on foot, the hunting. The first signal" of children of the public schools, the coming dawn was announc­ both white and colored, some in ed by the watchman on the wagons and some on «foot,with V site of Old fort Randolph, who three brass bands, interspersed . was in charge of the relics, firing at regular intervals, and all in­ the morning gun. Immediatley terspersed with display made after this the church bells begun by our merchants until the to ring, say at 5 o’clock, and the wholepresented a scene of beau­ mill whistles and those of the ty. _Merchants from other towns steamboats began to blow until who inform the newspaper peo­ not only everybody in town, ple of Point Pleasant that it does but every one within five miles no good to advertise here were of the town, was wide awake. also glad to have aplace in-the By eight o’clock, the country big parade and were not asham­ people. were pouring into town ed to be the lustiest howlers for in streams from every direction. Point Pleasant’s big day.” All roads led to Point Pleasant After -the people had gotten and all roads were full. At" half something to eat they again as­ past nine the trains began to -sembled at the park and were pour their loads into town and called to order by J. P. R. B. by 10 o’clock the crowd was var­ Smith who called Hon. C. E. iously estimated from 6,000 to Hogg one of this district’s dis­ 10,000 people. ~At 10 o’clock tinguished ex,-congressmen to Col. J. P. R. B. Smith began to the chair. Mr. Hogg after a “formthe huge mass of people in­ short but eloquent address in­ to a line of march and even with troduced -Mrs. _George'Pofien­ his able assistants it was an barger, Regent of Col. Chas. Herculean task. Finally the Lewis chapter ofthe Daughters parade wasformed and headed of the American Revolution who, by Col. James Somerville and a in a short address, and by au­ platoon of police followed by thority of the Monument Com­ 123

missions named the beautiful plot many of whom had come half of g r o u n d “Tue-Endie-Wei” way across the continent to be ‘ Park. "Tue-Endie-Wei" in the present, the beautiful grove at Shawnee 1a n g u a g e meaning the junction of the Kanawha and “the mingling of the waters.” Ohio r_ivers, was for ever dedicat­ Chairman Hogg next introduc­ ed to the memory of the gallant ed Col. Bennet H. Young of Virginians who, one hundred Louisville, Ky., a f t e r which and twenty-seven years ago, Louis Reed Campbell recited an gave to the world the first mani­ original poem written for the oc­ festation of that valor, which in casion entitled “Our Heroes.” after years, broke the power of Next followed Gen. Chas. I:I_. Great Britain and made this con­ -Grosvener, of Ohio, who deliver­ tinent the abiding place of civil ed a.characteristic Grosvener ad­ liberty.” «dress. The program of the day “No spot in the Ohio valley is was concluded by the burial of so full of historical significance the _remains of “MAD ANN as the old town of Point Pleasant. ’BAILEY," which had been dis­ No spot will be more beautiful interred from their resting place when the towering granite shaft, of 76 years and brought here for to be erected at an estimated burial, thus carrying out her de­ cost of forty thousand dollars, sire, expressed more than three shall greet the eye of the strang­ quarters of a century ago, to be ‘ er as he approaches this true buried on Virginia soil.” cradle of American liberty.” “The museum contained large number of historic relics which Quoting from the GalliaTimes f held the interest of the vast of October 9th, we find. « “Much interest is being taken crowd from early morn to the by the Point Pleasant people in leaving time of the late train and the coming anniversary of the steamboat in the evening.” Indian battle fought t h e r e. This was on October 10, 1774,or The Huntington Advertizer of October 11, 1901, said. ‘ 127 years ago, and, on this day “The Huntingtonians who vis­ the power of the Red Men in the ited Point Pleasant yesterday Kanawha and Ohio Valleys was wrested from them. The day ' returned last evening happy over the exercises of the day.” should long be remembered and “It was the proudest and most we believe will be fittingly cele­ memorable in the.life of that his­ brated by our neighborcity.” toric community. Amid an as The Gallipolis Journal of Octo­ _sembly of ten thousand persons, ber 9th, said. 124

“BATTLE _ ty-Seventh Anniversary of the Of Point Pleasant will be Battle of Point,Pleasant.v Thous­ Celebrated on ands of‘ Visitors Within our Thursday next.” Gates. TheCelebration a Suc­ "‘Our._neighbors a c ros s the cess in Every Particular and the river are making extensive prep­ day will,.belong remembered by arations for the celebration of all present.” the battle of Point Pleasant, the “Despite the cloudy weather first conflict of the Revolution­ and rain of Wednesday, Thurs­ on Thursday Oct. 10. It was in day morning, October 10th, 1901, 1774.that the most desperate In­ dawned‘ with the old S01.and a dian battle on record was fought twinkle in his eye, to the gratifi­ "between theiconfederated Indian cation of the committees in tribes. u n d e r the_ celebrated charge and the citizens of our chief. Cornstalk, and the Vir­ little city in general, for clear ginia Militia under command and favorable weather meant for of Gen. Andrew Lewis.” the celebration of the first battle “'I‘-here will be a relic display of the Revolution, (fought at and a big parade. The old log Point Pleasant on October 10, mansion that has stood in three 1774,between the whites under centuries will be among the command ‘of Colonel Charles other relics of primitive days. Lewis, aud the Indians.) un­ -Gen. Grosvener and Col. Bennett bounded and unprecedented suc­ Young, of Louisville, one of Ken­ cess. , ­ tucky’s most magnetic speakers. The committees in charge of will be present at the celebration. this, the 127th anniversary of The remains of Ann Bailey, the this greatbattle. have been earn- _' heroine of the revolution, have est workers to accomplish this been disinterred and will be con­ end, and deserve much credit for signed to their new resting place their untiring etforts. on Thursday. There will be The, genial Marshall in chief, three bands and a most interest­ ColonelJ..P. R. B. Smith andhis ing program and the 10th prom- . assistants, h an d le d the big ises to be an eventful day at parade which was formed in the Point Pleasant’ ’ first ward in a manner credita­ The following is from the ble to a general with an army of Weekly Register, of Point Pleas­ 100,000. ant, W. Va., under date of_()c­ In the parade was a represen­ ober 17. 1901. tation of all our business people, “THE CELEBRATION. the children of our public schools Of theiOne Hundred and Twen­ turning‘ out in full, dressed in 125

national colors, companies of than once, and one who missed horsemen, the fire department, this treat is at loss to know or the hook and ladder company, conceive the manner‘ in which and everything and every body these old settlers lived and had to make up agrand trades dis­ their being. Bands of music de­ play the like of‘which has never lighted the visitors and_the day before been seen in Point Pleas­ was one of joy from morning un­ ant.” . ­ til night. The crowd was order­ “To say the town wasgaly dec­ ly well behaved and jolly. No-_ -­ orated with bunting, flags, &c., congregation of human beings is not necessary, for the emblem had a more joyous time for one of ourgreat nation was never so’ day, than did this one.” , profusely displayed as on this “After the parade, which mov­ ed at noon, and which was never occasionfl’ _ surpassed as a trades display in V“The park at the confluence of this place, had disbanded and the Ohio and Kanawha rivers where the monument to com­ the throng of people had dined, memorate this great battle will ­the speaking at the park began.” be erected, has been put in the “Hon. Chas; E. Hogg, one of West Virginia’s most eloquent . best proper shape, and was orators, had charge of the cere­ thronged with visitors and sight­ seers throughout-the day.” monies at the speaker’s stand," and his introductory remarks “The old house, considerably were well received. Mr. Hogg over a hundred years old,‘ which never fails to please and enlight­ was converted into a museum‘ en his hearer, and at the conclu­ and filled with relics, was the sion of his. remarks introduced most interesting feature of the. Mrs. Judge Poifenbarger, who occasion. ” opened the speaking with an ad­ “The ladies in charge of the‘ dress listened to by the throng museum are commended by our of people with marked attention, citizens and visitors upon the and which was eloquent and in­ manner in -which this “relic. . structive.” store” was conducted, and the “Col. Bennett Young, of Jassa­ courtesies accorded all.” mine County, Kentucky, mem­ “AA-collectionof relics, such as ber of Congress from his dis‘­ ‘Indian implements of warfare, trict, was introduced and to say old. pictures, dishes, dresses, his address was eloquent‘,logical jewelry and many other articles and interesting, is buta triffle, too numerous to mention, are for the marked attentionof his . not seen by one generation more hearers was undisturbed. He

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is a fluent speaker and one would little city with the wish to soon never tire listening to him.” return.” “Next tobe introduced was Mr. “The short-comings of our re- ’ Lewis Reed 'Campbell, who re­ port of this big day are attribut­ cited a beautiful poem entitled ed to the absence of the editor in: “Our Heroes." _This was one chief, and had he been at the of the most beautiful, and being helm, our"-"chases” would not prepared as it was, only a few have held thefiow from his pen ­ - _‘h0lll'Sbefore the hour for deliv­ and our "machines” would have ery, places our young friend at .been sorely overtaxed.” the maximum. The manner in The Mail Tribune, Charleston, which this beautiful poem was ‘W.Va., Oct. 12, 1901, says; delivered was pleasing in the ex­ “POINT PLEASANT treme and delighted the im­ Celebrates Important Anniver­ mense crowd who listened‘ with sary. Remarkable Demon­ marked attention.” stration in Honor­ “Gen. Chas. H. Grosvener, of of the Ohio,’ was next introduced, who Famous Battle. made, as all know, an address ”Col. Bennet Young, of Ky., and second to none. The General Gen. Grosvener, of Ohio, is one of Ohio’s influential and Principal Speakers.” honored sons, and when heap­ “Point Pleasant, W. Va, Oct. peared on the speaker’s stand, a 10th, 1901 was the proudest smile of pleasure and gratifica­ and most memorable in the tion covered every face in the life of this historic community. ' audience. General Grosvener’s Before an assembly of 10,000 remarks were listened to atten­ persons, many of whom had - tively, and ‘his eulogy to our come half way across the conti­ martyred Preident, was pa-' nent to be present, when the thetic. Concludinghis remarks, beautiful grounds at the junc­ General Grosvener said it would ture of the Kanawha and Ohio be well for Great Britain, had rivers was for ever dedicated to she a commander like “Corn­ .the memory of the gallant Vir­ stalk” at the head of her forces ginians, who, 127 years ago _ in South'Africa, which was met gave the first manifestation with a round of applause.” . of that valorwhich, in after ‘.‘Spaceand time will not permit years, broke the power of us to report this celebration as Great Britain and ‘made this we would like to, but those who) continent the abiding place’of were here had a good time, en­ civil liberty. ” joyed themselves and left our “No spot in the Ohio Valley is 127

‘so full of historic significance as ever, as appears by the records, this old town of Point Pleasant, not quite the open manly frank and no spot will be more bea_uti­ man that Americans love to rec­ ful when the towering granite ognize and honor. When he shaft to be erected at an estimate came to the mouth of the Big of $50,000.00, shall greet the eye Hock-hocking river, under prom­ of the stranger as he approaches ise to join the troops that he . this true cradle of liberty.” supposed were subordinate to “Gen. Chas. H. Gresvener, of him, he failed to join them for Ohio, in his speech, said in part: the manifest purpose of weaken­ "It is pleasant on this October ing their forces and thus enable day to reflect that here on the the Indians to overcome the set­ banks of the beautiful Ohio, tlers. While he was not acting then so remote from the center that manly, open and above and homes of our ancestors as to board part which Americans love "be terra. incognita to the peo­ to honor and recognize, but if ple of our country and of the the reports are true and conclu­ world there should have ,been sions are allowable, Lord Dun­ struck that which turned out to more was guilty of an act of the be the first great blowfor Ameri­ basest treachery and a manifest can Independence and American purpose ‘of the most inhuman Liberty. Figure it as you may, outrage. But it cannot be lost the battle whoseanniversary we sight of that even in this, shame­ here today celebrate was_'_the ful as his conduct was, he was first real blow of the Revolution­ acting in furtherance of his pur­ ary War. Nobodyso understood poses to aid the government to. it. Grant that; who understood which he owed allegiance. It what was to flow from Lexington may be that in his horoscope he or Concord or even from Bunker saw the coming of the overthrow Hill? What was the name of the of British power in the colonies. man who foresaw w h e n the and the organization of a new, spring time grass of Massachu­ government and the stripping of setts was reddened with the ‘the British Crown of all it held blood of patriots at Lexington so dear in the United States. that the blood was to sanctify However, much we may con­ the soil and result in the rights demn, from the standpoint of of the people for self govern­ our own sympathy, all and sin­ ment. Lord Dunmore was loyal gular in their behalf, there is to the source ‘from which he de­ nevertheless more or less of mi­ rived his ofiicial dignity and tigation of wrong and treachery . O oflicial position. He was how­ and double dealing in the fact’ 128 that he wasdoing it all in-behalf the battle is as i-twere the con­ of the country and sovereignty to necting link between" two of the which he owed allegiance. The great periods "in all American ' colonies were proposing to fight History. Closing as it does the * for mitigation- of the wrongs of one, and. opening the other. 1 unequal and unjust taxation and Edward Ingle, writing in the the refusal to them of the right Manufacturer's Record, in No­ of representation in the British vember,1901, on the Preserva­ ‘law making body and yet out of tion of Virginia’s 'Antiquities,' ’ that ‘little movement which I says: _ . have shown was only for the ' “Andrew Lewis, not a Virgin­ mitigation of wrong, came this ian. but yet a type of the rear­ the ~greiit idea, so suddenly de­ guard of the Revolution, fought veloped, ‘of independence, and successfully -at Point Pleasant from it has come all the glory of in 1774,that which was really the a mighty and united country.” first battle of that struggle and a While William Hunter, an em­ battle far reaching in its signifi­ inent Ohio writer, of the Chili­ cant results.” . cothie Advertiser, says: -While a bill introduced by Sen­ “It give us ‘pleasure to note ator Scott passed the Senate in that the battle of Point Pleasant l905, carrying an appropriation, is ‘called the first battle of the Senator Scott wrote and offered _ Revolutionary War "bytohse who his personal check for one thous­ are celebrating the’ anniversary, and dollars with which to erect‘ although questioned by’New En­ the monument if the commission gland historians who seem to be-' would abandon the idea of secur­ lieve that the whole . war was" ing aid‘ from the National’Con­ fought in a radius oftwenty miles gress. A hasty conference of of Boston, and the most has_been friends of the movement was made of every little skirmish in held and the ofier declined, as that region, while’the battles in the agitators -of the monument ' the"Western country are not, building were not only anxious ‘ even mentionedflf R . that the Government should ap­ MState Historian V. A. Lewis propriate adequate funds, but , again says,"in the West Virginia that it should oflicially recognize Historical Magazine, of the bat­ the battle as one of those of the ' tle. , . Revolution; so the offer of Sena­ “It is the "greatest event in the tor Scott was politely~decli.ned. colonial period and stands just Congressman Hughes pressed at its close. With it the Revolu­ the passage of the bill at that ’tionary Period begins. Hence time in the lower house of Con­ 129

gress. , Hon. J. T. McCleary, mittee, and if we get a favorable Chairman of the Committee to report from -the committee we which the bill was referred, have “crossed the Alps" for wrote a letter to Mr. .Hughes, as there is positively no opposition follows-:. to it_this year outside of whether ' “As I advised you yesterday, or not there will be available the committee adopted a policy funds.” more than a year agoas its policy “What amount have you asked for this Congress, that of making for, Mrs. Poffenbarger?” noappropriations for monuments “I had a most courteohs hear­ to be erected outside of Washing­ ing before the committee who ton..” V had previously heard the mem­ The monument commissionas­ bers of" the Monument Com­ sisted b y Mrs. Poffenbarger, mittee and I asked for $25,000,00, then hastened to Charleston. payable $5,000.00 annually.’.’ where the Legislature was then "But can the state make an ap­ in session, and the Charleston propriation coverningfive Mail gives, in part, the following: years?” ' . “Mrs. Livia Simpson-Poflem "No, but they can for two and barger arrived here Thursday the appropriation may be for a ‘fromher home at Point Pleasant, monument not to exceed $25,000.­ to aid in securing an appropria­ 00 expense to the state of West tion for a. ‘ Point Pleasant Virginia, $5,00.00 of which is Battle Monument. She has at­ available now and $5,060.00 next tended a part of two former ses-, year, and the rest may be im­ sions of the Legislature for the plied, as in the case of the appro­ ' same purpose. When seen by priation made for the West Vir­ a Mail reporter in the oflice of ginia Hospital at a cost of $80,­ her husband Judge George Pot­ 000, $10,000.00 of which was fenbarger, . of the S u p r e m e availablewhen appropriated.” Court, "she said in response to Here followed the history of the question, when asked what the effort made for the erection the prospect for an appropria­ of a monument. tion is?” _ . Mrs. Pofienbarger telegragh­ “It is the first time I have ever ed her paper­ believed wewould get an appro­ priation when it was asked for. “Charleston, W. Va., I believe now we are going to get ­ - , 0 February 28, 1905. it. We expect to get arecom­ The State Gazette­ mendation for an appropriation The Senate at 6:30P. M. pass­ ' through the Joint Finance Com­ ed an amendentto the Appropri­

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ation Bill of $2,500.00 for_this year -Committee-ofyour place that the and $2,500.00 for 1906." ‘The bill . amount asked for be reduced still has to go back to the House from $50,000.00 to $10,000.00." for concurrence and if it fails “The amount carried in the bill there, will ‘go to a conference does not amount to anything as commitee.” the committee would only appro­ The amendment was offered priate such an amount as they by Senat.or E. S. McCown, of the saw fit and would be governed by _ Fourth Senatorial District. His the wishes of the committee. I speech _was one of his best ef­ will introduce another bill carry- _ forts while Senator Darst work­ ing $10,000.00 instead of $50,000.­ ed heart and soul for the appro­ 00as in the present bill. I had a priation. The amendment failed talk with Mr. McCleary, and he to pass the house, but was saved told me that the committee still in the Joint Conference com­ had under consideration the‘ ad-' . mittee where by herculean work visability of whether they would the building of a battle monu­ make any appropriations outside .ment at Point Pleasant was as­ of the City of Washington. sured. The state had once So far, they have not come to any Aagain assumed the responsibility conclusion. I had a talk with and every year since the Legis­ Senator Scott in regard to this lature has appropriated money appropriation and be doubted with which to build the monu­ very much whether they would ment, Except this appropria­ make any appropriation outside tion for 1906 and 1907, all has Athe City of Washington and he . been vetoed except that of advises that this monument $1,000.00 made in 1909., because should be erected and that it of lack of funds as announced should be done by private sub­ by Governor Dawson. scription and in addition to what Feb, 15,-1906, Hon. James A. the State had already appropri­ Hughes, who was pressing Con­ ated he said he would be glad to gress for an appropriation for head the list with a private sub­ funds with which to build the scription.” . monument wrote as follows from “Now I want to advise you Washington: r frankly about this, if the Libra­ ry Committee of the House re­ Mrs. Liviasimpson-Poflenbarger ‘fuses to make any appropria­ Point Pleasant, W. Va.‘ tions for monuments, outside of I am in receipt of a letter from the City of Washington,‘ I -think ' Mr. Austin who states that it is_ it will be useless to press’ the the opinion‘ of the Monument matter further, and I think; it 131 ‘u. would be well‘ to consider the forts a n d expecting renewed suggestion of Senator Scott. zeal, I am I will be glad to hear from you Very truly ‘in-reference to the matter. Livia Simpson.-Polfenbarger.” Very truly yours, J. A. Hughes.” That the Congress‘of the Un­ ited States was still importuned To the above letter, _Mrs. Pot­ is evidenced by the fact that on fenbarger replied: December 4, 1907, Senator N. B. “We do not ask that the Con­ Scott introduced Senate Bill 160 gress of the United States build which was favorably reported the Battle Monument at Point February 17. 1908, with out ~_—_-1-_‘:.§:':_.;.;t—;:—7~:e_'—:‘:i.-1-?__?-~=:r;;_.e=ET7‘4“*

Pleasant because the funds can­ amendment, as follows: :T:==-"‘‘ “A BILL to aid in the erection not be raised by private sub­ of a monument or memorial at scription or secured as an ap­ Point Pleasant, West Virginia, propriation from the State of to commemorate the Battle of West Virginia, but because we want the Government to oflicial­ the Revolution fought at that ­ point between the Colonialtroops ly recognize the batttle as it was and Indians October tenth. Ain truth a battle of the Revolu­ tion, indeed, the First Battle of seventeen hundred and seventy­ the Revolution. and no matter four." An identical bill was introduc­ how insignificant the approation, ed in the lower House of Con­ ___4?,_____.._.'._..,-..;..7-....._..__-._._-T§::L».r_l.;:,--.....-_..;..._._r.~;—;__.,~?:__ . if the bill -correctly states its status we will be content to raise gress by Hon. James A. Hughes. A Telegram, ' as follows, F the money necessary as best we ,9. brought the first intelligence to if can, although we want as large Point Pleasant that the bill had ‘ an appropriation as we can get. Whileweappreciate the generosi­ passed both branches of Con­ -E:r‘-‘;-:2: gress: ’ ' A A A ty_of Senator Scott, should he do­ nate the entire amount necessary Mrs. LiviaSimpson-Pofienbarger it would fail in our main purpose’ Congress appropriated $10.­ of having the government oflicia1­ 000.00 for a battle monument at ly credit the battle the honor it Point Pleasant Congratulations. ' deserves and we will have again James A. Hughes. to decline his offer and insist Washington, D. C.” that you both press. the matter before Congress so vigorously as The I Monument Commission ‘to ultimately bring the desired got busy and realizing that the result.‘ Again thanking you and introduction of new methods of Senator Scott ‘for your past ef­ monument building, lasting ‘as 132

the pyramids of‘ Egypt, had terested citizens of the town I been introduced, by which the county and state. ' monument could be built with the Signed, , money available, a contract was John P. Austin, let for the monument at a cost at President of the Monument the factory of $15,000.00, the Committee-.” shipment and erection of which There was a large and enthus­ would make a total cost of $16,­ iastic'meeting held in response 000. The monument to be built to the call. Judge John Lamar of Balfour granite, the statue thereon to be of Westerly gran­ Whitten, Mayor of the town,‘who ite. The shaft is' an obelisk presided, was elected. as the» permanent chairman of arrange­ with a base twenty-four feet ments for a West Virginia Home square, the height to be eighty­ Coming Week. Celebration of the two feet. The statue is to be thatwof a colonial soldier of the Battle and Unveiling of the Mon­ ument. October 7-8-9-10, 1909. primitive Virginia style, dressed The others appointed'to further in hunting shirt, coon skin cap, the success of the proper ob­ leather breeches and long rifle. servance of the battle were the The whole to be completed for following- Committees in charge the unveiling of ‘the monument of the Celebration. on the One Hundred and Thirty­ fifth anniversary‘ of the battle of Orqanization. Point‘ Pleasant, October, 10, Crairman, Mayor Jo h n L. .1909. Whitten. ‘ . T he Monument Commission . Secretary, E. Jacob Somerville. on June 10, 1909, issued the fol­ Asst." Secretary, Warren G. lowing announcement: Whaley. ­ “ATTENTION CITIZENS. Grand Marshall, Col.‘John P.‘ Ageneral invitation is extend­ R.‘ B.‘Smith. , ed"for a citizen’s meeting at the Assistants. Lewis C. Somer­ ville,Peter Higgins Steenbergen, Court House at Point Pleasant Edward Barto Jones. ' on Thursday June 10th at 8 P. M..to makepreparations for the Committee at Large. celebration of the Battle of Point »' Hon...John P. Austin, Presi­ VPleasant, the unveiling of the dent. Monument Commission; ‘ monument and Home Coming, Monument Commissioners, Hon. . Week, under the auspices .of the V. A. Lewis and‘ Mr. C. C. Bow­ Mayor and Civil-Authority of the yer; Mayor, Judge John L. Whit­ town of Point Pleasant, and ‘in­ ten. Col. John P.. R. B..Smith and 0 133

Mrs. Livia Nye Simpson-Poffen» and Louis Sehon Pomeroy, of barger. Huntington. A Finance Committee. Trades Display Robert J. Heslop, Charles K. Joseph Friedman, Chairman, Blackwood, Charles E. Jones, _Peter Higgins Steenbergen, Ed­ David S. Snyder, James Walter ward E. Thomas, Peter S. Lewis, Winden. Mark Shiflet, Horton Griff T. Smith, T01 Stribling, Roseberry, Joseph W. Rhoades, Hon. J. Samuel Spencer, John G. Will Filson, John C. Franklin, Stortz, Point Pleasant; R. J. Pat­ Ed. Lawhead, H. H. Henry, terson, Maggi e; William R. C. Frederick Hess, Captain Thompson, Huntington; Charles C. Homer Varian, Rob­ Cameron Lewis, Jr., Ex-Gover­ ert Kiger, James Stephenson, nor Wm. A. McCorkle, Hon. Jno. George Miller, John Wells, Geo. Q. Dickenson, Charleston; EX­ W. M. Hooff, Alexander B. Mc­ Governor A. B. Fleming, Fair­ Culloch, James C av e na u g h, mont. James B. Tippett, F. B.Tippett. Invitation Committee Lemuel Shiflet, Hugo Juhling, Governor Wm. E. Glasscock, Jr., Bertram L. Burdette, Frank Senator Stephen B. Elkins, Sena­ Fadley,EnosB.Thomas, tor Nathan B. Scott, 1-Ion.James Ellis, Dr. Ed McElfresh, Jacob A. Hughes, Judge Ira E. Robin­ P. Hetherington, L. J.'Coley, son, Judge’ George Poffenbarger Peter C. McDade, W. A. Wil­ ' of West Virginia; Col. H. R. liams, Harry M. Langley. Howard, John E. Beller, Robert Decoration and Speakers Stand E. Mitchell, B.'H. Blagg, Andrew Frank Filson, B.Franklin, Jr., Lewis Boggess, Charles C. Lew­ Charles Russell McCulloch, Wm. is, H. Green Nease, Hon. George H. H. Gardner, J. Floyd Burdett, W. Cossin, James M. H. Beale, S. Waldo Swisher, Alonzo Walk­ Hon. J. Samuel Spencer er, Enos, C. Winger, John W. C. Judge John -W. English, Heslop, Ed A. Arrington, Ed­ Judge Wm. A. Parsons, Point ward W. Craig, Geo. P. Gardner, ‘Pleasant; Hon. E. O. Randall, ,Wm. Tully, John Love, Sam’l Columbus, Ohio; Hon. "W. Sid­ Lutton, Fredrick Capes, Charles ney Laidley, William Burdette Dashner, G. E. Mathews, Mes­ Mathews, Charles C. Lewis,‘ Sr., dames Harry E. Burnside, Wm. John Q. -Dickensonof Charleston; Steenbergen, Robert E. Mitchell, - Gen’l. Charles H. Grosvenor and Edward McElfresh, Rush H. Hon. Jerry Longfellow Carpen­ Burnside, Edward J Burnside, ter, Athens, Ohio; Hon, Edmond Lem Shiflet, Samantha J.- Baum, Lewis V. Guthrie Wm. Steinbach; Mrs. M. Fried­ ‘,Sehon, Dr. 134

man, Mrs. Kate Williams, Mrs. Charies Clendenin Bowyer, John J. W. English, Mrs. Robert P. L. Whitten, Charles C. Lewis, Lynch, Mrs. Ella Fenton, Mrs. John Daniel McCulloch, H. Green Horton Roseberry, Mrs, E. H. Nease, John W. C. Heslop, . Woellfel, Mrs. Wm. Kenny. ‘Mrs. L. J. Williamson, Rankin Wiley, E. H. Armstrong, Mrs. H. A. John McCulloch, Frank Fil­ Barbee, Mrs. James B. Tippett, son, Wm. P. Neale, Peter Hig­ Mrs. Wm. C. Stortz, Mrs. J. gins Steenbergen, Hiram R. ’ F.Burdett, Mrs. B. Franklin, Jr., Howard, J. H. Wade, Jackson Mrs. George Comstock, Mrs. Lee Pannel, Charles Russell Mc­ Joseph H. Holloway, Mrs. Asha­ Culloch, James W. Windon, Pat­ bel Hughes, Misses Edith Tip­ rick F. Ryan, John P. Austin, pett, Maud Kisar, Reba Beale, Robert P. Liter, Howard L. Hattie Price, Mary Lewis, Venie Robey, E. Barto Jones, Joseph and Jessie Thomas, Mrs. Homer Friedman, E. B. Sisler, B. Frank­ Smith, Mrs. E. B. Jones, Mrs. lin, Jr., E. E. Thomas, Mary Wm. E. Hayman, Mrs. W. C. Margaret Bryan, Homer Smith, Whaley, Mrs. Tol Stribling. Ben Franklin, Sr , S. W. Swish­ Advertising Committee er, Walter Lincoln; Misses Homer Smith, Dr. W. P.. Josephine Howard, Irene Bow­ Neale, Marcus Friedman, War­ yer, Lillie Lee Hogg, Elizabeth ren C. Whalev, Charles C. Lewis, Harding I-Iogg, J-ulia Polsley. Edward C. Berridge, Dr. Ed. Ada. Gilmore, Cornelia Smith, McElfresh, John F. Lewis and V e va Haptonstall, Margaret ‘James B. Tippett. Lynn Neale, Gertrude Howard, Entertainment Committee Edith Tippett, Venie and Jessie ‘Griff T. Smith, Howard L. Thomas, Kate Stribling, Lena Robey, Lesley L. Neale, Geo. C. L. Roseberry, of Point Pleas­ Somerville, Dr. Frank V. Butch­ ants; Mrs. Geo. W. Gist and er, Ed Filson, Wm. Steinbach, Miss, Maggie Hayman, Le­ Howard Long, Geo. W. Long, tart; Mrs. W. L. Lawson and John L. Hutchinson, E. H. Miss May Jackson, New Haven; Woelfiel, W. W. Riley, R. P. Mrs. M. M. Brown, Mrs. D. E. Liter, Lem Shiflet Jr., Point Newton, Hartford; Mrs. Joseph Pleasant; John D. Lewis, Phil H. Windon, Maggie; Mrs. V. A. Walker, John Baker White, Lewis, Mrs. W. E. Ruttencutter, Charleston; Lycergus N. Knight Mrs. L. E. Bletner, Misses Maggie; M. G. Tyler, H. E. Spil­ Maud and Annie Lewis, Mason; man, Dr. Richard Stone, Spilman, Mesdames John McCoach, Ed­ -Dr. Charles Petty, Hartford; mond Sehon, Columbus Sehon, Mesdames Jobn Samuel Spencer. Taylor Vinson, Wm. R. Thomp­ i35

son. Mary Lesage, Margaret Rev. R. P. Bell, 0. A. Roush, Lynn Harvey, C. R. Thompson Geo. McClintock, Capt. Rush H. and James A. Hughes, Hunting­ Burnside, Benjamin H. Blagg. ton; Mrs. Kate Sterrett, Mrs. Music Committee Wm. H. Vaught, Mrs. John E, B. Sisler, J. H. Norton. B. Thornberg, Five Mile; Mrs. M. F. Gibbs, A. C. Van Gilder, Ella Hutchinson, Henderson; Charles K. Blackwood, Lew Mc­ Miss Lizzie Smith, McCausland; _Mil1en, Rankin Wiley, John G. Miss Francis M. Maupin, Ar­ Aten, Wm. Steenbergen, _Dr. buckle; Mrs. Charles E. Mc­ John Fadley, Mesdames Mary Culloch, Five Mile; Miss Rhoda Margaret Bryan, J. M. H. Beale, Long, Mrs. Monroe PoiTenbar­ Carlisle L. Whaley, Eliza Wag- A ger, South Side; Mrs. C. A. goner, Charles Filson, Nannie E. Green, Otia; Mrs. James Hen­ Hale, Kossuth T. McKinstry, derson, Five: Mile; Dr. A. G. Misses Josephine Beale, Ger­ Martin, F. M. Middleton, Win­ trude Howard, and Margaret field; Dr. C. McGill, Red Malone, Mrs. W. C. Whaley. Program Committee House; Robert Brown, 0. F. Lewis C. Somerville, Judge, Stribling, Apple Grove; John H. George Poffenbarger, Col.Hiram S. Spencer, Graham Station; F. R. Howard, Howard L. Robey, C. Hute, John C. Levzey, L. Robt. L. Hutchinson, Charles Quickie,Thos. L. Finney, Pliny, Buxton, Judge John W. English. Frank Dunn. South Side; George Transportation Committee L. Sebrell, E. B. Nease, Ar­ Wm. C. Jordan, L. C. Kuhn, buckle; Will Armstrong, Gallipo­ Moulton Honk, F. Gerald Mus­ lis; Dr. Blake, R. E. Blake, Hen­ grave, B. H Blagg, Wallace A. ry McCoy, J. E. Frazier, Buf­ Barnett, John McCulloch Dr. falo; Robt.‘ Somerville, Maggie; Hugh A. Barbee, Wm. W. Bryan, W. W. Cornwall, Glenwood; Ed. C. Berridge, Capt. E.A. Earl Henry, Clifton; A. G. W. Burnside, Fred Smith. Capt. E, Brinker, A. C. Cross, Thos. Z. E. Varian, Capt. John Thorn­ Blessing, Letart. berg, Gus Fry, Jos. L. Ruth, ‘ Speakerscommiltee Elmer Nutter, E. B. Martin, Col. H. R. Howard, Capt. W. Capt. Gordan C. Greene, J. W. H. Howand, Wm. E. Hayman, Hooper. Judge George Pofienbarger, School Children Robt. L. Hutchinson, Hun. J. S. Prof. H. E. Cooper of Point Spencer, Benjamin Franklin, Sr., Pleasant and the teachers of ' Enos B. Thomas, Dr. E. J. Mason County. Mossman, Carlisle L. Whaley, Advisory Committee . Rev. J. H. Gibbons, Rev. Pullin, Messrs. John W. Steenbergen, \

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Beale; Wm. J. Keister, Ashton; B. J. Lerner, Hartford; John Clinton Poffenbarger, M a s 0 n J. Dower, Letart; Jas. T. Ed­ Long, Beech Hill; James W. wards, Clifton; H. C. Tur­ Long, Hon. Jabez Beard, South ner, Mason; David Caldwell, Gal­ Side; E. F. Bletner, W. E. Rut­ lipolis Ferry; Judge A. M. Pugh, tencutter, Mason; Charles Juhl­ Col. John L. Vance, Columbus, ing, Hon. J. M. Hensley, J. M. Ohio; Gen’l. John McCausland, Chapman, D. E. Newton, Capt. McCausland; James M. Nye, M. M. Brown, Hartford; Judge Marrietta, Ohio; Mrs. Samaria, W. W. Jackson, Geo. N. Capehart, H. Palmer; Athens Ohio; Miss W. L. Lawson, C. T. Bumgarner, Margaret Lynn Price, Lewis­ New Haven; Geo. W. Gist, Dan burg, Mrs. Miram Donnally, Sayre, Wm. Klingensmith, Le­ Mrs. E. W. Wilson, Charles­ tart; Philip Click, WillowTree, ton; Mrs. Sanders Johnston, JudgeBVrd Stone, W. P. Smith, Dr. Adeline E. Portman, Fred Sullivan, Wm. Jividen, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Anna Charles F. Thomas Leon; Judge S. Greene, Culpeper, Virginia; W..H.Vaught, Robert P. Mor­ Miss Mary C. Nye, Marrietta, ris, Henry Fry, Henderson; Ohio; Mrs. Sophia Dale, Belpre, James Henderson, Rankin Hill, Ohio; Mrs. M. C. Scott, Pomeroy, Henderson; Hon. Jas. L. Knight, Ohio ’ .Messrs. Asa Musgrave, James The State Gazette of August W. Windon, Jos. H. Windon, H. 15th, gives the following: J.rNorton, Judge B. J. Redmond, "On Monday August 2nd, 1909, Dr. A..R. Girard, Hon. Geo. at 11 a. In. the steam whistle on’ Parsons, Pleasant Flats; Capt. Captain Charles ‘HomerVarian’s -L. S. Parsons, John R. Couch, pumpboat, lying in the mouth of Hearne. W. H. Sayre, "Chas. W. Kanawha river, sounded a glad .-Hogsett, Wm. H. Rowsey, C. A. cry that was lustily joined in by Green, of Hannan District, Shep­ the many steamboats lying in 'herd W. Moore, Elwell; Geo. .W. harbor. Our people came out in Pullin, C. G. P. Musgrave, De-b­ great crowds to learn the cause, , by; Geo. J. Meadough, James-W. and the on coming tide of people A'Kindey, W. H. Clarke, J. w. ‘were directed to Tu-Endie—Wei Bryan, Ash }Iughes,iW. H. Zum­ Park, where had just been set bro, Point Pleasant; John Mc­ the apex stone that completed _Causland, Jr., Jno, R. Couch, B. the stone work of the splendid K Bell, Hearne, R. W. Bateman, Balfour granite monument, com­ S. A. McNiel, MercersiBottom, memorating The First Battle of Judge J. L. Thorne, Wyoma. the Revolution, fought at Point Cpl. Jerome T. Bowyer, Winfield; Pleasant, October 10th, 1774. 137

\ It was an occasion that for splendid cement walks and walls, many years has been devoutly but for the cement work of the wished for, and there were many Monument, and the great under­ upon the grounds prior to the footing was laid prior to June 7th, blowing of the whistles, who when the first car load of granite for years had watched every reached here. step of the preparation for On June 9th. the corner stone the monument building Among was laid. There were no cere­ them were Mrs. J. D. McCul­ monies attendingitand no depos­ loch, who wasa member "ofthe its made save that of a small coin Ladies Monument Association, of the issue 1909, the year of the that put by the first contribution, Monument construction. which with its accumulations, However, as is the custom in the represented $2,000 invested in erection of such structures, a box the Monument; Mr. C. C. Bow­ was deposited in this monument. yer of the Monument Commis­ It was found that in the cen­ sion, who have so faithfully la­ ter tube in the top section imme­ bored in the cause entrusted to diately under the great cap stone them by the‘ State; and Mrs. that binds the building,there was Poifenbarger whose interest has room to admit a box three inches never lagged, and it was her in diameter and twelve inches little son, Perry Simpson-Pofien­ long. Filson Brothers were call­ barger, who suggested, and in­ ed upon to construct a copper box duced Capt. Varian to start the of these -dimensions and make it whistles. air tight. In it were deposited an The monument has been erect­ Industrial Edition of The State ,ed so speedily that our people Gazette of the issue, of February can scarcely believe it is so near­ 2nd, 1905,upon which was written ly completed. -This is accounted the following inscription: for by the fact that the stones “Deposited, Monday, August were cut and numbered and 2d, 1909,the date of the setting s ready for placing, and needed lit­ of the cap stone of the Point tle cutting when they came upon Pleasant Battle Monument, by the grounds. The Van-Amringe Nathan Simpson Polfenbar­ Granite Company of Boston, are get and Perry Simpson Pof­ the contractors, with Mr. J. E. fenbarger, sons, and Nata­ Amedon of Merchants Depot, of lie Simpson Bryan, niece of Vermont, as the superintendent Geo. and Livia Nye Simp­ of construction here. Captain son-Poflfenbarger.” Charles Fredrick Hess was the A copy of the diary written by contractor, not only for the Margaret Lynn Lewis, wife of j P 138

John Lewis the emigrant and the completion of the monument.’ a ' founder oi the city of Livia Nye Simpson-Poffenbarger‘ Staunton, Virginia, was placed ‘The Author.” in the tube upon which was the This was the most valuable following inscription: .beCause, though not quite com­ “Deposited, August 2nd, 1909, pleted, it carried the most com­ the date of the setting of the cap­ plete roster- of the participants stone of the Point Pleasant Bat­ of the battle ever as yet publish­ tle Monument, by ed,-that of 1080 men who partici­ Sallie Lewis McCulloch, pated at Point Pleasant and were (Mrs. J. D. McCulloch) entitled to share in the honors of Great, Great Grand daugh­ this victory. ter of Margaret Lynn Lewis When the last stone had been and Great Grand daughter of Col. Charles Lewis. Sallie set in place, Mr. Amedon pre­ Lewis McCulloch (Mrs. P. sented Mrs. Poffenbarger the H. Steenbergen), Great, two remaining blocks of granite‘ Great Grand daughter of from which will be made sou­ GCO]. Chas. Lewis.” venirs of the monument. An Indian arrow head taken The statue which is to be from the ground when the exca­ placed ona base in the front of , vation was made, was put in the the monument has not reached box and with it a slip of paper here, nor have the eight bronze bearing the following: plates in bas relief, two of “This Indian arrow head is which bearing the coat of arms deposited by C. F. Hess, con­ of the United States and of West tractor for the cement work of Virginia, and six of which bear this monument. It was found the inscription of the killed and when the excavation was 1nade.” wounded and the officers’ corn­ The most important deposit manding the army, but they made however, was a copy of have been shipped and_will be‘ “The Battle of Point Pleasant,” here to be put in place /by Mr. bearing the followinginscription: Amedon upon his return from “Deposited, Monday, August St. Louis, less than three Weeks 2d, 1909, the date of the setting hence. Upon his return, the of the cap stone of the Point monument will be pointed up, Pleasant Battle Monument. the statue and plates, set and “The illustrations and last the monument veiled ready for pages are omitted on account of the ceremonial attendant upon the inability of the printer to the unveilingmof October 9th, finish the volume by the date of 1909. .uo ior= 139 INDEX

APPROPRIATIONS ...... l31 By Congress ...... 96 By Ladies Monument Association...... ByWestVirginiaLegislature...... ,...... i ...11O 129 CELEBRATIIONS Octoberio, 95 ...... 1o2 October 10, 1774 ...... 124 October10,1909....October 10, 1901 ...... 132 DEDICATION OF ‘TU-ENDIE-WEI PARK DescriptionoftheBattle.... . - - - -26-28-29 History of the Monument Building ...... 95 KilledandWounded...... Hiiiiiiii:::i:::i:i::...... 28 RosterofParticipants...... 84 BIOGRAPHIES Bailey .72 BledsoeAntbony...... 55 ‘.;‘_1-‘___..“‘."*'....'‘;‘“‘f'‘"2: BowenWm...... 68 BrackenMatthew...... 78 BreckenridgeA1exander...... L...... 66 CameronChas. .. 57 ...... 48 Campbell Arthur . . . , ...... Campbell 49 CampbellRobert...... 75 ...... 47 Campbell Wm ...... ; ...... -...... 75 Carter John ...... 54 Christian Wm...... Clendenin Archibald ...... 64 ...... 65 Clendenin George . . , ...... -...... 63 Clendenin William ...... : ...... 55 Cocke Wm ...... Cooper 58 .80 Cornstalk ...... CrawfordJohn...... - . .. 54 'CrockettJosep_h...... 50 .CurryJames...... '77 140

DavisAzariah...... '...... 47 Dickinson John ...... 55 DrakeJoseph...... 69 DraperJohn...... 47 DunmoreLord...... 78 EasthamGeorge...... 61 Edmiston Wm...... -...... -..m 69 EwingWm...... 71 F1emingCo1.Wm...... _;,,_.,,, .44 FroggFloyd Capt. John ...... 6673 GibbsLuman...... ,,_,____.....__.,_,_,,,. .60 HackettThomas...... 76 H Har1onSilas...... Hamilton ;Wm ...... 57I Harrison Benjamin...... 52 HarrodJames...... 53 Henderson John ...... Q...... 60 HerbertWm...... 66 Hughes Ellis ...... ‘ ...... 56 56 InglesThomas...... Hughey Joseph ...... ' ...... 69 Ingles Wm ...... 66 JonesJohn ...... 46 Kimberling Elijah ...... L ...... 71‘ KnoxJames...... -v-I....----...... -....o...-0---.~..-.... 71.

Lewis Gen’1Andrew ...... u....----...... ­ 39 Lewis Col. Charles ...... 40 LewisBenjamin...... '' -oo-----....-...... -.... 67 Lewis Mayor John (son of Wm.). . .‘...... 63 LewisCapt.John(sonof'I‘hos.)...... 73 Lewis Capt. John (son of Gen’l Andrew) ...... 76 Logan ...... 79 Logan Benjamin ...... Q...... 64 Logan John ...... 65 LovePhilip ...... 56 Ly1eJohn...... ; ...... 73 Madison John ...... 71 Matthews George...... , ...... 49 _Ma.tthewsSampson...... so­ Mayes Joseph...... 4s 141

McAffeeMcAfiecJames...... George...... McAfiee Robert ...... McAffeeSamue1...... McAffee McC0rk1e Wm...... McDowellCapt.