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 The Battle of Point Pleasant 
 A Battle of the Revolution 
 
 October I0th, 1774 
 
 Biographical Sketches of the 
 Men Who Participated 
 
 By 
 
 Mrs. Livia Nye Simpson-Poffenbarger 
 
 The State Gazette, Publisher 
 
 Point Pleasant, West Virginia 
 
 1909
 
 Dedication 
 
 This little volume is dedicated to the memory of the brave 
 
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 colonists who, successful at the battle of Point Pleasant, bad fought 
 the opening- battle of the Revolution, in preserving- the right arm of 
 Virginia for the struggle with the Mother Country; thus making- 
 possible the blessings of liberty we now enjoy as a Nation. 
 
 MRS. LIVIA NYE SIMPSON-POFFENBARGER.
 
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 83/77 
 
 Copyright, 1909, 
 
 By 
 Mrs. Livia Nye Simpson-Poffenbarger. 
 
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 Battle of Point Pleasant. 
 
 Andrew Lewis, who command- 
 ed the colonial troops in the Bat- 
 tle of Point Pleasant, October 
 10, 1774, was the son of John 
 Lewis and Margaret Lynn Lew- 
 is, his wife. 
 
 John Lewis was of Scotch Irish 
 descent, having been born in 
 France, 1673, where his ances- 
 tors had taken refuge from the 
 persecution following the assas- 
 sination of Henry IV. He mar- 
 ried Margaret Lynn, the daugh- 
 ter of the "Laird of Loch Lynn, " 
 of Scotland, and emigrated to 
 Ireland, thence to America 
 in 1729, and became the founder 
 of Staunton, Virginia. Here, he 
 planted a colony and reared a 
 family that have given luster to 
 American History. 
 
 Governor Gooch, of Williams- 
 burg, then the seat of Govern- 
 ment of Virginia, was the per- 
 sonal friend of Mrs. Lewis' fath- 
 
 er and hence granted her sons, 
 together with one Benjamin Bur- 
 den a land warrant for 500,000 
 acres of land in the James and 
 Shenandoah Valleys, with the 
 proviso that they were to locate 
 one hundred families within ten 
 years. They induced their 
 friends from Scotland and the 
 north of Ireland, and the Scotch 
 Irish of Pennsylvania, to emi- 
 grate to Augusta County, Vir- 
 ginia. In her diary, Mrs. Lewis 
 says: "It sounded like the gath- 
 ering of the clans to hear the 
 names of these settlers viz: Mc- 
 Kees, McCues, McCampbells, 
 McClungs, McKouns, Caruthers, 
 Stuarts, Wallaces, Lyles, Pax- 
 tons, Prestons andGrisbys." 
 
 We quote the following from 
 the Ohio Archaeological and His- 
 torical Quarterly, July, 1903, pp. 
 288, 289, 290 : 
 
 "When John Randolph said
 
 that Pennsylvania had produced 
 but two great men Benjamin 
 Franklin, of Massachusetts, and 
 Albert Gallatin, of Switzerland- 
 he possibly did not know that the 
 best blood of his own State was 
 that of the Scotch-Irish people 
 who went down from Pennsylva- 
 nia and settled in the Valley. 
 He likely did not know that the 
 great and good Dr. Archibald 
 Alexander, the founder of Lib- 
 erty Hall, now Washington and 
 Lee University (so much loved 
 by Washington,) the very seat of 
 culture and power of the Shen- 
 andoah and James, the greatest 
 factor of the State's prowess, 
 was a Pennsylvanian. He possi 
 bly did not know that Dr. Gra- 
 ham, the first president ot this 
 institution, was from Old Pax- 
 tang; that many of the families 
 whose names are in the pantheon 
 of old Dominion achievement, the 
 families that give Virginia her 
 prominence ,in the sisterhood of 
 States, had their American ori- 
 gin in Pennsylvania in the 
 Scotch-Irish reservoir of the 
 Cumberland Valley the Mc- 
 Dowells, the Pattersons, the 
 McCormacks, Ewings, McCor- 
 cles, Prestons, McCunqs, Craigs, 
 McCulloughs, Simpsons, Stew- 
 arts, Moffats, Irwins, Hunters, 
 Blairs, Elders, Grahams, Fin- 
 leys, Trimbles, Rankins, and 
 hundreds of others, whose 
 achievements mark the pathway 
 of the world's progress. John 
 
 Randolph possibly did not know 
 that the first Declaration of In- 
 dependence by the American 
 patriots was issued by the mem- 
 bers of Hanover Church out 
 there in Dauphin county, when 
 on June 4th, 1774, they declared 
 "that in the event Great Britain 
 attempting to force unjust laws 
 upon us by the strength of Arms, 
 our cause we leave to heaven and 
 our rifles." This declaration 
 was certainly carried to Meck- 
 lenburg 1 to give the sturdy peo- 
 ple of that region inspiration for 
 the strong document issued by 
 them a year later, and which 
 gave Jefferson a basis for the 
 Declaration of 1776. There was 
 much moving from Pennsylva- 
 nia into Virginia and North Car- 
 olina before the Revolution, and 
 Hanover Presbytery in the Val- 
 ley was largely made up of peo- 
 ple from Pennsylvania, whose 
 petition of ten thousand names 
 for a free church in a free land, 
 made in 1785, was the force back 
 of Jefferson's bill for religious 
 tolerance, a triumph for freedom 
 that has always been considered 
 a Presbyterian victory by the 
 Scotch-Irish of America. 
 
 We know that Dr. Sankey of 
 Hanover Church was a minister 
 in Hanover Presbytery, and that 
 be was followed into Virginia by 
 large numbers of- the Hanover 
 congregation, who kept up a con- 
 stant stream into the Valley. By 
 the way, two settlements were
 
 made by this congregation in 
 Ohio. Col. Rogers, Gov. Bush- 
 nel's secretary, derives his de- 
 scent from them. The popula- 
 tion of North Carolina at the out- 
 break of the Revolution was 
 largely made up of Scotch-Irish 
 immigrants from Pennsylvania 
 and the Virginia Valley who had 
 a public school system before the 
 war. These were the people 
 who stood with the Rev. David 
 Caldwell on the banks of the Al- 
 amance May 16th, 1771, and re- 
 ceived the first volley of shot 
 fired in the contest for Independ- 
 ence. This same blood coursed 
 the veins of the patriot army 
 with Lewis at Point Pleasant, the 
 first battle of the Revolutionary 
 War, fought October 10, 1774, 
 Lord Dunmore having no doubt 
 planned the attack by the Indians 
 to discourage the Americans 
 from further agitation of the then 
 pending demand for fair treat- 
 ment of the American Colonies 
 at the hands of Great Britian. 
 It was this blood that coursed 
 the veins of those courageous 
 people who, having survived the 
 Kerr's creek massacre, were 
 carried to a Shawnee village in 
 Ohio, and on being bantered to 
 sing by the Indians in their cruel 
 sport, sang Rouse's version of 
 one of the Psalms. "Unappalled 
 by the bloody scene," says the 
 Augusta historian, "through 
 which they had already passed, 
 and the fearful tortures awaiting 
 
 them, within the dark wilderness 
 of forest, when all hope of rescue 
 seemed forbidden; undaunted 
 by the fiendish revelings of their 
 savage captors, they sang aloud 
 with the most pious ferver 
 
 "On Babel's stream we sat and wept wbeii 
 
 /ion we thought on, 
 In midst thereof we hanged our harps the 
 
 willow trees among. 
 For then a song required they who did us 
 
 captive bring, 
 Our spoilers called for mirth and said, a 
 
 song of /ion sing." 
 
 It was this blood that fought 
 the battle of King's Mountain, 
 which victory gave the patriots 
 the courage that is always in 
 hope; it was the winning force at 
 Cowpens, at Guilford, where 
 Rev. Samuel Houston discharged 
 his rifle fourteen times, once for 
 each ten minutes of the battle. 
 These brave hearts were in every 
 battle of the Revolution, from 
 Point Pleasant in 1774 to the vic- 
 tory of Wayne at the Maumee 
 Rapids twenty years later, for 
 the War of Independence con- 
 tinued in the Ohio Country after 
 the treaty of peace. And yet, 
 after all this awful struggle to 
 gain and hold for America the 
 very heart of the Republic, one 
 of the gentlemen referred to by 
 Mr. Randolph wrote pamphlets 
 in which he derided as murder- 
 ers the courageous settlers of 
 our blood on the occasions they 
 felt it necessary to "remove" In- 
 dians with their long rifles. Af- 
 ter all the struggle, he too would 
 have made an arrangement with
 
 England by which the Ohio river 
 would have been the boundary 
 line." 
 
 These were the people who in 
 coming" to America had not only 
 secured for themselves that per- 
 sonal religious freedom of a 
 church without a Bishop and ul- 
 timately a state without a King, 
 but they became recruits in the 
 Army of Andrew Lewis, the hero 
 of the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 and like many of their country- 
 men, continued in the army, 
 (those who had not met the fate 
 of battle,) and became the flower 
 of Virginia's Colonial Army. 
 
 The Status of the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant. 
 
 While the Battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant has always been conceded to 
 have been the most terrific con- 
 flict ever waged between the 
 white man and the Indian, its full 
 significance has not been made 
 the text of American history. 
 We quote however, from a few 
 of the American writers, show- 
 ing their estimate of it. 
 
 Roosevelt, in "The Winning- of 
 the West," Vol. II, chap. 2, says: 
 "Lord Dunmore's War, waged 
 by Americans for the good of 
 America, was the opening- act in 
 the drama whereof the closing- 
 scene was played at Yorktown. 
 It made possible the two fold 
 character of the Revolutionary 
 War, wherein on the one hand 
 the Americans won by conquest 
 
 and colonization, new lands for 
 their children, and on the other 
 wrought out their national inde- 
 pendence of the British King." 
 
 Kercheval's History of the 
 Valley, p. 120, says: "Be it re- 
 membered, then, that this Indian 
 war was but a portico to our rev- 
 olutionary war, the fuel for which 
 was then preparing, and which 
 burst into a flame, the ensuing- 
 year. Neither let us forget that 
 the Earle of Dunmore was at this 
 time governor of Virginia; and 
 that he was acquainted with the 
 views and designs of the British 
 Cabinet, can scarcely be doubted. 
 What then, suppose ye, would be 
 the conduct of a man possessing 
 his means, filling a high, official 
 station, attached to the British 
 government, and master of con- 
 sumate diplomatic skill." 
 
 Dr. John P. Hale, in writing of 
 the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 says, in the History of the Great 
 Kanawha Valley, Vol. I, pp. 114, 
 115, "Early in the spring of 1774, 
 it was evident that the Indians 
 were combining for aggressive 
 action. * * * It was decided 
 that an army of two divisions 
 should be organized as speedily 
 as practicable one to be com- 
 manded by Gen. Lewis, and the 
 other by Lord Dunmore, in per- 
 son. * * * Gen. Lewis'army 
 rendezvoused at Camp Union 
 (LewisburgJ about September 
 1st, and was to March from there 
 to the mouth of Kanawha; while
 
 Gov. Dunmore was to go the 
 northwest route, over the Brad- 
 dock trail, by way of Fort Pitt, 
 and thence down the Ohio river 
 and form a junction with Gen. 
 Lewis at the mouth of Kanawha. 
 
 The aggregate 
 strength of this southern divi- 
 sion of the army was about elev- 
 en hundred; the strength of the 
 northern division, under Lord 
 Dunmore, was about fifteen hun- 
 dred. On the llth of September 
 Gen. Lewis broke camp, and, 
 with Captain Matthew Arbuckle, 
 an intelligent and experienced 
 frontiersman, as pilot, marched 
 through a pathless wilderness. 
 They reached Point Pleasant on 
 the 30th day of September, after 
 a fatigueing march of nineteen 
 days. Gen. Lewis for several 
 days anxiously awaited the arri- 
 val ot Lord Dunmore, who, by 
 appointment, was to have joined 
 him here on the 2nd of October. 
 Having no intelligence from him, 
 Lewis dispatched messengers 
 up the Ohio river to meet him, 
 or learn what had become of 
 him. 
 
 Before his messengers return- 
 ed, however three messengers 
 (probably McCulloch, Kenton 
 and Girty) arrived at his camp 
 on Sunday, the 9th of October, 
 witn orders from Lord Dunmore 
 to cross the river and meet him 
 before the Indian towns in Ohio. 
 This is, substantially, the cur- 
 
 rent version of matters: but au- 
 thorities differ. 
 
 Some say the messenger ar- 
 rived on the night of the 10th, 
 after the battle was fought; 
 others say they did not arrive 
 until the llth, the day after the 
 battle, and Col. Andrew Lewis, 
 son of Gen. Andrew Lewis, says 
 his father received no communi- 
 cation whatever from Lord Dun- 
 more after he (Lewis) left camp 
 Union, until after the battle bad 
 been fought, and Lewis of his 
 own motion, had gone on into 
 Ohio, expecting to join Dunmore 
 and punish the Indians, when he 
 received an order to stop and re- 
 turn to the Point. This order 
 (by messenger) Lewis disre- 
 garded, when Lord Dunmore 
 came in~person, and after a con- 
 ference and assurances from 
 Dunmore that he was about 
 negotiating a 'peace, Lewis re- 
 luctantly retraced his steps. In 
 the very excited state of feeling 
 then existing between the col- 
 onies and the mother country, It 
 was but natural that the sympa- 
 thies of Lord Dunmore, a titled 
 English nobleman, and holding 
 his commission as governor of 
 Virginia at the pleasure of the 
 crown, should be with his own 
 country; but it was not only 
 strongly suspected, but general- 
 ly charged, that, while he was 
 yet acting as governor of Vir- 
 ginia, and before he had declar- 
 ed himself against the colonies.
 
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 be was unfairly using 1 his posi- 
 tion and influence to the pre- 
 judice of his subjects. * 
 According- to the account of Col. 
 Stewart, when the interview was 
 over between Gen. Lewis and 
 the messengers of Lord Dun- 
 more, on the 9th, Lewis gave or- 
 ders to break camp at an early 
 hour next morning, cross the 
 river, and take up their march 
 towards the Indian towns; but 
 the fates had decreed otherwise. 
 At the hour for starting-, they 
 found themselves confronted by 
 an army of Indian braves, eight 
 hundred to one thousand strong, 
 in their war paint, and com- 
 manded by their able and trust- 
 ed leaders, Cornstalk, Logan, 
 Red Hawk, Blue Jacket and 
 Elinipsico, and some authors 
 mention two or three others. 
 Instead of a hard day's march- 
 ing, Lewis army had a harder 
 day's fighting the important, 
 desperately contested, finally 
 victorious, and ever-memorable 
 battle of Point Pleasant. No 
 "official report" of this battle 
 has been preserved, or was ever 
 written, so far as can be learned. 
 There are several good reasons, 
 apparently, for this omission. 
 In the first place, the time, place 
 and circumstances were not fa- 
 vorable for preparing a formal 
 official report. In the second 
 place, Lord Dunmore, the sup- 
 erior officer, to whom Gen. 
 Lewis should, ordinarily, have 
 
 reported, was himself in the 
 field, but a few miles distant, 
 and Gen. Lewis was expecting 
 that the two divisions of the 
 army would be united within a 
 few days; and, in the third place, 
 the "strained relations" between 
 the colonies and the mother 
 country were such, and the re- 
 cent action of Gov. Dunmore so 
 ambiguous, that Gen. Lewis was 
 probably not inclined to report 
 to him at all.'' 
 
 The same author, in the same 
 volume, at pages 122, 128, 129, 
 130, 131 and 132, says: "Col. 
 Stewart, one of the first to write 
 about the battle, after Arbuckle's 
 short account, was himself pres- 
 ent, was well known to Gen. 
 Lewis (and a relative by mar- 
 riage), says Gen. Lewis received 
 a message from Gov. Dunmore, 
 on the 9th, telling him to cross 
 the Ohio and join him. Burk, 
 and others, say the messengers 
 came after the battle, and men- 
 tion Simon Kenton and Simon 
 Girty among the messengers. 
 Col. Andrew Lewis says his 
 father received no communica- 
 tion of any sort from Gov. Dun- 
 more, until ordered to return 
 from Ohio. * * * * It has 
 been stated that there were not 
 only suspicions, but grave 
 charges, that Governor Dunmore 
 acted a double part, and that he 
 was untrue and treacherous to
 
 the interests of the colon}' he 
 governed. As he is inseparably 
 connected with the campaign 
 (often called the Dimmore War), 
 and its accompanying history, 
 and the inauguration of the Rev- 
 olution, it may be well to briefly 
 aliude x to his official course just 
 before, during and after the 
 campaign that his true relations 
 to it, and to the colony, may be 
 understood; and, also, to show- 
 that the "Revolution" was really 
 in progress; that this campaign 
 was one of the important early 
 moves on the historical chess- 
 board, and that the battle of 
 Point Pleasant was, as generally 
 claimed, the initiatory battle of 
 the great drama. In the sum- 
 mer of 1773. Governor Uunmore 
 made, ostensibly, a pleasure trip 
 to Fort Pitt; here he establish- 
 ed close relations with Dr. Con- 
 nally, making him Indian agent, 
 land agent, etc. Connally was an 
 able active and efficient man, 
 who thereafter adhered to Dun- 
 more and the English cause. It 
 is charged that Connally at once 
 began fomenting trouble and ill- 
 feeling between the colonies of 
 Virginia and Pennsylvania in re- 
 gard to the western frontier of 
 Pennsylvania, then claimed by 
 both colonies, but held by Vir- 
 ginia, hoping by such course to 
 prevent the friendly co-operation 
 of these colonies against Eng- 
 lish designs; and, also to incite 
 the Indian tribes to resistance 
 
 of western white encroachments 
 upon their hunting grounds, and 
 prepare the way forgetting their 
 co-operation with England 
 againt the colonies, when the 
 rupture should come. In De- 
 cember, 1773, the famous "cold- 
 water tea" was made in Boston 
 harbor. In retaliation the Eng- 
 lish government blockaded the 
 port of boston, and moved the 
 capital of the colony to Salem. 
 When this news came, in 1774, 
 the Virginia assembly, being in 
 session, passed resolutions of 
 sympathy with Massachusetts, 
 and strong disapproval of the 
 course of England; whereupon 
 Governor Dunmore peremptori- 
 ly dissolved the assembly. 
 They met privately, opened cor- 
 respondence with the other col- 
 onies, and proposed co-operation 
 and a colonial congress. On the 
 4th of September, 1774, met, in 
 Philadelphia, the first continen- 
 tal congress Peyton Randolph, 
 of Virginia, president; George 
 Washington, R. H. Lee, Richard 
 Bland, Patrick Henry, Benjamin 
 Harrison and Edmund Pendle- 
 ton members from Virginia. 
 They passed strong resolutions; 
 among others; to resist taxation 
 and other obnoxious measures; 
 to raise minute men to forcibly 
 resist coercion; and, finally resol- 
 ved to cease all official inter- 
 course with the English govern- 
 ment. In the meantime, Dr. 
 Connally had been carrying out
 
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 the programme of the northwest. 
 He had taken possession of the 
 fort at Fort Pitt, and renamed 
 it Fort Dunmore; was claiming- 
 lands under patents from Gov- 
 ernor Dunmore, and making set- 
 tlements on them; had been him- 
 self arrested and imprisoned for 
 a time by Pennsylvania; had the 
 Indian tribes highly excited, 
 united in a strong confederacy 
 and threatened war; then came 
 the massacre of Indians above 
 Wheeling, at Capitina and at Yel- 
 low creek, said to have grown 
 out of Connally's orders. While 
 the continental congress was 
 passing the resolutions above 
 mentioned, and which created a 
 breach between the colonies and 
 the mother country past healing, 
 Governor Dunmore and General 
 Lewis were organizing and 
 marching their armies to the 
 west. Instead of uniting the 
 forces into one army, and march- 
 ing 1 straight to the Indian towns 
 and conquering or dictating a 
 lasting peace, Lord Dunmore 
 took the larger portion of the 
 army by a long detour by Fort 
 Pitt, and thence down the Ohio, 
 picking up on the way Dr. Con- 
 nally and Simon Girty, whom he 
 made useful. At Fort Pitt, it 
 is said, he had held a conference 
 with some of the Indian chiefs, 
 and came to some understanding- 
 with them, the particulars of 
 which are not known. Instead 
 of uniting with Lewis at the 
 
 mouth of Kanawha, as had been 
 arranged, but which was proba- 
 bly not intended, he struck off 
 from the Ohio river at the mouth 
 of Hockhocking and marched for 
 the Indian towns on the Picka- 
 way plains, without the support 
 of Lewis army, delaying long 
 enough for the Indians to have 
 annihilated Lewis division if 
 events had turned out as Corn- 
 stalked had planned. He (Corn- 
 stalk) said it was first their in- 
 tention to attack the "Long 
 Knives" and destroy them, as 
 they crossed the river, and this 
 olan would have been carried 
 out, or attempted, but for the 
 long delay of Lewis 1 awaiting 
 the arrival of Lord Dunmore. 
 They afterwards, upon consulta- 
 tions, changed their plans, and 
 determined to let Lewis cross 
 the river and then ambush him 
 somewhere near their own 
 homes, and farther from his 
 (Lewis') base; but the Indians 
 had no organized commissar) 7 or 
 transportation a r r a n g e m ents, 
 and could only transport such 
 amount of food as each brave 
 could carry for his own susten- 
 ance; this was necessarily, a lim- 
 ited amount, and Lewis' delay 
 in crossing had run their rations 
 so short that they were obliged 
 to cross, themselves, and force 
 a fight, or break camp and go to 
 hunting food. They crossed in 
 the night, about three miles 
 above the Point, on rafts previ-
 
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 ously constructed, and expected 
 to take Lewis' army by surprise; 
 and it will be seen bow near they 
 came to accomplishing- it. It 
 was prevented by the accident of 
 the early hunters, who were out 
 before daylight, in violation of 
 orders. 
 
 Dr. Campbell says there was 
 considerable dissatisfaction 
 in Lewis camp, for some 
 days before the battle growing 
 out of the manner of serving the 
 rations, and especially the beef 
 rations; the men claimed that 
 the good and bad beef were not 
 dealt out impartially. On the 
 *Jth, Gen. Lewis ordered that the 
 poorest beeves be killed first, 
 and distributed to all alike. The 
 beef was so poor that the rnen 
 were unwilling to eat it, and, a1- 
 though'it was positively against 
 orders to leave camp without 
 permission, about one hundred 
 men started out before day, next 
 morning (the 10th), in different 
 directions, to hunt and provide 
 thefr own meat. Many of these 
 did not get back, nor know of the 
 battle until night, when it was 
 all over. This was a serious re- 
 duction of the army at such a 
 time. 
 
 Col. Andrew Lewis (son of 
 General Andrew, ) in his account 
 of the Point Pleasant campaign, 
 says: ' 'It is known that Blue Jack- 
 et, a Shawnee Chief, visited Lord 
 Dunmore's camp, on the 9tb, the 
 day before the battle, and went 
 
 straight from there to the Point, 
 and some of them went to con- 
 fer with Lord Dunmore immedi- 
 ately alter the battle.' It is also 
 said that Lord Dunmore, in con- 
 versation with Dr. Connally, and 
 others, on the 10th, the day of 
 the battle, remarked that "Lewis 
 is probably having 1 hot work 
 about this time." 
 
 When Lewis had crossed the 
 river, after the battle, and was 
 marching- to join Dunmore, a 
 messenger was dispatched to 
 him twice in one day, ordering 
 him to stop and retrace his 
 steps the messenger ic each 
 instance, being the afterward 
 notorious Simon Girty. Gen. 
 Lewis bad, very naturally, be- 
 come much incensed at the con- 
 duct of Lord Dunmore, and topk 
 the high-handed responsibility 
 advised and sanctioned by his 
 officers and men of disobeying 
 the order of his superior in com- 
 mand, and boldly marching on 
 towards his camp. When with- 
 in about two and one-half miles of 
 Lord Dunmore's headquarters, 
 which he called Camp Charlotte, 
 after Queen Charlotte, wife of 
 his majesty, George III., he 
 came out to meet Lewis in per- 
 son, bringing with him Corn- 
 stalk, White Eyes (another noted 
 Shawanee chief), and others, 
 and insisted on Lewis's return- 
 ing as he (Dunmore) was nego- 
 tiating a treaty of peace with 
 the Indians- He sought an in-
 
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 troduction to Lewis' officers, and 
 paid them some flattering com- 
 pliments, etc. Evidently it did 
 not comport with Lord Dun 
 more's plans to have Gen. Lewis 
 present at the treaty, to help the 
 negotiation by suggestions, or to 
 have the moral support of his 
 army to sustain them. So much 
 did Lewis' army feel the disap- 
 pointment and this indignity, 
 that Col. Andrew, his son, says 
 that it was with difficulty Gen. 
 Lewis could restrain his men 
 (not under very rigid discipline, 
 at best) from killing Lord Dun- 
 more and his Indian escort. 
 But the result of the personal 
 conference was that Gen, Lewi?, 
 at last with the utmost reluctance 
 of himself and army, consented 
 to return, and to disband his 
 army upon his arrival at Camp 
 Union, as ordered. 
 
 Suppose Lewis had attempted 
 to cross the river, and been de- 
 stroyed, or had crossed and been 
 ambushed and demolished in the 
 forest thickets of Ohio, or that 
 Cornstalk had succeeded, as he 
 came so near doing, in surprising 
 him in his own camp, on the morn- 
 ing of the 10th, or after that; sup 
 pose the Indians bad succeeded 
 in turning the so evenly balanced 
 scale in their favor, during the 
 fight, as they came so near doing, 
 and had annihilated Lewis' army, 
 as they might have done, having 
 them penned up in the angle of 
 two rivers, who can doubt in 
 
 view of all the facts above noted, 
 that Lord Dunmore would have 
 been responsible for the disaster? 
 Who can doubt, as it was, that 
 he was responsible for the un- 
 necessary sacrifice of life, at the 
 Point, on the loth? Who can 
 doubt that, with the two divisions 
 of the army united, as per agree 
 ment, and Lord Dunmore and 
 Lewis acting in unison and good 
 faith, they could have marched 
 to the Indian towns, and utterly 
 destroyed them, or dictated a 
 favorable and lasting peace, atvl 
 maintained it as long as they 
 pleased, by holding importer) I 
 hostages? But, clearly, the pol- 
 icy of the governor was dictated 
 by ulterior and sinister motives; 
 his actions were not single-mind- 
 ed. Col. Andrew Lewis says: 
 "It was evidently the intention 
 -of the old Scotch villain to cut off 
 Gen. Lewis' army.' Burk the 
 historian, says: "The division 
 under Lewis was devoted to de- 
 struction, for the purpose of 
 breaking the spirit of the Virgin- 
 ians." Withers, Doddridge, and 
 others, express the same views. 
 Gen. Lewis and his army were 
 convinced of the fact; Col. Stew- 
 art bad no doubt of it, and nearly 
 every one who has written on the 
 subject has taken the same view 
 of it. A few only are willing to 
 give him the benefit of a doubt. 
 If this design to destroy Lewis' 
 army had succeeded, it is almost 
 certain that the English, through
 
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 Lord Dunmore, would have per- 
 fected an alliance, offensive and 
 defensive, with the victorious In- 
 dians, against the colonies, and 
 every white settlement west of 
 the Alleghenies would proba- 
 bly have been cut off. It 
 would have been difficult 
 or impossible, for a time, 
 to raise another army for the de- 
 fense of the western border; the 
 tory element would have been 
 encouraged and strengthened, 
 the revolutionary element cor- 
 respondingly discouraged, the 
 rebellion! ? ) crushed, and Lord 
 Dunmore would have been the 
 hero of the age. Upon what slen- 
 der and uncertain tenures bang 
 the destinies of nations, and the 
 fate of individuals! The closely- 
 won success of Lewis was not 
 only an immediate victory over 
 the Indians, but a defeat of the 
 machinations of the double deal- 
 ing governor, and the projected 
 Anglo-Indian alliance. If this 
 view of it is established the claim 
 of the battle of Point Pleasant 
 as being the initiatory battle of 
 the revolution; and, although 
 small in itself, when its after re- 
 sults and influences are consid- 
 ered it stands out in bold relief 
 as one of the important and de- 
 cisive victories of history. A 
 few words more and we shall be 
 done with Lord Dunmore. Up- 
 on his return to Williamsburg, 
 the Assembly, upon his own ex- 
 parte statement of the results of 
 
 the campaign, passed a vole of 
 thanks for his "valuable ser- 
 vices,' etc., which, it is said, 
 they very much regretted when 
 they learned more of the facts. 
 Just after the battle of Lexing- 
 ton (April 19, 1775), he had all 
 the powder that was stored in 
 the colonial magizine at Williams- 
 burg secretly conveyed on board 
 an armed English vessel lying 
 off Yorktown, and threatened to 
 lay Williamsburg in ashes at the 
 ii rst sign of i n s u r r e c t i o n. 
 Patrick Henry raised a volun- 
 teer force to go down and com- 
 pel him (Dunmore) to restore 
 the powder; but as this was im- 
 practicable, he agreed to pay, 
 and did pay for it, and then is- 
 sued a proclamation declaring 
 "One Patrick Henry and his 
 followers rebels.' He had pre- 
 viously threatened Thomas Jef- 
 ferson with prosecution for trea- 
 son, and had commenced pro- 
 ceedings. About this time, hav- 
 ing previously sent his family on 
 an English naval vessel, he made 
 bis own escape, by night, to the 
 English fleet and commenced a 
 system of depredations along the 
 coast, burning houses, destroy- 
 ing crops, etc. He tried to bring 
 his scheme of Indian co-opera- 
 tion to bear, and sent a message 
 to his old friend, Connally, with 
 a commission as Colonel, and in- 
 structed him to secure the co- 
 operation of as many of the west- 
 ern militia commanders as possi-
 
 12 
 
 ble, by large rewards; to form an 
 alliance with the Indians, collect 
 his forces at Fort Pitt, and 
 march through Virginia and 
 meet him. Fortunately, Col. 
 Connally was captured and im- 
 prisoned, and the scheme ex- 
 posed and thwarted He (Dun- 
 more) issued a proclamation 
 granting freedom, to all the 
 slaves who would flock to his 
 standard, and protection to the 
 Tories. Among other acts of 
 violence, he burned Norfolk, the 
 then largest and most important 
 town in Virginia. Upon his 
 flight, the Assembly met and 
 declared his office vacant, and 
 proceeded to fill it; and, for the 
 first time, Virginia had entire 
 "home rule/ Upon the petition 
 of citizens of Dunmore county, 
 which had been named in his 
 honor, the name was abolished, 
 and the county called Shenan- 
 doah. In 1776, Lord Dunmore 
 and his fleet and hangers-on 
 were at Guynne's Island, in the 
 Chesapeake Bay, where, as an 
 interesting example of poetic or 
 retributive justice, Gen. Lewis 
 in command of the Virginia 
 troops, attacked, defeated, and 
 drove them off, with heavy loss, 
 Gen. Lewis himself, firing the 
 first gun, soon after which the 
 ex-Governor, a sadder and wiser 
 man ''left the country for the 
 country's good." 
 
 It will thus be seen that Dun- 
 more, the Tory Governor of Vir- 
 
 ginia, knew that the war of the 
 Revolution was inevitable. John 
 Adams dates the opening of the 
 Revolution in 1760. The people 
 had tired of taxation without rep- 
 resentation. In 1764 we find an 
 organized opposition to oppres- 
 sive taxation in Boston. In 1765, 
 was passed the Stamp Act and in 
 that year was organized the Sons 
 of Liberty. In 1766 the Royal 
 Artillery was in Boston. In 
 1767, a duty was imposed on tea. 
 In 1768 British troops were sent 
 to Boston. In 1768 in Virginia 
 was passed the non-importation 
 agreement, followed in 1770 by 
 the Boston Massacre. 
 
 In the Parliament of England, 
 the discussion of the taxation of 
 the colonies did not tend to allay 
 their determination to thwart all 
 oppression and when George 
 III determined at all odds to im- 
 pose taxation the matter was set- 
 tled in the heart of every loyal 
 American, whether the vow was 
 expressed or implied. It is well 
 authenticated that, to occupy the 
 attention of the colonial forces 
 that they might not have so much 
 (time in which to brood over the 
 oppression of the mother coun- 
 try,) it was necessary to incite 
 the Indians toattact the frontiers 
 and so divert the attention of the 
 colonists from their quarrel with 
 the mother country and at the 
 same time impress upon them a 
 feeling of dependence upon Brit- 
 ish arms and means for the safe-
 
 13 
 
 ty of their lives and homes. Oae 
 of the quickest to avail himself 
 of this method of resisting the 
 onflow-ing tide of this demand for 
 Liberty was Governor Dunmore. 
 
 Virginia had been the first in 
 1764 to pass a Resolution, defy- 
 ing- the British authority as is 
 seen by the following, introduc- 
 ed by Patrick Henry, in the 
 House of Burgesses, and carried : 
 
 "Resolved, therefore, That the 
 General Assembly of this colony, 
 together with his majesty or 
 substitute, have, in their repre- 
 sentative capacity, the only ex- 
 clusive right and power to lay 
 taxes and impositions upon the 
 inhabitants of this colony; and 
 that every attempt to vest such 
 power in any person or persons 
 whatsoever, other than the Gen- 
 eral Assembly aforesaid, is ille- 
 gal, unconstitutional, and unjust, 
 and has a manifest tendency to 
 destroy British, as well as Amer- 
 ican, Freedom." 
 
 In this same year 1764, Pat- 
 rick Henry originated the great 
 question which led to the final 
 independence of the United 
 States. 
 
 When, in January, 1765, the 
 famous stamp act was passed 
 that for a while stunned the 
 whole country, and confounded 
 the people, it was Virginia, led 
 by the matchless Henry, that 
 stood forth to raise the drooping 
 spirits of the colonists, and it is 
 said his election to the house of 
 
 burgesses was with express ref- 
 erence to his opposition to the 
 stamp act, and the adoption of a 
 series of resolutions in 1765, 
 chief among which was the one 
 above referred to. 
 
 Upon the death of Mr. Henry, 
 in his private papers, was found 
 the original manuscript, embrac- 
 ing the above Resolution with 
 others, bearing the following 
 narrative, written on the back of 
 it by Mr. Henry, himself: 
 
 "The within resolutions pass- 
 ed the house of burgesses in 
 May, 1765. They formed the 
 first opposition to the stamp act, 
 and .the scheme of taxing Ameri- 
 ca by the British parliament.' 
 All the colonies, either through 
 fear, or want of opportunity to 
 form an opposition, or from in- 
 fluence of some kind or other, 
 had remained silent. I bad been 
 for the first time elected a bur- 
 gess, a few days before, was 
 young, inexperienced, unac- 
 quainted with the forms of the 
 house, and the members that 
 composed it. Finding the men 
 of weight averse to opposition, 
 and the commencement of the 
 tax at hand, and that no person 
 was likely to step forth, I deter- 
 mined to venture, and alone, 
 unadvised, and unassisted, on a 
 blank leaf of an old law book 
 wrote the within. Upon offer- 
 ing them to the house, violent de- 
 bates ensued. Many threats 
 were uttered, and much abuse
 
 14 
 
 cast upon me, by the party for 
 submission. After a long and 
 warm contest, the resolutions 
 passed by a very small majority, 
 perhaps of one or two only. 
 The alarm spread through Amer- 
 ica with astonishing quickness, 
 and the ministerial party were 
 overwhelmed. The great point 
 of resistance to British taxation 
 was universally established in 
 the colonies. This brought on 
 the war, which finally separated 
 the two countries, and gave in- 
 dependence to ours." 
 
 The Virginia house of bur- 
 gesses continued to pass resolu- 
 tions of defiance until the session 
 of 1768-9, when the house was 
 dissolved by the governor. This 
 house had the merit of originat- 
 ing that powerful engine of re- 
 sistance, corresponding commit- 
 tees between the legislatures of 
 the colonies, a measure so nearly 
 coeval in the two states of Vir- 
 ginia and Massachusetts that it 
 would have been, at that time 
 with their slow methods of com- 
 munication, impossible to have 
 borrowed the idea one from the 
 other; so that they are equally 
 entitled to that honor, although 
 Mrs. Warren, a Massachusetts 
 historian of that time, admits 
 that the measure originated in 
 Virginia. 
 
 It will thus be seen that when 
 the colonists met in Congress in 
 Philadelphia, September 4,1774, 
 that all over Virginia it was be- 
 
 lieved, as Patrick Henry had so 
 eloquently asserted, that the war 
 was inevitable, and the people 
 were ready to voice his senti- 
 ment, "Let it come." Consider- 
 ing all these facts, we can well 
 credit Howe, the Virginia histo- 
 rian who says, "While Virginia 
 was employed in animating her 
 sister states to resistance, her 
 governor was employed in the 
 ignoble occupation of fomenting 
 jealousies and feuds between the 
 province, which it should have 
 been his duty to protect from 
 such a calamity, and Pennsylva- 
 nia, by raising difficult questions 
 of boundary, and exciting the in- 
 habitants of the disputed terri- 
 tory to forswear allegience to the 
 latter province; hoping thus, by 
 affording a more immediately 
 exciting question, to draw off the 
 attention of these too important 
 provinces from the encroach- 
 ments of Great Britain. This 
 scheme, as contemptible as it 
 was iniquitous, wholly failed, 
 through the good sense and 
 magnanimity of the Virginia 
 council. Lord North, full of his 
 feeble and futile schemes of 
 cheating the colonies out of their 
 rights, took off the obnoxious 
 duties with the exception of three 
 pence per pound on tea; and, 
 with the ridiculous idea that he 
 might fix the principle upon the 
 colonies by a precedent, which 
 should strip it of all that was 
 odious, offered a draw-back equal
 
 15 
 
 to the import duty. This induc- 
 ed the importation of tea into 
 Boston harbor which, being 
 thrown overboard by some of 
 the citizens, called down upon 
 their city all the rigor of the cele- 
 brated Boston port bill. 
 
 A draft of this bill reached the 
 Virginia legislature while in ses- 
 sion; an animated protest, and a 
 dissolution of the assembly by 
 the governor, of course followed. 
 On the following day the mem- 
 bers convened in the Raleigh 
 tavern and, in an able and man- 
 ly paper, expressed to their con- 
 stituents and their government 
 those sentiments and opinions 
 which they had not been allowed 
 to express in a legislative form. 
 This meeting recommended a 
 a cessation of trade with the East 
 India Company, a Congress of 
 deputies from all the colonies, 
 'declaring their opinion, that an 
 attack upon one of the colonies 
 was an attack upon all British in 
 A merica, ' and calling a convention 
 of the people of Virginia. The 
 sentiments of the people accorded 
 with those of their late delegates; 
 they elected members who met 
 in convention at Williamsburg, 
 on the 1st of August, 1774. 
 
 This convention went into a 
 detailed view of their rights and 
 grievances, discussed measures 
 of redress for the latter, and de- 
 clared their determination never 
 to relinquish the former; they 
 appointed deputies to attend a 
 
 general Congress, and they in- 
 structed them how to proceed. 
 The Congress met in Philadel- 
 phia, on the 4th of September, 
 1774. 
 
 While Virginia was engag- 
 ed in her efforts for the gen- 
 eral good, she was not without 
 her peculiar troubles at home. 
 The Indians had been for some 
 time waging a horrid war upon 
 the frontiers, when the indigna- 
 tion of the people at length com- 
 pelled the reluctant govenor to 
 take up arms, and march to sup- 
 press the very savages he was 
 thought to have encouraged and 
 excited to hostility by his intri- 
 gues. 
 
 Lord Dunmore marched the 
 army in two divisions: the one 
 under General Andrew Lewis 
 he sent to the junction of the 
 Great Kanawha with the Ohio, 
 while he himself marched to a 
 higher point on the latter river, 
 with pretended purpose of de- 
 stroying the Indian towns and 
 joining Lewis at Point Pleasant; 
 but it was believed with the real 
 object of sending the whole In- 
 dian force to annihilate Lewis' 
 detachment, and thereby weaken 
 the power and break down the 
 spirit of Virginia. If such was 
 his object he was signally defeat- 
 ed through the gallantry of the 
 detachment, which met and de- 
 feated the superior numbers of 
 the enemy at Point Pleasant, af- 
 ter an exceeding hard-fought
 
 16 
 
 day, and the loss of nearly all its 
 officers. The day after the vic- 
 tory, an express arrived from 
 Unnmore with orders for the 
 detachment to join him at a dis- 
 tance of 80 miles, through an en- 
 emy's country, without any con- 
 ceivable object but the destruc- 
 tion of the corps. As these or- 
 ders were given without a know- 
 lege of the victory, Col. Lewis 
 was proceeding 1 to the destruc- 
 tion of the Shawanee villiages, 
 when he was informed the gov- 
 ernor had made peace. 
 
 Another evidence of Dun- 
 more's intention to have the ar- 
 my of Andrew Lewis destroyed 
 at Point Pleasant, is found in 
 Kercheval's History of the Val- 
 ley, p. 118, as follows: "It was 
 the generel belief among- the of- 
 ficers of our army, at the time, 
 that the Earl of Dunmore, while 
 at Wheeling, receiyed advice 
 from his g-overnment of the pro- 
 bability of the approaching war 
 between England and the colo- 
 nies, and that afterwards, all his 
 measures, with regard to the 
 Indians, had for their ultimate 
 object an alliance with those fe- 
 rocious warriors for the aid of 
 the mother country in their con- 
 test with us. This supposition 
 accounts for his not forming a 
 junction with the army of Lewis 
 at Point Pleasant. This devia- 
 tion from the original plan of the 
 campaign jeopardized the army 
 of Lewis and well nigh occasion- 
 
 ed its total destruction. The 
 conduct of the Earl at the treaty, 
 shows a good understanding be- 
 tween him and the Indian chiefs. 
 He did not suffer the army of 
 Lewis to form a junction with 
 his own, but sent them back be- 
 fore the treaty was concluded, 
 thus risking the safety of his 
 own forces, for at the time of the 
 treaty, the Indian warriors were 
 about his camp in force sufficient 
 to have intercepted his retreat 
 and destroyed his whole army." 
 
 Again, Kercheval says: "We 
 now proceed to examine the 
 question, how far facts and cir- 
 cumstances justify us in suppos- 
 ing the Earl of Dunmore himself 
 was instrumental in producing 
 the Indian war of 1774. 
 
 It has already been remarked 
 that this Indian war was but the 
 precursor to our revolutionary 
 war of 1775 that Dunmore the 
 then governor of Virginia, was 
 one of the most inveterate and 
 determined enemies to the revo- 
 lution that he was a man of 
 high talents, especially for intri- 
 gue and diplomatic skill that 
 occupying the station of com- 
 mander-in-chief of the large and 
 respectable State of Virginia, he 
 possessed means and power to 
 do much to serve the views of 
 Great Britain. And we have 
 seen, from the preceding pages, 
 how effectually he played his 
 part among the inhabitants of 
 the western country. I was
 
 17 
 
 present myself when a Pennsyl- 
 vania magistrate, of the name of 
 Scott, was taken into custody, 
 and brought before Dunmore, at 
 Prestone old Fort; he was severe- 
 ly threatened and dismissed, per- 
 haps on bail, but I do not recol- 
 lect how; another Pennsylvania 
 magistrate was sent to Staunton 
 jail. And I have already shown 
 in the perceding pages, that 
 there was a sufficient prepara- 
 tion of materials for this war in 
 the predisposition and hostile 
 attitude of our affairs with the 
 Indian*; that it was consequently 
 no difficult matter with a Vir- 
 ginia governor to direct the inci- 
 pient state of things to any point 
 most conclusive to the grand end 
 he had in view, namely, in weak- 
 ening our national strength in 
 some of the best and most effi- 
 cient parts. If, then, a war with 
 the Indians might have a tenden- 
 cy to produce this result, it ap- 
 pears perfectly natural and 
 reasonable to suppose that Dun- 
 more would make use of the 
 power and influence to promote 
 it, and although the war of 1774 
 was brought to a conclusion be- 
 fore the year was out, yet we 
 know that this fire was scarcely 
 extinguished before it burst in- 
 to a flame with tenfold fury, and 
 two or three armies of the whites 
 were sacrificed before we could 
 get the Indians subdued; and 
 this unhappy state of our affairs 
 with the Indians happening dur- 
 
 ing the severe conflict of our rev- 
 olutionary war, had the very ef- 
 fect, I suppose, Dunmore had in 
 view namely, dividing our forces 
 and enfeebling our aggregate 
 strength; and that the seeds of 
 these subsequent wars with the 
 Indians were sown in 1774 and 
 1775, appears almost certain. 
 
 "And the first we shall men- 
 tion is a circular sent by Maj. 
 Connoly, his proxy, early in the 
 spring of the year 1774, warning 
 the inhabitants to be on their 
 guard the Indians were very 
 angry, and manifested so much 
 hostility, that he was apprehen- 
 sive they would strike some 
 where as soon as the season 
 would permit, and enjoining the 
 inhabitants to prepare and re- 
 tire into Forts, &c. It might 
 be useful to collate and compare 
 this letter with one he wrote to 
 Capt, Cresap on the 14th of July 
 following; see hereafter. In this 
 letter he declares there is a war 
 or danger of war, before the war 
 is properly begun; in that to Capt. 
 Cresap, he says, ''the Indians 
 deport themselves peaceably;" 
 when Dunmore and Lewis and 
 Cornstalk we are all out on their 
 march for battle. 
 
 "This letter produced its nat- 
 ural result. The people fled in- 
 to Forts, and put themselves in- 
 to a posture of defense, and the 
 tocsin of war resounded from 
 Laurel Hill to the banks of the 
 Ohio river. Capt, Cresap who
 
 18 
 
 was peaceably at this time em- 
 ployed in building- houses and 
 improving 1 lands, on the Ohio 
 River, received this letter, ac- 
 companied, it is believed, with a 
 confirmatory message from Col. 
 Croghan and Maj. McGee, Indian 
 ag-ents and interperters; and he 
 thereupon immediately broke up 
 his camp, and ascended the River 
 to Wheeling fort, the nearest 
 place of safety from whence it is 
 believed he intended speedily to 
 return home; but during 1 his stay 
 at this place, a report was 
 brought to the Fort that two In- 
 dians were coming down the 
 River. Capt. Cresap, supposing 
 from every circumstances, and 
 the general aspect of affairs, 
 that war was inevitable, and in 
 fact already begun, went up the 
 River with his party; and two of 
 his men, of the name of Cheno- 
 weth and Brothers, killed, these 
 two Indians. Beyond controver- 
 sy this is the only circumstance 
 in the history of this Indian war, 
 in whicn his name can in the re- 
 motest degree be identified with 
 any measure tending to produce 
 this war; and it is certain that 
 the guilt or innocence'of this af- 
 fair will appear from this date. 
 It is notorious, then, that those 
 Indians were killed not only af- 
 ter Capt. Cresap bad received 
 Connoly's letter, and after 
 Butler's men were killed in the 
 canoe, but also alter the affair at 
 Yellow Creek, and after the peo- 
 ple had fled into the Forts." 
 
 The same author further says, 
 on pages 128-130, inclusive, 
 
 "The Governor of Virginia, 
 whatever might have been his 
 views as to the ulterior measures, 
 lost no time in preparing to meet 
 this storm. He sent orders im- 
 mediately to Col. Andrew Lewis, 
 of Augusta county, to raise an 
 army of about one thousand men, 
 and to march with all expedition 
 to the mouth of the Great Kan- 
 awha, on the Ohio River, where, 
 or at some other point, he would 
 join him, after he had got to- 
 gether another army, which ne 
 intended to raise in the north- 
 western counties, and command 
 in person. Lewis lost no time, 
 collected the number of men re- 
 quired, and marched without de- 
 lay to the appointed place of ren- 
 dezvous. 
 
 "But the Earl was not quite 
 so rapid in his movements, 
 which circumstance the eagle 
 eye of old Cornstalk, the gener- 
 al of the Indian army, saw, and 
 was determined to avail himself 
 of, foreseeing that it would be 
 much easier to destroy two sepa- 
 rate columns of an invading army 
 before than after their junc- 
 tion and consolidation. With 
 this view he marched with all ex- 
 pedition to attack Lewis before 
 he was joined by the Earle's ar- 
 my from the north, calculating, 
 confidently no doubt, that if he 
 could destroy Lewis, be would 
 be able to give a good account of 
 the army of the Earl.
 
 19 
 
 "The plan of Cornstalk ap- 
 pears to have been those of a con- 
 summate and skillful general, 
 and the prompt and rapid execu- 
 tion of them displayed the en- 
 ergy of a warrior. Ke, there- 
 fore, without loss of time, attack- 
 ed Lewis at his post. The at- 
 tack was sudden, violent, and I 
 believe unexpected. It was 
 nevertheless well fought, very 
 obstinate, and of long- continu- 
 ance; and as both parties fought 
 with rifles, the conflict was 
 dreadful; many were killed on 
 both sides, and the contest was 
 only finished with the approach 
 of night. The Virginians, how- 
 ever, kept the field, . but lost 
 many able officers and men, and 
 among the rest, Col. Charles, 
 Lewis, brother to the command- 
 er in-chief. 
 
 This battle of Lewis' opened 
 an easy and unmolested passage 
 for Dunmore through the Indian 
 country; but it is proper to re- 
 mark here, however, that when 
 Dunmore arrived with his wing 
 of the army at the mouth of the 
 Hockhocking River, he sent Capt. 
 White-eyes, a Delaware chief, to 
 invite the Indians to a treaty, 
 and he remained stationary at 
 that place until White-eyes re- 
 turned, who reported that the 
 Indians would not treat about 
 peace. I presume, in order of 
 time, this must have been just 
 before Lewis' battle; because it 
 will appear in the sequal of this 
 
 story, fhat a great revolution 
 took place in the minds of the 
 Indians after the battle. 
 
 "Dunmore, immediately upon 
 the report of White-eyes that the 
 Indians were not disposed for 
 peace, sent an express to Col. 
 Lewis to move on and meet him 
 near Chillicothe, on the Scioto 
 river, and both wings of the ar- 
 my were put in motion. But as 
 Dunmore approached the Indian 
 town, he was met by flags from 
 the Indians, demanding peace, 
 to which he acceded, halted his 
 army, and runners were sent to 
 invite the Indian chiefs, who 
 cheerfully obeyed the summons, 
 and came to the treaty save 
 only Logan, the great orator, 
 who refused to come. It seems, 
 however, that neither Dunmore 
 nor the Indian chiefs considered 
 his presence of much importance, 
 for they went to work and finish- 
 ed the treaty without him re- 
 ferring, I believe, some unsettled 
 points for future discussion, at 
 a treaty to be held the ensuing 
 summer or fall at Pittsburg. 
 This treaty, the articles of which 
 I never saw, nor do I know that, 
 they were ever recorded, con- 
 cluded Dunmore's war, in Sep- 
 tember or October, 1774. After 
 the treaty was over, old Corn- 
 stalk, the Shawnee chief, accom- 
 panied Dunmore's army until 
 they reached the mouth of the 
 Hockhocking. on the Ohio River; 
 and what was more singular,
 
 20 
 
 rather made his hom'e in Capt. 
 Ci*esap's tent, with whom he 
 continued on terms of the most 
 friendly familiarity. I consider 
 this circumstance as positive 
 proof that the Indians them- 
 selves neither considered Capt. 
 Cresap the murderer of Log-an's 
 family, nor the cause of the war. 
 It appears, also, that at this place 
 the Earl of Dunmore received 
 dispatches from England. Dod- 
 ridge sa} 7 s he received these on 
 his march out. 
 
 But we ought to have mention- 
 ed in its proper place, that after 
 the treaty between Duntnore and 
 the Indians commenced near 
 Chillocothe, Lewis arrived with 
 his army, and encamped two or 
 three miles from Dunmore, 
 which greatly alarmed the In- 
 dians, as they thought he was so 
 much irritated at losing so many 
 men in the late battle that he 
 would not easily be pacified; nor 
 would they be satisfied until 
 Dunmore and old Cornstalk went 
 into Lewis' camp to converse 
 with him. 
 
 Dr. Doddridge represents this 
 affair in different shades of light 
 from this statement. I can only 
 say I had my information from 
 an officer who was present at the 
 time. 
 
 But it is time to remind the 
 reader, that, although I have 
 wandered into such a minute de- 
 tail of the various occurrences, 
 facts and circumstances of Dun- 
 
 more's war; and all of which as a 
 history may be interesting to the 
 present and especially to the ris- 
 ing generation; yet it is proper 
 to remark that I have two lead- 
 ing objects chiefly in view first, 
 to convince the world, that who- 
 ever might be the cause of the 
 Indian war in 1774, it was nut 
 Ca'pt. Cresap; secondly, that from 
 the aspect of our political affairs, 
 at that period, and from the 
 known hostility of Dunmore to 
 the American Revolution, and 
 withal to the subsequent con- 
 duct of Dunmore, and the dread- 
 ful Indian war that commenced 
 soon after the beginning of our 
 war with Great Britain I say, 
 from all these circumstances, we 
 have infinitely stronger reasons 
 to suspect Dunmore than Cresap; 
 and I may say that the dispatches 
 above mentioned that were re- 
 ceived by Dunmore at Hockbock- 
 ing, although after the treaty, 
 were yet calculated to create sus- 
 picion. 
 
 But if, as we suppose, Dun- 
 more was secretly at the bottom 
 of this Indian war, it is evident 
 that be could not with propriety 
 appear personally in a business 
 of this kind; and we have seen 
 and shall see, how effectually bis 
 sub-governor played his part be- 
 tween the Virginians and Penn- 
 sylvanians; and it now remains 
 for us to examine how far the 
 conduct of this man (Connolly) 
 will bear us out in the supposi-
 
 21 
 
 tion that there was also some 
 foul play, some dark intriguing 
 work to embroil the western 
 country in an Indian war." 
 
 Hon. V. A. Lewis who is the 
 author of the History of the 
 Virginias compiled in Hardesty's 
 Historical and Geographical En 
 cylopedian ot 1883 pays the fol- 
 lowing- tribute to the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant: 
 
 "To the student of history no 
 truth is more patent than this, 
 that the battle of Point Pleasant, 
 was the first in the series of the 
 Revolution, the flames of which 
 were being kindled by the op- 
 pression of the mother country 
 and the resistance of the same 
 by the feeble but determined 
 colonies. It is a well known fact 
 that the emisaries of Great Bri- 
 tain were then inciting the In- 
 dians to hostilities against the 
 frontier for the purpose of dis- 
 tracting attention, and thus pre- 
 venting the consumation of the 
 Union which was then being 
 formed to resist the tyranny of 
 their armed oppression. It is 
 also well known that Lord Dun- 
 more was an enemy of the colo- 
 nists, by his rigid adherence to 
 the royal cause and his efforts 
 to induce the Indians to co-oper- 
 ate with the English, and thus 
 assist in reducing Virginia to 
 subjection. It has been assert- 
 ed that he intentionally delayed 
 the progress of the left wing of 
 the army that the right might be 
 
 destroyed at Point Pleasant. 
 Then at the mouth of the Great 
 Kanawha river on the 19th (10th) 
 day of October, 1774, there went 
 whiz/ing through the forrest the 
 first volley of a struggle for lib- 
 erty, which, in the granduer and 
 importance of its results, stands 
 without parallel in the history 
 of the world. On that day the 
 soil upon which Point Pleasant, 
 now stands drank the first blood 
 shed in defense of American lib- 
 erty, and it was there decided 
 that the decaying institutions of 
 the Middle Ages should not pre- 
 vail in America, but that just 
 laws and priceless liberty should 
 be planted forever in the domains 
 of the New World. 
 
 Historians, becoming engross- 
 ed with the more stirring scenes 
 of the Revolution, have failed to 
 consider the sanguinay battle in 
 its true import and bearing upon 
 the destiny of our country, for- 
 getting, that the Colonial army 
 returned home only to enlist in 
 the patriot army and on almost 
 every battlefield of the Revolu- 
 tion were representatives of that 
 little band who stood face to face 
 with the savage allies of Great 
 Britian at Point Pleasant." 
 
 And, in conclusion, Kercheval 
 says, at page 139, "I say, from 
 all which it will appear that Dun- 
 more had his views, and those 
 views hostile to the liberties of 
 America, in his proceedings with 
 the Indians in the war of 1774,
 
 22 
 
 the circumstances of the times, 
 in connection with his equivocal 
 conduct, leads us almost natur- 
 al!}' to infer that he knew pretty 
 well what he was about, and 
 among- other thing's, he knew 
 that a war with the Indians at 
 this time would materially sub- 
 serve the views and interest of 
 Great Britain, and consequently 
 he perhaps might teel it a duty 
 to promote said war, and if not, 
 why betray such extreme solici- 
 tude to single out some conspicu- 
 ous character, and make him 
 the scape-goat, to bear all the 
 blame of this war, that he and 
 his friend Connolly might es- 
 cape?" 
 
 Nothing- could more fittingly 
 JS^describe the patriotic senti- 
 ment fell in Virginia than the 
 heroic appeal of Mrs. Wm. 
 Lewis. It is related of her 
 that "When the British force 
 under Tarleton drove the legis- 
 lature from Charlottesville to 
 Staunton, the stillness of the 
 Sabbath eve was broken in the 
 latter town by the beat of the 
 drum, and volunteers were call- 
 ed for to prevent the passage of 
 the British through the moun- 
 tains at Kockfish Gap. The 
 elder sons of Wm. Lewis, who 
 then resided at the old fort, were 
 absent with the northern army. 
 Three sons, however, were at 
 home, whose ag-es were 17, 15 
 and 13 years. Wm. Lewis was 
 confined to his room by sickness, 
 but his wife, with the firmness 
 
 of a Roman matron, called them 
 to her, and bade them fly to the 
 defence of their native land. 
 "Go my children.' said she, "I 
 spare not my youngest, my fair- 
 haired boy, the comfort ol my 
 declining- years. I devote you. 
 all to my country. Keep back 
 the foot of the invader from the 
 soil of Augusta, or see my face 
 no more." When this incident 
 was related to Washington, 
 shortly after its occurrence, he 
 enthusiastically exclaimed, 
 "Leave me but a banner to plant 
 upon the mountains of Augusta, 
 and I will rally around me the 
 men who will lift our bleeding- 
 country from the dust, and set 
 her free." Howe's Virginia, 
 its History and Antiquities, p. 
 183. 
 
 From Wither's Border War- 
 fare we quote: "The army un- 
 der Gen. Lewis had endured 
 many privations and suffered 
 many hardships. They had en- 
 countered a savage enemy in 
 great force, and purchased a 
 victory with the blood of their 
 friends. When arrived near to 
 the goal of their anxious wishes, 
 and with nothing to prevent the 
 accomplishment of the object of 
 the campaign, they received 
 those orders with evident chag- 
 rin, and did not obey them with- 
 out murmuring. Having, at his 
 own request, been introduced 
 severally to the officers of that 
 division, complimenting them for
 
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 their gallantry and good conduct 
 in the late engagement, and as- 
 suring them of his high esteem, 
 Lord Dunmore returned to bis 
 Camp; and Gen. Lewis commen- 
 ced his retreat. " 
 
 "This battle (says Col. Stuart, 
 in his historical memoir) was, in 
 fact, the beginning of the revo- 
 lutionary war, that obtained for 
 our country the liberty and in- 
 dependence enjoyed by the 
 United States and a good pres- 
 age of future success; for it is 
 well known that the Indians were 
 influenced by the British to com- 
 mence the war to terrify and con- 
 found the people, before thev 
 commenced hostilities them- 
 selves the following year at Lex- 
 ington. It was thought by Brit- 
 ish politicians, that to excite an 
 "Indian war would prevent a 
 combination of the colonies for 
 opposing parliamentary meas- 
 ures to tax the Americans. 
 The blood, therefore, spilt upon 
 this memorable battlefield, will 
 long he remembered by the good 
 people of Virginia and the United 
 States with gratitude." 
 
 Virgil A. Lewis, West Virgin- 
 ia State Historian and Archivest, 
 says, in his History of West 
 Virginia, published in 1889, at 
 page 133, "To the student of 
 history no truth is more patent 
 than this, that the battle of 
 Point Pleasant was the first in 
 the series of the Revolution, the 
 flames of which were then being 
 
 kindled by the oppression of the 
 mother country, and the resist- 
 ance of the same by the feeble 
 but determined colonies. It is a 
 well known fact that emissaries 
 of Great Britain were then incit- 
 ing the Indians to hostilities 
 against the frontier for the pur- 
 pose of distracting attention and 
 thus preventing the consuma- 
 tion of the union which was then 
 being formed to resist the tyran- 
 ny of their armed oppressors. 
 It is also well known that Lord 
 Dunmore was an enemy to the 
 colonists, by his rigid adherence 
 to the royal cause and his efforts 
 to induce the Indians to co-oper- 
 ate with the English, and thus 
 assist in reducing Virginia to 
 subjection. It has been assert- 
 ed that he intentionally delayed 
 the progress of the left wing of 
 the army that the right might 
 be destroyed at Point Pleasant. 
 Then, at the mouth of the Great 
 Kanawha river, on the 10th day 
 of October, 1774, there went 
 whizzing through the forest the 
 first volley of a struggle for lib- 
 erty which, in the grandeur and 
 importance of its results, stands 
 without a parellel in the history 
 of the world. On that day the 
 soil on which Point Pleasant now 
 stands drank the first blood, shed 
 in defence of American liberty, 
 and it was there decided that the 
 decaying institutions of the Mid- 
 dle Ages should not prevail in 
 America, but that just laws and
 
 24 
 
 priceless liberty should be plant- 
 ed forever in the domains of the 
 New World. Historians, becom- 
 ing- engrossed with the more 
 stirring scenes of the Revolution, 
 ha.ve failed to consider this san- 
 guinar\- battle in its true import 
 and bearing upon the destiny of 
 our country, forg-etting that the 
 colonial army returned home on- 
 ly to enlist in the patriot army, 
 and on almost every battle-field 
 of the Revolution represented 
 that little band vvhu stood tace to 
 face with the savag-e allies of 
 Great Britain at Point Pleasant.' 
 Owing to the importance of 
 the question, we have, at the 
 risk of tiring- the reader, given 
 these many details of evidence 
 that the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 while not a battle between the 
 English and Colonial forces, 
 nevertheless shed the first blood 
 on American soil for national in- 
 dependence. It can be plain- 
 ly seen that, though at this time 
 these sturdy pioneers were fight- 
 ing to protect their homes and 
 firesides, the very foundation 
 of national government, Great 
 Britain, through her Tory Gov- 
 ernor of Virginia, intended thus 
 to destroy the flower of the Col- 
 onial army of Virginia. It was 
 a stroke which, had it succeeded, 
 would have averted the War of 
 the Revolution many years. 
 The army that Lewis gathered 
 were not the unlettered men of 
 the forest, they were from 
 
 among the most highly educated 
 men of the colony and it is said 
 that, to this date, in no army of 
 a similar number, has such a 
 large percentage had a knovvl 
 edge of the Greek and Latin lan- 
 guag-es That they were men 
 of education and influence will 
 be seen by following the survi- 
 vors of that battle, not only 
 through the Revolution, where 
 many of them distinguished 
 themselves, but out into the civ- 
 il life of the country, during, and 
 subsequent to, the Revolution. 
 
 That the battle was the most 
 fruitful, in its results, of any 
 battle ever fought upon Ameri- 
 can soil, is apparent from the 
 history of the country. The 
 great Northwest Territory, ly- 
 ing north of the Ohio and east 
 of the Mississippi, had long- been 
 a bone of contention between 
 France and England and France 
 did not relinquish her claim un- 
 til driven to recede as the result 
 of the battle upon the Plains of 
 Abraham before Quebec, where 
 the intrepid Montcalm was de- 
 feated by the invincible Wolffe. 
 
 The treaty that followed at 
 Paris, in 1763, ceded all this terri- 
 tory to England, whose failure 
 to open it to the colonists was 
 a subject of discussion and dis- 
 trust and rightfully so, as En- 
 gland maintained it to the ex 
 elusion of the colonists, not only 
 that she might, with it, subsidize 
 the savage Indians, but when
 
 25 
 
 necessary, secure their services 
 in maintaining cOntrol of the col- 
 onies. 
 
 By the treaty that followed the 
 battle of Point Pleasant, that of 
 Camp Charlotte, the federation of 
 the five great nations in control 
 of that territory ceded it to Vir- 
 ginia, to hold inviolate, and which 
 treaty lasted without interrup- 
 tion for three years, enabling 
 the colonists not only to 
 enter the Northwest Territor, 
 but to colonize Kentucky and 
 Tennessee. In Dunmore's ar- 
 my was the intrepid George Rod- 
 gers Clarke, a Virginian, the 
 Hanibal of the West, who was 
 present at the treaty of Camp 
 Charlotte. The history of the 
 colonization and civilization of 
 this territory is the history of 
 Geo. Kcdgers Clarke, too well 
 known here for extended com- 
 ment. Suffice it to say that, in 
 the struggle led by Clarke to 
 drive the British from the North- 
 west Territory, it was not the 
 colonies, but Virginia, protect- 
 ing her own territory, acquired 
 by the battle of Point Pleasant, 
 that furnished the army for 
 Clark's expedition, Governor, 
 Patrick Henry supplying Clarke 
 from Virginia's funds, the sum of 
 twelve hundred pounds, and 
 supplies of boots and ammun- 
 tion from Pittsburg, then in 
 Virginia. Could any army have 
 displayed more heroism, an 
 army of one hundred and 
 fifty, starting out to conquer 
 
 such a wilderness, with no con- 
 veyance for their munitions of 
 war, save their own robust and 
 hardy bodies? 
 
 The" subjugation of this coun- 
 try was not only comparatively 
 broad in its results, but was due 
 alone to Virginia. Of course, 
 such a vast territory opened up, 
 as it thus was, to civilization and 
 habitation, necessarily called for 
 representation in the Congress of 
 the infant nation, and justly so. 
 Virginia would soon, by her 
 great population, control the leg- 
 islation of the nation. Such, how- 
 ever, was not the purpose of Vir- 
 ginia. That ever generous 
 mother state here had opportun- 
 ity to be the most mag- 
 nanimous of them all. She 
 would not, if she could, dominate 
 the policy of the country, and, 
 without a dollar, she donated, ac- 
 tually gave away to the colonies 
 in fee simple the entire North- 
 west Territory, to be the terri- 
 tory of the colonists, and to be 
 disposed of as they deemed best 
 
 When we review the acquisi- 
 tion of the other territory of the 
 United States and compare the 
 $16,000,000, expended by our 
 government, for the Louisiana 
 purchase, the cost of the acqui- 
 sition of upper and lower Cali- 
 fornia, of Alaska, of the Phillip- 
 pines, of the cost of the Mexican 
 acquisition in men and money, 
 and then remember that the 
 settlement of the states of Ken-
 
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 tucky and Tennessee were made 
 possible, as well as the coloniza- 
 tion of Western Pennsylvania and 
 Western Virginia, together with 
 the acquisition of the Northwest 
 Territory, and the settlement 
 and civilization of the same, and 
 all as a sequel of the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant, considering- the 
 history of the ever memorable 
 struggle and the subsequent de- 
 velopment of the country, it is 
 very apparent not only that the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant was the 
 initial, the first battle of the 
 Revolution, but also farther 
 reaching in its results than 
 any other battle ever fought upon 
 the American continent. 
 
 As we have said before, no offi- 
 cial report of the battle was ever 
 made, but a letter from Williams- 
 burg, Va., then the seat of gov- 
 ernment, under date of No- 
 vember 10, 1774, was publish- 
 ed in the Belfast News Let- 
 ter, yet preserved. Presum- 
 ably, it was contributed to that 
 paper because many of the 
 Scotch-Irish had emigrated from 
 Belfast, Ulster District, to Penn- 
 sylvania and ultimately to Vir- 
 g-inia and settled in the sections 
 of Virginia from which the army 
 had been for the most part been 
 made up. This made the event 
 peculiarly interesting- to the peo- 
 ple of that portion of Ireland. 
 From that publication we quote 
 the history of the battle: 
 "BELFAST. 
 
 Yesterday arrived a mail from 
 
 New York, brought to Falmouth 
 by the Harriot packet boat. 
 Capt. Lee. 
 
 Williamsburg-, Va., 
 
 November 10th. 
 
 The following letter is just re- 
 ceived here from the camp at 
 Point Pleasant, at the mouth of 
 the Great Kenhawa '(as then 
 spelled), dated October 17, 1774: 
 
 "The following is a true state- 
 ment of a battle fought at this 
 place on the 10th instant: On 
 Monday morning, about half an 
 hour before sunrise, two of Capt. 
 Russell's company discovered a 
 large party of Indians about a 
 mile from the camp, one of which 
 men was shot down by the In- 
 dians; the other made his escape, 
 and brought in the intelligence. 
 In two or three minutes after, 
 two of Capt. Shelby's company 
 came in and confirmed the ac- 
 count. 
 
 "Col. Andrew Lewis, being 
 informed thereof immediately 
 ordered out Col. Charles Lewis, 
 to take command of one hundred 
 and fifty of the Aug-usta troops, 
 and with him went Capt. Dickin- 
 son, Capt. Harrison, Capt. Wil- 
 son, Capt. John Lewis of Agusta, 
 and Capt. Lockridge, which 
 made the first division. Col. 
 Fleming was also ordered -to 
 take command of one hundred 
 and fifty more of the Botetourt, 
 Bedford and Fincastle troops.: 
 Capt. Thomas Buford, from Bed- 
 ford; Capt Love, of Botetourt;
 
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 Capt. Shelby and Capt. Russell, 
 of Fincastle, which made the 
 second division. 
 
 "Col. Charles Lewis' division 
 marched to the right, some dis- 
 tance from the Ohio, and Col. 
 Fleming, with his division on the 
 bank of the Ohio, to the left. 
 
 "Col. Charles Lewis' division 
 had not marched quite half a 
 mile from the camp when, about 
 sunrise, an attack was made on 
 the front of his division, in a 
 most vigorous manner, by the 
 united tribes of Indians Shaw- 
 nees, Delawares, Mingoes, Ta- 
 was, and of several other nations 
 in number not less than eight 
 hundred, and by many thought 
 to be one thousand. 
 
 "In this heavy attack, Col. 
 Charles Lewis received a wound 
 which, in a few hours caused his 
 death, and several of his men fell 
 on the spot; in fact, Augusta di- 
 vision was obliged to give wav 
 to the heavy fire of the enemy. 
 In about a second of a minute 
 after the attack on Col. Lewis' 
 division, the enemy engaged the 
 front of Col. Fleming's division, 
 on the Ohio, and in a short time 
 the Colonel received two balls 
 through his left arm, and one 
 through his breast, and, after 
 animating the officers and sol- 
 diers in a most calm manner to 
 the pursuit of victory, retired to 
 the camp. 
 
 "The loss in the field was sen- 
 sibly felt by the officers in parti- 
 
 cular; but the Augusta troops, 
 being shortly after reinforced 
 from the camp by Col. Field, 
 with his company, together with 
 Capt. McDowell, Capt. Mathews 
 and Capt. Stewart, from Augus- 
 ta; Capt. Paulin, Capt. Arbuckle 
 and Capt. McClannahan, from 
 Botetourt, the enemy no longer 
 able to maintain their ground, 
 was forced to give way till they 
 were in a line witn the troops, 
 Col. Fleming being left in action 
 on the bank of the Ohio. 
 
 "In this precipitate retreat 
 Col. Field was killed. During 
 this time, which was till after 
 twelve, the action in a small de- 
 gree abated, but continued, ex- 
 cept at short intervals, sharp 
 enough till after 1 o'clock. 
 Their long retreat gave them a 
 most advantageous spot of 
 ground, from whence it appear- 
 ed to the officers so difficult to 
 dislodge them that it was thought 
 most advisable to stand as the 
 line was then formed, which was 
 about a mile and a quarter in 
 length, and had sustained till 
 then a constant and equal weight 
 of the action, from wing to wing. 
 
 "It was till about half an hour 
 till sunset they continued firing 
 on us scattering shots, which we 
 returned to their disadvantage. 
 At length, the night coming on, 
 they found a safe retreat. 
 
 ' 'They had not the satisfaction 
 of carrying off any of our men's 
 scalps, save one or two strag-
 
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 glers whom they killed before 
 the engagement. Many of their 
 dead they scalped, rather than 
 we should have them, but our 
 troops scalped upwards of twen- 
 ty of their men that were first 
 killed. 
 
 "It is beyond doubt their loss; 
 in number, far exceeded ours, 
 which is considerable. 
 
 "The return of the killed 'and 
 wounded in the above battle, 
 same as our last, as follows: 
 
 Killed Colonels Charles 
 Lewis and John Field, Captains 
 John Murray, R. McClannahan, 
 Samuel Wilson, James Ward, 
 Lieut. Hugh Allen, ensigns Can- 
 tiff and Bracken, and forty-four 
 privates. Total killed, fifty -three. 
 
 "Wounded Col. William Flem- 
 ing, Captains John Dickinson, 
 Thomas Buford and I. Skidman 
 Lieutenants Goldman, Robinson, 
 Lard and Vance, and seventy- 
 nine privates. Total wounded, 
 eighty-seven; killed and wounded 
 one hundred and forty." 
 
 And further from the same 
 publication : 
 
 "AMERICA. 
 
 Williamsburg, in Virginia, 
 December 1, 1774. 
 
 We have it from good authori- 
 ty that his excellency, the gover- 
 nor, is on his way to this capital, 
 having concluded a peace with 
 the several tribes of Indians that 
 have been at war with us, and 
 taken hostages of them for their 
 faithful complying with terms of 
 
 it, the principal of which are 
 that they shall totally abandon 
 the lands on this side of the Ohio 
 river, which, river is to be the 
 boundary between them and the 
 white people, and never more 
 take up the hatchet against the 
 English." 
 
 "Thus, in a little more than 
 the space of five months, an end 
 is put to a war which portended 
 much trouble and mischief to the 
 inhabitants on the frontier, ow- 
 ing to the zeal and good conduct 
 of the officers and commanders 
 who went out in their country's 
 defense and the bravery and 
 perseverance of all the troops.' 
 Copied from the Belfast News 
 Letter of February 10. 1775." 
 
 De Hass, in describing the 
 battle, says: 
 
 "The battle scene was now 
 terribly grand. There stood 
 the combatants terror, rage, 
 disappointment and despair riv 
 eted upon the painted faces of 
 one, while calm resolution and 
 the unbending will to do or die 
 were marked upon the other. 
 Neither party would retreat, 
 neither could advance. The 
 noise of the firing was tremend- 
 ous: no single gun could be dis- 
 tinguished was one common 
 roar. The rifle and the toma- 
 hawk now did their work with 
 dreadful certainty. The confu- 
 sion and perturbation of the 
 camp had now arrived at its 
 greatest height. The confused
 
 29 
 
 sounds and wild uproar of the 
 battle added gfreatly to the ter- 
 ror of the scene. The shouting 
 of the whites, the continued roar 
 of firearms, the war-whoops and 
 dismal yelling of the Indians, 
 were discordant and terrific." 
 
 Col. J. L. Peyton, in his valu- 
 able history of Augusta county, 
 says: 
 
 "It was, throughout, a terrible 
 scene the ring of rifles and the 
 roar of muskets, the clubbed 
 guns, the flashing knives the 
 fight, hand to hand the scream 
 for mercy, smothered i n the 
 death-groan the crushing 
 through the brush the advance 
 the retreat the pursuit, every 
 man for himself, with his enemy 
 in view the scattering on every 
 side the sounds of battle, dying 
 away into a pistol shot here and 
 there through the wood, and a 
 shriek' the collecting again of 
 the whites, covered with gore 
 and sweat, bearing trophies of 
 the slain, their dripping knives 
 in one hand, and rifle-barrel, 
 bent and smeared with brains 
 and hair, in the other. No lan- 
 guage can adequately describe 
 it." 
 
 Mr. Stephen T. Mitchell in 
 1827 in a publication, "The 
 Spirit of the Old Dominion" pub- 
 lished at Richmond Virginia 
 gives the following account of 
 the battle of Point Pleasant. 
 
 "We landed about a mile on the 
 left-hand shore of Kanawha, and 
 
 climbing a large hill, we were 
 saluted by a hundred Indians, 
 encamped upon the top. Our 
 captors told their adventures, no 
 doubt, with every aggravation; 
 for, after the most frantic ex- 
 pressions of grief and rage, I 
 was bound to a tree, a large pine 
 tree, which stands to this day 
 upon the brow of the hill, and 
 the fire was kindled around me. 
 I said my prayers; my time was 
 come; my body felt the scorching 
 heat: but, by a miraculous inter- 
 position of Providence, the clouds 
 which had been lowering all day, 
 now burst out in showers, and 
 quenched the flames. The In- 
 dians thought the Great Spirit 
 looked over me, and directed the 
 shower for my safety. My 
 bonds were loosened, and 1 was 
 allowed a little jirk and hommony 
 for my refreshment. The next 
 day T could perceive some great 
 expedition on foot; the Indians 
 were running to and fro in every 
 direction; some grinding paint 
 and some cleaning up their arms; 
 and even the squaws and little 
 boys were providing themselves 
 with hatchets and scalping- 
 knives, and strewing themselves 
 from the Ohio river all along the 
 cliffs of Kanawha." 
 
 "Late in the evening, I saw an 
 uncommon anxiety on the faces 
 of the savages; councils, grand 
 and petty, were held in various 
 places, and so completely were 
 my guards absorbed in the un-
 
 30 
 
 dertaking which was at hand, 
 that they became entirely remiss 
 in their attentions to me. I re- 
 solved to sieize the propitious 
 moment, and make my escape. 
 I sprang on my feet and ran as 
 fast as my legs would carry me. 
 A loud whoop proclaimed the 
 event, and in a moment, I could 
 perceive myself closely pursued 
 by half a dozen athletic young 
 fellows, with uplifted tomahawks. 
 Fear added to my limbs the 
 agility of the deer. With my 
 head turned back over one 
 shoulder, I bounded through the 
 pine-trees until my speed had 
 carried me unawares to the brink 
 of a precipice. I tried to stop; 
 it was too late; I gave a piercing 
 shriek and bounded over. A 
 rushing sound in my ears like 
 the roaring of a mill-dam, then 
 the crashing of branches and 
 limbs recalled me to my recollec- 
 tion, and I found myself to my 
 inexpressible delight, breaking 
 my way through the thick 
 branches of a buck-eye tree. I 
 alighted without injury, and look- 
 ing back upon the cliff above, 
 could see my savage pursuers 
 gaping over the precipice in 
 amazement. I gave not a second 
 look, but darted off towards the 
 point with a heart swelling with 
 praise to the great Creator, who 
 had thus twice rescued me so 
 miraculously from my enemies. 
 Arriving at the mouth of the 
 Kanawha, I shouted aloud for 
 
 assistance. But, the whites had 
 too often been decoyed by their 
 own people to the savages, to be 
 easily imposed upon. They an- 
 swered me they could give no as- 
 sistance. I could not swim, 
 but my ingenuity, never fer- 
 tile in expedients, befriended me 
 now tor the first time in my life. 
 I rolled down a dry log from the 
 bank into the water, and getting 
 astride of it, I managed by great 
 exertion of hands and feet, to 
 row it across the stream, which 
 at that time, from the great 
 height of the Ohio, was as still 
 as a mill-pond I was received 
 by General Lewis, the command- 
 ant of the fort, with great cor- 
 diality and affection; and, being 
 naked and necessitous, I enrolled 
 myself as a regular in the corps; 
 and, being dressed in militaire, 
 with a tremendous rifle in my 
 hand and a thick breast work 
 before me, I felt as brave as 
 Julius Ceasar." 
 
 The Battle of Point Pleasant 
 
 "I was in hopes that I might en- 
 joy, within the walls of a fort, 
 some respite from the fears, 
 toils and anexieties which had, 
 for the last two weeks, worn me 
 out both body and mind. But he 
 who undertakes to settle in a 
 new and savage country, must 
 look out for no such respite, un- 
 til, by hardihood and persever- 
 ance, he has levelled the forest, 
 with its inhabitants, to the earth. 
 
 On the 10th of October, 1774,
 
 31 
 
 about sun-rise, the hunters came 
 in at fall speed, and gave the 
 appalling information that a large 
 body, of Indians had spread them- 
 selves from river to river, and 
 were advancing by slow degrees, 
 towards the fort; at the same 
 instant, we could observe the 
 women and boys skulking up and 
 down the opposite banks of the 
 Ohio and Kanawha. 
 
 The position of the fort was 
 peculiarly favourable to a sur- 
 prise. As I have above mention- 
 ed, it was situated at a right an- 
 gular point formed by the con- 
 fluence of the Kanawha and Ohio 
 rivers. The country above the 
 fort was covered with a heavy 
 forest and impervious growth of 
 underwood, through which an 
 invading force might penetrate 
 completely undiscovered, to the 
 very walls of the fort. The gar- 
 rison was composed of about 
 twelve hundred men entirely 
 Virginians, from the counties of 
 Botetourt and Augusta. The 
 Indians consisted of about the 
 same number, the flower of the 
 Shawnee, Wyandotte and Min- 
 goe tribes, who were command- 
 ed by the celebrated Chieftain, 
 Cornstalk." 
 
 "From the large force which he 
 had collected for this expedition, 
 and from the secrecy of his 
 movements, it was evident that 
 the Indian Chief, in this desper- 
 ate attempt to recover the coun- 
 try east of the Ohio river, medi- 
 
 tated nothing less than an entire 
 extermination of the garrison. 
 General Lewis ordered out about 
 seven hundred of his rangers, 
 under the command of his neph- 
 ew, Colonel Charles Lewis; with 
 the remaining part of his troops, 
 about five hundred in number, 
 he determined to act as a reserve 
 and defend the fort to extremi- 
 ties. " 
 
 "I happened to be among those 
 who were ordered out, very 
 much against my will; but it was 
 neck or nothing; we advanced 
 about three hundred yards in 
 front of the fort, toward a deep 
 ravine which intersected the val- 
 ley at the right angles with the 
 Kanawha. All was still as death; 
 one moment more and a yell min- 
 gled with the roar of a thousand 
 rifles, rung from river to river, 
 and at the same moment every 
 bush and tree seemed alive with 
 armed savages. Col. Lewis was 
 killed at .the first fire, but the 
 rangers mantained their ground, 
 and a contest commenced more 
 desperate and more rapidly fatal 
 than any which had ever been 
 fought with the Aboriginese, ex- 
 cepting that of Talledaga. The 
 Indian Chief, with that prompt- 
 ness for seizing an advantage, 
 and that peculiar military tact 
 for which he was so much re- 
 nowned, extended his line from 
 the Ohio as far as it would 
 stretch across to the Kanawha 
 bank, for the purpose of out-
 
 32 
 
 flanking the opposing- forces. 
 But, in the execution of this ma- 
 noeuvre, he was completely 
 foiled by the superior address 
 and boldness of the whites who, 
 animated with revenge for the 
 loss of their leader and a con- 
 sciousness of their desperate 
 situation, fought with a fury 
 that supplied the inequality of 
 numbers, and set at defiance 
 every stratagem of the savages." 
 "Finding that his method of 
 outflanking would not succeed, 
 the Indian Chief concentrated 
 his forces, and furiously attacked 
 the centre of the Virginia line. 
 The savages, animated by their 
 warlike and noble Chieftan, 
 Cornstalk, forgot the craftiness 
 of their nature, and rushing 
 from their coverts, engaged hand 
 to hand with their stout and 
 hardy adversaries, until the 
 contest resembled more a -cir- 
 cus of gladiators than a field of 
 battle. I became desperate; hide 
 where I would, the muzzle of 
 some rifle was gaping- in mv 
 face, and the wild, distorted 
 countenance of a savage, render- 
 he more frig-htful by paint, was 
 trushing- towards me with uplift- 
 ed tomahawk One fellow in 
 particular, seemed to mark me 
 as his victim; I levelled my rifle 
 at him as he came yelling and 
 leaping towards me, and fired. 
 The ball missed my aim. He 
 rose upon his toes with exulta- 
 tion, and whirling his tomahawk 
 
 round his head, slung it at me 
 with all his powers. I fell upon 
 my face, and it whizzed harmless 
 over my head and stuck into a 
 sapling. I bounded up and 
 forced it from the tree, but the 
 Indian was on me and rescued 
 the hatchet from my hands. I 
 seized him round the waist, en- 
 closing- both his arms at the 
 same time and tripping up his 
 heels, we rolled together upon 
 the ground. I at last grew 
 furious, gouged him with my 
 thumbs in both eyes, and seizing 
 him with my teeth by the nose, 
 I bit the whole of it from his 
 face; he yelled out with pain and 
 rage, and letting loose the hatch- 
 et to disengage my teeth, I 
 grasped the handle and buried 
 the sharp point into his brains. 
 He gave one convulsive leap 
 which bounced me from his 
 body, and in a moment after ex- 
 pired. I immediately rose, and 
 gaining a secure position behind 
 a tree, remained there till the 
 close of the fight, and made a 
 thousand resolutions, if I sur- 
 vived this engagement, never to 
 be caught in such a scrape again. 
 I kept my word; for, I have never 
 since encountered the savages, 
 and if Heaven forgives me, I 
 never will. There is no fun in 
 it." 
 
 "But, to return to the history 
 of this ever memorable battle. 
 There was a peninsula extend- 
 ing from a high range of hills,
 
 33 
 
 running parallel with the Ohio 
 river, which jutted close to the 
 Kanawha bank, about a half a 
 mile from its mouth. Knowing 
 the importance of securing- the 
 narrow pass which ran between 
 its base and the river, the Indian 
 Chief despatched a picked body 
 of his troops to take possession 
 of it. They entered the dry bed 
 of a small creek which skirted 
 the foot of the hills, and pursued 
 their route unnoticed till they 
 were about to enter the import- 
 ant pass, when a shower of rifle 
 bullets pierced their body and 
 swept down the foremost i*anks. 
 A chosen band of rangers at the 
 same moment made their appear- 
 ance, with whom General Lewis 
 in anticipation had guarded the 
 pass. A yell of surprise and 
 rage burst from the savage line, 
 and they seconded their return- 
 ing fire by an unanimous and 
 desperate charge with the hunt- 
 ing-knife. The contest now as- 
 sumed all the wild and terrific 
 cast which a personal struggle, 
 conducted with the deadly feel- 
 ings of hate and revenge then 
 existing between the whites and 
 Indians, could inspire. The air 
 was filled with the screams of 
 the savages and the deep impre- 
 cations of the riflemen; every 
 blow brought death, and the 
 ground was soon heaped with 
 the corpses of the combatants. 
 But the disappointed efforts of 
 savage desperation were inef- 
 
 fectual against the unbroken 
 and impenetrable column which 
 was maintained by the whites; 
 and the Indians were driven, 
 with the loss of half their force, 
 back upon the main body. Here, 
 the fight still raged in the ex- 
 tremity of opposition, every inch 
 of ground was contested, from 
 behind every bush and decayed, 
 log the murderous flash arose, 
 and the continued roar of a 
 thousand rifles vibrated through 
 the forest/' 
 
 "The savage Chieftian discover- 
 ed that the chances against him 
 were desperate, yet, by his own 
 personal example of courage and 
 address, was the fight long- sus- 
 tained, even after his line had 
 been driven, step by step, from 
 their original position. His voice 
 could at intervals be heard, ris- 
 ing above the din of the fight like 
 the shrill blast of a bugle; at one 
 moment, bis dusky form and 
 glittering ornaments could be 
 seen flitting through the trees 
 upon the Ohio bank, and his war- 
 cry in the next would fill the 
 echoes of the hill at the farthest 
 extremity of the line. A cheer- 
 ing ejaculation of triumph would 
 one moment escape him, as an 
 advantage was gained by the de- 
 voted gallantry of some Shawnee 
 warrior; an imprecation upon 
 some skulking Mingoe, in a 
 short time afterwards, would be 
 recognized in his voice. "Charge 
 high and aim low" was his com-
 
 mand incessantly throughout the 
 day; and, it is one of the circum- 
 stances remarked of that fatal 
 fight, that most of the bullet- 
 wounds received by the whites 
 proved mortal; but few of the 
 wounded ever recovered. Yet, 
 all the efforts of the old warrior 
 were vain; defeated and discour- 
 aged, the savage army almost 
 abandoned the fight in the latter 
 part of the day, and it was re- 
 duced to a mere straggling fire 
 between individuals of the con- 
 tending parties." 
 
 "Night closed upon the scene, 
 yet the ground was still occupied 
 by the two armies. Although 
 victorious, the Virginians could 
 neither press their advantage 
 nor retire to rest. An ambus- 
 cade or a night attack was ex- 
 pected from the savages, and 
 their behaviour warranted the 
 latter supposition. For, behind 
 a long line of watch-fires, they 
 could be discovered as if cau- 
 tiously examining the points 
 most open to attack. The wild 
 scream of a savage warrior, ap- 
 parently advancing to the fight, 
 would at intervals break upon 
 the death like stillness of the 
 night, and cause my heart to 
 leap almost out of my mouth. I 
 confidently calculated that every 
 moment was the time for their 
 attack, and fancied divers times 
 could hear them stealing through 
 the bushes upon us. The gleams 
 of the morning sun, however, at 
 
 length illumined the scene, but 
 not a vestige of the Indian army 
 remained; the living and the dead 
 had alike disappeared, and it 
 was not until then, it was ascer- 
 tained or even suspected, that 
 the savages had secure them- 
 selves from interruption, under 
 pretense of a night attack, had 
 thrown their dead, with weights 
 attached to them, in the river, 
 and retreated across it under 
 cover of darkness." 
 
 Of the men who participated 
 in the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 we regret that no complete ros 
 ter has been preserved. How- 
 ever, the men who were in that 
 army were friends and neigh- 
 bors, and many of them related 
 by ties of blood and marriage, so 
 that a review of a few of them 
 will indicate (he character of the 
 men composing the army. 
 
 It will be seen by a review of 
 the history of the colonies that 
 prior to the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, not only the Colonists 
 but England knew, as did Pat- 
 rick Henry when he made his 
 famous speech that "The War 
 was inevitable." The British 
 Government seeing the fomenta- 
 tion in the colonies had made re- 
 peated concessions; willing to re- 
 linquish, if necessary, all but the 
 principle of the Right of England 
 to levy taxes upon the Colonists 
 without giving them representa- 
 tion in the British Government. 
 The Colonists were astir with
 
 35 
 
 intense excitement. The tea had 
 been thrown over board in Bos- 
 ton Harbor and the Port had been 
 closed by a bill passed by Parli- 
 mentin March of thatyear. Meet- 
 ings had been and were being held 
 protesting- against Royal oppres- 
 sion. That powerful engine of 
 resistance, Committees of Corre- 
 spondence had been formulating 
 their ideas of resistance and the 
 Virginia Assembly convened at 
 Williamsburg in May, had pass- 
 ed an independant resolution set- 
 ting forth that June 1st, 1774, 
 should upon the making effective 
 of the Port Bill be made "a day 
 of fasting and prayer to implore 
 the divine interposition for avert- 
 ing the heavy calamity, which 
 threatens the civil right of 
 America;" whereupon, the Earl 
 of Dtmmore, then Governor of 
 Virginia, at once dissolved the 
 Assembly. The Continental Con- 
 gress had already convened and 
 its every breath was ladened 
 with resistance of British op- 
 pression. 
 
 Is it to be wondered at and 
 is it- not the most natural 
 thing in the world, that Dun- 
 more would try to devise ways 
 and means to prevent Virginia 
 from participating in the federa- 
 tion of the Colonies; and what 
 more powerful instrument could 
 he" have set in motion to distract 
 their attention from the clouds 
 gathering in the East, than by 
 setting in motion a band of howl- 
 
 ing Indians on the frontier, 
 making it an absolute necessity 
 that Virginia protect her homes, 
 her women and children and her 
 property rights, and this danger 
 so eminent, could not be delayed. 
 So calling together the flower of 
 the Colonial Army of Virginia, 
 which he promised should be 
 united and together encounter 
 the Indians in their homes, he 
 should cause one branch to alone 
 be attacked, hoping they would 
 thus be destroyed and if only 
 temporarially defeated, they 
 would be so busy protecting the 
 frontier and their homes they 
 would have no time to go into 
 the Colonial Army, confederated 
 as they would be to resist tne Brit- 
 ish Army, already many of whom 
 were camping upon the plains of 
 Boston. But to the surprise of 
 Dunmore the Division of Lewis' 
 Army was victorious and the tide 
 of American interests was 
 changed. 
 
 Without the Army of Lewis, 
 which was the great mil- 
 itary training school of the Colo- 
 ny, many of whom went on into 
 the Revolution and became many 
 of them, officers of high rank, it 
 would have been impossible for 
 Virginia to have raised her quoto 
 of men and officers to have partici- 
 pated in that struggle for liber- 
 ty; and without Virginia the 
 Colonists would have thought it 
 impossible, as it would have been, 
 to have undertaken that strug-
 
 36 
 
 gle for independance. Without 
 the entire support that Vir- 
 ginia gave George Rodgers Clark 
 who was in the Dunmore divis- 
 ion, but who later conquered the 
 North WestTerritory, weakening 
 the otherwise impregnable back- 
 ground that constantly threaten- 
 ed the frontier and in whose 
 territory did not close the strug- 
 gle for American Independance 
 until Waynes treaty twenty 
 years later. 
 
 We think the opinions of the 
 early writers of history we have 
 quoted, the natural circum- 
 stances surrounding Dunmore 
 at and previous to the Battle, 
 makes it plain that although the 
 battle was between the Colonists 
 and Indians it is beyond doubt 
 the first Battle of the Revolution, 
 and the Goverment of the United 
 States, while it has been tardy, 
 is fully justified in making the 
 declaration that the $10.000 ap- 
 propriated for the erection of a 
 monument is 
 
 "An act to aid in the erection 
 of a memorial structure at Point 
 Pleasant, West Virginia, to com- 
 memorate the Battle of the Revo- 
 lution, fought at that point be- 
 tween the Colonial troops and 
 Indians, October 10th, seventeen 
 hundred and seventy four." 
 
 While a shaft 82 feet high will 
 stand as a sentinel upon the site 
 where the dead were buried, form 
 whence the battle was directed 
 and subsequently the fort, built, 
 
 it is a pigmy as compared with 
 the fact that at last, after a lapse 
 of One Hundred and thirty-four 
 years, the Congress]of the United 
 States has officially called it as it 
 is a battle of the Revolution, and 
 if a battle of the Revolution it 
 must of necessity be the first, as 
 the hallowed Lexington was not 
 fought, until April 19th, 1775, 
 while that of Point Pleasant, was 
 fought October 10th, 1774. 
 
 The battle in its acquisition 
 of territory ceded by the Indians 
 and previously ceded by France 
 to Virginia but literally in con- 
 trol of the Indians until this 
 time, this followed by the ceding 
 of all the vast territory of the 
 Great North West by Virginia 
 to the infant republic at the close 
 of the Revolution with the cessa- 
 tion of Indian hostilities fol- 
 lowing the battle, permitting the 
 the Colonists to turn their atten- 
 tion to the expulsion of the Eng-- 
 lish army and the overthrow of 
 the British yoke, the moral ef- 
 fect that it had on Virginia, and 
 and thus on the Colonies, made 
 it the farthest reaching in its ef- 
 fect an battle ever fought 
 on the American Continent. 
 
 The name of every man who 
 participated in that struggle 
 whether he protected the fron- 
 tier nearer home while the band 
 of stalwarts went forth to con- 
 quer the Indians and make se- 
 cure the wilderness, the men of 
 Wm. Christian's Regiment who
 
 37 
 
 rendered such valliant service, 
 comingas they did whenthebattle 
 was over, the army exhausted 
 wounded and bleeding and in 
 time to gather up and bury the 
 slain, should all be honored and 
 preserved. Christain's men were 
 only delayed by their effort to 
 bring in supplies to the Army of 
 54000 pounds of flour on 400 pack 
 horses but 108 additional head of 
 cattle. They expected to join 
 
 Lewis Army and together march 
 on to encounter the Indians 
 upon the Pickaway Planes; 
 so that as a part of the Army 
 they are entitled to be enrolled 
 with the heroes of that battle, 
 which will be followed by the 
 roster so far as the writer has 
 been able to glean from all avail- 
 able sources, after many years 
 of careful research.
 
 GENERAL ANDREW LEWI8
 
 Biographical 
 
 General Andrew Lewis 
 
 Gen. Andrew Lewis, the hero 
 of the Battle was not only a gen- 
 tleman of education and refine- 
 ment, but was a past master in 
 the art of military tactics, Leav- 
 ing entered upon his career in 
 1742 as Captain of Malitia and 
 ten years later as head of Mali- 
 tia of bis county. He was with 
 Washington at Great Meadows 
 and Fort Necessity in 1754, 
 when he was twice wounded. 
 In 1755, he was detailed to build 
 forts hence was not present at 
 Braddock's disaster. In 1756, 
 he led the Big Sandy expedition 
 against the Shawnees. In 1758, 
 when, with Washington and Gen. 
 Forbes, at Fort DuQuesne, he 
 was wounded. 
 
 He surrendered to a French 
 officer, was imprisoned at Mon- 
 treal, was exchanged and saw 
 active service. In 1762 at his 
 request his company was dis- 
 
 banded. In 1763 be was ap- 
 pointed to Lieut, for Augusta 
 Co. 
 
 We next find him a member of 
 the Virginia House of Burgesses 
 and a member of a committee to 
 negotiate treaties. It was while 
 thus engaged at the treaty of 
 Fort Stanwix that the Governor 
 of New York said of him, "He 
 looks like a genius of the forest, 
 and, the very ground seems to 
 tremble under him as he walks 
 along." It is from Col. Stewart, 
 his biographer, we learn that 
 "He was upwards of six feet 
 high, of uncommon strength nnd 
 agility, and his form of the most 
 exact symmetry He had a 
 stern countenance 'and was of a 
 reserved and distant deportment, 
 which rendered his presence 
 more awful than engaging." 
 While Mr. Alexander Reed, of 
 Rockbridge County, Virginia, 
 who was with him at Point
 
 40 
 
 Pleasant, describes him thus; 
 ''He was a man of reserved man- 
 ners, and great dignity of char- 
 acter somewhat of the order of 
 General Washington." General 
 Washington held him in such es- 
 teem that ne recommended that 
 he be made commander-in-chief 
 of the Continental army. 
 
 The Battle of Point Pleasant 
 was not only the pivotal point in 
 the life of the nation, but in the 
 life of General Lewis as well. 
 Heretofore he had fought as a 
 British subject. In defying the 
 orders of Lord Dunmore, the 
 Tory Governor, he was not only 
 among the first to defy Briton, 
 but the first to take up arms in 
 defiance of British authority and 
 from this time on we find him 
 enlisted in the cause of the col- 
 onists as against the English 
 Crown. It seems the irony of 
 fate that he should not have 
 lived to witness the surrender at 
 Yorktown. While enroute home 
 he died of a fever at the home of 
 bis friend, Col. Buford, and was 
 taken to his own estate "Rich- 
 field" where his remains were 
 interred Sept. 20, 1731, near the 
 town of Salem, where they re- 
 posed for many years in an un- 
 marked and neglected grave. 
 A few years ago, the Ladies of 
 the Margaret Lynn Lewis Chap- 
 ter, Daughters of the American 
 Revolution, of Roanoke, Virginia, 
 had his remains (which were 
 found well preserved) removed 
 
 to the East Hill Salem Cemetery, 
 where, in 1902, they erected a 
 stately shaft to his memory. 
 One of the six figures of Roger's 
 equestrian statute at Richmond, 
 commemorating famous Virgin- 
 ians, is that of General Andrew 
 Lewis, but the greatest of his 
 monuments is builded in the 
 hearts of a grateful American 
 Republic. 
 
 Beside his brother Col. Charles 
 Lewis, and John, son of his 
 brother William, Andrew had 
 three sons in the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant. What greater love 
 can a man have for his country 
 than, like Jacob of old, to lay his 
 sons as a sacrifice on his coun- 
 try's altar? 
 
 Col. Charles Lewis 
 
 While Andrew Lewis is known 
 as the "Hero of the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant," his brother, 
 Col. Charles Lewis, a brave sol- 
 dier, too, was called "The idol 
 of the army." While Andrew 
 had devoted his life to the cause 
 of his adopted country, he hav- 
 ing been born in Ireland where 
 his parents were then residing, 
 it was reserved for Col. Charles 
 to embody the completeness of 
 American association, he having 
 been born in America, being 
 the youngest child of John Lewis 
 and Margaret Lynn Lewis. 
 Thus he had the distinction not 
 only of dying on American soil, 
 but als o of having been born 
 there; in 1733, in the county of
 
 41 
 
 Augusta, State of Virginia, and 
 was thus all his life known of 
 Virginia, loved of Virginia and 
 he sacrificed his life, satisfied 
 that he had given to Virginia 
 her lull measure of devotion. 
 He was mortally wounded while 
 leading a division of the army at 
 the outset of the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant and later was led to his 
 tent where in a few hours he ex-* 
 pired. Col. Andrew Lewis, his 
 nephew who was engaged in the 
 battle, says "He received his 
 wound early in the action but 
 did not let it be known until he* 
 had gotten the line of battle ex- 
 tended from the Ohio to Crooked 
 Creek, after which he asked 
 Captain Murray, his brother in 
 law, to let him lean on his shoul- 
 der and walk with him to his 
 tent, where he expired about 12 
 o'clock." Captain A r buckle 
 states that he received a wound 
 which in a few hours caused his 
 death. Roosevelt's winning of 
 the West says "The attack fell 
 first and with especial fury, on 
 the division of Charles Lewis 
 who himself was mortally wound- 
 ed at the very outset, be had not 
 taken a tree (the frontier expres- 
 sion for covering oneself behind 
 a tree trunk) but was in an open 
 piece of ground, cheering on his 
 men when he was shot. He 
 stayed with them until the line 
 was formed, and then walked 
 back to camp unassisted, giving 
 his gun to a man who was near 
 
 him ' Howe says of him. 
 "Charles Lewis was esteemed 
 the most skillful ot all the lead- 
 ers of the border warfare and 
 was as much beloved for his 
 noble and amiable qualities as he 
 was admired for his military 
 talents." On page 182 of 
 Howe's Virginia Its History & 
 Antiquities, we find a sketch 
 from his life; 
 
 "Charles Lewis, the youngest 
 son of John, is said never to have 
 spent one month at a time out of 
 active and arduous service. 
 Charles was the hero of many 
 a gallant exploit, which is 
 still trea'sured in the memories 
 of the descendants of the bor- 
 der riflemen, and there are few 
 families among the Alleghanies 
 where the name and deeds of 
 Charles Lewis are not familiar 
 as household words. On one oc- 
 casion, Charles was captured by 
 the Indians while on a hunting 
 excursion, and after having trav- 
 eled some two hundred miles, 
 barefoot, his arms pinioned be- 
 hind him, goaded on by the 
 knives of his remorseless cap- 
 tors, he effected his escape. 
 While traveling along the bank 
 of a precipice some twenty feet 
 in height, he suddenly, by a 
 strong muscular exertion, burst 
 the cords which bound him, and 
 plunged down the steep into the 
 bed of a mountain torrent. His 
 persecutors hesitated not to fol- 
 low. In a race of several him-
 
 42 
 
 dred yards, Lewis had gained 
 some few yards upon his pur- 
 suers, when, upon leaping a 
 prostrate tree which lay across 
 his course, his strength sudden- 
 ly failed, and he fell prostrate 
 among- the weeds which had 
 grown up in great luxuriance 
 around the body of the tree, 
 Three of the Indians sprang 
 over the tree within a few feet 
 of where their prey lay conceal- 
 cealed; but with a feeling of the 
 most devout thankfulness to a 
 kind and superintending Provi- 
 dence, he saw them one by one* 
 disappear in the dark recesses 
 of the forest. He now bethought 
 himself of rising from his un- 
 easy bed, when lo a new enemy 
 appeared, in the shape of an 
 enormous rattlesnake, who had 
 thrown himself into the deadly 
 coil so near bis face tnat his 
 fangs were within a few inches 
 of his nose; and his enormous 
 rattle, as it waved to and fro, 
 once rested upon his ear. A 
 single contraction of the e>elid 
 a convulsive shudder the relax- 
 ation of a single muscle, and the 
 deadly beast would have sprung 
 upon him. In this situation he 
 lay for several minutes, when 
 the reptile, probably supposing 
 him to be dead, crawled over his 
 body and moved slowly away. 
 "I had eaten nothing,' said 
 Lewis to his companions, after 
 his return, "for many days; I had 
 no fire-arms, and I ran the risk 
 
 of dying with hunger, ere I 
 could reach the settlement; but 
 rather would I have died, than 
 made a meal of the generous 
 beast'." 
 
 Kercheval's History of the 
 Valley, describes the attire cf 
 Col. Charles Lewis on that day, 
 at page 114, as follows: " ol 
 Chas. Lewis, who had arrayed 
 himself in a gorgeous scarlet 
 waistcoat, against the advice of 
 his friends, thus rendering him- 
 self a conspicuous mark for the 
 Indians, was mortally wounded 
 early in action; yet was able to 
 walk back after receiving the 
 wound, into his own tent, where 
 he expired. He was met on his 
 way by the commander-in-chief, 
 his brother, Col. Andrew Lewis, 
 who remarked to him," I expect- 
 ed something fatal would befall 
 you," to which the wounded 
 officer calmly replied, "It is the 
 fate of war." The same author 
 says at page 115, "Col. Lewis, a 
 distinguished and meritorious 
 officer, was moi tally wounded 
 by the fi:st fire of the Indians, 
 but walked into the camp and 
 expired in his own tent." 
 
 Peyton's History of Augusta 
 County says "He abandoned 
 himself too much to his passion 
 for glory and forgot the wide 
 difference between an officer and 
 a private, fie was not inferior 
 to his brother, the General, in 
 courage, intrepidity and military 
 genius; he surpassed him in
 
 43 
 
 some respects, he knew how to 
 oblige with a better grace, how 
 to win the hearts of those about 
 him, with a more engaging- be- 
 havior. He consequently ac- 
 quired the esteem and affection 
 of his men, in a most remarka- 
 ble manner. To perpetuate the 
 memory of his public and private 
 virtues, his eminent services in 
 the field and his heroic fate, the 
 General Assembly of Virginia, 
 in 1816, named Lewis County in 
 bis honor." 
 
 Col. Charles ! ewi's 
 
 By his kinsmen be was consid- 
 ered the "flower of the flock." 
 Like his brother, he was a man 
 of splendid physique and without 
 disparaging his kindred, he was 
 best loved because of his high 
 degree of morality, spotless in- 
 tegrity and acknowledged brave- 
 ry. His long and active military 
 career had made him a hero in 
 the eyes of bis comrades from 
 the Braddock campaign to the 
 hour of his death, and while had 
 he lived, he doubtless would have 
 added new lustre to his name in 
 the continued struggle of the 
 Revolution; after all, he had but 
 one life to offer up to his country 
 and at this crucial moment no 
 doubt it was needed most. His 
 conduct inspired the army. 
 The sacrifice of bis life armed 
 anew his companies and stimu- 
 lated them to greater feats of 
 daring. Thwaite's Dunmnre 
 War sa^s "Charles Lewis was 
 
 popular and beloved by all the 
 western army. His loss was 
 a general affliction." Dr. Bale's 
 "Trans-Allegheny says: "Col- 
 onel Charles Lewis was said to 
 be the idol of the army. He had 
 a large, active and honorable 
 military experience from Brad- 
 dock's War down to death. And 
 it is believed that he would have 
 achieved greater honors and dis- 
 tinction in the Revolutionary 
 struggle, if his life had been 
 spared, but his brilliant career 
 was ended in glory on this field." 
 
 The charge he made at Point 
 Pleasant was in the face of a 
 fearless band of adversaries. 
 When Gen. Andrew Lewis select- 
 ed his brother to take command 
 of the left wing of the army in 
 the first attempt to repulse Corn- 
 stalk and his fearful braves, he 
 selected his brother to bear that 
 peril, not that he loved him less, 
 but that he knew the army need- 
 ed his courageous example. Col. 
 William Preston, in writing of 
 bis death to Patrick Henry, 
 said: "Poor Charles Lewis was 
 shot in clear ground, encourag- 
 ing his men to advance. If the 
 loss of a good man, a sincere 
 friend, a brave officer deserves a 
 tear he certainly is entitled to it." 
 
 At the close of the conflict, his 
 mortal remains were laid to rest 
 upon the reservation of forty 
 feet square upon the present 
 sight of Tu Endie Wei Park, 
 where the Kanawha and Ohio
 
 44 
 
 meet. Here, be is buried beside 
 the other dead of that battle. 
 No stone as yet has ever mark- 
 ed his resting place, save the four 
 granite corner stones erected in 
 1005 by the Col. Charles Lewis 
 Chapter Daughters of the Aineri 
 can Revolution at Point Pleasant. 
 While no monument has as yet 
 been reared to mark the last rest- 
 ing place of this great man, a 
 tribute due him from his own 
 loved ones, as well as from a 
 grateful nation; it is equally a 
 matter of congratulation that 
 though tardy the goverment has 
 donated a small amount 10.000 
 which with the $6.000 in the 
 bands of the State Commission 
 has been pledged in the contract 
 let for a monument. But greater 
 than this monument is the recog- 
 nition of the Goverment of the 
 status of the battle as regards 
 the Revolution, standing, as it 
 does, on the heels of Indian 
 depredations on the western 
 frontier and on the threshold of 
 the American Revolution for Am- 
 erican Independence. This hon- 
 or so longdelayed, will at last have 
 written this page of American 
 history correctly when a stately 
 monument shall bear the inscrip- 
 tion: 
 
 Battle of Point Pleasant 
 
 October 10, 1774. 
 
 First Battle of the American 
 
 Revolution. 
 
 Col. John Field 
 
 Col. John Field born in Cul- 
 
 pepper County in 1720 of good 
 family is buried beside Col. 
 Charles Lewis, his friend and 
 comrade. He received his fatal 
 wound at the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, while bravely checking 
 the Indians. He rallied his 
 troops who had begun to waver, 
 and, for a time, seemed likely to 
 be repulsed. Col. Field had 
 been with Braddock and had 
 seen frontier service from that 
 date, both as a militia officer and 
 as a surve3*or. In 1765 he served 
 in the Virginia Legislature, in 
 1766 he was made Colonel of 
 Malitia. His troops at Point 
 Pleasant were a volunteer compa- 
 ny, raised by him in his own 
 county which he united with that 
 of Gen. Lewi. 
 
 Col. William Flemming 
 
 Col. William Flemming was 
 renewed not only as a military 
 genius, but as a learned physi- 
 cian and gentleman of culture. 
 While twice severely wounded at 
 the Battle of Point Pleasant, he 
 recovered and was subsequently 
 acting Governor of the State of 
 Virginia. He was a Scotchman 
 of proud lineage. Born Feb. 18, 
 1729. Prior to Dunmores war 
 he was Lieut, under Gen. Forbes 
 in 1760-61. In 1762 he wasCapt. 
 under Col. Adam Stephens at 
 Vaux's and Stonakers forts. In 
 1763 he married Anne Christian. 
 His home was at "Belmont" in 
 Montgomery Co. The wounds 
 he received at Point Pleasant
 
 45 
 
 disabled him for active perticipa- 
 tion at the war of the Revolution, 
 but be was County Lieutenant, 
 in further defense, in his country 
 against Indians and State Sen- 
 ator 1780-81, acting Governor dur- 
 ing the Cornwallis invasion 1781 
 Twice commissioner to settle 
 local battles with Kentucky; 
 member Virginia convention rat- 
 ifying the constitution of 1788. 
 He was benevolent and beloved 
 and as a physician and surgeon 
 his ministration to humanity was 
 most extensive. His death Aug. 
 24th, 1795 was the result of 
 wounds received at the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant. 
 
 Capt. Evan Shelby 
 
 Capt. Shelby, who with his 
 two sons, was in the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant, was a ranking 
 officer after the death of Colonels 
 Lewis and Field and the wound- 
 ing of Fleming, until the arrival 
 of Colonel Christian's regiment. 
 It was Evan Shelby who, with 
 his and the companies of Math- 
 ews and Stewart in the ruse, ex- 
 ecuted the flank movement up 
 Crooked Creek, thatled Cornstalk 
 to believe that Lewis had been re- 
 enforced, possibly by Dunmore 
 who had played him false and 
 thus decided the fortunes of the 
 day. Captain Shelby became 
 Colonel Shelby of the Revolution, 
 whose distinguished career ia 
 followed in the history of Ken- 
 tucky and Tennessee. 
 
 He was born in Wales in 1720, 
 
 He early emigrated to Maryland. 
 He commanded a company under 
 Forbes in 1758. In 1771 he set- 
 tled on the Holston. In 1776 he 
 was with Christian in the Cher- 
 okee expedition. In 1779 he led 
 a successful expedition upon the 
 Chickamauga towns, having been 
 appointed by Virginia a general 
 of Malitia. He continued in the 
 service throughout the Revolu- 
 tion engaged principally upon the 
 sea board. He rose to the rank 
 of Colonel and before the close of 
 the war to that of General. He 
 died at King's Mountain, Dec., 
 4th, 1794. 
 
 ' Isaac Shelby 
 
 Isaac Shelby who served as a 
 Lieutenant under his father 
 Capt. Evan Shelby at the battle 
 of Point Pleasant, was born at 
 North Mountain, Md., Dec., llth, 
 1750, where his grand-father set- 
 tled upon his arrival from Wales. 
 He had removed with his father 
 to the present site of Bristol, 
 Tenn., prior to the Dunmore 
 War and was engaged in feeding 
 and herding cattle. He served 
 throughout the Revolutiou dis- 
 tinguishing himself at Camden, 
 King's Mountain and Long 
 Island Flats. Governor Patrick 
 Henry promoted him to a Cap- 
 taincy and commissioned him 
 Commissary general of the Vir- 
 ginia forces. When Sevier in 
 1779 projected the expedition 
 that captured the British stores, 
 at Chicamauga, Shelby epuipped 
 and supplied the troops by the
 
 46 
 
 pledge of his individual credit. 
 Governor Tbos. Jefferson com 
 missioned him a Major of Vir- 
 ginia, but a survey proved him 
 Jo be a resident of North Caroli- 
 na, when he was appointed a 
 Colonel by Gov. Caswell. He 
 distinguished himself at Thick- 
 etty Fork, Cedar Springs and 
 Musgraves Mills. Retreating 
 across the Alleghenies after the 
 disasterous defeat at Camden, 
 he with John Sevier planned the 
 remarkable campaign which re- 
 sulted in the battle of King's 
 Mountain, the high water mark 
 of the Revolution that turned the 
 'tide in favor of the patriot army. 
 He did valliant service at the 
 battle of the Cowpens as well as 
 at Charleston. He was largely 
 unstrumental in preserving Ken- 
 tucky to the Colonists as against 
 an alliance with Spain. He was 
 six times chosen a Presidential 
 elector for Kentucky. ID 1812 
 he became the first Governor of 
 Kentucky, which he accepted 
 with great reluctance and accept- 
 ed only that he might again aid 
 his country as against Great 
 Britain. He organized 4000 vol- 
 unteers and at the age of 63 
 years led them in person to the 
 re-enforcement of Gen'l Wm. 
 Henry Harrison enabling him to 
 profit by the victory of Perry at 
 Lake Erie. Congress voted him 
 a gold Medal, and the Kentucky 
 Legislature a vote of thanks. 
 In 1783 he married Miss Susan- 
 
 nah, daughter of Captain Na- 
 thanial Hart. He established 
 himself on the first settlement 
 and pre-emption granted in Ken- 
 tucky which he made his home, 
 residing thereon 43 years. He 
 died July 18th, 1826, aged 76 
 years. He was a strict Presby- 
 terian. 
 
 John Jones. 
 
 John Jones was born in Cul- 
 pepper County, Virginia, in 1755, 
 and enlisted in the army of 
 Andrew Lewis and was in the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant, follow 
 ing which, upon his return to 
 Culpepper} he enlisted in the 
 patriot army and served 
 throughout the Revolution. In 
 1792. he obtained patents for 
 land for 359 acres on the 
 Kanawha River and that same 
 year for 400 acres more. In 1797 
 he obtained patents for 400 acres 
 in Teays Valley and land on 
 Paint Creek, besides making 
 purchases from the state. He 
 owned from Paint Creek to the 
 Narrows on Kanawha, including 
 the present sites of Pratt and 
 Dego. In the Clifton Cemetery 
 above Paint Creek, his remains 
 were interred, a slab bearing in- 
 scription, 
 
 "In Memory of John Jones who 
 departed This life January 7, 
 
 1838, Aged 83 Years." 
 John Jones married Frances 
 Morris, a sister of Win. and 
 Leonard Morris. He was hos- 
 pitable and a good citizen. The
 
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 Baptist Church founded at Kel- 
 ley's Creek in 1796 was largely 
 due to his interest and generosi- 
 ty. 
 
 His will, recorded March, 
 1838, mentions his wife, Frances, 
 and children, Gabriel, who re- 
 turned to Culpepper County, Va.; 
 William; Nancy who married 
 -- Huddleston; Thomas; 
 Levi; and Frances, who married 
 Sbelton and were the progeni- 
 tors of the prominent Nicholas 
 County, W. Va., family of that 
 name. 
 
 John Draper. 
 
 Lieut. John Draper, of the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant, was 
 born in 1730, and was one of the 
 pioneer settlers of Drapers 
 Meadows, where, in 1755, occur- 
 red that dreadful massacre, in 
 which his wife and sister were 
 captured by the Indians. In 1765, 
 he removed to Drapers Valley 
 on the line between Pulaski and 
 Wythe Counties, Va. He was 
 commissioned a Lieutenant in 
 one of the Fincastle Companies 
 in 1774. He died in 1828 at the 
 age of nearly ninety-four years. 
 
 Prominent members of the 
 family are still resident of Dra- 
 pers Valley. In 1886, John S. 
 Draper, a great grandson of 
 Lieut. John Draper, was the 
 owner of the beautiful estate. 
 John Draper was twice married; 
 
 his first wife was Bettie . 
 
 After her return from captivity, 
 she bore four sons and three 
 
 daughters, she died in 1774. 
 aged 42 years, and in 1776, he 
 married Mrs. Jane Crockett, 
 who bore him two daughters, 
 Alice and Rhoda. By the hrst 
 marriage, the sons were George, 
 James, John and Silas. The 
 names of the other two daugh- 
 ters are to us unknown. 
 
 Benjamir Logan. 
 
 Benjamin Logan, born in 
 Augusta County, Va., 1743, was, 
 in 1764, a sergeant in Boquets's 
 Army. In 1771, he moved to the 
 Holston Valley. He was a 
 Lieutenant in the Point Pleasant 
 Campaign. In 1775, he moved to 
 Kentucky and built Logan's 
 Station or fort which was besieg- 
 ed by Indians. Logan went to 
 Holston settlement for ammuni- 
 tion, returning on foot in ten 
 days. In 1779, he was second in 
 command of the Bowman expedi- 
 tion. He was a noted Indian 
 fighter and allied himself with 
 Kentucky, as against the 
 Spaniards at New Orleans. He 
 removed to Shelby County, Ken- 
 tucky, where he died in 1802. 
 William Campbell. 
 
 William Campbell was born in 
 Augusta County, Virginia, in 
 1745, died at Rocky Mills, Han 
 over Co., Va., August 22, 1781. 
 In 1767 he moved to the Holston 
 Valley. In 1774 he was appoint- 
 ed Captain of militia and was in 
 Col. Christian's regiment at 
 Point Pleasant. In September, 
 1775, he commanded a company
 
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 at Williamsburg, in Patrick 
 Henry's regiment and under 
 General Lewis assisted in dis- 
 lodging 1 Governor Dunmore from 
 Gwynn's Island in July, 1776. 
 In 1777 he was made Lieutenant 
 of Militia in the new county of 
 Washington. In 1779, he aided 
 in driving the Tories from the 
 Holston Valley. In 1780. he was 
 promoted to a colonelcy of the re- 
 giment and chosen to represent 
 his county in the legislature. 
 At King's Mountain he distin- 
 guished himself and was com- 
 mended by Washington, Gates 
 and Greene. He was with Gen. 
 Greene at Guilford Court House 
 in March', 1781. He was made 
 a Brigadier General of Militia 
 and served under Lafayette in 
 the Battle of Jamestown, soon 
 after which he died. Lafayttee 
 said of him "His services at 
 King's Mountain and Guilford 
 would do his memory everlasting 
 honor and ensure him a high 
 rank among the defenders of 
 liberty in the American Cause", 
 while Jefferson declared "Gen. 
 Campbell's friends might quietly 
 rest their heads on the pillow of 
 his renown." His wife was a 
 sister of Patrick Henry. 
 
 Arthur Campbell. 
 
 Arthur Campbell, a cousin of 
 Gen. Wm. Campbell, was born 
 in Augusta County, Va., in 1743. 
 At fifteen he was captured by 
 the Indians and carried to Lake 
 Erie. Escaping, he was employ- 
 
 ed as a guide, receiving therefor 
 one thousand acres of land which 
 he located near the present site 
 of Louisville, Ky. In 1772, he 
 was a Justice of Fincastle County, 
 Va., and later a Major of Militia. 
 After the Battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant, 1775, he represented his 
 county in the Virginia Assem- 
 bly. In 1776, he was chosen 
 County Lieutenant for Washing- 
 ton County, which office he held 
 for thirty years. He joined 
 Sevier in the movement to estab- 
 lish the state of Franklin for 
 which Patrick Henry removed 
 him from office and the legisla- 
 ture re-instated him In his 
 latter life he joined bis sons at 
 Middlesburg, Ky., where he 
 died in 1811. 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 Captain John Campbell, a 
 younger brother of Arthur, a 
 lieutenant at Point Pleasant, 
 was a captain at the Battle of 
 Long Island Flats (1776) and 
 served as County Clerk of Wash- 
 ington County from 1779 to 1815. 
 
 Joseph Mayse. 
 
 Joseph Mayse, who partici 
 pated in the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, was from Bath County, 
 Virginia. In April, 1840, he 
 died, being in his 89th year. He 
 had served as a magistrate in his 
 district for nearly fifty years. 
 He was a man of such remarka- 
 ble memory he was considered 
 an "official record." He was 
 twice high sheriff of Bath Coun-
 
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 ty. His health was always per- 
 fect and he boasted he had never 
 taken a dose of medicine. 
 
 Gen. Andrew Moore. 
 
 Andrew Moore, a lawyer by 
 profession, was born in Connis- 
 cello, Augusta, now Rockbridge, 
 County, Va. In 1774, he was 
 admitted to the Bar. In October 
 of that year he was with Andrew 
 Lewis's Army at Point Pleasant. 
 In 1776, as a Lieutenant in the 
 patriot army, he participated at 
 Saratoga, where he was promoted 
 to a captaincy and served there- 
 after three years. The Virginia 
 Legislature made him brigadier 
 general of militia and in 1808 
 major general. 
 
 Gen. Moore had the distinction 
 of being the only man west of 
 the Blue Ridge, prior to the civil 
 war, who ever represented Vir- 
 ginia in the Senate of the United 
 States; which was during the ad- 
 ministration of President Jeffer- 
 son. He was a member of the 
 Virginia Assembly from 1781 to 
 1789 and again from 1798 to 1800. 
 In 1788, he was a delegate to the 
 convention which ratified the 
 United States Constitution. He 
 was a member of Congress from 
 Virginia during the entire ad- 
 ministration of President Wash- 
 ington. In 1800, he was elected 
 to the United States Senate, 
 where he served three years. 
 In 1810, President Jefferson ap- 
 pointed him United States Mar- 
 shall for the state of Virginia, 
 
 which office he was filling at the 
 time of his death. His son, 
 Samuel Moore, represented Vir- 
 ginia in the Legislature and in 
 Congress, a member of the 
 Virginia Constitutional Conven- 
 tion 1829. In 1861, Samuel 
 Moore opposed the secession 
 of Virginia, but, going with his 
 state, he served in the Confede 
 rate Army. The family have 
 always been distinguished. 
 
 George NathewS, 
 
 George Mathews was born in 
 Augusta County, Virginia, in 
 1739, and died August 30, 1812. 
 At twenty-two years of age he 
 led a volunteer company against 
 the Indians. He was in com- 
 mand of a company of Augusta 
 troops at Point Pleasant, Oct. 
 10, 1774, and participated with 
 the patriot army throughout the 
 Revolution. He was engaged at 
 Brandywine. At Germantown 
 he received nine bayonet wounds, 
 was captured with his whole reg- 
 iment and confined in a prison 
 ship at New York until Decem- 
 ber, 1781. He then joined Gen. 
 Nathaniel Greene's army in com- 
 mand of the Third Virginia Reg- 
 iment. In 1785, he removed with 
 his family to Georgia and settled 
 in Oglethorpe County. In 1781- 
 1791 he represented Georgia in 
 Congress; was Governor of 
 Georgia, 1793-6. He was briga- 
 dier general of Georgia. In 1811, 
 he was authorized by the Presi- 
 dent of the United States to take
 
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 possession of West Flordia and 
 captured Amelia Island. His 
 son, George, became a Supreme 
 Judge of Louisiana. He admit- 
 ted no superiors but Washington. 
 He was short, stout, erect, fea- 
 tures bluff, hair red, complexion- 
 florid. He died when on a visit 
 to Washington and is buried in 
 St. Paul's churchyard. His 
 four children, were Mrs. 
 Andrew Barrv, of Staunton, Va., 
 Mrs. Gen. Samuel Blackburn, 
 and Mrs. Isaac Telfair, of Staun- 
 ton, and one son, Judge George 
 Mathews, above mentione'd. He 
 was three times married, (1) to 
 Miss Amelia Paul, (2) to Mrs 
 Margaret Reed, of Staunton, and 
 (3) to Mrs. Flowers, of Missis- 
 sippi. He was divorced from 
 his second wife. 
 
 Sampson Mathews* 
 Sampson Mathews, Commis- 
 sary of Col. Charles Lewis's 
 Regiment, was called "Master 
 Drover of the Cattle." In 1756, 
 Deputy Sheriff Sampson 
 Mathews assumed the functions 
 of Chancellor of Augusta County. 
 In 1764, he was appointed a 
 Justice of the Peace for Augusta. 
 In 1776, with Alexander St. 
 Clair, he was appointed by the 
 state of Virginia as trustee "to 
 erect at public expense and su- 
 perintend a manufactory at such 
 place as they may think proper 
 for the manufacture of sail duck,' 
 this preparatory for equipment 
 of a Virginia fleet for Revolution- 
 
 ary service. He became Col. 
 Sampson Mathews of the Revo- 
 lution. In 1781, he commanded 
 the regiment that repelled Ar- 
 nold's invasion of Virginia. He 
 was one of a committee to draft 
 instructions for the members of 
 the Virginia Convention at Rich- 
 mond, Feb. 22, 1775. 
 
 Col. Joseph Crockett. 
 
 Nothing can be truer than that 
 God provides men for the hour. 
 Among the one hundred men 
 who participated in the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant, and went on to 
 become settlers of Kentucky, 
 that state so open to the prey of 
 the Indians that its first three 
 years saw more people slaughter- 
 ed by Indians than that state had 
 white population at the end of 
 that time, had among its other 
 emigrants who were in the Battle 
 of Point Pleasant, Col. Joseph 
 Crockett, for a sketch of whose 
 life we are indebted to his illus- 
 trious grandson, Col. Bennett H. 
 Young, of Louisville, Ky. It is 
 as follows : 
 
 "My great grandfather, Col. 
 Joseph Crockett, was born in 
 Albermarle, and was one of the 
 men who marched with Andrew 
 Lewis, with Charles Lewis, and 
 with William Russell, and was 
 engaged in the conflict at Point 
 Pleasant. He was then a young 
 man. 
 
 "He returned shortly after 
 the battle of Point Pleasant, and 
 remained for several months as
 
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 First Lieutenant in a company of 
 Colonial Militia that was station- 
 ed at Point Pleasant. When the 
 fires of the Revolutionary War 
 were kindled, and it was neces- 
 sary for every man to go to the 
 front to resists British invasions, 
 the Indians were to be left a lit- 
 tle while to themselves. Vir- 
 ginia and North Carolina were 
 then sending their pioneers to 
 make the settlements of Ken- 
 tucky which were, under God's 
 providence and direction, one of 
 the chief agencies in the success 
 of the colonies in their great 
 struggle against the mother 
 country. My ancestor organized 
 a company and marched to the 
 front. He was successively a - 
 Captain, Major and Lieutenant- 
 Colonel. He was a Major in 
 Morgan's riflemen, and recruit- 
 ed two companies for that cele- 
 brated organization. He was a 
 Lieutenant at White Marsh, was 
 a Captain when Burgoyne sur- 
 rendered, was engaged in all the 
 battles previous to that great 
 event. He was at Princeton 
 and Trenton, and Valley Forge 
 and Red Bank, and in 1779, he 
 raised a regiment known as the 
 Crockett Regiment, which was 
 sent west to assist George Rod- 
 gers Clark in his war with the 
 Indians, and was with that dis- 
 tinguished soldier, second in 
 command, in all the skirmishes 
 and battles with the northwest- 
 ern Indians on the Ohio and 
 
 Miami Rivers, and helped to de- 
 stroy Chillicothe, and the Indian 
 towns* on the Wabash, and 
 throughout the northwest, and 
 in these battles stayed the up- 
 lifted hand of the cruel and 
 avenging Indian, who would 
 otherwise have wreaked his 
 cruelties upon the frontier set- 
 tlements of both Pennsylvania 
 and Virginia and thus coming in 
 the rear of these enemies, aveng- 
 ed many of the wrongs heaped 
 upon the Virginia, Pennsylvania 
 and Kentucky settlements." 
 
 James Robertson. 
 
 James Robertson, (by some 
 authors written Robinson) , with 
 Val. Sevier, discovered the In- 
 dians before the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant. He was born i n 
 Brunswick County, Va., 1742, 
 died in Chickasaw County, 
 Tenn., Sept. 1, 1814. He was 
 the personal friend of Daniel 
 Boone. He did more to consum- 
 mate a peace between the In- 
 dians and whites than any man 
 in Tennessee, when he became 
 the founder of Nashville, where 
 he withstood, with a handful of 
 men, a siege of one thousand In- 
 dians. Flattering offers were 
 made him by the Spanish gov- 
 ernment to cut the territory of 
 Tennessee loose from the gov- 
 ernment, and, with Watauga and 
 Kentucky, establish an indepen- 
 dent country which he indignant- 
 ly declined. In 1790, he was ap- 
 pointed a brigadier general by
 
 52 
 
 Washington. He shared with 
 Sevier the honors and affections 
 of Tennessee. 
 
 John Smith. 
 
 Ensign John Smith, of the 
 battle of Point Pleasant, left 
 sons, Abraham, of Rockingham 
 Co., Joseph and Silas H. of 
 Augusta Co., and daughter Nan- 
 cy, who married Wm. Crawford, 
 His family have been distin- 
 guished. 
 
 Benjamin Harrison. 
 
 Benjamin Harrison command- 
 ed a company at Point Pleasant 
 In July, 1775, he was appoi d 
 Captain of a company of Minute 
 Men. In 1778, he was appointed 
 Lieutenant Colonel of Militia for 
 Rockingham County. He was a 
 native af Loudon County, Vir- 
 ginia. He was the founder of 
 Harrisonburg, Va. He died in 
 1819. 
 
 Hugh and James Allen. 
 
 Hugh Allen was a Lieutenant 
 in Col. Charles Lewis's Regi- 
 ment at Point Pleasant, where 
 he lost his life and was buried 
 beside Col. Lewis. His three 
 sons, John, William and Hugh, 
 all settled in Kentucky. His 
 brother, James Allen, who lived 
 eight miles from Staunton, was 
 Captain of Militia in 1756 and 
 was in the battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant, and witnessed the death of 
 his brother. He died in 1810, 
 aged ninety-four years and was 
 an elder in the Augusta Stone 
 Church for sixty-four years. 
 
 Judge Samuel McDowell. 
 
 Judge Samuel McDowell who, 
 as Captain McDowell, command- 
 ed a company of Augusta troops 
 at the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 was a native of Rockbridge Coun- 
 ty, Va. He married Mary Me- 
 Clung, and, with his seven sons 
 and two daughters, in 1784, emi- 
 grated to Danville, Ky. He was 
 one of the first Kentucky Court 
 and was a member of the conven- 
 tion that framed for Kentucky 
 the first Constitution. He pre- 
 sided over nine political conven- 
 tions which convened in Dan- 
 ville from 1784 to 1790. 
 
 In 1776, he was a member of 
 the Virginia House of Burgesses, 
 representing Rockbridge Coun- 
 ty. As Col. McDowell, he com- 
 manded a Rockbridge Company 
 during the Revolution. On 
 April 20, 1781, he wrote the Gov- 
 ernor of Virginia, when a draft 
 had been ordered from his coun- 
 ty for April 26th, that if the men 
 were drawn the county would be 
 ruined, as two thirds of the men 
 had been engaged in the servi- 
 ces all the time and there were 
 no new ones to put in the 
 crops, and that he had marched 
 with 200 men to join Gen. 
 Greene before the battle of 
 Guilford Court House. 
 
 John Sevier. 
 
 John Sevier, born in Rocking- 
 ham Co., Va., Sep. 22, 1745, died 
 near Fort Decatur, Ga., Sept. 
 24, 1815, was educated at Fred-
 
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 ericksburg, Va., married at 17 
 years of age and became the 
 the founder of New Market on 
 the Shenandoah. In 1772, he 
 was appointed Captain of the 
 Virginia line and moved to Wat- 
 auga. In the Dunmore War, he 
 resumed his rank in the "Virginia 
 line and participated in the Bat- 
 tle of Point Pleasant. When 
 what is now Tennessee was or- 
 ganized into Washington Dis- 
 trict, North Carolina, John 
 Sevier was chosen a delegate to 
 the legislature. In 1777, he 
 again represented Watauga and 
 procured for his state, courts and 
 rights of extension. He was ap- 
 pointed clerk of the court and 
 district judge and, with his 
 friend, James Robertson, was in 
 control of the judicial and admin- 
 istrative functions of the settle- 
 ment. He was elected colonel 
 and enlisted without exception 
 every able bodied man between 
 the ages of 16 and 50. With Col. 
 Isaac Shelby he planned the bat- 
 tle of King's Mountain. He 
 continued to command the forces 
 against the Indians. When the 
 new state, Franklin, afterwards 
 Tennessee, was organized, he 
 took the oath of Governor March 
 1, 1785. When the new state be- 
 came a part of the Union, he was 
 the first representative to Con- 
 gress from the valley of the Mis- 
 sissippi, 1789-1790, and in 1796, ' 
 when Tennessee became a state, 
 he was elected its first Governor 
 
 which office he filled for three 
 years. He three times repre- 
 sented Tennessee as a state in 
 Congress. He was in the ac- 
 tice service of his country from 
 the age of 17 years to 70. As 
 long as he lived he was the real 
 seat of power in Tennessee- A 
 monument in Nashville attests 
 to his memory and Sevier Coun- 
 ty in Tennessee commemorates 
 his fame. 
 
 Valentine Sevier. 
 
 Valentine Sevier, who was a 
 seargent in Evan Shelby's com- 
 pany and a younger brother of 
 Gen. John Sevier, in 1779, was a 
 Captain in the Chickamauga 
 Campaign and led a company 
 against the British in North Car- 
 olina, 1780, which culminated in 
 the Battle of King's Mountain. 
 He rose to the rank of Militia 
 Colonel and died at Clarksville, 
 Tenn., in 1800. 
 
 James Harrod. 
 
 James Harrod who had been 
 in Kentucky in the spring and 
 summer of 1774, was with Col. 
 Charles Lewis. He built the 
 first cabin in Kentucky. He be- 
 came Col. Harrod of the Revolu- 
 tion, e was a member of the 
 first Kentucky Legislature. He 
 was an able assistant of Geo. 
 Rodgers Clark in securing am- 
 munition. He declined to accept 
 the appointment of Major of the 
 first Regimental Militia of Ken- 
 tucky. Harrodsburg Kentucky, 
 is named for him. A man named
 
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 Bridges with whom he had had 
 
 litigation murdered him, the 
 
 date is thought to be July, 1793. 
 
 William Russell. 
 
 William Russell was but fif- 
 teen years of age when par- 
 ticipating in the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant. During the 
 Revolution he rose to the Rank 
 of Colonel. He was a Lieutenant 
 at the Battle of King's Mountain 
 and Guilford Court House. Af- 
 ter the Revolution he settled in 
 Fayette County, Kentucky. He 
 was appointed to command a 
 regiment in the regular army. 
 In 1792, he represented Fayette 
 County in the Kentucky legisla- 
 ture, which was repeated a dozen 
 times until 1825, when he con- 
 tracted a cold at a public meet- 
 ing where he was called to pre- 
 side, which resulted in his death. 
 James Montgomery. 
 
 Captain James Montgomery, 
 who was in the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, , settled in Kentucky, 
 as did James Knox, who was in 
 Isaac Kite's Company. Others 
 of Isaac Kite's Company who 
 settled in Kentucky were James 
 McCullosh, John Shelp, William 
 Field, Thomas Glenn, David Wil- 
 liams, James Brown, John Cowan, 
 John Wilson, Abraham Chapline 
 and John Clark. 
 
 John Crawford. 
 
 John Crawford represented 
 Montgomery County, Kentucky, 
 in the Legislature in 1812. 
 
 William Christian. 
 
 While Col. Wm. Christian was 
 not an actual participant in the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant, he, 
 witti his three hundred volun- 
 teers troops, not arriving until 
 11 p. m., the night of the battle, 
 yet they did noble services to the 
 bleeding army and the valiant 
 dead. He was a native of Augus- 
 ta County and educated atStaun- 
 ton. He participated in the 
 Braddock campaign. He mar- 
 ried a sister of Patrick Henry 
 and settled in Bottetourt County. 
 In 1775, he settled in Kentucky 
 and Christian County is named 
 in his honor. In April, 1776, he 
 was killed by a party of Indians 
 who had stolen his horses and in 
 whom, with a party of friends, 
 he was in pursuit. 
 
 George Slaughter. 
 
 Col. George Slaughter, a son- 
 in-law of Col. Field, after the 
 Battle, settled in Kentucky and 
 was one of eight delegates to 
 Congress out of the city of 
 Louisville. 
 
 James Trimble. 
 
 James Trimble, a participant 
 in the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 aged then but eighteen years, 
 had in 1770, been a prisoner of 
 the Indians. In 1780 or 81, he 
 emigrated to Woodford, Ky., be- 
 ing one of the earliest settlers. 
 In 1804, he died in Kentucky, 
 having made preparations to 
 move to Hillsborough, Ohio, 
 where his family removed after
 
 55 
 
 his death. The Trimbles be- 
 came eminent. Allen Trimble 
 became Governor of Ohio. Wm. 
 A. Trimble was a Major in the 
 War of 1812, and in 1819 a Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel in the Regular 
 Army and a United States Sena- 
 tor from Ohio. 
 
 John Dickenson. 
 
 Captain John Dickenson, who 
 commanded one of Col. Charles 
 Lewis Companies of Augusta 
 County troops and who was 
 wounded during the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant, was left with 
 Col. Fleming at the fort when 
 Andrew Lewis, with his troops, 
 advanced into ^Obio. In 1785, he 
 surveyed 502 acres of land at the 
 mouth of Campbell's Creek on 
 the Kanawha River. In 1777, he 
 commanded, as a Colonel with 
 Major Samuel McDowell, the 
 Bottetourt troops, as well as 
 troops, from Augusta County, 
 and marched to the defense of 
 the fort at Point Pleasant, ac- 
 companied by Capt. Hall's com- 
 pany of Rockbridge volunteers, 
 numbering in all about 700 men, 
 and he witnessed the murder of 
 Cornstalk, which with the officers 
 in command he tried to prevent. 
 In 1791, when Bath County was 
 organized, he was appointed one 
 of the first gentlemen justices of 
 that county which honor he de- 
 clined. He died in 1799, owning 
 large tracts of land in Bath, 
 Greenbrier and Kanawha Coun- 
 ties, besides large holdings in 
 
 Kentucky. He left sons, Adam 
 and John and daughters Nancy, 
 married Joseph Kinkcaid, Mary, 
 married Samuel Shrewsbury and 
 Jane, who was the wife of Char- 
 les Lewis son of Col. Charles 
 Lewis, some of the descendants 
 of the latter still being residents 
 of this county. 
 
 Anthony Bledsoe. 
 
 Anthony Bledsoe, born in Cnl- 
 pepper County, in 1733, in 1774, 
 moved to the neighborhood of the 
 Shelby's. He was a magistrate 
 of Botetourt, Fincastle and 
 Washington Counties, and a 
 member of the Virginia Assem- 
 bly from Washington County, 
 1777-78. He moved to Bledsoe's 
 Lick, North Carolina, and repre- 
 sented his district in the assem- 
 bly of his state from 1785, to 
 1788, when he was killed by In- 
 dians. He was in charge of the 
 commissary under Col. Christain 
 at Point Pleasant with the rank 
 of major. He commanded the 
 forces at Long Island until July, 
 1777, and in 1779, went out 
 against the Chickamaugas and 
 did not participate in the Battle 
 of King's Mountain because he 
 felt it was his duty to remain at 
 home and protect the frontier. 
 William Cocke. 
 
 Captain William Cocke, of the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant, served 
 in the legislature of four states 
 and in the federal senate, as well 
 as was prominent in his military 
 career. He was born in 1748, in
 
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 Amelia County, Virginia He 
 studied law and removed to the 
 Holston Valley. He was a 
 brilliant orator and popular. 
 After the Dunmore War he settl- 
 ed for a while in Boonesborough, 
 Ky., but returned to the Watau^a 
 and participated in the Chero- 
 kee Campaign. In 1777, he was a 
 member of the Virginia Assem- 
 bly. In 1780 he led a company 
 at King's Mountain. He was 
 made a Brigadier General of 
 Tennessee and, in 1796, one of 
 the federal senators and was re- 
 elected in 1799. 
 
 In 1809 he was elected a circuit 
 judge of Tennessee. In 1812 he 
 removed to Columbus, Miss., and 
 enlisted as a private in the war 
 of that year and soon rose to dis- 
 tinction. He died in 1828 at 
 Columbus, Miss. 
 
 John Sawyer. 
 
 Col. John Sawyer, born in Vir- 
 ginia 1745, died in Knox County, 
 Tenn., in 1831, and was with the 
 Shelby's at Point Pleasant. In 
 1776, he served in the Cherokee 
 Campaign and in 1779 in the 
 Chickamauga expedition and 
 commanded under Gen. Shelby a 
 company at King's Mountain. 
 He was a Major, next a Colonel 
 and was a representative to the 
 state assembly, of Tennessee. 
 Joseph Hughey. 
 
 Joseph Hughey, of Shelby's 
 Company, was killed when at 
 tempting to bring the news of 
 the Indians' presence to camp 
 
 before the battle. James Moon- 
 ey, who accompanied him, suc- 
 ceeded in reaching the camp, 
 but was killed during the battle. 
 Philip Love. 
 
 Capt. Philip Love later served 
 as a Colonel in Christian's 
 Cherokee Campaign in 1776. 
 Ellis Hughes. 
 
 Ellis Hughes, who is thought 
 to have been the last survivor of . 
 the patriots of the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, went, after Wayne's 
 treaty, to Ohio and died March, 
 1845, at Utica, N. Y., where he 
 was highly respected. He was 
 buried with military honors. 
 
 Reared in his native state Vir- 
 ginia, nurtured amid the scenes 
 of forest savagery, wherein by 
 fndian depredations he lost his 
 father and sweetheart, it is not 
 surprising that he pursued the 
 dusky foe until he had disappear- 
 ed from Virginia and from his 
 adopted home, Ohio. 
 
 John Steele. 
 
 John Steele, who was wounded 
 during the engagement at Point 
 Pleasant, was born in Augusta 
 County, Virginia, about 1755. 
 He was an officer in the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant and served 
 throughout the Revolution. He 
 was again wounded at the Battle 
 of Germantown. He was for 
 many years a member of the Ex- 
 ecutive Council of Virginia and 
 in the administration of Presi- 
 dent John Adams, was a commis- 
 sioner to treat with the Cherokee
 
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 Indians. From 1798 to 1801 he 
 was Secretary of the Mississippi 
 Territory. 
 
 Azariah Davis. 
 
 A/.ariah Davis, of the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant, was a member of 
 Harrod's Company. He was 
 one of themembers of the First 
 Kentucky Legislature and is 
 mentioned (1775) among the 
 first settlers of Harrodsburg, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 John Todd. 
 
 John Todd became one of the 
 founders of Louisville, Ky. He 
 was with Col. George Slaughter. 
 
 Chas. E. Cameron. 
 
 Chas. E. Cameron and bis 
 brothers, Hugh and George Cam- 
 eron, were with the Virginia 
 troops at Point Pleasant in which 
 engagement George Cameron 
 was killed. They were brothers- 
 in-law of Col. Charles Lewis, 
 who was killed in that battle, 
 whose wife Sarah Murry, was 
 their half sister. George Cam- 
 eron resembled in person and 
 being his distinguished father, 
 Dr. John Cameron, of Staunton, 
 who had emigrated from Scot- 
 land. Charles Cameron served 
 throughout the Revolution, as a 
 Lieutenant and was with the 
 Virginia troops at the surrender 
 of Yorktown In 1790 he was 
 one of the gentlemen justices of 
 Augusta County. On December 
 14, 1790, he received a land grant 
 
 in Bath County, Va., where he 
 located, about four miles from 
 Warm Springs. He accumulat- 
 ed large land interests. His 
 residence of stone was magnifi- 
 cent for its time and overlooked 
 the Jackson River. Major Cam- 
 eron became the first Clerk of 
 Bath County, serving both courts 
 for a number of years. After 
 the Revolution, he became Colo- 
 nel of Militia. As a personal 
 friend of Gen. Lafayette, he was 
 presented by him with a beauti- 
 ful cane which he used and prized 
 until his death, which occurred 
 June 14, 1829. He was survived 
 by his widow, Mrs. Rachel Prim- 
 rose Warwick and one son, An- 
 drew Warwick Cameron. 
 Silas Marian 
 
 Silas Harlan, of Berkeley 
 County, Virginia, was in Captain 
 Harrod's Company and, after the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant, emi- 
 grated to Kentucky. In 1779, 
 he commanded a company of 
 spies under Gen. Geo. Rodgers 
 Clark in the Illinois campaign. 
 Gen. Clark pronounced him one 
 of the bravest and most accom- 
 plished soldiers who ever fought 
 by his side. He was a Major at 
 the Battle of Blue Licks, where 
 he fell. He was but thirty years 
 of age and unmarried. 
 Jacob Warwick 
 
 Jacob Warwick, of Bath Coun- 
 ty, Virginia, on the morning of 
 the Battle of Point Pleasant, had 
 gone out early to kill beeves and
 
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 prepare rations for the army. 
 He and the men who accompa- 
 nied him hearing the first shots 
 of battle, thought Dunmore had 
 arrived and that the guns were a 
 salute. Later they thought it a 
 practice exercise, but, determin- 
 ing 1 to see for themselves, they 
 joined the army in time to help 
 materially in turning the tide of 
 victory. 
 
 Jacob Warwick is buried be- 
 side his wife at Clover Lick Cem- 
 etery in Barth County, Va., 
 where he died Jan., 1826, in his 
 83rd year. He died at the home 
 of his daughter, Mrs. Major 
 Charles Cameron, on Jackson 
 River. 
 
 The Van Bibbers. 
 
 The brothers, John, Isaac and 
 Peter Van Bibber, and Jesse, 
 son of Peter, were participants 
 in the Battle of Point Pleasant. 
 Mrs. Miriam Donley, a Van Bib- 
 ber descendant, writing for the 
 July, 1903, West Virginia His- 
 torical Magazine, says "Isaac had 
 come from the Carolinas on a 
 visit to his brother in Bottetourt 
 County, when the call to arms 
 resounded through the land. 
 Although a Baptist minister, he 
 could and would not resist, as 
 hearts were that day attuned to 
 martial music, and he responded 
 to its call. He fell mortally 
 wounded besides Colonel Charles 
 Lewis. Peter fought with such 
 bravery he was promoted and 
 complimented on the battle field. 
 
 John Van Bibber was written of 
 by all historians as Captain and 
 family notes say he was made 
 Captain after the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant and Commissary of 
 Fort Randolph. The Van Bib- 
 bers continued to defend the bor- 
 der although Isaac, the son of 
 Isaac, fell at Point Pleasant, 
 while Jacob and Mathias Van 
 Bibber died twenty years later. 
 As late as 1843, Captain Jesse 
 Van Bibber was still residing on 
 Thirteen Mile Creek in Mason 
 County, now West Virginia. 
 He with his brother, John Van 
 Bibber \\ere among the earliest 
 settlers of that County." 
 
 Howe* the Historian, who in 
 writing the History of Virginia 
 in 1836, said "There is living 
 upon Thirteen Mile Creek, Mr. 
 Jesse Van Bibber, and aged 
 pioneer in this county. His life, 
 like his own mountain stream 
 therein, was rough and turbulent 
 at its commencement; but as it 
 nears its close, calm and peace- 
 ful, beautifully reflecting the 
 Christian virtues." 
 
 Leonard Cooper. 
 
 Captain Leonard Cooper, an- 
 other Revolutionary soldier who 
 is buried in Mason County, West 
 Virginia,, participated in the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant. Prior 
 to the Revolution, he held a com 
 mission in the Colonial army of 
 Maryland. Learning of Dun- 
 more's War, he hastened to 
 Staunton, Virginia, and entered
 
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 the Army of General Lewis. He 
 remained in the service until the 
 close of -the Revolutionary strug- 
 gle. In 1789 Major Cooper re- 
 moved with his family from 
 Maryland to Fort Randolph, 
 later erecting a Block House, 
 known as Cooper's Block House, 
 (where Mr. George W. Pullin 
 now resides) in Cooper District, 
 nine miles from the mouth of the 
 Kanawha, on the upper side. He 
 there removed with his family. 
 
 In 1804, when the new County 
 of Mason was organized, Major 
 Cooper was appointed a justice 
 of the peace in which capacity 
 he served until his death which 
 occurred in 1808. His remains 
 were buried near his home. His 
 son, Leonard, born in 1791, was 
 the first white child born at 
 Point Pleasant. Another of 
 Leonard Cooper's children, Mary 
 became the wifeof William Trot- 
 ter, son of Richard Trotter, kill- 
 ed in the Battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant and Anne (Trotter) Bailey, 
 who, going from Cooper's Block 
 House, by canoe to Gallipolis, 
 where in 1800, their marriage 
 ceremony was performed. This 
 is said to have been the first 
 Virginia marriage performed in. 
 the French Settlement. 
 
 William Arbuckle. 
 
 Captain William Arbuckle, of 
 Rockingham County, Virginia, 
 deserves to rank with Daniel 
 Boone and Simon Kenton in the 
 valor displayed in wresting from 
 
 savagery the vast domain in 
 which his expedition laid He 
 was not only with General An- 
 drew Lewis at the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, where as a pilot (having 
 first visited the mouth of the 
 Kanawha in 1764) he safely con- 
 ducted that wing of the army, 
 but when Geo. Rodgers Clark 
 was organizing his expedition 
 against the French Forts in 
 Illinois from which the Indians 
 were known to receive supplies, 
 he (Capt. Arbuckle) tendered 
 his services which were accepted 
 and he acquitted himself with 
 credit in that ever memorable 
 campaign. He defended the fort 
 at Point Pleasant. He married 
 Catherine Madison, widow of 
 Capt. Robert McClannahan, who 
 fell in the Battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant. He remained in command 
 of Fort Randolph until 1795 when 
 Wayne made his treaty with the 
 Indians, when he bought land and 
 located on the Kanawha four 
 miles below the present town of 
 Buffalo, where he and his wife 
 passed a peaceful and honored 
 old age. Among their descend- 
 ants yet on the Kanawha are the 
 families of Arbuckle, Craig, 
 Alexander, Miller and others. 
 William Arbuckle had two child- 
 ren born within the fort at Point 
 Pleasant. He and his wife both 
 are buried in the church yard at 
 the Arbuckle Church in Mason 
 County West Virginia, Simple 
 stones are thus engraved:
 
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 "Wm Arbuckle, born March, 
 1752, Died March 21, 1836, 
 
 Aged 84 years." 
 
 "Kitty Arbuckle, Died July 18, 
 1818, Aged 64 years." 
 
 John Young. 
 
 John Young- became a settler 
 in the present Kanawha Count}', 
 and, in the military organization 
 of the County, was a lieutenant 
 of militia. He left a son, Jos. 
 Young, from whom descend 
 many residents of the valley. 
 
 John Henderson. 
 
 John Henderson, about 1740, 
 with his brothers James and 
 Samuel, came to Augusta County, 
 Virginia, from Scotland. 
 
 Descending from James, John 
 his second son, was born 1740, 
 and died March 24, 1787. In 1765 
 he married Ann Givens, sister to 
 the wife of Gen. Andrew Lewis, 
 and buying 300 acres of land, he 
 settled in Green brier. In 1786, 
 he was granted by Governor 
 Randolph 350 acres, now in 
 Greenbrier County, and 1400 
 acres on the South Side of the 
 Kanawha in what is now Clen- 
 . dennin and Arbuckle Districts, 
 Mason County, West Vriginia. 
 
 In Greenbrier County, he be- 
 came a Lieutenant of Militia and 
 ranked as such in Captain Her- 
 bert's Company at Point Pleas- 
 ant. Later he was Captain of 
 the Greenbrier Militia and later 
 was a Corporal in Capt. Gregory's 
 Company in Daniel Morgan's 
 
 Virginia Regiment, serving un- 
 til April, 1779. In 1780, be was 
 elected a Justice of the Peace, of 
 Greenbrier County, which office 
 he held in 1787, the time of his 
 death. He was survived by his 
 widow who died May 28, 1819, 
 and children, Samuel, John, 
 Margaret, James, Jean and 
 William. John and Samuel in- 
 herited the lands on Kanawha, 
 where they made permanent 
 homes. Samuel building his 
 cabin home at the mouth of Ka- 
 nawha and in 1810 burned the 
 brick and erected a commodious 
 brick house, the second one in 
 the count}', now occupied by his 
 'grandaughter, Mrs. Ella M. 
 Henderson Hutch inson and 
 family. 
 
 John Henderson second, 
 son of Capt. John Henderson, 
 was a man prominent in the 
 public affairs of Mason County, 
 and he occupied and inherited 
 that part of the tract of land ad- 
 joining his brother Samuel but 
 running further up the Kanawha. 
 
 Luman Gibbs- 
 
 Luman Gibbs was but 16 years 
 of age when, with the army of 
 General Andrew Lewis, he par- 
 ticipated at the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant. He was left as a part 
 of the Garrison at the Fort. He 
 became a noted scout and for 
 twenty years he served in that 
 capacity, wandering over the 
 hills of the present County of 
 Mason. His weekly route pro-
 
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 ceeded from Fort Randolph up 
 the Kanawha to the Mouth of 
 Eighteen Mile Creek, thence 
 across to Letart Falls, thence 
 down the Ohio to Point Pleasant, 
 and his "All's Well" for twenty 
 years dispelled the fears of the 
 early settlers in and about the 
 tort. The early settlers knew 
 the route as "Gibb's Track." 
 He married and located perma- 
 nently in Mason County, where 
 he has many descendants. 
 
 He had emigrated to Augusta 
 County Virginia in 1755 
 coming from New Hampshire 
 where he was born. He engaged 
 at once in the Colonial Army in 
 that year with Andrew Lewis in 
 the Braddock campaign and 
 again enlisted in his command 
 for the Point Pleasant Campaign. 
 He was as noted for his sunny 
 disposition as for his bravery. 
 He lived to a great old age and 
 died 1837 and is buried in the 
 Gibbs family burying ground 
 eight miles from Point Pleasant. 
 In the same grave yard are buri- 
 ed Revolutionary soldiers James 
 Ball and Isaac Robinson who too 
 participated in the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant and became resi- 
 dents of Mason County. 
 
 George Eastham. 
 
 George Eastham, of Far- 
 quier County, Va., who was in 
 one of the companies with Col. 
 Field at the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, was born in 1758, and 
 hence was but a youth when en- 
 
 gaged in that battle. He partici- 
 pated in many struggles through- 
 out the Revolution. He married 
 (1) Susan Woodside, who bore 
 him nine children, among whom 
 was Col. Lawson Eastham; his 
 second wife, Mrs. Mary Brown, 
 widow of James Brown, bore 
 him three children, viz., Lucinda, 
 Albert G. and Saunders. In 
 1817, he moved to Arbuckle dis- 
 trict, Mason County, Virginia, 
 known as Five Mile Creek, and 
 in the following year died. His 
 son, Albert G. Eastham, born in 
 1805, father of a large family in 
 Mason County, died Feb. 23, 
 1890, at his home in Arbuckle 
 District being the last real son of 
 "The Revolution" in the county 
 of Mason. He left many descen- 
 dants in that County who do 
 honor to his name. 
 
 John Stuart. 
 
 Col. John Stuart was the son 
 of Col. David Stuart, County 
 Lieutenant of A.ugusta County, 
 when that county extended from 
 the Blue Ridge to the Mississippi, 
 1755. 
 
 John Stuart, son of Daniel and 
 Margaret Stuart, was born in 
 1749, in Augusta County and 
 emigrated to Greenbrier in 1769 
 and built a house of hewn logs 
 two and a half stories high, 
 which he used as a residence and 
 fort, known as Fort Union. 
 
 When his cousin Andrew 
 Lewis rested his army at Fort 
 Union and was ready to continue
 
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 the march to Point Pleasant, his 
 forqes were augmented by Col. 
 Stuart's and one company com- 
 manded by Capt. Robert McClan- 
 naham. 
 
 At Point Pleasant Captain 
 Stuart's Company was one of 
 the three sent up Crooked Creek 
 in the flank movement that suc- 
 cessfully put Cornstalk to rout. 
 
 Col. Stuart did not go on with 
 the further battles of the Revo- 
 lution, but continued the defense 
 of Fort Union and organized a 
 force and went to the successful 
 relief of Fort Donnally when that 
 fort was so vigorously attacked 
 by the Indians. 
 
 November 25, 1780, Col. John 
 Stuart became clerk of Green- 
 brier. At the close of the first 
 deed book he makes valuable his- 
 torical notes including an ac- 
 count of the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant. 
 
 Col. Stuart married Agatha, 
 the widow of John Frogg, killed 
 in the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 she the daughter of Thomas 
 Lewis, hence already his kins- 
 woman. They had four chil- 
 dren, Margaret, who married 
 General Andrew Lewis, son of 
 Col. Charles Lewis; Jane 
 married Robert Crockett; Char- 
 les A., married Elizabeth Robin- 
 son, and Lewis, who married, 
 Sarah, the second daughter of 
 Col. Charles Lewis. 
 
 Col. Stuart became one of. the 
 best business men and largest 
 
 land owners of Greenbrier 
 County. In the splendid stone 
 mansion he had built, he lavishly 
 entertained. Here were wont 
 to meet the most intelligent, pol- 
 ished and distinguished men, 
 not only of Virginia, but of other 
 states and nations, and his 
 generosity was only bounded by 
 the demands of his neighbor- 
 hood, 
 
 1788, he was a member of the 
 Virginia Constitutional Conven 
 tion. In 1793, he was appointed 
 Lieutenant Colonel of the 79th 
 Regiment of Militia. In 1776, 
 he and bis wife each contributed 
 500 pounds sterling to build the 
 old stone church at Lewisburg, 
 yet beautifully preserved. He 
 was a member of seven literary 
 societies including the American 
 Philosophical Society. His li- 
 brary was extensive and valu- 
 able. He built in his own yard 
 the first clerk's office of the 
 county which is still standing. 
 He presented the county the lot 
 upon which the f.rst court 
 house at Lewisburg was built. 
 He died August 23, 1823, and is. 
 interred in the old family bury- 
 ing ground. 
 
 Thomas Pos*y. 
 
 Thomas Posey was born on 
 the Potomac River in Virginia 
 July 9, 1750. He early participa- 
 ted with the Virginia militia and 
 with the rank of Captain, was 
 Quartermaster to the Army of 
 General Lewis.
 
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 In 1775. he was appointed a 
 member of the Committee of 
 Safety and that year raised a 
 company which he commanded 
 and assisted Gen' Andrew Lewis 
 in driving Governor Dunmore 
 from Gwinn's Island, July 8, 
 1776. In 1777, he joined the 
 Continental Army at Middle 
 Brook, N. J. Here he became 
 one of the distinguished picket 
 men of Morgan's Riflemen, dis- 
 tinguishing himself at Piscato- 
 way, Bennington Heights and 
 Stillwater. In 1778, he was pro- 
 moted to the rank of Major, in 
 command of the Morgan Rifle- 
 men. In 1778, he commanded 
 the llth Virginia Regiment, At 
 the close of that year he entered 
 the artillery service and was in 
 charge of a battery under Wayne 
 in the attack upon Stony Point, 
 one of the most thrilling incidents 
 of the Revolution, being the first 
 field officer to enter the enemy's 
 works. He witnessed the sur- 
 render at Yorktown. He retir- 
 ed with the rank of Brigadier 
 General, settling at Spottsylvania 
 Court House, Virginia. 1793, 
 he removed to Kentucky, where 
 he was elected Lieutenant Gov- 
 ernor and, as such, President of 
 the Senate. Moving to Louisiana 
 in October, 1812, he was chosen 
 to fill a vacancy in the United 
 States Senate, President Har- 
 rison appointed him Governor of 
 Indiana Territory which honor 
 he declined. He was agent of 
 
 Indian affairs from 1813 to 1816. 
 He died at Shawnee Town, 111., 
 March 19, 1818. His first wife 
 was the daughter of Colonel 
 Sampson Mathews, of Virginia; 
 his second wife, widow of Major 
 Geo. Thornton, and daughter of 
 John Alexander. 
 
 Posey County, Indiana, com- 
 memorates his name which name 
 adds lustre to the roll of the 
 army of General Lewis. 
 John Lewis* 
 
 Major John Lewis, a nephew 
 of General Andrew Lewis with 
 whom he was engaged at Point 
 Pleasant, died in 1823, at his 
 home at Sweet Springs. He was 
 the son of Wm. Lewis, brother of 
 Gen. Andrew Lewis. He was 
 noted for bis courage, integrity 
 and high sense of honor and con- 
 tinued in the service of the Col- 
 onies throughout the Revolution. 
 As a Lieutenant he was engaged 
 at Monmouth, Saratoga, Trenton 
 and spent the winter of 1777 at 
 Valley Forge. He rose to the 
 rank of Major, which rank he 
 held at Monmouth. In 1783 he 
 returned to his Virginia home, 
 but was much engaged on the 
 frontier until the close of 
 Wayne's Campaign. He was 
 five feet, ten inches high, com- 
 pactly built, muscular, strong 
 and courageous. A {"the time of 
 his death, he was an Elder in the 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 William Clendennin. 
 - William Clendennin was a pri-
 
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 vate in the Battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant. Later he was commission- 
 ed Major in the Kanawha Militia. 
 He represented Kanawha Coun- 
 ty in the Virginia Assembly in 
 1796-1801-1803. He was a Col- 
 lector of Levies 1792-1793-1794. 
 He was a justice of the peace 
 and member of the first Court in 
 the County, held at his house in 
 1789. In 1790, he settled in 
 what is now Mason County, W. 
 Va., In 1804, he carried the 
 petition to the Virginia Assem- 
 bly asking for the organization 
 of Mason County Virginia and in 
 1805, was the first representative 
 . of that county. 
 
 Major Clendennin had settled 
 about 1797 at Eight Mile, Mason 
 County. In 1802 he purchased a 
 part of the Hugh Mercer tract 
 and built the first log cabin in 
 Clendennin District, Mason 
 County, and many of his descen- 
 dants are living in Mason and ad- 
 joining counties in West Vir- 
 ginia and Ohio. By his son 
 Charles, whose son William mar- 
 ried Sophia Neale of Gallipolis, 
 their son, James B. Clendennin, 
 is survived by a daughter, Mrs. 
 George Wallis, of Apple Grove. 
 Sophia, daughter of William 
 Clendennin, married John Miller, 
 and her sister Ann, married 
 Henry Miller, both of Gallipulis. 
 Another sister, Elizabeth, mar- 
 ried John Bing of Gallia County, 
 Ohio, from whom decended a 
 large family. Their second child, 
 
 Martha Young Bing, born in 
 Gailia County, Ohio, Oct. 24, 
 1805. died Oct. 30, 1900, was the 
 ancestor of the Filson and Cable 
 families of Mason County, West 
 Virginia. 
 
 Archibald Clendennin. 
 
 Archibald Clendennin, brother 
 of William and George, married 
 Nancy E w i n g and lived on a 
 farm a mile from Lewisburg. 
 The family were attacked by In- 
 dians, and Archibald Clendennin 
 was killed. His wife was cap 
 tured by the Indians, but made 
 her escape. 
 
 Benjamin Logan 
 Benjamin Logan was born in 
 Agusta County, Virginia, in 
 1752. He emigrated, to Penn- 
 sylvania from Ireland, when a 
 child, and when but fourteen, 
 emigrated with his parents from 
 Pennsylvania to Virginia, where 
 his father died. By the law of 
 entail then prevailing in Virginia 
 he became the heir of his fathers 
 estate, but he divided it with 
 his mother, brothers and sisters. 
 He married tnd settled on the 
 Holsten river and was with Col. 
 Henry Boquet in his expedition 
 against the Indians. He was in 
 the battle of Point Pleasant. In 
 1775 he emigrated to Kentuckey 
 with Daniel Boone and establish- 
 ed Logans Fort, where he moved 
 with his family the following year. 
 He was one of the most daring 
 of Kentucky pioneers and his 
 defense and relief of his fort is
 
 65 
 
 one of the most thrilling pages in 
 Kentucky history. His expedi- 
 tion against the Indians at Chil- 
 licothe in which the Indians were 
 put to rout and their supplies 
 captured, including 150 horses, 
 was admirably planned and exe- 
 cuted. In 1788 he led a regi- 
 ment of 600 men against the In- 
 dians of the North West. He 
 passed his declining years in 
 Shelby County, Kentucky, on bis 
 extensive farm, dying, Dec., 11, 
 1802. He was six feet three 
 tail, powerfully built with nerves 
 and courage like a lion. His son 
 Wm. was the first white child 
 born in Kentucky and became an 
 eminent lawyer, being twice ap- 
 pointed appellate Judge of Ken- 
 tucky and in 1820 was a United 
 States Senator from Kentucky. 
 John Logan. 
 
 John Logan brother of Benja- 
 min was engaged in the Battle 
 of Point Pleasant. He emigrat- 
 ed from Virginia to Kentucky 
 where he was a military leader 
 and several- times was a repre- 
 sentative. 
 
 George Clendennin. 
 
 George Clendennin who par- 
 ticipated in the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, represented Green- 
 brier County in the Convention 
 at Richmond, 1788, that ratified 
 the Federal Constitution of Vir- 
 ginia. In that year, he purchas- 
 ed 1030 acres of land, the site of 
 the present city of Charleston, 
 and in that year built Fort Lee, 
 
 afterward called Fort Clenden- 
 nin. In 1794, the town of 
 Charleston was laid off, which 
 was not named, but finally called 
 Charlestown, in honor of Charles 
 Clendennin, father of George. 
 
 The first court was held in Kan- 
 awha County, Oct. 5, 1789, at the 
 residence of George Clendennin, 
 a County Lieutenant. He was 
 one of the first representatives 
 of Kanawha Cpunty, 1790-1791- 
 1792 1794-1795. Irf 1794 he was 
 made a trustee for the newly 
 laid off town of Point Pleasant. 
 
 His wife was Jemima, claimed 
 by some to be the sister of Thos. 
 Pawing, of Ohio, but which has 
 been found to be an error. He 
 died after 1795, when his name 
 last appears as signing a deed 
 and in 1797 his wife appeared in 
 court as his widow, when she 
 gave bond as administratrix. 
 
 Parthena, daughter of George 
 and Jemima, Clendennin married 
 John Meigs of Marietta, Ohio. 
 John Meigs dying, his widow 
 married Major Andrew Bryan, 
 their daughter Mary married 
 John McCulloch, from whom de- 
 scended Mrs. M. M. Moore, Mrs. 
 P. S, Lewis, Mrs. J. J. Bright, 
 John A. and Charles E. McCul- 
 loch, who were reared on a farm 
 below Kanawha in Arbuckle Dis- 
 rict, Mason Co., West Virginia. 
 
 Mary, the third daughter of 
 George Clendennin, married 
 Major John Cantrell whose only 
 daughter became the wife of the
 
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 late C. C. Miller, of Mason county, 
 who has left many descendants. 
 
 Alexander Breckenridge 
 
 Alexander Breckenridge nam- 
 ^ed for his maternal grandfather 
 Alexander Breckeriridge was in 
 the Battle of Point Pleasant, and 
 later served as Colonel in the 7tb, 
 Virginia in the Revolution, re- 
 signing in 1778. He was for many 
 years Clerk of Augusta County. 
 He and Patrick Henry married 
 sisters. 
 
 Capt. John Lewis 
 
 Captain John Lewis eldest son 
 of Thos. Lewis was a nephew of 
 Gen'l Andrew Lewis. He was 
 born in 1749. He was wounded 
 at the battle of Point Pleasant. 
 He engaged in the struggles of 
 the Revolution, was at Valley 
 Forge and Jersey, and witness- 
 ed the surrender of Cornwallis. 
 Stephen Trigg. 
 
 Capt. Stephen Trigg, of the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant, was a 
 member of the Virginia Assem- 
 bly from Fincastle in 1774, when 
 Governor Dunmore dissolved 
 that body. He signed the Arti- 
 cles of Association of the Colo- 
 nies in 1775 and was active in 
 protecting the frontier during 
 the Revolution. In 1779 he emi- 
 grated to Kentucky and repre- 
 sented that county in the Vir- 
 ginia Assembly 1780, While 
 leading a charge at the Battle of 
 Blue Licks, 1782, he was killed. 
 William Herbert, 
 
 Captain William Herbert was 
 
 a Captain of Fincastle Militia, 
 who participated in the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant. He died 1776. 
 
 Walter Crockett. 
 
 Captain Walter Crockett was 
 born on the South Fork of the 
 Holston River. He was a coun- 
 ty magistrate. He continued in 
 the patriot army after the Battle 
 of Point Pleasant and distin- 
 guished himself at King's Moun- 
 tain, 3780. 
 
 John Floyd. 
 
 John Floyd, who was a school 
 teacher, made his home with Col. 
 Wm. Preston, of Fincastle Coun- 
 ty, was a native of Virginia, born 
 1750. In 1774, he was appointed 
 a deputy sheriff. In the spring 
 of 1774, he led a surveying party 
 to Kentucky and, returning, 
 joined Wm. Christian in the 
 Point Pleasant expedition, arriv- 
 ing too late to actively engage in 
 the battle, but was active in the 
 g-ood offices of his company in 
 ministering to the needs of the 
 army. He married Jane Buck- 
 hannon, niece of Col. Preston, 
 and in 1779 located in Kentucky, 
 where, in 1783, he was killed by 
 Indians. His son, John Floyd, 
 who was born in Jefferson Coun- 
 ty, Virginia, 1770, represented 
 Virginia in Congress 1817-1829, 
 Governor of Virginia 1829- 
 1834. South Carolina cast 
 her electoral vote, for him for 
 president in 1832. His son, 
 John B. Floyd, grandson of the 
 John Floyd of Point Pleasant
 
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 campaig-n, was a member of the 
 Virginia Legislature 1847 and 
 was Governor of Virginia 1850- 
 1853 and was Secretary of War 
 under President James Buck- 
 hannan. He was indicted by 
 the government, charged with 
 the misuse of government sup- 
 plies and funds. He demanded 
 a trial and was exonerated. He 
 resigned his position and became 
 Gen. John Floyd of the Confed- 
 erate Army. He married Sallie 
 Buckhannan, granddaughter of 
 Wm. Campbell, of the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant, and a 'niece of 
 Patrick Henry. They had no 
 children. 
 
 Benjamin Lewis- 
 
 Quoting from the biography of 
 his decendant, State Historian 
 and Archivest Virgil Anson 
 Lewis, in "Men of West Vir- 
 ginia" (1903) page 31, "'His pa- 
 ternal ancestors were among the 
 first settlers of the Shenandoah 
 Valley, where they were found- 
 ers of the city of Staunton. 
 They were active frontiersmen 
 and participants in the Revolu- 
 tionary and Indian Wars. His 
 great grandfather, Benjamin 
 Lewis, was wounded in the Battle 
 of Point Pleasant and after the 
 wars were over in 1792 settled in 
 what is now Mason County, West 
 Virginia, and is buried in Wag- 
 goner District, near the spot 
 where he thus found a home." 
 
 The following from the War 
 Department Adjutant General's 
 
 Office, Washington, D. C., under 
 date March 28, 1908, is authori- 
 tative that after the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant, he continued to 
 serve in the patriot army: "It 
 is shown by the records that one 
 Benjamin Lewis who served as 
 a seargent in Capt. John Spots- 
 wood's Co. 10th Virginia Regi- 
 ment Commanded successively 
 by Col. Edmond Stevens and 
 Major Samuel Harnes and Col. 
 John Green, 'Revolutionary War. 
 He enlisted November 29, 1776, 
 to serve three years and was dis- 
 charged July 5, 1778. 
 
 Signed, F. C, Ainsworth' 
 
 The Adjutant General." 
 
 That Benjamin Lewis above 
 referred to was not a descendant 
 of John Lewis, the founder of 
 Staunton, we quote from a mem- 
 orandum of Mrs. Sarah Lewis 
 Rodgers, who was raised at the 
 old Lewis home on Muddy Creek, 
 in Greenbrier County, who mov- 
 ed in pioneer days to Illinois. 
 Writing- to her nephew, Rev. 
 Jacob H. Lewis, a Presbyterian 
 minister, of Greenbrier county, 
 the latter dying- at 92 years of 
 age, the manuscript is yet pre- 
 served and says : 
 
 "Our Lewis family in Green- 
 brier county originated from 
 three brothers, John George and 
 Benjamin Lewis, who came to 
 the county in an early day from 
 the Valley of Virginia. About 
 the close of the Revolution, Ben- 
 jamin went to the Ohio. George
 
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 Lewis never married. John 
 married Miss McCrary and their 
 sister, a Mrs. Van Orzel, is 
 buried iu the old Caraway grave- 
 yard." 
 
 None of the sons of John Lew- 
 is founder of Staunton Virginia 
 left descendants such as those 
 above described, but it has been 
 claimed that the above Benjamin 
 was the son -of Thomas, he the 
 son of John. Mrs. M. L. Price, 
 West Virginia historian of the 
 John Lewis family from whom 
 she descends, says Thomas 
 Lewis' son, Wm. Benjamin, was 
 born 1778 (four years after the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant, in which 
 the family traditions and papers 
 have always shown Benjamin 
 Lewis to have been) while L. L. 
 Lewis, of Richmond, recognized 
 as an authority on the John Lew- 
 is, Staunton, branch, says : 
 "Thomas Lewis had a son Ben- 
 jamin, but he lived and died in 
 Rockingham County, Virginia." 
 
 As early as 1812 we find in 
 Mason county that Benjamin 
 Lewis conveyed land which was 
 acquired before Mason County 
 was formed, as the land books 
 show no transfer to him in that 
 county prior to 1812 and he con- 
 tinued to buy and convey lands 
 as the records show, and that in 
 1831 there was much conveying 
 of titles of his lands by his chil- 
 dren which would indicate that 
 he died on or before that year. 
 Land convevances show the 
 
 given name of the wife of Benja- 
 min Lewis to have been Nancy, 
 and their children to have been 
 Sarah, who married Samuel Ed- 
 wards, Jvhn who married 
 
 Edwards, Benjamin, Jr., who 
 emigrated to Iowa, Catherine 
 who married Michael Newhouse, 
 George who married Margaret 
 Winkleblack, William who mar- 
 ried Lucinda Clendennin, An- 
 drew, Isaac and probably others. 
 Josiah Ramsey. 
 
 After being engaged in the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant, Josiah 
 Ramsey returned to Augusta 
 County. He served as a scout 
 in the Cherokee campaign of 
 1776. [n 1778, he removed to 
 Kentucky. In 1779, he moved to 
 Cumberland Settlement, where 
 he was appointed Major of Mili- 
 tia and was frequently engaged 
 against the Indians. He lived 
 to an advanced age spending the 
 close of his life with a son in 
 Missouri. 
 
 William Bowen. 
 
 William Bowen, often related a 
 hand to hand encounter with an 
 Indian antagonist at Point Pleas- 
 ant whom he finally overpowed. 
 He was a native of Maryland, 
 born 1744. In 1759 he engaged 
 in the border warfare with Wm. 
 Christian. In early life, he had 
 moved to Augusta County, Vir- 
 ginia. In 1784 he removed to 
 Summers County, Tennessee, 
 where he passed the remainder 
 of his life.
 
 69 
 
 Joseph Drake. 
 
 Joseph Drake who was with 
 Wm. Christian's Regiment at 
 Point Pleasant, had served as a 
 private in Boquet's expedition 
 in 1764. He ' was one of the 
 Long Hunters 1770-71. In 1773 
 he married Margaret, daughter 
 of Col. John Buchhanan. In 
 1775, he visited Kentucky and in 
 June of that year led an explor- 
 ing party on Green River. He 
 resided at Abington, Virginia 
 until 1778, when he moved to 
 near Boones borough, Ky., and 
 in August of that year was killed 
 by the Indians. He was a typi- 
 cal frontiersman. 
 
 William Edmiston, 
 
 Lieutenant William Edmiston 
 (Edtnondston) a native of Mary- 
 land, born 1734, moved at an 
 early date to Augusta County, 
 Virginia. He was a private in 
 the French an Indian War and 
 the Cherokee Campaign 1760. 
 In 1763 he was appointed Lieu- 
 tenant of Militia for Augusta 
 County. He was in Capt. Wm. 
 Campbell's Company at Point 
 Pleasant and was his second in 
 command at King's Mountain, 
 in which eight members of 
 his family were eng-aged, three 
 of whom were killed. One of 
 those who survived of that fami- 
 ly was James Edmiston who has 
 descendants living- in many coun- 
 ties in West Virginia, including 
 the county of Mason. 
 
 William Ingles. 
 
 Major William Ingles, who, at 
 the Battle of Point Pleasant, was 
 in charge of a commissary with 
 the rank of Major, was a native 
 of Ireland, born 1729, emigrating 
 with his father when a child to 
 Pennsylvania, settling with John 
 Draper at Draper's Mead- 
 ows in 1748. In 1750 he 
 married Mary Draper, whose 
 capture by, and escape from, 
 the Indians, is one of the 
 thrilling pages of pioneer history. 
 During the Indian Wars, Wm. 
 Ingles was active in defense of 
 the frontiers. In 1756 he was a 
 Lieutenant in the Sandy Creek 
 expedition. In 1758-60, he de- 
 fended the fort at Ingle's Ferry. 
 In 1777 he was made Colonel of 
 Militia in the organization of 
 Montgomery County. In 1782, 
 he died at his home at Ingles 
 Ferry. 
 
 Thomas Ingles. 
 
 Thomas Ingles was with his 
 mother, Mary Ingles, who was 
 captured by the Indians, remain- 
 ing with them until 1768, practi- 
 cally becoming- a young- Indian in 
 his habits. Returning to his 
 home for a few years, he tried to 
 adopt the habits of civilization 
 and education, but he never for- 
 got his Indian friends. He was 
 in the battle of Point Pleasant, 
 remaining the following winter 
 in the Fort, during which time 
 he visited the Indians at Scioto. 
 In 1782, his wife was captured by
 
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 the Indians and his home burned. 
 He removed afterward to Ten- 
 nessee, thence to Mississippi, 
 where be died. 
 
 Henry Pauling. 
 
 Capt. Henry Pauling" who com- 
 manded a company of Bottetourt 
 troops at Point Pleasant, con 
 tinued in frontier service and in 
 1*777 went with Col, Bowman to 
 the relief of the Kentucky 
 frontier soon after which he set- 
 tled in that state and represented 
 Lincoln County, Ky,, in the con- 
 vention of that state that ratified 
 the Constitution of the United 
 States, but he voted against the 
 ratification of that instrument. 
 Francis Slaughter. 
 
 Col. Francis Slaughter who 
 was at the battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant was a member of one of the 
 best Virginia Families. He 
 married a daughter of Robert 
 Coleman of Dunmore and in 1785 
 moved to Kentucky, settling- in 
 Hardin County. 
 
 Lawrence And George Slaughter. 
 
 Lawrence and Georg-e Slaugh- 
 ter each married a daug'hter of 
 Col, John Field and both were 
 in his regiment at the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant. Col. George 
 Slaughter in 1776 raising a com- 
 pany, participated in the 8th Va. 
 Reg. at Brandy wine and German- 
 town. In 1779 he joined Shelby 
 in the Chickamauga Campaign 
 and in that winter started to re- 
 enforce George Rodgers Clark, 
 but was oblig-ed to winter at 
 
 Louisville, Ky., joining 1 him the 
 following 1 Jane, after which he 
 returned to Virginia and in 1784 
 represented his county in the 
 house of Delegates. Later he 
 moved to Jefferson county, Ken- 
 tucky, thence to Charleston, Ind., 
 where he died June 17, 1819. 
 
 The McAfee Brothers. 
 
 McAfee station on Salt River, 
 in Mercer County, Kentucky, 
 commemorates the name of five 
 McAfee brothers, James, Robert, 
 George, William and Samuel, 
 who lived on Sinking Creek, 
 Bottetourt County, Virginia, 
 from which place they finally all 
 emigrated to Kentucky, in 1779. 
 The first three named with 
 James McConn, Jr., and Samuel 
 Adams, were Kentucky explor- 
 ers in 1773 with Col. Bullit and 
 Hancock Taylor. They all par- 
 ticipated in the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant. 
 
 William McAfee was in the 
 George Rodgers Clarke expedi- 
 tion and was killed in 1780. 
 George died in 1803 at his home 
 on Salt River. Samuel died in 
 1801, James in 1814, and Robert 
 who was one of the early dealers, 
 who, by flat boat, took large car- 
 goes of produce to New Orleans, 
 in 1795, when on such a mission, 
 was killed by a Spaniard in 
 that city, who was attempting to 
 rob him. They left descendants, 
 many of whom are yet residents 
 of Kentucky.
 
 71 
 
 James Knox. 
 
 Major James Knox served un- 
 der Col. Chester in the capacity 
 of scout* in 1774. During- the 
 Revolution he commanded a com- 
 pany of Morgan's Riflemen en- 
 gaged at Saratoga and Still water, 
 returning with the rank of Ma- 
 jor. Settling in Kentucky, he 
 married Mrs. Logan, the widow 
 of Benjamin Logan, who was in 
 the Battle of Point Pleasant. 
 James Knox died in 1822. He 
 had accumulated a good fortune 
 and was respected by all who 
 knew him. 
 
 John Madison. 
 
 John Madison was of the dis- 
 tinguished Virginia family that 
 gave to America the president of 
 that name, being a first cousin of 
 President Madison. His son- 
 James Madison, was the first 
 American Episcopal Bishop. 
 Other of his sons who distin- 
 guished themselves were 
 Thomas, Rowland and George, 
 who emigrated to Kentucky. 
 John Madison was the first 
 Clerk of Augusta County and 
 represented that county in the 
 Virginia Assembly in 1751-52. 
 He married a Miss Strother, sis- 
 ter to the wives of Thomas Lew- 
 is and Gabriel Jones of Augusta 
 County. 
 
 Kimberling. 
 
 Elijah Kimberling of Bath 
 County, Va.. who was-engaged 
 in the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 returned to Bath County, Va., 
 
 where he resided until the time 
 of his death. So pleased, how- 
 ever, were his sons with his de- 
 striptionof the Kanawah Valley, 
 that his four sons, Joseph, 
 James, Jacob and Nathaniel emi- 
 grated to Mason County West 
 Virginia and located on farms in 
 Union District, near Arbuckle 
 Postoffice. They became the 
 progenitors of a large and influ- 
 ential family in the Kanawha 
 Valley. Among whom were 
 Elijah Kimberling, for many 
 years a public official of Mason 
 County, who married Margaret 
 Catherine Jones, a native of Cul- 
 pepper Couuty, Virginia, daugh- 
 ter of Joseph Jones, and Ann 
 Winn, his wife. 
 
 William Ewing. 
 
 William Ewing, a member of 
 Arbuckle's company at Point 
 Pleasant, settled on Swago Creek, 
 tributary to the Greenbrier, 
 near Buckeye, Va. He was one 
 of the garrison at Point Pleasant 
 and witnessed the murder of 
 Cornstalk. 
 
 William McKee. 
 
 William McKee, born in Ire- 
 land in 1732, and, emigrating 
 when a youth to the Valley of 
 Virginia, was in the Braddock 
 Campaign. At Point Pleasant 
 he was a lieutenant in Captain 
 Murray's company. He later 
 represented Rockbridge County 
 in the Virginia Legislature and 
 voted in favor of the adoption of 
 the Constitution. He emigrated
 
 to Lincoln County, Kentucky, 
 where he died in 1816. 
 Charles Simms. 
 
 Charles Simms was in the divis- 
 ion commanded by Col. Lewis who 
 expired in his arms. In the con- 
 tinental army he was first major 
 of the 12th Virginia, later Lieut. 
 Col. of the 6th Va. and later of 
 the 2nd Virginia Regiment. On 
 Dec. 7, 1777, he resigned from 
 the army and practiced law at 
 Alexandria, Virginia, where he 
 continued to reside until the time 
 of his death. 
 
 George Moffatt. 
 
 Captain George Moffatt was 
 born in 1735. His father was 
 killed by indians in 1749, enroute 
 to South Carolina. In 1763, 
 George was Captain of a com- 
 pany of Rangers in pursuit of 
 Indians that had killed his step- 
 father, John Trimble, and cap- 
 tured his sister and half brother. 
 He rescued his loved ones. Col- 
 Wm. Christian was his uncle and 
 Samuel McDowell his brother-in- 
 law and in the battle at Point 
 Pleasant, with him were many 
 of his kindred. In the war of 
 the Revolution he was active and 
 commanded a regiment at Guil- 
 ford Court House. From 1781- 
 83 he was County Lieutenant of 
 Augusta. He died at his home 
 eight miles northwest of Staun- 
 ton in 1811. 
 
 John Murray. 
 
 Capt. John Murray, killed in 
 the battle of Point Pleasant, was 
 
 a brother in law of Col. Charles 
 Lewis, and a half-brother of 
 Charles Cameron, and Geo. Cam- 
 eron, the last named, was killed 
 in the battle. 
 
 William Trotter. 
 
 William Trotter who was en- 
 gaged in the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, was an Englishman by 
 birth, coming to America and an 
 indentured servant. Coming at 
 the same time with Ann Hennis, 
 who, like him, was "sold out" to 
 defray the expense of their pas- 
 sage. They were bought in 
 Augusta County, Va., and when 
 his term of service had expired, 
 he enlisted with Col. Charles 
 Lewis, and was killed in the Bat- 
 tle of Point Pleasant. This so 
 incensed his widow that she don- 
 ned a semi-male attire and with 
 rifle and tomahawk she was seen 
 at musters like a man. Later 
 she married James Bailey. 
 James Bailey. 
 
 James Bailey, who was with 
 Col. Charles Lewis and who 
 afterward married Ann Hennis, 
 the widow of Richard Trotter, is 
 more noted for being the hus- 
 band of Ann Bailey, the heroine 
 of the Kanawha Valley than for 
 his own achivements. He was 
 assigned to garrison dnty at 
 Fort Clendennin where the pres- 
 ent city of Charleston is now 
 located. Ann Bailey was the 
 mother of one son, William Trot- 
 ter, who located in Harrison 
 Township, Gallia, Ohio, where 
 his descendants yet reside.
 
 73 
 
 Waiter Newman. 
 
 Walter Newman, a native of 
 Pennsylvania, was in the Battle 
 of Point Pleasant and was one of 
 the first to locate here when the 
 new town was laid off. He pur- 
 chased the grounds upon which 
 the Mansion House in Tue Endie 
 Wei Park now stands and built 
 the first hewn log" house in the 
 county, which, for its beauty and 
 size, was called the Mansion 
 House. The house was built in 
 17%. In August, 1804, he was 
 licensed to establish a ferry 
 across both the rivers, Ohio and 
 Kanawha, and granted a license 
 to sell spirituous liquors and 
 keep an ordinary at bis house in 
 the town of Point Pleasant. 
 This was the first place in which 
 liquor was ever legally sold in 
 the county. Mr. Newman was 
 also the first man in the county 
 to support a missionary, sending 
 his nephew, Rev. James New- 
 man, as a missionary to South 
 America. 
 
 William Moore. 
 
 William Moore, of Rockbridge 
 County, after the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, became' Capt. Wm. 
 Moore of the Revolution. He 
 was a merchant of Lexington, 
 Virginia, and purchased the first 
 bag of coffee ever purchased in 
 Virginia, which be found slow 
 sale for. Later, he built an iron 
 furnace at South River in Rock- 
 bridge Co. He was a Justice of 
 the Peace for manv vears and 
 
 served as high sheriff of Rock- 
 bridge for two terms. He died 
 in 1841, aged 93 years. His wife 
 was Miss Nancy McClung, by 
 whom he had children, Samuel, 
 David, John, Eliab, Joseph. Isa- 
 bella, Elizabeth and Nancy. 
 John Lyle. 
 
 John Lyle, of Capt. McDowell's 
 Company, became Rev. John 
 Lyle, of Hampshire County, now 
 West Virginia, a pioneer minis- 
 ter, who proved to be a power 
 for good in that region. 
 
 William Robertson. 
 
 William Robertson of Augusta 
 Countv, was commissioned a 
 Lieutenant July, 1775. He dis- 
 tinguished himself at Great 
 Bridge, Brandywine and Ger- 
 mantown. He died Nov. 12, 
 1831. 
 
 John Lewis. 
 
 Captain John Lewis, son of 
 Thomas Lewis, of Augusta Co., 
 was with his uncle, Andrew 
 Lewis, at Point Pleasant, where 
 be was wounded. He was born 
 in 1749, died 1788, leaving four 
 children. He served under 
 Washington at Valley Forge and 
 in the Jerseys and witnessed the 
 surrender of Cornwallis. 
 John Frogg. 
 
 The Sutler of the Army, was 
 killed at Point Pleasant. Oct. 10 
 1774, 'by the Indians and was 
 there buried. 
 
 He came to Staunton from the 
 Rappahannock and married, 
 Miss Agatha Lewis, a daughter
 
 74 
 
 of Thomas Lewis a brother of 
 General Andrew and Col. 
 Charles Lewis, and when the 
 Army started for the Ohio river, 
 Mr. Frogg was appointed the 
 Sutler and went with them. 
 
 He was a handsome young- 
 man, gallant, generous and fond 
 of display and spoken of as a 
 very worthy gentleman and pop- 
 ular with the men, and by one 
 writer, when giving a list of the 
 dead, spoke of him, as "poor 
 'John Frogg." 
 
 When be went into the battle, 
 he had on a brilliant red jacket, 
 which made him a prominent 
 mark for Indians and when he 
 fell, there were no less than five 
 Indians that had made an at 
 tempt to secure his scalp, and 
 all five of them were found dead 
 on the ground where poor John 
 lay. It is tradition that the little 
 daughter was awakened from 
 her sleep at three several times 
 by the dream of her father be- 
 ing killed by the Indians, which 
 she related to her mother several 
 days before it was known that 
 there had been a battle. Mr. 
 Frogg was related to the Strother 
 family, one of whom was the wife 
 of John Madison, Clerk of Augus- 
 ta Co., one was the wife of 
 Gabriel Jones, the Crown's At- 
 torney for said County and the 
 other was the wife of Thomas 
 Lewis, the Surveyor of said 
 County. 
 
 His widow became the wife of 
 
 Capt John Stuart of Greenbrier 
 who was also in said battle; and 
 his daughter married a Mr. 
 Estili. 
 
 It may not have been the duty 
 of Mr. Frogg to go into the bat- 
 tle at all, but it is certain he was 
 not required to attire himself in 
 a brilliant red jacket and make of 
 himself a mark forsbarpshooters 
 and loose his life, but, it required 
 five Indians to pay for his life. 
 
 Agatha Lewis, his wife, was 
 born May 18, 1753 and she 
 married Capt. John Stuart Nov. 
 18, 1776. 
 
 William McCorkle. 
 
 William McCorkle, who engag- 
 ed in the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 was the son of Alexander Me 
 Corcle (McCorkle) who had his 
 American origin in Pennsylvania, 
 in the Scotch-Irish reservoir of 
 the Cumberland Valley, among 
 the other Scotch Irish, who, emi- 
 grating to the Valleys of the 
 Shenandoah and James, became 
 he very seat of culture and the 
 greatest factors in Virginia's 
 power, and gave that state her 
 prominence in the sisterhood of 
 states. 
 
 In the spring of 1774 Win Mc- 
 Corkle was making preparations 
 to emigrate with a great body of 
 Virginians to Kentucky and, on 
 June 3rd of that year, a survey 
 of 1,000 acres of land was set 
 aside for him near the present 
 city of Louisville. 
 
 Indian hostilities necessitating
 
 75 
 
 the protection of the frontier, 
 and although not a young- man, 
 VVm. McCorkle enlisted as a vol- 
 unteer in Captain John Murry's 
 Company from Botetourt and en- 
 gaged in the Point Pleasant 
 Campaign. He returned to 
 Kockbridge Coutity to the lands 
 be held near Lexington, and 
 which had continued in the pos- 
 session of his descendants until 
 1894, when it passed into the 
 hands of strangers. 
 
 Soon after the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, \Vrn. McCorkle died 
 but he had offered upon his 
 country's altar his son, John Mc- 
 Corkle, who, when but twenty- 
 three years of age, was killed at 
 tbe Battle of Cowpens, while 
 serving under Gen. Morgan. 
 
 John McCorkle married Re 
 becca Nutt, and was survived 
 by his two sons, Alexander and 
 Samuel, the younger Samuel be- 
 ing the progenitor of five sons, 
 the youngest of whom was Wil- 
 liam McCorkle, whose oldest son 
 is Ex-Governor William A. Mc- 
 Corkle, who served as Governor 
 of West Virginia, from March 4, 
 1893, to March 4, 1897, and is 
 now located at Charleston, West 
 Virginia, where, as a historical 
 memorial, he has erected the 
 most beautiful home in the state, 
 "SUNRISE", on the summit of 
 the mountain; embellished with 
 historic stones and furnished 
 and decorated vuth historic mem- 
 -entoes, demonstrating that -his 
 
 heredity has made him revere 
 the past as it has made him boun- 
 tifully prepare fo r the future. 
 
 Robert Campbell. 
 Robert Campbell, who was en- 
 gaged in the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant', was born in tbe Valley 
 of Virginia in 1755. He was en- 
 gaged tnroughout the Revolution. 
 He displayed great bravery in 
 his conflicts with the Cherokees. 
 He was in command of a Regi- 
 ment at King's Mountain, Oct. 
 7, 1780 For forty years he was 
 a magistrate of Washington 
 County, Virginia. In 1825, he 
 emigrated to Tennessee with 
 his children and there died. 
 
 John Carter. 
 
 John Carter became a pioneer 
 of Tennessee. During the Rev- 
 olution, he was elected with John 
 Sevier and Charles Robertson to 
 the Convention that assembled 
 at Hartford, N. C., in 1785, and 
 framed a Constitution for the 
 State of Franklin, which was re- 
 united with North Carolina in 
 1788. 
 
 Matthew Bracken, 
 
 Matthew Bracken had been a 
 surveyor with Thomas Hanson 
 from Virginia in the exploration 
 and surveying expedition to Ken- 
 tucky, which left Fincastle on 
 April7th, 1774. "Bracken Creek" 
 in Mason county, Kentucky, 
 commemorates his name. He 
 returned to Kentucky in time to 
 enlist as an ensign in the comp- 
 any of Capt. Robert McClena-
 
 76 
 
 ban's Company of volunteers 
 from Botetourt. He was killed 
 in the Battle of Point Pleasant 
 and his remains were buried 
 within the forty foot reservation, 
 now a part of Tu-Endie Wei 
 Park, at the mouth of the 
 Kanawha. 
 
 Capt. Johji Lewis. 
 
 Capt John Lewis eldest son of 
 Gen'l Andrew Lewis married 
 Miss Patsy Love of Alexandria 
 Virginia who had four children. 
 His eldest son Andrew married 
 Jane McClenahan of Botetourt 
 County Virginia and they were 
 the parents of six children who 
 lived to maturity. Jonn, William 
 and Samuel locating in Kanawha 
 County near the mouth of Scary. 
 
 John Lewis known as Coal Riv- 
 er John was a man of great wealth 
 and prominence and from him 
 through his daughter Marjorie 
 who married 1st Edward Kenna 
 and 2nd Richard Ashbey has de- 
 scended through this first mar- 
 riage Hon. John E. Kenna who 
 represented the old third dis- 
 trict of West Virginia three 
 times in Congress and was twice 
 elected to the United States Sen- 
 at each time being the youngest 
 member in either branch of Con 
 gress. There are many descen- 
 dants of Captain John Lewis 
 living on the Kanawha including 
 Mr. Kenna's family the fami- 
 ly of Mr. Kenna's sister Mrs. 
 Gentry, the family of Hon. Jos. 
 
 Gaines, M. C., Mr. Walter Ash- 
 by and many others. 
 
 Thomas Hacket 
 
 Thomas Hacket (Haket) of 
 Rich Creek Virginia was a mem- 
 ber of Capt. Michael Woods 
 Company at Point Pleasant, soon 
 after which he settled at Peters- 
 burg Virginia where he continu- 
 ed to reside until after Waynes 
 Treaty. Lured by the beauty 
 and fertility of the Ohio Valley 
 be settled at Kyger Ohio in Gal- 
 lia Count}' where he died and is 
 buried having lived to the ad- 
 vanced age of 104 vears. 
 
 Among other children he left 
 a daughter Mary Ann Hacket 
 who married Nimrod Kirk whose 
 daughterElizabeth (Betsey) Kirk 
 married George Knight. From 
 George Knight descended the 
 distinguished Dr. A. L. Knight 
 of Mason County, prominent 
 farmer James Knight of Pleasant 
 Flats, the late Samuel Knight of 
 Marietta, Ohio, Mr. George 
 Knight of Clifton, and Mrs. 
 Louise Meeks of Dallas, Mrs. 
 Rebecca Brown of Hartford, 
 and Mrs. Susan Hogg of Point 
 Pleasant and their descendants. 
 Capt. James Curry. 
 
 Capt. Jas. Curry served under 
 Gen'l Andrew Lewis and was 
 severely wounded in the right 
 arm at the battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant. His home at that time was 
 near Staunton Virginia. When 
 at the age of 22 years he enlisted 
 as a private.
 
 77 
 
 Michael See. 
 
 While at work outside the 
 fort at Point Pleasant in a 
 field near where James Capehart 
 now resides, in August 1791 
 Michael See and Robert St. Clair 
 were killed by Indians. Thomas 
 Northrop and a coiored boy be- 
 longing to See were captured 
 and carried away prisoners. 
 
 Michael See who had been en- 
 gaged in the battle of Point 
 Pleasant was living with bis fam- 
 ily within the fort where the 
 night of his death his wife 
 gave birth to a son, Wm. See. 
 from whom descend the Se.es of 
 Mason County West Virginia. 
 
 We are indebted to Rev. Price, 
 of'Marlinton and Rev. C. W. 
 McDonnald, ofHuttonsville, 
 Randolph Co., descendants of 
 Michael See who send the follow- 
 in^ Cleaned from the history of 
 
 O O 
 
 Randolph county: "Michael See, 
 of German ancestry, and using 
 the language in his family is be- 
 lieved to have been born in 
 Pennsylvania. He came from 
 that state to South Branch, what 
 is now Hardy County, W. Va , 
 about 1765. His father's name 
 was Frederick Michael See, of 
 him but little is known except he 
 had a son Adam, but Adam never 
 lived in Randolph county 
 Michael See, son of Frederick 
 See was among the early settlers 
 of Tygarts valley, Randolph Co., 
 and his children intermarried 
 with the following prominent 
 
 families more than a century 
 since. 
 
 Anthony See married Julia 
 Leonard; Adam See married 
 Margaret Warwick, daughter of 
 Jacob Warwick, the pioneer of 
 whose name appears in the 
 Pocahontas sketches; Polly See, 
 of Michael married George See. . 
 Her daughter Georgiana became 
 Mrs. Capt. J. W. Marshall, a 
 noted confederate officer and 
 promoter of public improvement. 
 Barbara See married William 
 McCleary; John See married 
 Miss Stewart, and Noah married 
 Margaret Long 
 
 Col. James Curry. 
 
 March, 1900, Mr. W. S. 
 Curry of Columbus, Ohio, 
 Registrar of the Sons of the Rev- 
 olution, sent us an account of his 
 grandfather Col James Curry, 
 above referred to. It follows: 
 
 "James Curry was closely en- 
 gaged throughout the greater 
 part of the day fighting from be- 
 hind first one tree and then an- 
 other but later in the day was 
 shot through the right elbow. 
 It is said he asked the surgeon 
 who dressed his wound 'If it 
 would hurt him to take a drink 
 of wine?' to which the surgeon re- 
 plied 'No if you take it with the 
 Surgeon.' He remained in the 
 garrison until recovered from 
 his wounds. 
 
 He served in the army through- 
 out the Revolution as Captain in 
 the Fourth Va, Inft., participa-
 
 78 
 
 ting- in the battle of Brandy wine, 
 Yorktown. He was wounded at 
 the siege of Charleston, S. C. and 
 taken prisoner May 12, 1871 by 
 Gen. Lincoln's Army. 
 
 After the Revolution he settled 
 at Staunton, served a term as 
 Clerk of the Court for Augusta 
 Co. In 1797 he moved to High- 
 land County Ohio where he en- 
 tered a Virginia Military tract 
 of land. " 
 
 Solomon Brumfield 
 
 Solomon Brumfield who enlis- 
 ted under Gen'l. Andrew Lewis 
 at Staunton resided where the 
 city of Washington is now built. 
 Wm. Hamilton. 
 
 Wm. Hamilton was an orderly 
 at Point Pleasant in the army of 
 Gen'l. Lewis and when the battle 
 began was sent as a messenger 
 to hasten the regiments m 
 command of Capt. Wm. Chris- 
 tion whom he met at the 
 mouth of 13 mile creek, the pres- 
 ent site of the village of Leon. 
 Here a few were left in charge 
 of supplies while the remainder 
 of the companies marched on to 
 Point Pleasant arriving at about 
 11 o'clock. 
 
 Bazaleel Wells 
 
 Bazaleel Wells, afterward Gen'l 
 Wells of the Revolution, became 
 the founder of Steubenville, 
 Ohio, and helped to form the 
 first Constitution of Ohio. He 
 was then a member of the Ohio 
 Senate and 1 was probably the 
 wealthiest man in Eastern Ohio 
 
 at the begining ot the century. 
 It was he who financed the build- 
 ing of the Zanesville road the 
 great highway of Ohio that prov 
 ed to be the great artery of com- 
 merce of that successful, pro- 
 gressive new state. 
 
 John Murry, Earl of Dunmore. 
 
 (LORD DUN MORE.) 
 
 In reviewing, (by many histor- 
 ians,) the life and character of 
 Lord Dunmore, there are none 
 who have more truly recorded 
 his character than Hu Maxwell, 
 in bis history of Hampshire 
 County, who says on page 51: 
 
 "Before proceeding to a narra- 
 tive of the events of the Dunmore 
 War. it is not out of place to in 
 quire concerning Governor Dun- 
 more, and whether from his past 
 acts and general character he 
 would likely conspire with the 
 British and the Indians to de- 
 stroy the western settlements in 
 Virginia. Whether the British 
 were capable of an act so savage 
 and unjust as inciting savages to 
 harrass the western frontier of 
 their own colonies is not a mat- 
 ter for controversy. It is a fact 
 that they did do it during the 
 Revolutionary War." 
 
 As to a confirmation of the 
 character of Dunmore and his 
 methods we quote again from 
 the same author, relating to 
 events subsequent to the Battle 
 of Point Pleasant: 
 
 "Dunmore had trouble else- 
 where. His domineering- con-
 
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 duct and bis support of some of 
 Great B r i t i a n ' s oppressive 
 measures, caused him to be 
 bated by the Virginians, and led 
 to armed resistance. Thereup- 
 on be threatened to make Vir- 
 g nia a solitude using these word; 
 l 'I do enjoin the true and loyal 
 subjects to repair to my assist- 
 ance, or I shall consider the 
 whole country in Rebellion and 
 myself at liberty to annoy it by 
 every possible means, and I 
 shall not hesitate to reduce 
 houses to ashes, and spreading 
 devastation wherever I can reach. 
 With a small body of troops and 
 arms, I could raise such a force 
 from among Indians, negroes and 
 other persons as would soon re- 
 duce refractory people of them. 1 ' 
 The patriots finally rose in arms 
 and drove Dunmore from the 
 country. Some of these events 
 occurred after the Dunmore War, 
 but they serve to show what 
 kind of a man the Governor was." 
 He was born in England in 
 May, 1709, descending from the 
 house of Stuart. He succeeded 
 to the peerage in 1756; appointed 
 Governor of New York 1770; of 
 Virginia, July, 1771. With a 
 band of Tory followers, he plun- 
 dered the inhabitants, residing 
 on the James and York Rivers. 
 He and his followers suffered 
 defeat at the battle of Great 
 Bridge, shortly after which he 
 burned Norfolk, then the most 
 prosperous city in Virginia. In 
 
 1779, he returned to England, 
 and, in 1786, was appointed Gov- 
 ernor of the Bermudas. 
 
 Logan. 
 
 Tah-gah-jute, son of Shikellan- 
 ny, chief of the Cayuga Indians, 
 was born in about 1725. He was 
 named Logan by the whites for 
 James Logan, (the Secretary of 
 Wm. Penn,) who had been such 
 a friend of the Indians, that they 
 accepted the name as a badge of 
 honor. 
 
 Logan was reared near the 
 Moravian settlements and his 
 relation to the whites had been 
 most friendly. Throughout Vir- 
 ginia and Pennsylvania he was 
 known for his commanding pres- 
 ence and engaging qualities. 
 Residing with his family near 
 Readsville, Penn., he supported 
 them by hunting, and trap- 
 ping and dressing hides which 
 he disposed of to the whites. At 
 this time, the Mingo tribe of In- 
 dians chose him as their chief. 
 About 1770. he moved to the 
 banks of the Ohio, where, in the 
 spring of 1774, his family were 
 massacred, whereupon he sent a 
 declaration of war to Michael 
 Cressap, whom he believed had 
 ordered the massacre. Thus 
 began the fearful depredations 
 that burst upon the frontier and 
 Logan is said to have taken thirty 
 scalps himself before the termi- 
 nation of hostilities at Point 
 Pleasant, where he was engaged 
 that fearful October day. Sub-
 
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 sequent to the battle when the 
 other. Indian chiefs sued for 
 peace, Logan disdained to partic- 
 ipate in the treaty. Governor 
 Dunmo^ sent John Gibson to 
 personally invite him to the coun- 
 cil and he then gave out that 
 classic in English literature that 
 has made so famous the name of 
 Logan. It is as follows: 
 
 "I appeal to any white man to 
 say if he ever entered Logan's 
 cabin hungry, and he gave him 
 not meat; if he ever came cold 
 and naked and he clothed him 
 not. During the course of the 
 last long and bloody war, Logan 
 remained idle in his cabin, an ad- 
 vocate of peace. Such was my 
 love for the whites that my 
 Countrymen pointed as they 
 passed and said: 'Logan is the 
 friend of the white men.' I bad 
 even thought to have lived with 
 you but for the injuries of one 
 man. Cresap, the last spring, in 
 cold blood and unprovoked, mur 
 dered all of the relations of 
 Logan, not even sparing my 
 woman and children. There 
 runs not a drop of my blood in 
 the veins of any living creature. 
 This called for my revenge. I 
 have sought it; I have fully glut- 
 ted my vengeance. For my 
 country, I rejoice at the beams 
 of peace. But do not harbor 
 the thought that mine is the joy 
 of fear; Logan never felt fear. 
 He will not turn on his heel to 
 save his life. Who is there to 
 
 mourn for Logan? Not one." 
 
 The speech was written down, 
 when Gibson repeated it to an 
 officer, and published in the'Vir- 
 ginia Gazette. Thomas Jeffer 
 son, a great admirer of Logan, 
 took pains to establish its 
 authenticity and published it in 
 his Notes on^Virginia. 
 
 Logan was killed by his neph- 
 ew at Lake Erie in the summer 
 of 1780. 
 
 Cornstalk. 
 
 Cornstalk, the celebrated 
 Shawnee warrior, is first men- 
 tioned in Colonial History in 1763, 
 when about sixty Indians, led by 
 Cornstalk attacked the settle- 
 ment on Muddy Creek, in Green- 
 brier Gounty, Virginia, when 
 they pretended to be on a friend- 
 ly mission, at which time they 
 arose and murdered all except 
 a few women and children, whom 
 they took prisoners. From 
 there the Indians went on to the 
 Levels in the same county, to 
 the home of Alexander Clenden- 
 nin, where many were gathered 
 enjoying the fruits of a success- 
 ful chase and the Indians, too 
 were treated with the utmost 
 hospitality, but they a^ain mur- 
 dered most of the inmates of 
 that place. Mrs. Clendennin 
 was carried away a prisoner and 
 with others taken to Muddy 
 Creek. 
 
 For a year the Indian dep- 
 redations were continued, un- 
 til there was not a white set-
 
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 tiers left in Greenbrier County 
 which was not again inhabited 
 by whites until 1769, when Col. 
 John Stuart and a few others be- 
 came permanent settlers. 
 
 It is said that Cornstalk was 
 born in the Kanawha Valley 
 about 1727. 
 
 In the Battle of Point Pleasant, 
 he commanded the army consist- 
 ing of the flower of the Sbawnee, 
 Delaware, Wyandotte, Mingo and 
 Cayuga braves, he being the 
 King of the federation, in their 
 herculian efforts to stay the on- 
 coming tide of Saxon civilization. 
 These Indians were, fighting to 
 maintain their homes and their 
 hunting grounds, and, if the 
 whites were eyer to be repelled, 
 it must be now. 
 
 This was not the first time 
 in battle array that the Shaw- 
 nees had shown their skill 
 as warriors. In the Braddock 
 defeat and other campaigns 
 they had proven themselves val- 
 iant. They despised treaties 
 and had chafed under that with 
 Boquet so that at the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant, they had deter- 
 mined to be victorious. It was 
 not that they favored Great 
 Briton. All whites were alike to 
 them except as they availed to 
 help them save their hunting 
 grounds; and here were gathered 
 their ablest leaders: Cornstalk, 
 Red Eagle, Scoppathus, Blue 
 Jacket, Logan, Chief of the Ca 
 yngas, Illinipsico, Red Hawk, 
 
 the noted Deleware Chief and 
 others commanding the most 
 formidable army every arrayed 
 as an Indian phalanx. The 
 story of their bravery has al- 
 ready been related in the ac- 
 counts of the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, here in published. 
 
 It were well for the white set- 
 tlers, if the history of Cornstalk 
 could have ended with the Battle 
 at Point Pleasant. The treaty 
 with the whites following the 
 battle, was maintained in the 
 highest sense of honor by Corn- 
 stalk. 
 
 In the spring of 1777, when 
 the great Indian uprising was 
 again taking place, Cornstalk 
 came to Fort Randolph at Point 
 Pleasant to warn the whites of 
 their danger and was retained 
 as a hostage, during the whole of 
 the summer. In November, his 
 son, Illinipsico, came in search of 
 his father, hallooing to be 
 brought across the river. The 
 next day two hunters crossed 
 the Kanawha and, returning, 
 one was killed by Indians. 
 Some of the whites made a rush 
 for the Indians detained at the 
 fort. Captain Arbuckle in com- 
 mand tried to stay them, but 
 incited by one of the Gilmores 
 whose kindred had been massa- 
 cred at Muddy Creek, Corn- 
 stalk and his son, Illinipsico and 
 Red Hawk were murdered in 
 cold blood, by Captain James 
 Hall and Hugh Galbraith leading
 
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 the men. The bravery of Corn- 
 stalk called forth the admiration 
 of even his brutal murderers, as 
 be^hus addressed Illinipsico. 
 
 "My Son, the Great Spirit has 
 seen fit that vfe should die to- 
 g-ether, and has sent you here to 
 that end. It is His will and let 
 us submit; it is all for the best!" 
 and then turning- his face to bis 
 murderers at the door, he fell 
 without a groan pierced with 
 seven bullets." 
 
 Cornstalk said the day before 
 he was killed while attending a 
 conference with the whites. 
 "When I was a young man and 
 went to war, I often thought each 
 might be my last adventure, and 
 I should return no more. I still 
 lived. Now I am in the midst of 
 you and if you choose you may 
 kill me. I can die but once. It 
 is alike to me whether now or 
 hereafter." 
 
 From the records of Rock- 
 bride County we quote the fol- 
 lowing. 
 
 "At a court held in Rockbridge 
 County, April 18, 1778, for the 
 examination of Capt. James Hall 
 and Hugh Gailbraith, charged 
 with the murder of Cornstalk, no 
 witnesses appearing, they were 
 acquitted for the murder of 
 Cornstalk and two other Indians 
 in November, 1777, they denying 
 their guilt." 
 
 The remains of Cornstalk 
 were intered at Point Pleasant 
 outside the fort, where Viand 
 
 intersects with First Street, but 
 in August 4, 1840, when Viand 
 Street was opened, his remains 
 were removed to the Court 
 House yard. Dr. Samuel G. 
 Shaw made a memorandum at 
 the time of his burial. His 
 grave is thirty yards in the rear 
 of the Court House where the 
 grave is neglected. 
 
 On October 13, 1899, a monu- 
 ment to Cornstalk with the sim- 
 ple inscription 
 
 "CORNSTALK" 
 was erected in the Court House 
 yard near Sixth Street. The 
 monument is of grey limestone 
 the stone for which was donated 
 by Mr. S. H. Reynolds, then 
 Superintendent of- Construction 
 at Kanawba Lock 11. The 
 money for the completion of the 
 monument was raised by private 
 subscription and the dedication 
 of the monument was the occa- 
 sion for a public ceremonial with 
 a dedicatory address by Hon. C. 
 E. Hogg, Mayor John E. Beller 
 receiving the monument for the 
 town. 
 
 Forts Blair, Randolph and Point 
 Pleasant. 
 
 Govenor Dunmore under date 
 of June 12, 1774, directed Gen'l. 
 Andrew Lewis "to collect a body 
 of men immediately; go down to 
 the mouth of the Great Kanaway 
 and THERE BUILD A FORT; 
 and then if you have force 
 enough to invade the Indian Coun- 
 try, do so."
 
 83 
 
 Before these orders could be 
 carried out the battle of Point 
 Pleasant had ensued. The 
 wounded of the army must be 
 cared for, and sufficient of the 
 army must remain to protect 
 and care for them while the ma- 
 jority marched on with Gen'l. 
 Lewis to Camp Charlotte. 
 
 So frail was the hastily impro- 
 vised stockade that it was in- 
 adequate to withstand an attack 
 but fortunately Capt. Wm. Rus- 
 sell and fifty Fincastle men were 
 delegated by General Lewis to 
 return to Point Pleasant and 
 erect a fort. They arrived 
 there November 11, 1774. 
 Thus Captain Russell be 
 came the designer and builder 
 of this small rectangular pallis- 
 ade, eighty yards long with block 
 houses at two corners with cab- 
 ins for barracks, which he call 
 ed Fort Blair. It was erected 
 upon grounds on the North Bank 
 of the Kanawha as it emptied in- 
 to the Ohio. Here in January, 
 1775, Cornstalk complying with 
 the terms of the treaty at Camp 
 Charlotte delivered a number of 
 white prisoners. 
 
 On June 5, 1775, Governor 
 Dunmore reported that the gar- 
 rison at Point Pleasant had 
 been ordered discontinued, 
 but the Virginia convention 
 ordered that one hundred 
 men should be hastened to Point 
 Pleasant. Upon their arrival 
 they found Fort Blair in ashes. 
 
 By whom or when distroyed his- 
 tory does not record. On May, 
 16, 1776, Captain Matthew Ar 
 buckle passed through Wheel- 
 ing enroute to Point Pleasant 
 where upon the ruins of Fort 
 Blair he erected Fort Ran- 
 dolph. This fort was much 
 larger than Fort Blair, called 
 Fort Randolph in honor of Hon. 
 Peyton Randolph of Virginia. 
 It was from thence garrisoned 
 at expense of the colony of Vir- 
 ginia Captain Arbuckle con- 
 tinuing in command until the 
 close of 1777. He was succeed- 
 ed in command by Capt. Wm. 
 McKee of Rockbridge County. 
 In 1778 several were killed by 
 Indians while outside the fort 
 at work, including Lieut. Moore. 
 In 1779, for a week Indians be- 
 sieged the fort but to no avail 
 except that they captured all the 
 cattle. In 1779 prior to July 12, 
 Ft. Randolph was evacuated after 
 which it was burned by Indians. 
 Capt. Andrew Lewis visiting at 
 Point Pleasant in 1784 reported. 
 There was then but little or no 
 sign of the fort to be seen. In 
 1785 a third fort was built at 
 Point Pleasant, on the Ohio Riv- 
 er above the present First street. 
 Commanded by Colonel Thomas 
 Lewis and from that year on the 
 white man has never ceased to 
 reside at Point Pleasant.
 
 Participants of the Battle. 
 
 1 official roster having been preserved either by the Government 
 
 or State, the following list has been gleaned from the sources 
 
 availabe after years oi research by the writer 
 
 Albe, Jeremiah 
 
 Adams, John 
 
 Adkins, Parker 
 
 Adkins, Wilton 
 
 Atkins, Wm. 
 
 Agnew, (Aggnue), John 
 
 Alexander, James Ser. 
 
 Allen, James 
 
 Allen, Thomas 
 
 Alley, Thomas 
 
 Alden, Andrew 
 
 Allen, Hugh Lieut. 
 
 Allen, James 
 
 Alliet (Elliot) Robert 
 
 Alsbury, Thomas 
 
 Arbuckle, Capt. Matthew . 
 
 Anderson, James 
 
 Anderson, Samuel 
 
 Andrews, Samuel 
 
 Arbuckle, John 
 
 Ard, James. 
 
 Arnold, James 
 
 Arnold, Steven 
 
 Armstrong, Geo. 
 
 Armstrong Thos. 
 
 Armstrong, Wm, 
 
 Arthur, John 
 
 Astle, Samuel 
 
 Atkins, Blackburn 
 
 Atkins, Charles 
 
 Atkins, Henry 
 
 Babbit, Ishmael 
 Baker, Martin 
 Barker, Samuel 
 Baker, Thomas 
 Baker, Markham 
 Baker, Ensign Samuel 
 Baily, John 
 Bailey, Campbell 
 Ball, James 
 Baret, Edward 
 Barton, Samuel 
 Basel John 
 Barkly, John 
 Bambridge, James 
 
 Barnes, 
 
 Barnett, James 
 Barnett, S. L. 
 
 Bates, 
 
 Ha ugh, Jacob 
 
 Boylstone, Wm. 
 
 Bazel, John 
 
 Bellew, Daniel (Canoe man) 
 
 Bell, Thomas 
 
 Bergman, Christian 
 
 Berry, Francis 
 
 Bishop, Levi 
 
 Blackburn, Arthur 
 
 Blackford, Joseph 
 
 Blair, Daniel 
 
 Blair Wm. 
 
 Blankenship, Richard
 
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 Bledsoe, Abraham Lieut. 
 
 Blesly, Jacob 
 
 Blesly, John 
 
 Bojard, Abraham 
 
 Boh, Adam 
 
 Boh, Jacob 
 
 Boles, John 
 
 Boniface, Wm. 
 
 Borg, Francis 
 
 Bough man, John 
 
 Boughman, Jacobs 
 
 Buruey, Thomas 
 
 Bowen, Moses 
 
 Bowen, Reese 
 
 Bowen, Wm. 
 
 Bowles, Sergt 
 
 Bowles, Kobt. 
 Bowyer, Henry 
 Boyd, James 
 Boyd, Kobert 
 Boylstone 
 
 Boyer, Henry 
 
 Boyles, Barney 
 
 Bracken, Matthews Ensign & 
 
 Lieut 
 
 Bradley, John 
 Bradley, Wm. 
 Brambradge, Jas. 
 Bramstead, Andrew 
 Breckinridge, Alexander 
 Breden, John 
 Breeze, Richard 
 Bree/.e, Robt. 
 Bradley, John 
 Brooks Geo. 
 Brooks, Thos. 
 Brown, Chas. 
 Brown, James 
 Brown, Low 
 Brown, Robt. 
 Brown. Wm. 
 Brown, Thos. 
 Brumfield Humphrey 
 Brumfield, Solomon 
 Brumley, Thos. , 
 BryansSborgan 
 Bryans, Wm. Sergt. 
 Bryant, Wm. 
 
 Buchanan (Commissariat) 
 Buchanan Col. John 
 
 Buchanan, Ensign Wm. 
 Buford, Col. Abraham 
 Bunch, Joseph 
 Buchnell, John 
 Burch, Richard 
 Burcks, Samuel 
 Burk, Thos. 
 Burk, John 
 Burnes, Thos. 
 Burnsides, James 
 Burrens, Jarnes 
 Burroughs John 
 Burton, Litton 
 Burtchfield, James 
 Buch, Sergt. John 
 Buch, Wm. 
 Buster, David 
 Butler, Joseph 
 Butl&r, Shabrick 
 Byrd, Richard 
 Byrne, Chas 
 
 Galloway. Dudley 
 Cameron, Geo. 
 Cameron, Hugh 
 Campbell, Arthur Maj. 
 Campbell, John Capt. 
 Campbell, Robt. 
 Campbell Joseph 
 Campbell, Samuel 
 Campbell, Wm. Capt. 
 Canady, Thos. 
 Caperton, Adam 
 Caperton, Hugh 
 Carlton, James 
 Carmack, John 
 Carney, Martin 
 Carpenter, John 
 Carpenter, Jeremiah 
 Carpenter Solomon 
 Carpenter, Thomas 
 Carr, Geo. 
 Carr, John 
 Carr, Wm. 
 Cartain, James 
 Cariain, Joel 
 Cartain. John- 
 Carter, John 
 Carther, Edward 
 Gary, Jeremiah
 
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 Casey, Wm. 
 
 Cashady, Simon 
 
 Cashaday, Thos. 
 
 Catron, Adam 
 
 Catron, Francis 
 
 Catron, Jacob 
 
 Calron, Michael 
 
 Catron, Peter 
 
 Catron, Philip 
 
 Cats, Roger 
 
 Cattes, John 
 
 Cavenaugh, Charles 
 
 Cavenaugh, Philemon 
 
 Cavenaugh, Philip 
 
 Cavenaugh Wm. 
 
 Cecil, Saul 
 
 Champ, Wm. 
 
 Chaplme, Abraham 
 
 Chapman, John 
 
 Chapman. Richard 
 
 Chesney, John 
 
 Charlton James 
 
 Christian, Col Wm. 
 
 Clark, John 
 
 Clark, James 
 
 Clark, Samuel 
 
 Clay, Mitchell 
 
 Clay, Zekel 
 
 Clay, David 
 
 CJendinen Adam 
 
 Clendinen, Alexander 
 
 Clendinen Chas. 
 
 Clendinen Geo. 
 
 Clendinen, Robert 
 
 Clendinen, Wm. 
 
 Clerk, John 
 
 Clifton, Wm. 
 
 Clinding, Wm. 
 
 Clinding, Geo. 
 
 Cloyne Nicholas 
 
 Cochran, Wm. 
 
 Cocke, Capt. Wm. 
 
 Coile, James 
 
 Coller, John 
 
 Coller, Moses Sergt. 
 
 Collet, Thos. 
 
 Collins, Richard 
 
 Condon, David (canoe man) 
 
 Conner, Patrick 
 
 Conner, Wm. 
 
 Constantine Patrick 
 Cook, David 
 Cook, Henry 
 Cook, John 
 Cook, Wm. 
 Cooper, Abraham 
 Cooper, Fiancis 
 Cooper Leonard 
 Cooper Nathiel 
 Cooper, Spencer 
 Cooper, Thomas 
 Copley, Thos. 
 Cornwell, Adam 
 Corder, John 
 Cormick, John 
 Cornwell, Adam 
 Cornwell, John 
 Courtney, Chas. 
 Courtney, John 
 Cowan, Jared 
 Cowan, John 
 
 Coward 
 
 Cox, Lieut, Gabriel 
 Cox, Capt. John 
 Coyl, James 
 Crabtree, Wm. (scout) 
 Craig-, George 
 Craig, John 
 Craig Wm. Serg- 
 Grain, John 
 Craven, Joseph Serg. 
 Cravens, James 
 Cravens, John 
 Cravens, Robt. 
 Crockett, Capt. Walter 
 Crawford, Bonard 
 Crawford, John Serg. 
 Crawley; (Croley) James 
 Creed, Matthew 
 Crisman, Isaac 
 Crockett, Joseph 
 Croley, Samuel 
 Crow, John Serg. 
 Crow, Wm. 
 Curwell, Alexander 
 Cummins, Geo. 
 Cundiff, Johnatban Ensign 
 Cunningham James 
 Cunningham John 
 Current. Joseph
 
 87 
 
 Curry, James, Capt. 
 Custer, Wm. 
 Cutlep, David 
 Outright, John 
 Culwell Alexander 
 
 Dale, James 
 
 Davis. Capt. Azariah 
 
 Davis, Charles 
 
 Davis, Geo. 
 
 Davis, Robert (scout) 
 
 Davis, Samuel 
 
 Davise, Johnathen 
 
 Day, Joseph 
 
 Day, Wm. 
 
 Deal, Wm. 
 
 Deck, John 
 
 Demonse, Abraham 
 
 Denistun, John 
 
 Denton, John 
 
 Dickinson, Col. John 
 
 Dillon, Lieut. 
 
 Dingos. Peter 
 Divev, John 
 Doack, Robt. Capt. 
 Doack, David 
 Doack, Samuel 
 Doack, Wm. Ensign 
 Dobler, Jacob 
 Dodd, John 
 Dodd, James 
 Dorherty, John 
 Dorhertv James 
 Dollarhide Samuel 
 Donaley, Serg. Jame's 
 Donaley, John (fifer) 
 Donalson, Col. John 
 Donalson, Robt. 
 Donalson, Thos. 
 Donley, Jacob 
 Dooley, Thos. Lieut. 
 Doran, Patrick 
 Doss, Joel 
 
 Daugherty, Geo. Serg. 
 Daugherty, James 
 Daugherty John 
 Daugherty, Michael, Serg. 
 Douglas Geo. 
 Douglas, James 
 Downy, James Serg. 
 
 Downy, John 
 Drake, Joseph 
 Drake, Ephriam 
 Draper Lieut. John 
 Dulin, James 
 Duncan, John Serg. 
 Dunkirk, John Serg. 
 Dunlap, Robert 
 Dunn, John 
 Dunowho, James 
 Duttsn, Philip 
 Dyer, Wm. 
 
 Eager, John 
 
 Eastbam, Wm. 
 
 Eastham, Geo. 
 
 Edgar, Thos. 
 
 Edmiston (Edmondson) Wm. 
 
 Lieut. 
 
 Edward, James 
 Edwards, Johnathan 
 Egnis, Edward 
 Elkins, Jesse 
 Ellenborough, Peter 
 Elias, Thomas 
 Elliott Capt. Robert 
 Ellison, James 
 Ellison, Charles 
 Elswick. John 
 English, Joseph 
 English, Joshua 
 English, Stephen 
 Estill, Samuel 
 Evans, Evan 
 Evans, Andrew 
 Ewing, Alexander 
 Ewing, - Jr. 
 Ewing, Robert 
 Ewing Samuel 
 Ewing, Wm. Serg. & Maj. 
 
 Fain, John 
 Fain, Samuel 
 Fargison, Thos. 
 Farley (Farlen) Francis 
 
 Farley, John 
 
 Farley (Farlor) Thomas 
 Farmer. Nathan 
 Feavil, Wm. 
 Ferrill, Robt.
 
 88 
 
 Ferrill, Wm. 
 
 Field, Col. John 
 
 Fields, Wm. 
 
 Fielder, John Serg. 
 
 Fielder, Wm. 
 
 Fenquay, Isham(canoe man) 
 
 Findlay, Geo. 
 
 Find lay, John 
 
 Fendlay, Robt. Serg. 
 
 Fisher, Isaac 
 
 Fitzhugb, John 
 
 Fitspatrick, Timothy 
 
 Fleming, Col Wm. 
 
 Flintham, John 
 
 Fliping, Thos. 
 
 Floyd, John 
 
 Fourgeson,Thos. 
 
 Fowler, Jas. (scout) 
 
 Fowler, Samuel 
 
 Fowler, Wm. 
 
 Franklin, James 
 
 Franklin, Wm. 
 
 Frazer, John 
 
 Freeland, John 
 
 Friel, Jeremiah 
 
 Frogg, Lieut. John 
 
 Fry, Geo. 
 
 Fry, Geo. Jr. 
 
 Fry, John 
 
 Fullen, Chas. 
 
 Fullen, James 
 
 Fullen, Daniel 
 
 Fuls, Geo. 
 
 Gardner, Andrew 
 Garrett, Wm. 
 Gass, David (Messenger) 
 Gatliff (Gatkpp) Squire 
 Gibbs, Luman 
 Gibson, Joseph 
 Gilberts, Thos. 
 Gillihan (Gilliland) John 
 Gilkenson, Jas. 
 Gill, Prisley 
 Gillespy, Thos. 
 Gillass, Wm. 
 Gillman Duncan 
 Gilmore, John 
 Gilmore,Capt. Jas. 
 Givens, Lieut. 
 
 Glascum, David 
 
 Glass, Serg. Samuel 
 
 Glass Wm. 
 
 Glaves, Michael 
 
 Glenn, Davis 
 
 Goff, Andrew 
 
 Goldman, Lieut. Edward 
 
 Goldsby 
 
 Goodall, John 
 Gordan, Moses 
 Gorman, David 
 Graham, Benj. 
 Green, John 
 Griffin, Robt. 
 Grigger, Michael 
 Grigger, Peter 
 Grigs, John 
 Grimp, John 
 
 Grigsby 
 
 Guffy, James 
 Guillen, Edward James 
 Gullion, Barney 
 Gurden, Michael 
 
 Hackett, Thos. 
 Hackworth, Augustine 
 Hackworth Wm 
 Haines, Lewis 
 Hale, Edward 
 Hale, Thomas 
 Hale, Wm 
 Hall, James 
 Hall, Thos. 
 Hamilton, Francis 
 Hamilton Isaiah 
 Hamilton, Jacob 
 Hamilton, Jas. 
 Hamilton, John 
 Hamilton Thos. 
 Hammond, Philip 
 Hamrick, Thos. 
 Hamrick, Wm. 
 Handley (Herrill) Robt. 
 Handley (Hensley) Sam'l 
 Hanee, Philip 
 Hansburger, Adam 
 Hanson Wm. 
 Harlan Elijah 
 Harlan, Silas 
 Harmon, Dangerfield
 
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 Harmon, Geo. 
 Harmon, Israel 
 Harmon, John 
 Harrel, Wm. (scout) 
 Harriman, Skid Serg. 
 Harris Griffin 
 Harris, John 
 Harris, Stephen 
 Harrison, Andrew- 
 Harrison, Benj.Capt. 
 Harrison, John Lieut. 
 Harrod, James Capt. 
 Hart, Thos. 
 Hasket, Thos. 
 Hatfield Andrew 
 Havens, John 
 Havens James 
 Hayes, John 
 Hay nes, Benj. 
 Haynes, Capt. Joseph 
 Hays, Chas. 
 Henly, Geo. 
 Henly, Wm. 
 
 Hensley (Hadley) Sam'l 
 Herbert Wm. Capt. 
 Herd Richard 
 Herrill, Robt. 
 Henderson Sam 1 1 
 Hendrix, Peter 
 Henderson, Lieut. John 
 Henderson Daniel 
 Henderson, Alexander 
 Hays, Samuel (scout) 
 
 Head, Anthony (Messenger) 
 Hedden, Thos. 
 Hedrick, Peter 
 
 Hepenstahl (Hempinstall) Abra- 
 ham 
 
 Hckman 
 
 Higgans (Higans) Peter 
 Higgans, Philemion 
 
 Hill, Capt. 
 
 Hill James 
 
 Hill, Robert 
 
 Hobbs, Vincent 
 
 Hogan, Henry 
 
 Hogan, Win. 
 
 Holley, Wm. 
 
 Hollway (Holloway) Richard 
 
 Holston, Stephen 
 
 Hoi well, Walter 
 
 Homes, Lewis 
 
 Hooper, Wm. 
 
 Hopton, Stephen 
 
 Hopton, Wm. 
 
 Home, Joseph 
 
 Howard, Charles 
 
 Howard, Henry 
 
 Hutchinson, Lewis 
 
 Huchisen (Hutchinson) Wm. 
 
 Huff. Leonard 
 
 Huff, Peter 
 
 Huff. Samuel 
 
 Huff, Thomas 
 
 Hughes, Davy 
 
 Hughes, Kl\is 
 
 Hughey, Joseph 
 
 Humphries, John 
 
 Hundley, John 
 
 Hunter, Robert 
 
 Hutson, John 
 
 Hynes. Frances 
 
 Ingles, Wm. Major(Commissary) 
 
 Inglis, Joshua 
 
 Inglis, Thos. 
 
 Inglish (English) Joseph 
 
 Irvine, John 
 
 Inglish (English) Joshua 
 
 Isum, Wm. 
 
 Jackson, Yerty 
 Jameson, John 
 Jenkins, Jeremiah 
 Jennings, Edmond 
 Jewitt, Matthew 
 Johns, Wm. 
 Johnson Capt. Arthur 
 Johnston, John 
 Johnston, Patrick 
 Jones, Benj. 
 Jones, John 
 Jones, Thos. 
 Jones, Wm. 
 
 Kasheday, Peter 
 Keeneson, Charles 
 Keith, Samuel 
 Kelley, Alexander 
 Kelsey, John 
 Kendrick, James
 
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 Kennedy, Ezekiel 
 Kennedy, Thomas 
 Kennedy, Win. Serg. 
 Kenneson, Cbas. 
 Kenneson, Edward 
 Kennot, Zacariah 
 Kerr, James 
 Kerr. Wm 
 Kinder, George 
 Kinder, Jacob. 
 Kinder, Peter 
 King 1 , James 
 King-, John 
 King, Wm. 
 
 Kincaid (Kingkeid) David 
 Kincaid " Jr. 
 
 Kincaid Geo. 
 
 Kincaid James 
 
 Kincaid '* John Serg. 
 Kinsor, Cbas. 
 Kinsor Michael 
 Kinsor, Jacob 
 Kinsor, Walter 
 Kishoner, Andrew Jr. 
 Kishoner, Andrew Sr. 
 Kissinger, An3re>v 
 Kissinger, Matthew 
 Knox, James 
 
 Lammey, Andrew 
 
 Lapsley, John % 
 
 Larken, John Serg-. 
 
 Lashly, John 
 
 Laughlin. James 
 
 Lawrence. Henry 
 
 Lee, Sefinah 
 
 Learned (Lord) Lieut. 
 
 Lee, Zacarias 
 
 Lemaster, Richard 
 
 Lesley Wm. 
 
 Lesley, John 
 
 Lesley, Wm. Adj. 
 
 Lester, Samuel 
 
 Lester, John 
 
 Lewis, Andrew Gen. 
 
 Lewis. Benjamin 
 
 Lewis, Chas. Col. 
 
 Lewis, John Capt. of Augusta 
 
 Lewis. John Capt. of Botetourt 
 
 Lewis, John Private 
 
 Lewis, Samuel 
 
 Lin, Adam 
 
 Librougb, Henry 
 
 Litton, Burton 
 
 Litton, Solomon 
 
 Litz, Wm. 
 
 Lockhart, Jacob 
 
 Lockhart, Queavy 
 
 Lockridge, Andrew Capt. 
 
 Logan, Ben). 
 
 Logan, John 
 
 Logan, Hugh 
 
 Logan, James 
 
 Long, Joseph Ensign 
 
 Lord (Leord) Lieut 
 
 Love, Joseph 
 
 Love, Philip Capt.* 
 
 Luallen, Thos. 
 
 Lucas, Chas. 
 
 Lucas, Chas. Jr. 
 
 Lucas, Henry. 
 
 Lucas, John 
 
 Lucas, Wm. 
 
 Luney. Michael 
 
 Ly brook (Librough) Henry 
 
 Ly brook Palser 
 
 Lyman, Richard 
 
 Lyle, John 
 
 Lyn, James 
 
 Lynch, 
 
 Lyons, Wm. 
 
 McAllister, Wm. 
 McBride, James 
 McBride, Joseph 
 McCallister, James 
 McCallister Wm. 
 McCandless, John 
 McCartney, John 
 McCastem, Wm. 
 McCarty, James 
 McClanahan, Absalom 
 McClanahan, Alexander, Capt. 
 McClanaham, John, (Canoeman) 
 McClanahan, Robt. Capt. 
 McAfee, Geo. 
 McAfee, James 
 McAfee, Robt. 
 McAfee, Samuel 
 McAfee, Wm.
 
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 McCJintic, Wm. 
 McClure, John 
 McClure, Tfiomas 
 McCorkle, Wm. 
 McCoy, Wrn. Lieut 
 McCune, Wm. 
 McCutchen, Wm. 
 McDonald, Daniel 
 McDonald, James 
 McDowell. Archibald 
 McDowell, M. Capt. 
 McDowell, Samuel Capt. 
 McElhanev, Francis 
 McFarland, Wm. 
 Me Far land, Robt. 
 McGee, John 
 McGeehey, Samuel 
 McGinness, John 
 McGlahlen, John 
 McGuff, John 
 McGuff, Patrick 
 McKee, Wm. Capt. 
 McKinnett. Alex 
 McKinney, John 
 McKinsey, Hensley 
 McKinsey, Moredock 
 McLaughlin, Edward 
 McMullin, John 
 McMullcn, Wm. 
 McNiel, Pfter 
 McNeal (Niel) John 
 McNiell, Daniel Lieut 
 McNutt, James 
 McNutt, Alexander 
 Madison, John 
 
 Monad ue, Henry 
 Mann, John 
 Mann, Wm. 
 Marks, John 
 Martin, Brice 
 Martin, Christian 
 Martin, Geo. Sr. 
 Martin, Geo. Jr. 
 Martin, Philip 
 Martin, Wm Col. 
 Matthew Capt. Geo. 
 Matthew, Sampson 
 Maxwell, Bezaleel 
 Maxwell, David 
 
 Maxwell, John 
 
 Maxwell, Thomas 
 
 Mayse, Joseph 
 
 Mead, Nicholas 
 
 Mead, Thos. 
 
 Meader, Israel 
 
 Mecrary, Thomas 
 
 Meek, Wm. 
 
 Messersnuth, Barnctt 
 
 Messersnuth, John 
 
 Micalister, Wm 
 
 Milican, John 
 
 Miller, James 
 
 Miller, Robert 
 
 Mills, John 
 
 Mil wood, Geo. 
 
 Miner, Henry 
 
 Mitchell, James Capt. 
 
 Mitchell, James 
 
 Mitchell, Thos. 
 
 Moffat (Manford) Robt. Capt. 
 
 MofFat, George Capt. 
 
 Montgomery, Jas. Capt. 
 
 Montgomery, Samuel 
 
 Moodr, John 
 
 Moon, Abraham 
 
 Moor, Moses 
 
 Moor, Frederick 
 
 Moor, Wm. 
 
 Moor, John 
 
 Moor, Hugh 
 
 Mooney, Nicholas 
 
 Mooney, Frederick 
 
 Mooney, Hendly Ensign 
 
 Mooney, Hugh 
 
 Mooney, James 
 
 Mooney, John 
 
 M^oney, Moses 
 
 Mooney, Samuel 
 
 Mooney, Wm. 
 
 Morris, Wm. 
 
 Morrow, James 
 
 Morrow, James Jr. 
 
 Mullin, Thos. 
 
 Mungle (Mongle) Daniel 
 
 Mungle " Frederick 
 
 Murry, John Capt. 
 
 Murry, James 
 
 Myers, Wm. 
 
 Mercer, Hugh
 
 Nail, Dennis 
 Nail, Thomas 
 Nalle, Martin Lieut 
 Nail, Thomas 
 Naul (Novvl) Wm. Capt. 
 Nave, Conrad 
 Neal Wm. 
 Neaville, John 
 Neaville, Joseph 
 Neely James (Cadet) 
 Neely, Wm. 
 Neil, John 
 Nelson, John 
 Newberry, Joseph 
 Newell, James 
 Newland, Abraham 
 Newland, Isaac 
 Newland, John 
 Newman, Walter 
 Nicholas, John 
 Nickels, Isaac 
 No well, John 
 Noland, John 
 Null, Jacob 
 Null, John 
 
 Odear, James 
 Oguillen, Barnett 
 Oguillen, Duncan 
 Oguillen, John 
 Oguillen, Hugh 
 O'Haara, Chas. Capt. 
 O'Haara, Robt. 
 O'Haara, Wm. 
 Qharron, Henry 
 Olverson, Joseph 
 Ormsbey, Daniel 
 Overstreet, Wm. 
 Ower, Thomas 
 Owen, Robt. 
 Owens, David 
 Owler, Henry 
 Ovvler, John 
 
 Pack, George 
 Pack, Samuel 
 Packwood, Richard 
 Pain, Joseph 
 Parchment. Peter 
 Parsons, James 
 
 Pate Jeremiah 
 
 Patten, John 
 
 Pauling, Henry Capt. 
 
 Paulley, James 
 
 Paulley, John 
 
 Pawlings, Moses 
 
 Paxton, Samuel 
 
 Peary, Thomas 
 
 Pence, Jacob Ensign 
 
 Perce, Thomas 
 
 Peregin, Molastin 
 
 Persinger, Jacob 
 
 Pettv, Benjamin 
 
 Peyton, John 
 
 Peyton, Rowzie 
 
 Pharis, Wm. 
 
 Pierce, Lieut 
 
 Pierce, John 
 
 Plunkenpel, Zacarias 
 
 Poage, Wm. Serg. 
 
 Poling, Mathew. 
 
 Portor, Robl. 
 
 Posey, Thos. (Commissary) 
 
 Potter, Thos. 
 
 Preston, Wm. 
 
 Price, Jarnes 
 
 Price, Reese 
 
 Price, Rickard 
 
 Price, Thomas 
 
 Price, Wm. 
 
 Pricket (Pucket) Drury 
 
 Priest, David 
 
 Priest, Samuel 
 
 Priest, Wm. 
 
 Pright, John 
 
 Prince, Wm. 
 
 Prior (Pryor) John 
 
 Ranis, Robert 
 Ramsey, Josiah 
 Rains, Robt. 
 Rapp, Frederick 
 Katcliff, Wm. 
 Ratcliff, Matthew 
 Razor, Michael 
 Ray, Wm. 
 Ravenscroft, Thos. 
 Read, John Ensign 
 Reagh, Archibald 
 Reagh, John
 
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 Reary, James 
 Keburn, John 
 Rediford. Benj. 
 Reed, Alexander 
 Reese, Andrew 
 Reid, Andrew 
 Reid, Thos. 
 Reynolds, John 
 Richardson, Benj. 
 Richardson, Wra. 
 Riley, John 
 Roay, Joseph 
 Roberts, John 
 Robinson, Elijah 
 Robertson, Jas. Capt. 
 Robertson, Wm. Lieut 
 Robinson, Hugh 
 Robinson, John 
 Robertson, Jauies 
 Robertson, Thos. Major 
 Robertson, Wm. 
 Robison, Jas. Lieut. 
 Robison, Julius 
 Robison, Wm. 
 Robison, Isaac 
 Roay, Joseph 
 Roe, - Capt. 
 Rogers (Rodgers) Andrew 
 Roger, Chesley 
 
 Rogers, David 
 
 Rogers, James 
 
 Rogers, " Thos. 
 Rogers, Wm. 
 
 Rollens, Richard 
 Ross, Edward 
 Ross. Tavener 
 Rowan, Francis 
 Rucker, Geo. 
 Ruddle, (Ri'ddle) Geo. 
 Rue, Abraham 
 Russell, Wm. Gen. 
 Rutheford, Benj. 
 
 Samples, Samuel 
 Sanders, James 
 Sappington, Daniel 
 Salsbury, Wm. 
 Savage, John 
 Savage, Samuel 
 Sawyers, John Col. 
 
 Sayres, John 
 Scails, Wm. 
 Scard, Lieut. 
 Scarbara, James 
 Scott, Archelaus 
 Scott, Archibald 
 Scott, Daniel Capt. 
 Scott Geo. 
 Scott, James 
 Scott, Wm. 
 See, Michael 
 Sedbery, John 
 Seed, Francis 
 Selby, James 
 Sevier, John Gen. 
 Sevier, Valentine 
 Shain, John . 
 Shannon, John 
 Shannon, Samuel 
 Sharp, Abraham 
 Sharp, John (.Scout) 
 Sharp, Edward 
 Shaw, Henry 
 Shelby, Evan Capt. 
 Shelby, Isaac Lieut. 
 Shelby, James 
 Shelby, Wm. Capt. 
 Shell, Arnold 
 Shelp, John 
 Shillin, John 
 Shoatt, Emanuel 
 Simpkins, Daniel 
 Simpkins, James 
 Simms, Chas. " 
 Simmerman, Geo. 
 Simpson, James 
 Simpson, John 
 Simpson, Wm. 
 Skaggs, Reuben 
 Skaggs, Zach 
 Skidmore, John Capt. 
 
 Slaughter, Capt. 
 
 Slaughter, Francis Col. 
 Slaughter, Geo. Col. 
 Slaughter, Lawrence 
 Smith, Bruten 
 Smith, David 
 Smith, Daniel Capt. 
 Smith, Edward 
 Smith, Ericus
 
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 Smith, James 
 Smith, John 
 Smith, Mecagh 
 Smith, Moses 
 Smith. Robt. 
 Smith, Wm. 
 Smithers, Gabriel 
 Sobe, Geo. 
 Spicer, Wm. 
 Spratt, Isaac Serg. 
 Squires, Uriah 
 Staffy, Michael 
 Stailey, Martin 
 Steele, Andrew 
 Steele, John 
 Stephens, John Lieut 
 Stephens, Thomas 
 Stephens, Wm. 
 Stephens, Stephen 
 Stephenson. Hugh Capt. 
 Stephenson, Robt. 
 Sterns, Conrad 
 
 Stevens, 
 
 Steward, John 
 Steward, Walter 
 Stewart, John 
 Stewart, Wm. 
 Stewart, John Capt. 
 Stull, Martin 
 Stump, Michael 
 Sullivan, James 
 Sullivan, Sam'l 
 Summers, Charles 
 Swoop, John 
 
 Tate, T. Lieut. 
 
 Tate, Wm. 
 
 Tarney (Farney) Peter 
 
 Taylor, Capt. 
 
 Taylor, Daniel 
 
 Taylor, Isaac 
 
 Taylor, Sieltor 
 
 Taylor, Wm. 
 
 Teasy, Wm. 
 
 Terrence (Torrence) Andrw 
 
 Thomas, Edward 
 
 Thompson, Andrew Ensign 
 
 Thompson, Richard 
 
 Thompson, Robert 
 
 Thompson, Wm. 
 
 Tipton, John 
 Todd, James 
 Todd, John 
 Trent, 
 
 (Canoe Master.) 
 
 Trent, Obediah 
 Trimble, Isaac 
 Trimble, James 
 Trotter, John 
 Trotter, Richard 
 Tucker, Wm. 
 Tyler, Isaac 
 
 Vails, John 
 Vallendingham, Geo. 
 VanBibber, Isaac 
 VanBibber, Jesse 
 VanBibber, John 
 VanBibber. Peter 
 VanBibber, Mathias 
 Vance, Edward 
 Vance, Samuel Lieut. 
 Vanhook. Samuel 
 Vaut (Vaught) Andrew 
 Vaut Christian 
 
 Vaut Geo. 
 
 Venable, Wm. 
 Vaughan (Vaun) John 
 Vanhook, Samuel 
 
 Wag-g-oner, Andrew 
 Waggoner, Henry 
 Waggoner, Henry Jr. 
 Walker, Adam 
 Walker, Henry 
 Walker, James 
 Wallace, Adam Ensign 
 Wallace, Andrew 
 Wallace, David 
 Wallace Robt. 
 Wallace, Samuel Lieut. 
 Walter, Michael 
 Wambler, Geo. 
 Wambler, Mitchell 
 Ward, David Ensign 
 Ward, James Capt. 
 Ward, Wm. Serg. 
 Warwick, Jacob 
 Washburn, James 
 Washburn, Steven 
 Watkins, Robt.
 
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 Weaver, Christian 
 Weaver, Michael 
 Welch, James 
 Welch, John 
 Welch, Thomas 
 Welch, Thomas Jr. 
 Wells, Bazaleel 
 Wells, Samuel 
 Welsh, Christopher 
 Whish, Richard 
 Wet/el, John 
 Wetzel, Martin 
 Whitley, Moses 
 White, Davfd 
 White, Joseph 
 White. Solomon 
 White, Wm. 
 Whitticor, Joseph 
 Whitton, Jerremiah 
 Whitton, Thomas 
 Whitton, Thomas Jr. 
 Wiley James 
 Wiles, Robert 
 Wiley, Robert Jr. 
 Wiley, Thomas 
 Williams, Alden 
 Williams, David 
 Williams, Isaac 
 Williams, James 
 Williams, Jarrett 
 Williams, John 
 Williams, Mack 
 Williams, Philip 
 Williams, Richard 
 Williams, Rowland 
 Williams Samuel 
 Williams, Thomas Serg 1 . 
 Williamson, Aldin 
 Williamson, David 
 Willis, Henry, 
 Wilmoth, Wm. 
 Wilson, Beni. 
 Wilson, Edwaad 
 Wilson, James 
 Wilson, John Capt. 
 Wilson, Georg-e 
 Wilson, Thomas 
 Wilson, Wm. Serg-. 
 
 Wilson, Samuel Capt. 
 Wood, John 
 Wood, Adam 
 Wood, Andrew 
 Wood, Archibald 
 Wood, James Serg. 
 Wood, Jos. Capt. 
 Wood, Michael Capt. 
 Wood, Richard 
 Woolsey, Richard 
 Workman, Daniel 
 Wood burn, Steven 
 Woodburn, James 
 
 Young-, John 
 
 History of the Monument Building 
 
 In our research for informa- 
 tion relative to efforts being- 
 made to erect a battle monument 
 at Point Pleasant, the earliest 
 record of which we have an ac- 
 count is a letter yet preserved, 
 written by Hon. J. M. H. Beale, 
 who, in 18-18, represented that 
 district of which Mason County, 
 Virginia, was a part, in the lower 
 branch of Congress, in which he 
 says "I have introduced a bill 
 in Congress asking for $50,000 
 with which to erect a monument 
 to commemorate the Battle ot 
 Point Pleasant." As nothing 
 came of it, it died in a commitee 
 room. 
 
 That amount of money in pur- 
 chasing power, equal in value to 
 twice that amount of money at 
 the present time, only demon- 
 strated the magnitude in which 
 the battle was held when not so 
 many years had intervened since 
 that terrible struggle. 
 
 We find by reference to an old 
 minute book preserved by Mrs'
 
 96 
 
 John Daniel McCulloch, that a 
 monument committee had been 
 organized in the year 1860. The 
 exact date of organization is not 
 given. The first meeting record- 
 ed is as follows: 
 
 "Monument Association Rooms 
 Sep. 17, 1860. 
 
 The Regent being absent, 
 Mrs. James Hutchinson, Vice 
 Regent, called the association to 
 order. 
 
 On motion the minutes of the 
 last meeting was suspended." 
 
 "The committee on By Laws 
 reported series of laws by Mrs. 
 Wm. Smith, Chair lady, & under 
 discussion said By laws were 
 adopted, & on motion the com- 
 mittee was discharged." 
 
 "On mot on a permanent com- 
 mitee composed of Mrs. Charles 
 Lewis, Mrs. Barlow, Miss Sallie 
 Henderson, Miss Kimberling, 
 Miss Till Stribling, Miss Sue 
 Waggoner to collect historical 
 facts connected with the battle 
 of Point Pleasant. 
 
 "On motion of Mrs. Smith, it 
 is resolved this association will 
 celebrate the anniversary of the 
 battle, 10th of October. 
 
 "On motion it is resolved com- 
 mittee be appointed to see what 
 will be contributed for a supper. 
 
 "On motion a committee com- 
 posed of Sallie Lewis, Fannie, 
 for the Flats, Miss Patrick, Sehon 
 for Mason City, Miss Stribling 
 & Hall, upper part of town, Miss 
 Jones & Miss Murdock lower 
 
 end, Sallie Henderson and E. 
 Smith, South Side Kanawha, 
 Ginnie Neale& Maria Menager, 
 Mercer Bottom. 
 
 "On motion it is resolved a 
 committee of two be appointed 
 to wait on Col. Beale, & see if. 
 we can procure the Hall. 
 Signed, E. Smith 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 M. T. Lewis Regent 
 
 Nov. 14-1860" 
 
 There is left no written record 
 of that supper given at Beal's 
 Hall, but there are many living 
 here yet who recall it as one of 
 the greatest social events of the 
 town up until that time, as there 
 was gathered here all of the elite 
 of the county. The money 
 raised at that time by the supper 
 was about $200.00, 'which was 
 supplemeated by $800,00 more 
 in subscriptions, Mrs. John S. 
 Lewis (Mrs. Mary T. Lewis) 
 the Regent riding horseback 
 over the county soliciting funds, 
 
 The society applied fora char- 
 ter which was granted under 
 the laws of the State of Virginia. 
 The money war. loaned to Mr. 
 Peter Steenbergen Lewis, a 
 descendant of Col. Charles Lewis 
 killed in the battle, and was 
 faithfully accounted for and in- 
 terest paid until turned over to 
 the Point Pleasant Battle Monu- 
 ment commission provided for 
 in 1901, by the State of West 
 Virginia. 
 
 The only two surviving char-
 
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 ter members of the original 
 monument association are Miss 
 Elizabeth Smith, of McCaus-land, 
 and Mrs. J. D. McCulloch (Miss 
 Sallie Lewis) of Point P4easant. 
 
 We find in the above mentioned 
 record book the following- entry: 
 
 "Monument Association Room. 
 Nov. 14, 1860. 
 
 The Regent, having called the 
 meeting to order on motion of 
 E. Smith, the historical com- 
 mittee is requested to wait upon, 
 or otherwise communicate with 
 all the early settlers of the coun- 
 ty, that is practicable, to obtain 
 all the information they can in 
 regard to the battle of the Point, 
 and all other interesting events 
 of the early Indian times. 
 
 On motion it is resolved, the 
 monument be placed on the spot 
 where the brave men who fell in 
 the battle have so long lain un- 
 honored, by vote was unanimous- 
 ly carried affirmative Nannie 
 Smith, Kate Murdock, Sallie 
 Lewis, Sallie Henderson, M. J. 
 Stribling, Ginnie Neale, Rose 
 Barlow, Fannie Lewis, Eliza 
 Waggoner, E. Smith Negative. 
 
 "On motion it is resolved a fine 
 of five cents be imposed on those 
 who are not present by half after 
 two o'clock, P. M. 
 
 "On motion it is resolved that 
 this meeting adjourn to meet 
 the first Wednesday in January." 
 
 it is well that the names of 
 these patriotic women have been 
 preserved to history, many of 
 
 whom were descendants of par- 
 ticipants in the battle. Sallie 
 Lewis (Mrs. J. D. McCulloch) 
 descended from Col. C h a r 1 e s 
 Lewis; Sallie Henderson, the late 
 Mrs. Jos. George, of Five Mile, 
 descended from Samuel Hender- 
 son; Misses Sue and Eliza Wag- 
 goner descended from Gen. An- 
 drew Lewis; Mrs. Charles Lewis 
 was the mother of Mr. P. S. 
 Lewis, a descendant to whom 
 the first funds were entrusted; 
 Mrs. Kimberling was the wife 
 of Elijah Kimberling, for many 
 years clerk of the county court; 
 Fannie Lewis, wife of Judge 
 John W. English, descended 
 from Col. Charles Lewis, as did 
 Miss Lizzie Sehon, of Mason City; 
 Miss Hall was the late Mrs. B. J. 
 Redmond, daughter of Hon. 
 John Hall; Miss Jones is Mrs. 
 J. W. Bryan; Maria Menger be- 
 came the wife of Rev. George 
 Lyle; Miss Till Stribling became 
 the wife of Mr. Chap. Waggoner 
 of Pleasant Flats: Mrs. Rose 
 Barlow was the wife of a resi- 
 dent physican; Miss Kate 
 (Beale) Murdock was the second 
 wife of the late Col. C. B. Wag- 
 goner, Ginnie Neale now Mrs. 
 Otis Stribling. 
 
 The Civil War breaking out, 
 the efforts to erect a monument 
 were put aside for the stirring 
 incidents then agitating the 
 minds of the people and no efforts 
 were again made until the 100th 
 anniversary of the Battle, 1874,
 
 98 
 
 when the proper celebration of 
 the battle was taken up by 
 Messrs. John Q. Dickerson, 
 John D. Lewis, C. C. Lewis, Wm. 
 Dickenson, of Charleston, P. S. 
 Lewis, J. P. R. B. Smith, Judge 
 John W. English, of Point Pleas- 
 ant. These largely financed the 
 celebration assisted by other of 
 the most patriotic citizens of 
 Point Pleasant and an effort was 
 made to gather together as many 
 as possible of the descendents 
 of the Lewis's of that battle. 
 In "fact so little attention was 
 paid by other descendants and 
 so highly had the Lewis's honor- 
 ed the services of their sires 
 that the proposed monument 
 was spoken, of as the "Lewis 
 Monument" and, for years, the 
 writter, who was present at that 
 celebration, scarcely knew there 
 were other heroes participating 
 worthy of being- published in the 
 school histories, there being no 
 available books to be read and no 
 one mentioned by word of mouth 
 but the Lewis's. 
 
 All honor, however, to this 
 family who honor their- heroic 
 dead. It was the most splendid 
 palm they could place upon the 
 brow of their ancestors to teach 
 the world as they have done their 
 descendants to revere the names 
 of Andrew and Charles Lewis. 
 
 The first published agitation 
 for the proper observance of the 
 100th anniversary of the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant, we find in the 
 
 Charleston Courier, reproduced 
 in the Weekly Register of March 
 19, 1874, which we quote in part: 
 "It was at this place that oc- 
 curred one of the bloodiest and 
 severest battles in which the 
 whites and Indians have ever en- 
 gaged. On the morning of the 
 10th of October, 177 N 4, an army 
 composed almost entirely of Vir- 
 ginians, under the command of 
 General Andrew Lewis, and 
 numbering about eleven hundred 
 men, was attacked by a largely 
 superior force of savages under 
 the command of the famous 
 chieftain Cornstalk. The battle 
 raged furiously the entire day, 
 and ended in the defeat of the 
 Indians, who throughout the bat- 
 tle, are said to have displayed 
 the most determined bravery. 
 The Virginia army sustained in 
 this engagement a loss of seven- 
 ty-five killed and one hundred 
 and forty wounded." 
 
 "Among the slain were Colonels 
 Charles Lewis and John Field 
 and eight subordinate officers, 
 all of whom were of the best 
 families of Virginia." 
 
 "The loss of the savages was 
 never ascertained, as it was their 
 custom to bear off and secrete 
 their dead. Some twenty or 
 more bodies, however, were 
 found on the field, which the In- 
 dians had been unable to carry 
 away." 
 
 "The wounded whites were
 
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 placed within entrenchments, 
 thrown up at the point of the 
 .confluence of the Kanawha and 
 Ohio rivers, and a garrison left 
 there to protect them, the dead 
 were buried immediately outside 
 of the entrenchments, though 
 in a scattered manner. General 
 Lewis then pursued his march 
 northward." 
 
 ''Finding- our selves at Point 
 Pleasant with considerable lei- 
 sure and time, we proposed to an 
 old friend and resident of the 
 "Point" to take us to the graves 
 of the heroes of the battle of 
 Point Pleasant. With a willing- 
 ness to oblige which is a promi- 
 nent characteristic of that gen- 
 tleman, he readily assented, and 
 in a few moments we found our- 
 selves close to the junction of the 
 two rivers, standing on tip-toe 
 looking over a high bank on 
 which we were standing com- 
 pleting the bounds. A few in- 
 dentations or depression were 
 all that indicated that within that 
 small enclosure were buried 
 some fifty or sixty heroes of the 
 times that tried men's souls. 
 The place was strewn with filth 
 and refuse and seemed to be a 
 general depository for the rub- 
 bish of the neighborhood. With 
 a feeling of disgust at the cold 
 neglect so plainly manifested by 
 the authorities, not only of the 
 governments of the States of 
 Virginia and West Virginia, but 
 of the county and city wherein 
 
 rest these dead, we turned 
 away." 
 
 The writer who signs himself 
 "Virginiout," relating an inter- 
 view with Mr. Andrew Darst, 
 residing upon the extreme point 
 where the rivers meet, who not 
 only exhibited a grind stone, 
 cannon ball, and shovel, taken 
 from an old well that had been 
 within the fort, but he 'exhibited 
 the site of the old magazine long 
 since gone over the bank, and the 
 site of the cottage wherein Corn- 
 stalk was murdered. 
 
 Quoting further from article 
 of date above given, Mr. Darst 
 said in that published interview: 
 "About 1832 thar came by 
 here an old man who had been 
 here in Injin times. Some folks 
 were wondering whar Cornstalk 
 had been buried. The old man 
 said he knowed, and if thej'd 
 follow him he'd show 'em. So 
 he took 'em out to a ditch just 
 back of that drug store you see 
 there, (2nd and Viand Streets) 
 told them to dig in at a certain 
 place and they'd find Cornstalk 
 about four feet under ground. 
 They dug in there and sure 
 enough they found him. They 
 then took him up and buried him 
 in the Court House yard." 
 
 "The spot of land here on the 
 point was once a big Injin grave 
 yard, and if you will take the 
 trouble to look over the bank 
 where it has been washed you'll 
 find bones a plenty. All of 'em's
 
 100 
 
 across beads and trinkets among 
 the bones." 
 
 Acting 1 on the suggestion we 
 took a look over the bank and 
 discovered many fragments of 
 bones which were lying loosely 
 on the soil or projecting from 
 the face of the bank. After 
 sauntering around a few mo- 
 ments longer we bade "Andy" 
 farewell and walked off to take 
 a look at the town." 
 
 "The heroes of Bunker Hill 
 have their monument to com- 
 memorate their deeds, but the 
 brave little band sleeping 1 so si- 
 lently on the bank of the Kana-- 
 wha, have nothing but an old de- 
 cayed, worm eaten fence to mark 
 their graves. Point Pleasant 
 and Bunker Hill, were each 
 fought in the same cause, and 
 those acquainted with the history 
 of "Dunmore's war' will not 
 contradict the assertion that the 
 battle of "Point Pleasant," was 
 really the first battle of the Rev- 
 olution." 
 
 The Weekly Register of May 
 17, 1874, editorially comments 
 on the importance of the battle 
 of Point Pleasant and quotes 
 again from the Charleston Cou- 
 rier/ as follows: 
 
 "Is there any event connected 
 with our past history which so 
 closely affects the people of the 
 Valley as the battle of Point 
 Pleasant, where Virginians 
 bared their breast to protect it 
 from invasions? While Eastern 
 
 Virginia had her Yorktown, 
 West Augusta had already pur- 
 chased a victory at Point Pleas- 
 ant. To no event transpiring 
 within the limits of our State has 
 ever attached the importance and 
 grateful recollections as has to 
 the Point Pleasant battle. It is. 
 well suggested then that the 
 people all along our Valley take 
 some steps to celebrate the one 
 hundredth anniversary of this 
 event at Point Pleasant in Octo- 
 ber next. Our neighbors in 
 Mason will readily adopt the 
 suggestion, as well as all other 
 counties that feel an interest in 
 preserving afresh both the mem- 
 ory of the gallant dead and their 
 resting places." 
 
 "For many reasons the Mason 
 county people should take the 
 lead in this matter, and we feel 
 confident they will. Let every 
 community then from the Ohio 
 to the Greenbrier, fall into line 
 and adopt some harmonious ac- 
 tion to fitly celebrate the day, 
 and to raise suitable funds to re- 
 move the disgrace of the neglect- 
 ed graves. There is not a super- 
 abundance of time, and we pre- 
 dict a prompt response from 
 Mason. Who will take the ini- 
 tiatory for a grand celebration 
 of this event, which if of all 
 others the one great shrine 
 which every creed, every politi- 
 cal faith and every class in the 
 State can pay their homage." 
 
 "A correspondent from Mason
 
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 County to the Charleston Courier 
 contributed the following: 
 
 "There is considerable talk 
 just as this time about our cen- 
 tennial anniversary, and a good 
 deal of patriotic feeling is being 
 exhibited in that direction. His- 
 tory records that on the morning 
 of the 10th of October, 1774, 
 there was fought at this Point 
 one of the severest and most hot- 
 ly contested and bloody battles 
 between the whites under Gen- 
 eral Lewis and the Indians un- 
 der command of the great war- 
 rior, Cornstalk, that ever took 
 place in the early times of this 
 country. It is in fact, claimed 
 that this was the first battle of 
 the Revolution, and for freedom 
 from the British yoke. On the 
 10th of October, 1874, one hun- 
 dred years will have elapsed 
 since that memorable battle, in 
 which the troops under Gen. 
 Lewis achieved such a triumph." 
 
 On Tuesday, May 26th, the 
 Directors of the Second Annual 
 Mason County Fair decided to 
 hold their Fair on October 6th, 
 7th, 8th, and 9th, but no mention 
 is ma'de of the observance of the 
 10th, the anniversary of the Bat- 
 tle. Plans, however, were going 
 forward from Charleston, as the 
 Charleston Courier, in its last is- 
 sue of May 18, 1774, gives the 
 following: 
 
 "The idea of the Centennial 
 celebration at Point Pleasant is 
 
 a very happy one. It is an event 
 in which every true West Vir- 
 ginian should take pride. Our 
 state embraces a large boundary 
 of territory of "West Augusta," 
 whose sons rendered themselves 
 so famous in the days that "tried 
 men's souls," and to whom the 
 great Washington looked, for 
 raliance when all others should 
 fail him,". 
 
 "Many descendants of the par- 
 ticipants in the famous Indian 
 battle at the Point, are now liv- 
 ing in this State. In the coun- 
 ties of the Greenbrier Valley as 
 well as in the Kanawha Valley 
 are living those who bear the 
 name and through whose veins 
 run the blood of the Captain of 
 the Virginia forces, Andrew 
 Lewis, as well as those who de- 
 scended from the brave men 
 that followed him in that remark- 
 able campaign. The result of 
 the battle at the Point saved all 
 the Virginia frontier from the 
 invasion of the Indians. If Corn- 
 stalk had been successful who 
 can imagine the fearful desola- 
 tion that would have been 
 wrought from the Ohio to the 
 Alleghanies." 
 
 "Is it "not a little remarkable 
 that while this battle should have 
 become so famous in history, that 
 so little should be known of the 
 particulars of the fight? While 
 history is silent, we have tradi- 
 tions that should be gathered, 
 and the most authentic ones be
 
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 placed in some shape as to be re- 
 liablv transmitted to posterity. 
 There are many households of 
 West Virginia, where stories of 
 grand father's experience in the 
 battle of the "Pint" are related 
 to day, and many of them told 
 by those who have heard the 
 relation from the lips of the vet- 
 erans himself. What a pleasant 
 task then for some one to collect 
 these traditions and weave his- 
 tory from them." 
 
 ***** 
 
 "Just as the battle of Point 
 Pleasant was the prelude to the 
 war of Independence, so let the 
 celebration at the Point in 1874 
 be the prelude to the grand af 
 foir to come off at Philadelphia 
 in 1876, and let every West Vir- 
 ginian, and every Old Virginian, 
 and every one who sees proper 
 to join us, take part in the jubi- 
 lee on the 10th of October next.'' 
 
 To further stimulate the inter- 
 est in the Battle Celebration, the 
 Register, on June 25th, copied 
 from Nile's Register, of May 3, 
 1817. yn account of the battle and 
 in the issue of August 27, 1874, 
 the Register copied De Mass' 
 Hi-story and Indian Wars in West 
 Virginia, the account in full of 
 the battle of Point Pleasant. 
 The Register of October 8, has 
 tailed up until that time to give 
 any program or details of the 
 celebration, but, in speaking of 
 the Fair then in session, says: 
 "The Fair will close on Friday 
 
 evening with a grand ball at 
 Beale's Hall On Saturday the 
 Centennial Celebration will come 
 of. 
 
 The issue of the Weekly Reg 
 ister of October 15, 1874, gives 
 the following detailed account of 
 the Celebration; written Oct. 
 10th, 1874. 
 
 "The Centenniel celebration of 
 the Battle of Point Pleasant is 
 now over. Just one hundred 
 years ago to-night, brave men 
 and true were mourning over the 
 dead, and ministering as best 
 they could to the wounded and 
 dying. Let us as best we can, 
 look back upon the day that has 
 just been closed by the setting 
 sun of the 10th day of October, 
 1874, and tell our readers what 
 has been done. Many an eye 
 looked out anxiously this morn- 
 ing to See what was to be the 
 prospect for a beautiful day. 
 For one I was sadly disappointed 
 and feared that the Heavens 
 would soon be sending down the 
 rain. 
 
 "How anxiously we watched 
 every appearance indicating like 
 a breaking away of the lowering 
 clouds. Soon after an early 
 breakfast, the clouds began to 
 look thin, and then spot after 
 spot of blue sky was seen. 
 Anxiously did the eager gather- 
 ing- crowd, look for the promised 
 published programme. About 
 9 o'clock A. M., the Register of- 
 fice sent out the first, which were
 
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 eagerly seized by the hungry 
 crowd; then another and another 
 handful of programmes were 
 distributed, so that before the 
 hour of 10 A. M., all seemed to 
 be posted as to what was to be 
 done. About 10 o'clock the Com- 
 pany of Cadets from the Univer- 
 sity of West Virginia, at Mor- 
 gantown, were formed in line by 
 their Captain, H. H. Pierce, in 
 front of the Kline House, near 
 the wharf-boat, on the Ohio, and 
 waited to receive the Knights of 
 Pythias, from Gallipolis, Ohio, 
 accompanied by the Gallipolis 
 Brass Band. Soon the Knights 
 came marching up, splendidly 
 dressed, and a fine looking body 
 of men they were, passing in 
 front of the Cadets, they halted 
 on Main Mreet. The Cadets, 
 moved in column of fours up to 
 Main Street, then wheeling to 
 the left, were halted opposite the 
 Court House the site of which 
 is supposed to have been on the 
 line of battle as it was formed, 
 just one hundred vears ago to- 
 day. Here let us give the pro 
 gramme as follows: 
 
 Centennial Celebration 
 
 of the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant. 
 
 Order of Exercises. 
 
 Procession to form in front of 
 
 Court House at 10 A. M. in the 
 
 following order: Mayor, Orator, 
 
 and Committee of Arrangements. 
 
 State Cadets. 
 
 The Clergy. 
 
 Relatives. 
 Music. 
 
 Knights of Pythias and other 
 Orders. 
 
 Distinguished Guests. 
 
 Citizens. 
 
 Funeral Procession. 
 
 Escort of State Cadets. 
 
 Re-interment of the remains of 
 
 the heroes who fell in this battle, 
 
 with becoming 1 ceremonies at 3 
 
 o'clock p. m. 
 
 Under the effective Marshals 
 who had been on duty at the 
 Fair Grounds for the last four 
 days, the column was formed 
 The Cadets were headed by their 
 own drum corps; the Knights of 
 Pythias by the Gallipolis and 
 Point Pleasant Brass Bands 
 combined, whilst the Ravens- 
 wood Brass Band marched up 
 the side walk and waited for the 
 formation of the column, after 
 which it took the place assigned 
 it. 
 
 . Just before 11 A. M. the col- 
 umn was put in motion and 
 marched in the order assigned, 
 to the Fair Ground, where more 
 than a thousand people were 
 found waiting- the arrival of the 
 column. So densly crowded was 
 the amphitheater before the head 
 of the column reached its front 
 that it was with the utmost dif- 
 ficulty that the Committee of 
 Arrangements could clear away 
 space enough for the Company 
 of Cadets. A stand for the 
 speakers had been erected just
 
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 opposite the center of the am- 
 phitheatre. This stand was oc- 
 cupied by the following persons: 
 Col. Lewis Ruffner, Col. C. B. 
 Waggener, Col. Benj. H. Smith, 
 Capts. H. H. Pierce, Command- 
 ing the Cadets, Geo. C. Sturgess, 
 Corresponding Secretary of the 
 Historical Society of the Board 
 of Regents University of West 
 Virginia, J. W. Screntz, Treas- 
 urer of the same, Dr. Thomas 
 Creigh, of Greenrier County, Dr. 
 S G. Shaw, President of the 
 Centennial Society, F. A. 
 Guthrie, Attorney at Law, and 
 member of the Committee of Ar- 
 rangements, Jno. E. Timms, At- 
 torney at Law, Secretary of the 
 Mason County Agricultural So- 
 ciety, Col. (Dr.) A. R. Barbee, 
 G. W. E. Mitchell,- of Ports- 
 mouth, Ohio, John D. Lewis and 
 Jno. Waddell, who was wearing 
 the shot pouch aud powder horn 
 carried by his father, Alexander 
 Waddell, in the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant. The Clergy occupy- 
 ing the stand were Father Fran- 
 cis Guthrie, one of the Pioneer 
 Methodist Preachers of the Ka 
 nawha Valley, Revs. S. E. Lane 
 T. H. Rymer, T. H. Lacy, G. 
 C. Wilding, and W. E. 'Hill. 
 The exercises were introduced 
 with a prayer offered by Father 
 Guthrie, which was full of 
 thanksgiving and praise, then 
 the orator, Col. Ben Smith, was 
 introduced by Mr. Timms. He 
 commenced reading his well 
 
 written and interesting address 
 at 12 o'clock and 22 minutes, just 
 five minutes after the 13th gun 
 of the salute was fired by the 
 Artillery Company from Gallipo- 
 lis, Ohio. This occupied about 
 thirty-five minutes. The speak' 
 er took his seat amid deafening 
 roars The following resolution 
 was offered by Dr. Barbee: 
 
 Resolved, That the thanks of 
 this audience be returned to Col. 
 Smith, for his interesting ad- 
 dress, and that, with his permis- 
 sion, it be published in full in the 
 Point Pleasant Register. 
 
 This resolutions was carried 
 without a dissenting voice. 
 
 After this the following pream- 
 ble and resolutions were offered 
 by Rev. W. E. Hill: 
 
 Whereas, Just one hundred 
 years have passed by since the 
 battle of Point Pleasant was 
 fought and won. 
 
 2. In this battle there was 
 displayed gallantry of such char- 
 acter, as to merit a lasting mon- 
 ument. 
 
 3. It is the opinion of some, 
 whose opinion is worthy of re- 
 spect, that this battle bore an 
 important relation to the war of 
 the Revolution, by which the 
 original thirteen colonies gained 
 their independence.. 
 
 4. The battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant hastened the material pros- 
 perity of this and other States, 
 by the sacrifice of noble blood, 
 therefore be it Resolved.
 
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 1st. That a committee of 
 three with power to engage 
 others, be appointed to solicit 
 contributions for the purpose of 
 erecting a monument and pur- 
 chasing the ground round about 
 the spot where the remains of 
 our heroes now repose. 
 
 That this committee be em- 
 powered to raise a subscription 
 on the ground to-day; to write to 
 the descendents of the brave 
 men who were engaged or fell 
 on the field of Point Pleasant, 
 asking them to aid in this work 
 by contributions; to ask the Leg- 
 islatures of Virginia, West Vir- 
 ginia, Kentucky and Ohio, to 
 make appropriations to this 
 work; and to request also the 
 Congress of the United States to 
 make an appropriation to the 
 same end. 
 
 2nd. That this monument be 
 erected within the next twelve 
 months, and of West Virginia 
 marble. 
 
 3rd. That it be unveiled on 
 the 10th of October, 1875. 
 
 4th. That the committee be 
 empowered to arrange for funer- 
 al oration and an hisiorical ad- 
 dress on the occasoin: and to 
 make such other arrangements 
 as may be necessary to gather 
 together the military organiza- 
 tions of the State; the various 
 secret societies of a benevolent 
 character; the legislatures of the 
 State, &c. 
 
 Mr. Hill introduced these res- 
 
 olutions by a motion to resolve 
 the vast audience into a Monu- 
 mental Centennial Organization. 
 After the reading of the resolu- 
 tions a motion was made to adopt. 
 Pending this, Dr. Creigh arose 
 and asked to be allowed to speak 
 on the question. Permission 
 was granted, and the Dr. per- 
 fectly thrilled those within reach 
 of his voice. After the Doctor's 
 eloquent speech, the motion to 
 adopt the resolutions was carried 
 with but one single dissenting 
 voice, whose "nc" was followed 
 by cries "of ,"put him out!" 
 "Knock him down," &c. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell, of Portsmouth. 
 Ohio, was then introduced and 
 made a short speech, which 
 could not be heard very far off, 
 owing to the noise of the moving 
 crowd and the low pitch of voice, 
 and its effectiveness was marred 
 to some extent. Loud cries 
 were head for (Walker) . It was 
 announced that Mr. Walker was 
 at the Point, and had been sent 
 for, but could not get here for 
 ^ome time. 
 
 A cry for Sturgess brought 
 that gentlemen to his feet, and 
 he made a very happy address. 
 
 The President, Dr. G. S. Shaw, 
 announced as a temporary com- 
 mittee to wait upon the crowd, 
 to solicit contributions for the 
 monument, viz: E. L. Neale, 
 Dr. C. T. B. Moore, and F. A. 
 Guthrie. The latter gentlemen 
 being a member of the Commit-
 
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 tee of Arrangements, suggested 
 Rev. W. E. Hill, as his substi- 
 tute. Recess was taken and 
 ample provisions were made to 
 fill the inner man. Many fami- 
 lies gathered in groups about 
 the grounds, in picnic fashion, 
 and ate their dinner whilst a 
 roast ox was served up at the 
 public table. During the recess 
 the committee raised by sub- 
 scription about six hundred dol- 
 lars. One gentleman subscrib- 
 ed two hundred dollars in cash 
 on two papers, and we do not 
 think he indends to stop at that 
 if more is necessary from him, 
 to erect the monument. There 
 was such a dense crowd and 
 such hurrying to and fro that it 
 was almost impossible to get the 
 attention of the people long 
 enough to get them to subscribe, 
 or we doubt not, more than a 
 thousand dollars could have 
 been raised. 
 
 After dinner the crowd was 
 called together to listen to Hon. 
 Henry S. Walker, who delivered 
 a most appropriate and thrilling- 
 ly eloquent address. We would 
 not attempt to given even a syn- 
 opsis of it, so carried away were 
 we with its effect upon the peo- 
 ple that we could not take a note 
 but stood, feeling with delight 
 its effect upon our self and watch- 
 ing the feelings of uthers as their 
 animated countenances told that 
 the touch of eloquence was forc- 
 ing the tell-tale blood to their 
 
 faces. Frequent outbursts of 
 applause interrupted the speak- 
 er, and a hearty vote of thanks 
 was returned for his eloquent 
 address. We must say one thing 
 about Mr. Walker's address; it 
 was written and written too in a 
 few hours, for he was captured 
 as he was aiming to pass the 
 Point. In this case captured 
 property proved to be A No. 1. 
 After the address by Mr. Wal- 
 ker, the procession was reform- 
 ed in the same order and took 
 up the line of march from the 
 point at the head of Viand Street 
 the column received the Hearse 
 and Casket containing the re- 
 mains of some of the heroes of 
 Point Pleasant that were killed 
 in the battle. These were e*- 
 humed on yesterday and today, 
 under the supervision of the 
 Committee, Dr. Barbee Superin- 
 tending in person. Here the 
 Cadets with reversed arms and 
 muffled drums, took their posi- 
 tion as an escort. The column 
 moved down Main street, to the 
 Kanawha River, and filed to the 
 right, where the bone of ourslain 
 heroes were re-interred with 
 military honors. At the grave 
 the beautiful burial service of the 
 Church was read by the Minis-^ 
 ters present in the column. 
 
 As the procession was moving 
 down Main street, first the Court 
 House Bell, then the bell of the 
 M. E. Church, South, were tolled, 
 whilst the minute gun was fired
 
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 by the Artillery Company. The 
 drums were muffled and the 
 band played an appropriate piece, 
 thus giving solemnity to the ex- 
 ercises. 
 
 Just before the benediction 
 was pronounced, a vote of thanks 
 was returned to the Morgantown 
 Cadets, to the Knights of 
 Pythian, Band and Artillery, of 
 Gallipolis, Ohio, to the Ravens- 
 wood Band, and all others who 
 had aided in the Centennial Cele- 
 bration. 
 
 The crowd then dispersed, the 
 Cadets marched to the Kline 
 House, where three rousing, 
 hearty cheers were given them 
 by all present; the Knights took 
 up their line of march toward 
 their homes, at Gallipolis, and 
 the other organizations went al- 
 so to their homes. The Cadets 
 took the steamer Clara Scott for 
 Charleston. 
 
 Thus ended the First Centen- 
 nial Celebration of the Battle of 
 Point Pleasant. We say in con- 
 cluding our description of it, 
 from morning till night; each one 
 that had a given part to perform, 
 'vied with the other as to which 
 could do it best. All acted well 
 their parts. 
 
 There may have been, but we 
 did not see, a single drunken 
 man on the ground. 
 
 The Point Pleasant Brass 
 Band has done better than its 
 most sanguine friends had hoped 
 for it, both during the celebration 
 
 of today, and toe three days of 
 the Fair. May it still continue 
 to improve we can stand the 
 hum drum of practice for the 
 sake of such a treat as they have 
 given us in the last few days. 
 
 Let us all now go to work earn- 
 nestly and determinedly to make 
 the "unveiling of the Monument" 
 as decided a success as the Cele- 
 bration of today but let us 
 make it wider in its extent. Let 
 us make it State and National. 
 Come up, one and all witti what 
 you can do with money and influ- 
 ence, and we shall have the 
 pleasure of chronicling at the 
 end of another year, the success 
 of the enterprise inagurated to- 
 day. There will be some croak- 
 ing as a matter of course some 
 men grumble even at the wisdom 
 and benevolence of the Infinite 
 God but let us, who are deter- 
 mined to succeed in the enter- 
 prise before us, turn a deaf ear 
 to all croaking, and the more 
 they croak, the more determined 
 let us become. One hundred 
 years ago was a great historical 
 epoch of Point Pleasant. Today 
 has been another, let one year 
 from today " be another. Who 
 dares say "nay?" What citizen 
 of Mason County, or West Vir- 
 ginia, or Virginia, or Ohio, or 
 Kentucky, or the United States, 
 could refuse to aid in doing honor 
 to the heroes of Point Pleasant?" 
 BRIEF MENTION. 
 
 "In the midst of the throng of
 
 108 
 
 the Centennial celebration, we 
 noticed many of the direct de- 
 scendants of the warriors of one 
 hundred years ago, and will re- 
 call the names of them as far as 
 we can: There were the East- 
 hams, the Somervilles, Jas. Ar- 
 buckle, Jr., of Greenbrier, John 
 D. Lewis, of Kanawha, the Lew- 
 ises, of Mason, Mrs. Agnes Se- 
 hon, who had two grandfathers 
 in this great battle, (Col. Charles 
 Lewis and Col. John Stuart,) 
 who is also the first representa- 
 tive of four living generations 
 who were upon the ground and 
 who are liniel decendents of the 
 two pioneers Cols. Lewis and 
 Stuart. The fourth generation 
 was represented by her great 
 grand child, little Graf ton Tyler, 
 who is now some three or four 
 years old. Mrs. Sehon was 
 probably the only person on the 
 ground that could say as much- 
 John Waddell, of Ohio, was also 
 present and had swung around 
 his shoulder the powder-horn 
 and bullet pouch, carried by his 
 father in the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant on the 10th day of Oc- 
 tober, 1774. The Hannans, the 
 Clendennins, the Millers, of Ma- 
 son County, the Clendenios, the 
 Hannans, the Millers of Ohio. 
 There were a number of others 
 present whose names we did not 
 ascertain." 
 
 On October 22nd, the Register 
 published the speech of Dr. 
 Thos. Creigb, of Virginia, deliv 
 
 ered on the occasion of the anni- 
 versary of the battle, which we 
 quote in part: 
 
 "I am glad I am here because 
 I witness a scene, (and I appeal 
 to the best and oldest historians 
 here present for the truth of the 
 remark, that such a scene of 
 moral sublimity, except the sign- 
 ing of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, has never been pre- 
 sented to the people of these 
 United States as is presented 
 here today.) And what is that 
 scene? I see around me some 
 two thousand people with the. 
 descendants of the heroes of the 
 battle of Point Pleasant, to the 
 third and fourth generation, on 
 this 10th day of October, 1874, 
 under a bright October sun, one 
 hundred years after the battle, 
 assembled on the battle-field, fol- 
 lowing the lofty instincts of our 
 nature, to gather the bones of 
 their ancestors, place them in a 
 metallic coffin, catch the inspira- 
 tion of their ever living virtue 
 and valor, and determining to 
 place a high and enduring monu- 
 ment to their memory. Yes sir, 
 to erect a monument high and 
 lofty on the banks between the 
 Great Kanawha and Ohio, to 
 overlook these two great rivers, 
 the music of whose waters will 
 mingle with the names forever, 
 where the passengers on board 
 your vast merchant steamers, 
 sailing on these great commer- 
 cial highways, shall see it and as
 
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 they pass by uncover their heads 
 and toll from the bell a requiem 
 to their memory, and where the 
 valiant youth of our country 
 shall in all future time come to 
 worship at this shrine, study 
 their character, imitate their vir- 
 tues and be inspired by their 
 lofty deeds of patriotism, and 
 where boys and girls in happy 
 bands shall come for long cen- 
 turies and cover this marble 
 column with the cypress and the 
 vine, and the immortal flower." 
 
 "Yes, sir, build this marble 
 column to their memory, for 
 they were "tall and grand" old 
 warriors. Do you know why I 
 say "tall and grand?" they are 
 not original terms with me. I 
 will tell you where I got them. 
 Old Pool, a colored man, was the 
 body servant of Col. John Stuart, 
 of Greenbrier at the battle and 
 witnessed the fight at Pt. Pleas- 
 ant, and took part in it. Old Dick 
 Pointer, another colored man, 
 was the hero of Donnalley's Fort, 
 near Lewisburg, Greenbrier 
 county, and for his bravery, was 
 freed by the Legislature of Vir- 
 ginia, and received a pension. 
 Col. Ben Smith, our orator, was 
 no doubt a member of the Vir- 
 ginia Legislature at that time. 
 Old Pool and Old Dick were 
 talking over their battles in 
 Lewisburg one day when I was 
 a school boy, and we school boys 
 were all standing by and listen- 
 ing. Pool and Dick became very 
 
 much excited in telling what 
 each had done. Dick says the 
 Indian is taller than the white 
 man for I killed Indians as high 
 as the court house. No, says 
 Pool, if you could have seen Mas. 
 John and Charles and James, in 
 the light at the Point, when fire 
 flew out of their eyes like the fire 
 out of their guns; they were just 
 as tall and grand as the old trees 
 on Kanawha. That is the rea- 
 son why I say they were "tall 
 and grand old warriors." 
 
 "But, sir, history informs us 
 that there was a man by the 
 name of George Washington, 
 who had a high opinion of the 
 companies of these Point Pleas- 
 ant, warriors, for he said in a 
 dark hour of his campaign to his 
 wearied and dispirited army on 
 the plains of New Jers'ey, 'only 
 give me the men to place the 
 standard of my country on the 
 mountains of West Augusta, and 
 I will call around me the men 
 who shall make my country free. 
 These 'tall and grand' warriors 
 were West Augusta men, and 
 Washington knew them." 
 
 "Yes, build a monument of en- 
 during marble to the memory of 
 those old grand warriors, for 
 you may look down the long pic- 
 ture gallery of history and you 
 will find no brighter or grander 
 names than the men of 1774 and 
 1776. Nor let us forget their 
 characters, or their great princi-
 
 no 
 
 pies of civil liberty, or insult the 
 spirit of liberty." 
 
 While the Register of Decem- 
 ber 10, 1774, gives the following 
 account of the committee. 
 
 The Point Pleasant Monu- 
 ment Association held their first 
 meeting in the law office of John 
 W, English, Esq., December 4th, 
 1874. All the members of the 
 Committee, viz: W. E. Hill, F. 
 A. Guthrie and John W. English, 
 were present. On motion, John 
 W. English, was called to the 
 chair; and on further motion, 
 was made permanent Chairman. 
 On motion, C. E. Hogg, was 
 elected Secretary, and T. Strib- 
 ling, Treasurer. On motion, the 
 Committee was ordered to in- 
 quire into the title of the land on 
 which the monument is to be 
 erected. On motion, the Com- 
 mittee was directed to see Drs. 
 Shaw and Moore with reference 
 to subscription papers, and also 
 ascertain how much money is in 
 their hands belonging to the 
 Association, and to pay the same 
 to the Treasurer. On motion, 
 the Association adjourned to 
 meet Thursday evening, Decem- 
 ber 17th, 1874." 
 
 While no report has been pre- 
 served of the Monument Associ- 
 ation, founded on October 10, 
 1874, the work of procuring 
 funds was taken up by the Ma- 
 son County representatives in 
 the Legislature of West Virginia, 
 Hon. Edmund Sehon, descendant 
 
 of Col. Charles Lewis introduc- 
 ing the bill in the lower house, 
 while Hon. P. C. Eastham, de- 
 scendant of George Eastham, of 
 the Battle of Point Pleasant, in- 
 troduced the bill in the upper 
 house. On Feb. 25, 1875, the 
 Legislature passed a bill carry- 
 ing an appropriation of $3,500.00 
 to aid in the purchase of land 
 and the erection of a monument 
 in'commemoration of the Battle 
 of Point Pleasant, the President 
 and Secretary of the Monument 
 Association to have charge of the 
 erection of said monument, the 
 parties investing the money with 
 approved security, awaiting as 
 sistance from other states. 
 No further action was taken un- 
 til Feb. 26, 1897, when the Leg- 
 islature adopted a Joint Resolu- 
 tion by which Governor Geo. W. 
 Atkinson appointed Judge John 
 W. English, Dr. A. R. Barbee 
 and Judge F. A. Guthrie as cus- 
 todians of the fund appropriated 
 by the Legislature. 
 
 The matter again lay dormant 
 and no effort was made either to 
 collect the funds or secure fur- 
 ther appropriations. 
 
 That the State and Point 
 Pleasant was not free from cen- 
 sure for their dereliction of duty, 
 we quote in part from the King- 
 wood Argus of June 29, 1899, 
 copied in the State Gazette July 
 4th, of that year: "We were at 
 Point Pleasant and visited the 
 graves of the almost forgotten
 
 Ill 
 
 dead who fell in that memorable 
 battle and we were surprised 
 and indignant to find the place 
 almost surrounded by stables 
 and hog- pens and lying- along- a 
 back alley with not a mark of 
 any kind to designate the spot; 
 not even a fence or wall around 
 the place and no one could find it 
 without a guide who knew just 
 where it was. It was only a very 
 small plot of ground, in some one 
 else's back yard, with stables on 
 two sides of it and a garden on 
 another side and the only way to 
 get to it is down a dirty alley. 
 Nearly a hundred pioneers of 
 that section who fell in that bat- 
 tle, fighting old Cornstalk for 
 possession of the beautiful land 
 along the Ohio river lie buried 
 there, unmarked and almost for- 
 gotton. It is a burning shame 
 and disgrace on the town to al- 
 low it. We went up to a news- 
 paper office and made a vigorous 
 kick about it and learned that 
 money ha'd been appropriated 
 by the State and also quite a sum 
 raised by the ladies of Point 
 Pleasant to erect a monument to 
 these heroes, dead defenders of 
 our country. Now let justice 
 and decency compel a disposition 
 of this matter. The State or 
 the town should take charge and 
 secure some contiguous ground 
 to the resting place which can- 
 not be called a cemetery or even 
 a graveyard, as it is now, and 
 make a little park out of it with 
 
 a fence around it, and erect a. 
 handsome mouument on the cen- 
 ter of the site and make a decent 
 way to get 10 it by removing 
 some of the adjoining stables 
 and hog pens." 
 
 The State Gazette appended 
 the following editorial comment: 
 "We think the suggestion that 
 the park and monument should 
 be contiguous to the resting 
 place of the dead heroes and 
 should include it as well as the 
 site of the old fort is the cor- 
 rect solution. The Argus 
 will no doubt be surprised to 
 learn that there are suggestions 
 now made that the monument be 
 placed away up on the Ohio 
 bank twelve squares from the 
 site of the old fort and grave of 
 Col. Lewis and others, and sug- 
 gestions that it be placed back 
 on the hill overlooking the town. " 
 
 There is no mention of the 
 celebration of the anniversary of 
 that year 1899 save the local 
 newspaper account that, 
 
 "To-day, October 10, 1899, is 
 the one hundred and twenty-fifth 
 anniversary of ihe battle of Point 
 Pleasant, fought between Gener- 
 al Andrew Lewis and Cornstalk, 
 the sachem of many nations and 
 no citizen evidenced any inter- 
 est save Col. G. B. Thomas, the 
 Post-master, who decorated the 
 Post Office with flags." 
 
 No further agitation of the 
 subject appeared in the local 
 newspapers save that o f the
 
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 State Gazette of April 21, 1899, 
 urging the organization of a 
 Chapter of Daughters of the 
 American Revolution and Sons 
 of the Revolution here, looking 
 forward to proper recognition of 
 the Battle of Point Pleasant in 
 which it said: "Here was 
 fought the first battle of the Rev- 
 olution and whv should not this 
 town and county boast of the 
 largest patriotic organizations in 
 the State." 
 
 No further steps were taken 
 at Point Pleasant looking to a 
 monument appropriation until 
 Feb. 11, 1901, when Mrs. Livia 
 Simpson-Poffenbarger issued a 
 call for the organization of a 
 Chapter of the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution which is of 
 date of Feb. 14, 1909, reported 
 as follows in the State Gazette : 
 
 "A sufficient number of ladies 
 met at the home of Mrs. George ' 
 Poffenbarger yesterday to organ- 
 ise a Chapter of the Daughters 
 of the American Revolution. As 
 soon as the requirements are 
 duly met, a Charter will be 
 granted. This is a most com- 
 mendable move and should meet 
 with the support and best wish- 
 es of the entire town." 
 
 At this meeting it was explain- 
 ed that the chief motive in organ- 
 izing this patriotic society was 
 that an organized effort might 
 be made to secure funds for the 
 erection of a Battle Monument at 
 Point Pleasant and the recogni- 
 
 tion of the battle as that of the 
 first Battle of the Revolution. 
 
 On Feb. 26, 1901, a call was is- 
 sued for the organization of a 
 Chapter of Sons of the Revolution 
 and the State Gazette of that is- 
 sue said editorially, "This is a 
 move in the right direction. 
 This is the historic spot of the 
 first battle of the Rev.olution. 
 In order that history may accord 
 us that place with due credit, we 
 must first show that Point Pleas- 
 ant appreciates this fact. If the 
 spot is to be properly marked 
 and receive from the National 
 Government the appropriation 
 arid recognition for a splendid 
 monument that the battle de- 
 serves, we must first show that 
 the memory is dear to us." 
 
 On Feb. 29, 1901, the Daugh- 
 ters of the American Revolution 
 were formally organized and the 
 name selected was that of Col. 
 Charles Lewis, named for one of 
 the best beloved heroes of those 
 who fell at the Battfe -of Point 
 Pleasant. At that meeting the 
 Daughters in conformity with 
 the statement of Governor White 
 that be would appoint one man 
 outside of Point Pleasant and 
 two resident members of the 
 commission to look after the 
 funds the ladies recommended 
 V. A. Lewis of Mason and P. S 
 Lewis and C. C. Bowyer of Point 
 Pleasant, but the Governor later 
 decided to appoint but one man 
 in Point Pleasant and the com-
 
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 mission named was John P. 
 Austin, C. C. Bovvyer and V. A. 
 Lewis. On March 11, 1901, Mr. 
 Joe Friedman not only present- 
 ed the Col. Charles Lewis Chap- 
 ter the money with which to pay 
 for their charter, but also for 
 the purchase of their record 
 books and proffered when a 
 monument was completed to 
 donate a splendid Band and 
 Speaker's stand. 
 
 The State Gazette of March 
 11, 1901, says: "The new com- 
 mittee to be appointed should 
 first secure the grounds. This 
 would be the beginning looking 
 toward the end. Then the old 
 building's could be cleared away, 
 grading- done, grass sown, trees 
 set out and the grounds beauti- 
 fied. These all take time to 
 bring- them to perfection. 
 There is sufficient money all 
 ready subscribed, tog-ether with 
 wh'at could be secured, by pri- 
 vate subscription to do this much 
 handsomely. The government 
 could then be presented the 
 ground as a National Historic 
 Park and the War Department 
 under the head of Rivers and 
 Harbors could be induced to 
 grade the banks bordering on 
 both rivers and they would then 
 be forever taken care of. Be- 
 sides, its historic significance, it 
 is in point of beauty of location 
 the most desirable site in town. 
 The view is splendid from both 
 rivers. The view from the sur- 
 
 rounding- hills is perfect and it 
 would give strangers a different 
 opinion of the town from the 
 ragged appearance it now has 
 from rail and river. 
 
 On April 18, 1901, the newly 
 appointed Monument Commis- 
 sioners gave bond before the 
 Mason County Court with ap- 
 proved security and when they 
 had met for organization, John 
 P. Austin was elected President 
 and C. C. Bowyer Treasurer and 
 V. A. Lewis Secretary. 
 
 The issue of May 28, 1901, of 
 the State Gazette says: "The 
 Battle Monument Commission 
 held a meeting at the Merchants 
 National Bank Saturday last. 
 The members composing the 
 commission Hon. John P. Aus- 
 tin, President, Hon. V. A. 
 Lewis, Secretary and Hon. C. C. 
 Bowyer, Treasurer, together 
 with other citizens and a State 
 Gazette Reporter went down to 
 the Kanawha point where had 
 stood the old fort and where 
 some of the heroes of the battle 
 of Point Pleasant were buried 
 and made a careful inspection of 
 the grounds. The public seem 
 generally united in the belief 
 that this is the proper place to 
 erect the monument and it might 
 be said that the property bound- 
 ed by Main and First Streets 
 and the two rivers will be pur- 
 chased shortly by the commis- 
 sion provided the owners of the
 
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 property do not demand too ex- 
 orbatant a price." 
 
 On Decoration Day, May 30th, 
 1901, for the first time a public 
 memorial exercise was held, 
 whereby the graves of the heroes 
 of the battle of Point Pleasant 
 were decorated, in charge 
 of 'the D. A. R. and G. A. R. so- 
 cieties of the town. A large con- 
 course of people attended the ex- 
 ercises. The State Gazette of 
 June 18, 1901, records that John 
 D. McCulloch had given an op- 
 tion on his property on the mon- 
 ument site for $1,000 00; C. H. 
 Varian $1,200.00; Geo. T., Chas. 
 and Henry Stone $3,000.00; Thos. 
 Durst $600.00, a total of $5,SOO.- 
 00, which includes all the contem- 
 plated territory needed except 
 the Geo. Comstock property, up- 
 on which a price had not been 
 agreed." 
 
 Later Mr. Comstock's proper- 
 ty was secured at $2,200.00. 
 
 From the issue of August, 
 1901, of the Charleston Daily 
 Mail's report of the Monument 
 Commission, held at that place 
 we glean the following: "Hon. 
 V. A. Lewis reported that the 
 Commission had about $11,000.00 
 in the treasury, but that the 
 work, as planned would necessi- 
 tate the expenditure of $25,000.- 
 00 more." Speaking of the Bat- 
 tle of Point Pleasant, the Daily 
 Mail quotes Mr. Lewis as fol- 
 lows: "All careful painstaking 
 thoughtful historians have re- 
 
 garded it as the first in the ser- 
 ies of the Revolution which gave 
 the continent to liberty. It was 
 the chief event of Dunmore's 
 War." 
 
 On August 29, 1901, the State 
 Gazette announced that the Com- 
 mittee had decided to commence 
 clearing the grounds at once and 
 that paper made the first appeal 
 for the Celebration of the Battle. 
 
 "It is the intention that the 
 clearing of the grounds shall be 
 completed by the anniversary of 
 the great battle of Point Pleas- 
 ant, Oct. 10, 1774." 
 
 "The significance of the battle 
 has not been wholly overlooked. 
 Thousands know of its impor- 
 tance and it remains for Point 
 Pleasant herself to appreciate 
 her relation to history and de- 
 mand from the State and from 
 Congress the substantial recog- 
 nition due this spot. Our citi- 
 zens should join in one glorious 
 celebration of this anniversary 
 Oct. 10 . We trust that there is 
 enough patriotism in the town 
 to observe it. If in no other 
 way, let it be one grand 
 union picnic. The weather will 
 be fine and all can come together 
 at least in the spirit of patriotism 
 and good fellowship". 
 
 Mrs. Poffenbarger, editor of 
 the State Gazette, not only is- 
 sued a call for a citizen's meet- 
 ing- on Thursday night Septem- 
 ber 5th, looking toward the cele- 
 bration, but she had secured the
 
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 cooperation of Col. J. P. R B. 
 Smith and, at that meeting do- 
 nated the services of her paper 
 to advertise the meeting-, supple- 
 mented by a subscription secur- 
 ed by her of over S200.00 with 
 which to begin the work. The 
 paper of that issue contained the 
 following full page advertise- 
 ment, besides the names of the 
 donors of cash: 
 
 127th ANNIVERSARY 
 The First Battle of the Revolu- 
 tion to be celebrated at 
 POINT PLEASANT, W. VA. 
 Thursday Oct. 10th, 1901. 
 Great National Speakers 
 will be present. 
 
 Entertainment for the people. 
 Excursions on all railroads and 
 steamboats will be arranged for. 
 
 The Old Log Mansion built in 
 1796, that has lived in three cen- 
 turies will be used to exhibit the 
 greatest lot of Historic Relics 
 ever brought together in West 
 Virginia, outside the Historical 
 Society at Charleston. 
 
 EVERY ONE INVITED. 
 
 The monument Park and 
 Court House yard will make fine 
 picnic grounds. 
 
 Watch this space for attrac- 
 tions as they are secured." 
 
 As a result of the meeting at 
 the court house committees were 
 organized and Mrs. Poffenbarger 
 participated in the work of 
 all the committees. The issue 
 of September 19 shows an addi- 
 tional subscription, making a to- 
 
 tal of $409.00, besides generous 
 subscriptions, of exhibits for the 
 museum. The children of the 
 public schools contributed S8.50 
 to be used in decorating a wagon 
 for the parade. The newspa- 
 pers of the country stoodup and 
 :ook notice of the big celebration 
 and helped advertise it. 
 
 In the issue of Oct. 10th, The 
 State Gazette announced the 
 presence of distinguished visit- 
 ors, among whom was Gen. C. 
 H. Grosvener of Ohio, faithful 
 advocate for an appropriation 
 from Congress to commemorate 
 the battle. Virgil A. Lewis, in 
 an article published in the State 
 Gazette of that date, said: 
 
 "After all, even though it be 
 here, is it best to assert without 
 reference to the proof that the 
 battle of Point Pleasant is the 
 first battle of the Revolution and 
 then array against us the whole 
 of New England where the peo- 
 ple are jealous of the claims 
 of Lexington. It is easy to 
 make assertions, but to exam- 
 ine hundreds of volumes and ob- 
 tain records from both Europe 
 and America in proof of the 
 same, is quite another thing. 
 Do not throw the burden of 
 proof of this matter on a com- 
 mittee before a Congressional 
 Committee." 
 
 The State Gazette of October 
 17, 1901, announced that the 
 Mansion House had been turned 
 over to of three ladies who had
 
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 accepted it as a headquarters 
 for the Col. Charles Lewis Chap- 
 ter D. A. R. Also that work on 
 Tu-Endie-Wei Park had been 
 discontinued for want of funds 
 and made an appeal that the 
 Commfssion set out trees on the 
 edge of the Park or permit the 
 citizens to do so. Also the list 
 of subscribers to the expense of 
 the Celebration. 
 
 While th.e following- is the pub- 
 lished account of the big cele- 
 bration: 
 
 "THEY CAME. 
 From Every Direction. 
 Ten Thousand People Celebrat- 
 ed the 127th Anniversary of the 
 First Battle of 
 The Revolution. 
 Tu-Endie-Wei Park. 
 
 On last Thursday the good 
 citizens of Point Pleasant cele- 
 brated the 127th anniversary of 
 the battle of Point Pleasant, the 
 first battle of the Revolution. 
 
 It only needed for our people 
 to arouse themselves and make 
 the effort to have one of the big- 
 gest celebrations ever held in the 
 state. Beside our people, who 
 were for the most part upon our 
 streets, enough more swelled the 
 crowd until we had fully ten 
 thousand celebrating. Hereto- 
 fore, when we had any demon- 
 stration in the town, the crowd 
 was from the Ohio river landing 
 to the Court House. This time 
 the streets were crowded from 
 
 the Court House to the Kanawha 
 River, with fully five thousand 
 people upon the Park. 
 
 The K. & M. Railroad ran a 
 dollar excursion from Athens to 
 this place, and Point Pleasant 
 can never forget the kindness of 
 that road. When we solicited 
 them for a cheap rate they re- 
 plied if it would be any accommo- 
 dation to Point Pleasant and 
 they only made it pa}' expense of 
 running the train they would 
 give it to us to show to Point 
 Pleasant the kindly feeling of 
 that road toward our town. 
 They not only gave us just the 
 service we asked for but they 
 put out 15,000 attractive hand 
 bills and advertised their rates 
 in the newspapers along the 
 route, and when they came in 
 here they brought us not only 
 the Nelsonville and Middleport 
 bands, but they brought a big 
 train packed with people from 
 Athens and way stations; they 
 brought us Gen. Chas. H. Gros- 
 venor, one of the stalwarts sons 
 of the Revolution who came to 
 address our people and promote 
 the success of the day. The K. 
 & M. brought us a train of eight 
 or ten coaches from Charleston 
 that had standing room only and 
 while the excursion was profita- 
 ble to the K. & M. and we are 
 glad it was, we must not forget 
 that it was run wholly to compli- 
 ment Point Pleasant. The con- 
 duct of the K. & M. was greatly
 
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 in contrast to that of the Onio 
 River Division of the B. & O. R. 
 R , who were importuned by let- 
 ter, in person, and by telegraph, 
 to give us a rate, but of no avail, 
 and notwithstanding full fair was 
 charged, that road brought in 
 crowds of people with a crowded 
 train from the north aud stand- 
 ing room only coming in from 
 the south end. Steamboats 
 brought in excursions and hacks 
 run between here and Gallipolis 
 while six hundred persons cross- 
 ed the Kanawha Ferry, and as 
 many more had to be ferried in 
 private boats in harbor. The 
 farmers came in carriages, bug- 
 gies, expresses, big wagons, 
 horseback and on foot, any way 
 so they came, and they came as 
 a multitude. 
 
 "Notwithstanding the rain, the 
 night before, which was just 
 enough to lay the dust, the sun 
 shone out about eight o'clock 
 and the day was ideal." 
 
 "Never before did the old town 
 wear such a gala dress. Old 
 Glory and buntings galore waved 
 from every residence and busi- 
 ness house. There was neither 
 the difference of politics or reli- 
 gion or even the distinction of 
 secret organizations to mar the 
 occasion, but all came together 
 upon a common level for one 
 grand glorification of the cele- 
 bration of the battle, the farthest 
 reaching in its effect of any bat- 
 tle ever fought upon the Ameri- 
 
 can Continent the first battle of 
 the Revolution the battle that 
 broke the power of the red men 
 in America; the battle that 
 brought the treaty that enabled 
 civilization to mareh on to the 
 west and southwest and great 
 northwest territory; the battle 
 that resulted in ceding to Vir- 
 ginia and thence to the colonies 
 the great Northwest; that battle 
 that defied at its close Tory mis- 
 rule, the first battle ever fought 
 after the tea had been thrown 
 overboard at Boston Harbor the 
 preceding March. The Boston 
 Port Bill, of May, 1774, the sig- 
 nal for actual conflict had been 
 passed. The House of Burges- 
 ses, of Virginia, had declared 
 the first of June of that year to 
 be "A day of fasting, imploring 
 the Divine interposition to avert 
 the heavy calamity which threat- 
 ened destruction to their civil 
 rights and the evils of a civil 
 war." Massachusetts had pas- 
 sed resolutions deploring the op- 
 pression of Great Britain. 
 Patrick Henry had made his 
 famous speech before the House 
 of Burgesses, of Virginia, de- 
 claring that "The war is inevita- 
 ble, and let it come," and asked 
 "Is life so dear or peace so sweet 
 as to be purchased at the price 
 of chains and slavery?" 
 
 "England, too, recognized be- 
 fore the Battle of Point Pleasant 
 that the war was inevitable, and 
 determined to keep the colonists
 
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 so busy defending themselves 
 from hostile Indians armed with 
 English muskets and English 
 amunition, that they would 
 have no time to think of the 
 wrongs inflicted upon them by 
 the mother country. Great 
 Britain never had a better tool 
 than Lord Dunmore, the Tory 
 Governor of Virginia, as his sub- 
 sequent conduct proved. Hence, 
 the battle of Point Pleasant, (in 
 which Lord Dunmore intended 
 the flower of the Colonial Army 
 of Virginia to be destroyed but 
 which, victorious to his surprise) 
 became the first battle in which 
 the blood of patriots was spilled 
 upon American soil for the cause 
 of National Independence, and 
 was so credited by Alexander S. 
 Withers, in his chronicles of 
 Border warfare, later by Ban- 
 croft, the Government historian, 
 by President Rosevelt, in his 
 "Winning the West," and by 
 many other historians, of repute. 
 
 Is it any wonder that we point 
 with pride to this battle and in- 
 vited the whole country to cele- 
 brate with us? 
 
 "At ten o'clock the parade be- 
 gan to form on First Street and 
 it was of such magnitude that it 
 took Col. J. P. R. B. Smith, the 
 Grand Marshall of the day, and 
 his corps of splendid assistants, 
 an hour to get them all in line 
 ready for march. It was headed 
 by James Somerville, of Pleasant 
 Flats, dressed as Uucle Sam, 
 
 (and in face and figure he is typi- 
 cal of the figurative head of the 
 nation,) all the city fathers, ex- 
 cept Mayor Somerville, who act- 
 ed as a marshall, were in the 
 parade in carriages, The fire 
 department were out with their 
 wagon decorated. There were 
 floats galore, put in by the busi- 
 ness men of the town, vying 
 with each other to see which 
 could make the finest display. 
 The three splendid bands, 
 Cheshire, Middleport and Nel- 
 sonville, discoursed sweet music 
 along the route and the children 
 of the white schools marching in 
 line wearing bouteniers of na- 
 tional colors, waving flags, which 
 little girls representing "the 
 states and territories, an d the 
 colored children on a wagon 
 beautifully decorated made the 
 prettiest ' parade ever seen in 
 Point Pleasant. 
 
 What might have been a seri- 
 ous accident, but proved to be a 
 fortunate escape, occured when 
 a wagon with 103 children on it 
 passed over a culvert on 14th 
 Street. The culvert went down 
 and the top of the wagon was 
 separated in the lunge from the 
 platform and the children were 
 precipated to the ground. 
 Fortunately no one was hurt and 
 the procession proceeded down 
 Main Street to First, the chil- 
 dren falling in line with the 
 others in the line of march, 
 where they disbanded Three
 
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 open air concerts were given 
 from 1 to 2 o'clock, when the 
 speaking began from a platform 
 at the grounds recently purchas- 
 ed as a site for a monument yet 
 to be arected. The grounds are 
 situated at the junction of the 
 Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, with- 
 out doubt the most beautiful site 
 for a park on the Ohio river." 
 
 The large audience was called 
 to order by Col. J. P. R. B. 
 Smith, who called our distin- 
 guished fellow townsmen, Hon. 
 C. E. Hogg to the chair. Mr. 
 Hogg in his usual pleasing man- 
 ner did the honors of the occa- 
 sion with credit to himself and 
 to Point Pleasant. Mr. Hogg 
 then introduced Mrs. Livia 
 Simpson-Poffenbarger, Regent 
 of Col. Chas. Lewis Chapter of 
 the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution, who had been desig- 
 nated by her Chapter to dedicate 
 and name the park which she did 
 in a short address, as follows: 
 
 "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and 
 Gentleman: 
 
 It has been deemed fitting and 
 appropriate, that, by some 
 means this beautiful and historic 
 spot of ground be dedicated to 
 the noble purpose for which it 
 has been purchased, and given a 
 name by which it may be known 
 in the future. The important 
 duty has not been sought by the 
 organization I have the honor to 
 represent. I wish to emphasize 
 the fact, without going into ex- 
 
 planation or detail, that it has 
 been rather thrust upon us. We 
 are simply doing that which has 
 been denied to others who have 
 been invited to do it, by their 
 situation and present circum- 
 stances. We have accepted the 
 trust and assumed the duty in 
 the absence of others who might, 
 and we sincerely believe, would 
 have preformed it better. 
 
 However, I wish to premise 
 that it is not at all unappropriate 
 that the Society of the Daughters 
 of the American Revolution per- 
 form this most important func- 
 tion. Ours is purely a patriotic 
 organization and our work is 
 carried on in the name of patri 
 otism and inspired by love of 
 country. The objects and pur- 
 poses of our society are set forth 
 in our constitution, Article 1, as 
 follows: 
 
 (1) "To perpetuate the mem- 
 ory of the spirit of the men and 
 women who achieved American 
 Independence, by the acquisition 
 and protection of historical spots, 
 and the erection of monuments; 
 by the encouragement to histori- 
 cal research in relation to the 
 Revolution and the publication of 
 its results; by the preservation 
 of documents and relics and of 
 the records of individual services 
 of Revolutionary soldiers and pa- 
 triots, and by the promotion of 
 celebrations of all patriotic anni- 
 versaries. 
 (2) To carry out the injunc-
 
 12Q 
 
 tion of Washington in his fare- 
 well address to the American 
 people, "To promote as an ob- 
 ject of primary importance, in- 
 stitutions for the general diffu- 
 sion of knowledge," thus devel- 
 oping an enlightened opinion, 
 and affording to young and old 
 such advantages as shall develop 
 in them the largest capacity for 
 performing the duties of Ameri- 
 can citizens. 
 
 (3) To cherish, maintain, and 
 to extend the institutions of 
 American freedom, to foster 
 true patriotism and love of coun- 
 try and to aid in securing for 
 mankind all the blessings of lib- 
 erty." 
 
 "Another thing I wish to im- 
 press upon all here to-day is the 
 fact that ours is the only society 
 professing to be founded exclu- 
 sively upon our Revolutionary 
 struggle that recognizes the Bat- 
 tle of Point Pleasant as a part of 
 the war for American indepen- 
 dence. Reputable historians, in- 
 cluding Bancroft, President 
 Roosevelt and others have as- 
 serted that it was the initial, the 
 first battle of the Revolutionary 
 war. Moreover, they have pro- 
 duced the indisputable evidence 
 upon which the assertion is bas- 
 ed. What the concensus of 
 American opinion will be as the 
 years shall roll on and historical 
 research shall bring to light the 
 whole truth, we cannot say. If 
 the verdict shall be the affirma-' 
 
 tive of that proposition then the 
 first battle shall not be lacking 
 in display of heroism and pa- 
 triotism, exhibited in the midst 
 of an almost interminable wilder- 
 ness and hand to hand with a 
 savage and at the same time 
 valorous foe." 
 
 "The memory of that great 
 struggle, will we think, be well 
 and fittingly preserved upon 
 these grounds. A splendid and 
 enduring monument is to be 
 erected commemorative of the 
 battle. On some part of it will 
 be a bronze statute of the heroic 
 Andrew Lewis, the commanding 
 general. On it will be inscribed 
 in imperishable letters the 
 names of the brave Col. Chas. 
 Lewis and Col. Fields and all 
 those who fell with them in de- 
 fense of liberty and the homes of 
 our race. On these grounds 
 will be laid down and preserved 
 the outlines of old Fort Ran- 
 dolph. 
 
 Without some reference to the 
 stubborn foe which drew the 
 brilliant flash of fire from the 
 steel of these heroes, in the 
 shades of primeval forests, far 
 from the abode of any white 
 man, this history written in 
 grounds, stone, marble and 
 bronze would be incomplete. 
 The red men were fighting for 
 their homes and hunting 
 grounds. From their stand- 
 point, their conduct was patri-
 
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 otic. They were defending the 
 graves of their fathers." 
 
 'To the end, therefore, that 
 history, as far as possible, may 
 be fully preserved and patri- 
 otism, in its broadest sense may 
 be recognized, it has been decid- 
 ed to give this park the oldest 
 first name it has ever been 
 known to possess its Indian 
 name. By authority of the Mon- 
 ument Commission appointed by 
 the Governor of this state, and 
 in the name of the Society of the 
 Daughters of the American Rev- 
 olution, we now dedicate this 
 park, the property of the State 
 of West Virginia, to patriotism 
 and the preservation of history 
 and name it "Tu-Endie-Wei 
 Park;" which signifies in the 
 Shawnee tongue "the mingling of 
 waters," this being the junc- 
 tion of two rives." 
 
 Mr. Hogg next introduced Col. 
 Bennett H. Young, of Louisville, 
 Ky., who had been previously in- 
 vited to address the Assembly, 
 and no happier selection could 
 have been made. The people as 
 a unit fell in love with the man. 
 He talked directly to their hearts, 
 and we fortunately secured his 
 speech which is reproduced in 
 this issue of the State Gazette. 
 Col. Young also loaned, for the 
 occasion, his pioneer suit, which 
 consisted of a hunting shirt and 
 flint lock gun which bad belong- 
 ed to Daniel Boone, which he 
 had completed by the addition of 
 
 a "long knife," leather breetches 
 and a coon skin cap. Herman 
 Snyder was selected to wear the 
 suit, beingsmooth shaved and cor- 
 responding in weight and height 
 to Daniel Boone." 
 
 "Col. Young was followed by 
 our poet laureate, Louis Reed 
 Campbell, who recited in splen- 
 did style his poem, written for 
 the occasion: 
 
 OUR HEROES. 
 
 Grave by grave, where the rivers meet, and 
 
 gently flow. 
 
 The patriot sleeps, and by his side a van- 
 quished silent foe. 
 
 Year on year with wondrous swiftness glid- 
 ed by. 
 
 And yet no stone was reared where brave 
 men dared to die 
 
 Time's hand was in the game that drove the 
 
 Indian from his land. 
 In it the shadow of a wrong that greed 
 
 could not withstand, 
 More than a century gone ere right doth o'er 
 
 wrong prevail, 
 Alike we honor, now, who faced the 
 
 feathered shaft and rifles' deadly hail. 
 
 Departed chief tan of a mighty race, so soon 
 
 to disappear! 
 What does the future hold, save memory, 
 
 softened by a tear? 
 For even now adown the changing slope of 
 
 fleeting time 
 
 The painted warrior glides away, to leave 
 no trail behind. 
 
 No power can dim the luster now of that vic- 
 torious band, 
 
 Who fought and fell and tired again 
 where now we stand. 
 
 If fairness to the foe is due, what honor must 
 be theirs. 
 
 Whose names too sacred for an eulogy, 
 drift upward with our prayers." 
 
 The following is taken from 
 the Point Pleasant Observer of 
 October 17, 1901,: 
 
 "TU-ENDIE-WEI PARK." 
 A Great Outpouring- of the Peo- 
 ple at , its Dedication Last 
 Thursday. A Gala Day 
 
 For Point Pleasant. 
 "We have not space to tell of 
 the big celebration on Thursday 
 the 10th. This means that if we
 
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 were to take up every inch of 
 space in the whole paper we 
 could not tell all about it. So we 
 will have to tell a little about it 
 and let the rest go." 
 
 "Day dawned bright and clear 
 with never a cloud to remind one 
 of the little sprinkle of the night 
 before, The town was pro- 
 fuselv decorated with flags and 
 bunting. The first signal ot 
 the coming dawn was announc- 
 ed by the watchman on the 
 site of Old fort Randolph, who 
 was in charge of the relics, firing 
 the morning gun. Immediatley 
 after this the church bells begun 
 to ring, say at 5 o'clock, and the 
 mill whistles and those of the 
 steamboats began to blow until 
 not only everybody in town, 
 but every one within five miles 
 of the town, was wide awake. 
 
 By eight o'clock, the country 
 people were pouring into town 
 in streams from every direction. 
 All roads led to Point Pleasant 
 and all roads were full. At half 
 past nine the trains began to 
 pour their loads into town and 
 by 10 o'clock the crowd was var- 
 iously estimated from 6,000 to 
 10,000 people. At 10 o'clock 
 Col. J. P. R. B. Smith began to 
 form the huge mass of people in- 
 to a line of march and even with 
 his able assistants it was an 
 Herculean task. Finally the 
 parade was formed and headed 
 by Col. James Somerville and a 
 platoon of police followed by 
 
 Grand Marshall J. P. R. B. 
 Smith, the large procession mov- 
 ed over the principal streets of 
 the town and at last ended at the 
 beautiful park at the junction of 
 the two rivers." 
 
 "The parade consisted of the 
 town officers in carriages, citi- 
 zens in carriages, citizens on 
 horseback, people on foot, the 
 children of the public schools, 
 both white and colored, some in 
 wagons and some on foot, with 
 three brass bands, interspersed 
 at regular intervals, and all in- 
 terspersed with display made 
 by our merchants until the 
 whole presented a scene of beau- 
 ty. Merchants from other towns 
 who inform the newspaper peo- 
 ple of Point Pleasant that it does 
 no good to advertise here were 
 also glad to have a place in the 
 big parade and were not asham- 
 ed to be the lustiest how.lers for 
 Point Pleasant's big day." 
 
 After the people had gotten 
 something to eat they again as- 
 sembled at the park and were 
 called to order by J. P. R. B. 
 Smith who called Hon. C. E. 
 Hogg one of this district's dis- 
 tinguished ex-corigressmen to 
 the chair. Mr. Hogg after a 
 short but eloquent address in- 
 troduced Mrs. George Poffen- 
 barger, Regent of Col. Chas. 
 Lewis chapter of the Daughters 
 of the American Revolution who, 
 in a short address, and by au- 
 thority of the Monument Com-
 
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 missions named the beautiful plot 
 of ground "Tue-Endie-Wei" 
 Park, "Tue-Endie-Wei" in the 
 Sbawnee language meaning 
 "'the mingling of the waters." 
 
 Chairman Hogg next introduc- 
 ed Col. Bennet H. Young of 
 Louisville, Ky., after which 
 Louis Reed Campbell recited an 
 original poem written for the oc- 
 casion entitled "Our Heroes." 
 Next followed Gen. Chas. H. 
 Grosvener, of Ohio, who deliver- 
 ed a characteristic Grosvener ad- 
 dress. The program of the day 
 was concluded by the burial of 
 the remains of "MAD ANN 
 BAILEY," which had been dis- 
 interred from their resting place 
 of 76 years and brought here for 
 burial, thus carrying out her de- 
 sire, expressed more than three 
 quarters of a century ago, to be 
 buried on Virginia soil." 
 
 "The museum contained large 
 number of historic relics which 
 held the interest of the vast 
 crowd from early morn to the 
 leaving time of the late train and 
 steamboat in the evening." 
 
 The Huntington Advertiser of 
 October 11, 1901, said. 
 
 "The Huntingtonians who vis- 
 ited Point Pleasant yesterday 
 returned last evening happy 
 over the exercises of the day." 
 
 "It was the proudest and most 
 memorable in the life of that his- 
 toric community. Amid anas 
 sembly of ten thousand persons, 
 
 many of whom had come half 
 way across the continent to be 
 present, the beautiful grove at 
 the junction of the Kanawha and 
 Ohio rivers, was for ever dedicat- 
 ed to the memory of the gallant 
 Virginians who, one hundred 
 and twenty-seven years ago, 
 gave to the world the first mani- 
 festation of that valor, which in 
 after years, broke the power of 
 Great Britain and made this con- 
 tinent the abiding place of civil 
 liberty." 
 
 "No spot in the Ohio valley is 
 so full of historical significance 
 as the old town of Point Pleasant. 
 No spot will be more beautiful 
 when the towering granite shaft, 
 to be erected at an estimated 
 cost of forty thousand dollars, 
 shall greet the eye of the strang- 
 er as he approaches this true 
 cradle of American liberty." 
 
 Quoting from the Gallia Times 
 of October 9th, we find. 
 
 "Much interest is being taken 
 by the Point Pleasant people in 
 the coming anniversary of the 
 Indian battle fought there. 
 This was on October 10, 1774, or 
 127 years ago, and, on this day 
 the power of the Red Men in the 
 Kanawha and Ohio Valleys was 
 wrested from them. The day 
 should long be remembered and 
 we believe will be fittingly cele- 
 brated by our neighbor city." 
 
 The Gallipolis Journal of Octo- 
 ber 9th, said.
 
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 "BATTLE 
 Of Point Pleasant will be 
 
 Celebrated on 
 Thursday next." 
 
 "Our neighbors across the 
 river are making extensive prep- 
 arations for the celebration of 
 the battle of Point Pleasant, the 
 first conflict of the Revolution- 
 on Thursday Oct. 10. It was in 
 1774 that the most desperate In- 
 dian battle on record was fought 
 between the confederated Indian 
 tribes, under the celebrated 
 chief. Cornstalk, and the Vir- 
 ginia Militia under command 
 of Gen. Andrew Lewis." 
 
 "There will be a relic display 
 and a big parade. The old log 
 mansion that has stood in three 
 centuries will be among the 
 other relics of primitive days. 
 Gen. Grosvener and Col. Bennett 
 Young, of Louisville, one of Ken- 
 tucky's most magnetic speakers. 
 will be present at the celebration. 
 The remains of Ann Bailey, the 
 heroine of the revolution, have 
 been disinterred and will be con- 
 signed to their new resting place 
 on Thursday. There will be 
 three bands and a most interest- 
 ing program and the 10th prom- 
 ises to be an eventful day at 
 Point Pleasant" 
 
 The following is from the 
 Weekly Register, of Point Pleas- 
 ant, W. Va., under date of Oc- 
 ober 17, 1901. 
 
 "THE CELEBRATION. 
 Of the One Hundred and Twen- 
 
 ty-Seventh Anniversary of the 
 Battle of Point Pleasant. Thous- 
 ands of Visitors Within our 
 Gates. The Celebration a Suc- 
 cess in Every Particular and the 
 day will be long remembered by 
 all present." 
 
 "Despite the cloudy weather 
 and rain of Wednesday, Thurs- 
 day morning, October 10th, 1901, 
 dawned with the old Sol, and a 
 twinkle in his eye, to the gratifi- 
 cation of the committees in 
 charge and the citizens of our 
 little city in general, for clear 
 and favorable weather meant for 
 the celebration of the first battle 
 of the Revolution, (fought at 
 Point Pleasant on October 10, 
 1774, between the whites under 
 command of Colonel Charles 
 Lewis, aud the Indians,) un- 
 bounded and unprecedented suc- 
 cess. 
 
 The committees in charge of 
 this, the 127th anniversary of 
 this great battle, have been earn- 
 est workers to accomplish this 
 end, and deserve much credit for 
 their untiring efforts. 
 
 The genial Marshall in chief, 
 Colonel J. P. R. B. Smith and his 
 assistants, handled the big 
 parade which was formed in the 
 first ward in a manner credita- 
 ble to a general with an army of 
 100,000. 
 
 In the parade was a represen- 
 tation of all our business people, 
 the children of our public schools 
 turning out in full, dressed in
 
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 national colors, companies of 
 horsemen, the fire department, 
 the hook and ladder company, 
 and everything and every body 
 to make up a grand trades dis- 
 play the like of which has never 
 before been seen in Point Pleas- 
 ant." 
 
 "To say the town wasgaly dec- 
 orated with bunting, flags, &c., 
 is not necessary, for the emblem 
 of our great nation was never so 
 profusely displayed as on this 
 occasion." 
 
 "The park at the confluence of 
 the Ohio and Kanawha rivers 
 where the monument to com- 
 memorate this great battle will 
 be erected, has been put in the 
 best proper shape, and was 
 thronged with visitors and sight- 
 seers throughout the day." 
 
 "The old house, considerably 
 over a hundred years old, which 
 was converted into a museum 
 and filled with relics, was the 
 most interesting feature of the 
 occasion." 
 
 "The ladies in charge of the 
 museum are commended by our 
 citizens and visitors upon the 
 manner in which this "relic 
 store" was conducted, and the 
 courtesies accorded all." 
 
 "A collection of relics, such as 
 Indian implements of warfare, 
 old pictures, dishes, dresses, 
 jewelry and many other articles 
 too numerous to mention, are 
 not seen by one generation more 
 
 than once, and one who missed 
 this treat is at loss to know or 
 conceive the manner in which 
 these old settlers lived and had 
 their being. Bands of music de- 
 lighted the visitors and the day 
 was one of joy from morning un- 
 til night. The crowd was order- 
 ly well behaved and jolly. No 
 congregation of human beings 
 had a more joyous time for one 
 day, than did this one." 
 
 "After the parade, which mov- 
 ed at noon, and which was never 
 surpassed as a trades display in 
 this place, had disbanded and 
 the throng of people had dined, 
 the speaking at the park began." 
 
 "Hon. Chas. E. Hogg, one of 
 West Virginia's most eloquent 
 orators, had charge of the cere- 
 monies at the speaker's stand, 
 and his introductory remarks" 
 were well received. Mr. Hogg 
 never fails to please and enlight- 
 en his hearer, and at the conclu- 
 sion of his remarks introduced 
 Mrs. Judge Poffenbarger, who 
 opened the speaking with an ad- 
 dress listened to by the throng 
 of people with marked attention, 
 and which was eloquent and in- 
 structive." 
 
 "Col. Bennett Young, of Jassa- 
 mine County, Kentucky, mem- 
 ber of Congress from his dis- 
 trict, was introduced and to say 
 his address was eloquent, logical 
 and interesting, is but a triffle, 
 for the marked attention of his 
 hearers was undisturbed. He
 
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 is a fluent speaker and one would 
 never tire listening to him." 
 
 "Next to be introduced was Mr. 
 Lewis Reed Campbell, who re- 
 cited a beautiful poem entitled 
 "Our Heroes." This was one 
 of the most beautiful, and being 
 prepared as it was, only a few 
 hours before the hour for deliv- 
 ery, places our young friend at 
 the maximum. The manner in 
 which this beautiful poem was 
 delivered was pleasing in the ex- 
 treme and delighted the im- 
 mense crowd who listened with 
 marked attention." 
 
 "Gen. Chas. H. Grosvener, of 
 Ohio, was next introduced, who 
 made, as all know, an address 
 second to none. The General 
 is one of Ohio's influential and 
 honored sons, and when he ap- 
 peared on the speaker's stand, a 
 smile of pleasure and gratifica- 
 tion covered every face in the 
 audience. General Grosvener's 
 remarks were listened to atten- 
 tively, and his eulogy to our 
 martyred President, was pa- 
 thetic. Concluding his remarks, 
 General Grosvener said it would 
 be well for Great Britain, had 
 she a commander like "Corn- 
 stalk" at the head of her forces 
 in South Africa, which was met 
 with a round of applause." 
 
 "Space and time will not permit 
 us to report this celebration as 
 we would like to, but those who 
 were here had a good time, en- 
 joyed themselves and left our 
 
 little city with the wish to soon 
 return." 
 
 "The short-comings of our re- 
 port of this big day are attribut- 
 ed to the absence of the editor in 
 chief, and had he been at the 
 helm, our "chases" would not 
 have held the flow from his pen 
 and our "machines" would have 
 been sorely overtaxed." 
 
 The Mail Tribune, Charleston, 
 W. Va., Oct. 12, 1901, says: 
 "POINT PLEASANT 
 Celebrates Important Anniver- 
 sary. Remarkable Demon- 
 stration in Honor 
 
 of the 
 
 Famous Battle. 
 
 Col. Bennet Young, of Ky., and 
 Gen. Grosvener, of Ohio, 
 Principal Speakers." 
 
 "Point Pleasant, W. Va , Oct. 
 10th, 1901 was the proudest 
 and most memorable in the 
 life of this historic community. 
 Before an assembly of 10,000 
 persons, many of whom had 
 come half way across the conti- 
 nent to be present, when the 
 beautiful grounds at the junc- 
 ture of the Kanawha and Ohio 
 rivers was for ever dedicated to 
 the memory of the gallant Vir- 
 ginians, who, 127 years ago 
 gave the first manifestation 
 of that valor which, in after 
 years, broke the power of 
 Great Britain and made this 
 continent the abiding place of 
 civil liberty." 
 
 "No spot in the Ohio Valley is
 
 127 
 
 so full of historic significance as 
 this old town of Point Pleasant, 
 and no spot will be more beauti- 
 ful when the towering- granite 
 shaft to be erected at an estimate 
 of $50,000.00, shall greet the eye 
 uf the stranger as he approaches 
 this true cradle of liberty." 
 
 "Gen. Chas. H. Gresvener, of 
 Ohio, in his speech, said in part: 
 
 "It is pleasant on this October 
 day to reflect that here on the 
 banks of the beautiful Ohio, 
 then so remote from the center 
 and homes of our ancestors as to 
 be terra incognita to the peo- 
 ple of our country and of the 
 world there should have been 
 struck that which turned out to 
 be the first great blow for Ameri- 
 can Independence and American 
 Liberty. Figure it as you may, 
 the battle whose anniversary we 
 here today celebrate was the 
 first real blow of the Revolution- 
 ary War. Nobody so understood 
 it. Grant that; who understood 
 what was to flow from Lexington 
 or Concord or even from Bunker 
 Hill? What was the name of the 
 man who foresaw when the 
 spring time grass of Massachu- 
 setts was reddened with the 
 blood of patriots at Lexington 
 that the blood was to sanctify 
 the soil and result in the rights 
 of the people for self govern- 
 ment. Lord Dunmore was loyal 
 to the source from which he de- 
 rived his official dignity and 
 official position. He was how- 
 
 ever, as appears by the records, 
 not quite the open manly frank 
 man that Americans love to rec- 
 ognize and honor. When he 
 came to the mouth of the Big 
 Hock-hocking river, under prom- 
 ise to join the troops that he 
 supposed were subordinate to 
 him, he failed to join them for 
 the manifest purpose of weaken- 
 ing their forces and thus enable 
 the Indians to overcome the set- 
 tlers. While he was not acting 
 that manly, o p e.n and above 
 board part which Americans love 
 to honor and recognize, but if 
 the reports are true and conclu- 
 sions are allowable, Lord Dun- 
 more was guilty of an act of the 
 basest treachery and a manifest 
 purpose of the most inhuman 
 outrage. But it cannot be lost 
 sight of that even in this, shame- 
 ful as his conduct was, he was 
 acting in furtherance of his pur- 
 poses to aid the government to 
 which he owed allegiance. It 
 may be that in his horoscope he 
 saw the coming of the overthrow 
 of British power in the colonies 
 and the organization of a new 
 government and the stripping of 
 the British Crown of all it held 
 so dear in the United States. 
 However, much we may con- 
 demn, from the standpoint of 
 our own sympathy, all and sin- 
 gular in their behalf, there is 
 nevertheless more or less of mi- 
 tigation of wrong and treachery 
 and double dealing in the fact
 
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 that he was doing it all in behalf 
 of the country and sovereignty to 
 which he owed allegiance. The 
 colonies were proposing to fight 
 for mitigation of the wrongs of 
 unequal and unjust taxation and 
 the refusal to them of the right 
 of representation in the British 
 law making body and yet out of 
 that little movement which I 
 have shown was only for the 
 mitigation of wrong, came this 
 the great idea, so suddenly de- 
 veloped, of independence, and 
 from it has come all the glory of 
 a mighty and united country." 
 
 While William Hunter, an em- 
 inent Ohio writer, of the Chili- 
 cothie Advertiser, says: 
 
 "It give us pleasure to note 
 that the battle of Point Pleasant 
 is called the first battle of the 
 Revolutionary War by tohse who 
 are celebrating the anniversary, 
 although questioned by New En- 
 gland historians who seem to be 
 lieve that the whole war was 
 fought in a radius of twenty miles 
 of Boston, and the most has been 
 made of every little skirmish in 
 that region, while the battles in 
 the Western country are not 
 even mentioned." 
 
 State Historian V. A. Lewis 
 again says, in the West Virginia 
 Historical Magazine, of the bat 
 tie. 
 
 "It is the greatest event in the 
 colonial period and stands just 
 at its close. With it the Revolu- 
 tionary Period begins. Hence 
 
 the battle is as it were the con- 
 necting link between two of the 
 great periods in all American 
 History. Closing as it does the 
 one, and opening the other. 
 
 Edward Ingle, writing in the 
 Manufacturer's Record, in No- 
 vember, 1901, on the Preserva- 
 tion of Virginia's Antiquities, 
 says: 
 
 "Andrew Lewis, not a Virgin- 
 ian, but yet a type of the rear- 
 guard of the Revolution, fought 
 successfully at Point Pleasant 
 in 1774, that which was really the 
 first battle of that struggle and a 
 battle far reaching in its signifi- 
 cant results." 
 
 While a bill introduced by Sen- 
 ator Scott passed the Senate in 
 1905, carrying an appropriation, 
 Senator Scott wrote and offered 
 his personal check for one thous- 
 and dollars with which to erect 
 
 
 the monument if the commission 
 would abandon the idea of secur- 
 ing aid from the National Con- 
 gress. A hasty conference of 
 friends of the movement was 
 held and the offer declined, as 
 the agitators of the monument 
 building were not only anxious 
 that the Government should ap- 
 propriate adequate funds, but 
 that it should officially recognize 
 the battle as one of those of the 
 Revolution; so the offer of Sena- 
 tor Scott was politely declined. 
 Congressman Hughes pressed 
 the passage of the bill at that 
 time in the lower house of Con-
 
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 gress. Hon. J. T. McCleary, 
 Chairman of the Committee to 
 which .the bill was referred, 
 wrote a letter to Mr. Hughes, as 
 follows: 
 
 "As I advised you yesterday, 
 the committee adopted a policy 
 more than a year ago as its policy 
 for this Congress, that of making 
 no appropriations for monuments 
 to be erected outside of Washing- 
 ton." 
 
 The monument commission as- 
 sisted by Mrs. Poffenbarger, 
 then hastened to Charleston, 
 where the Legislature was then 
 in session, and the Charleston 
 Mail gives, in part, the following: 
 
 "Mrs. Livia Simpson-Poffen- 
 barger arrived here Thursday 
 from her home at Point Pleasant, 
 to aid in securing an appropria- 
 tion for a Point Pleasant 
 Battle Monument. She has at- 
 tended a part of two former ses- 
 sions of the Legislature for the 
 same purpose. When seen by 
 a Mail reporter in the office of 
 her husband Judge George Pof- 
 fenbarger, of the Supreme 
 Court, she said in response to 
 the question, when asked what 
 the prospect for an appropria- 
 tion is?" 
 
 "It is the first time I have ever 
 believed we would get an appro- 
 priation when it was asked for. 
 I believe now we are going to get 
 it. We expect to get a recom- 
 mendation for an appropriation 
 through the Joint Finance Com- 
 
 mittee, and if we get a favorable 
 report from the committee we 
 have "crossed the Alps'" for 
 there is positively no opposition 
 to it this year outside of whether 
 or not there will be available 
 funds." 
 
 "What amount have you asked 
 for, Mrs. Poffenbarger?" 
 
 "i had a most courteous hear- 
 ing before the committee who 
 had previously heard the mem- 
 bers of the Monument Com- 
 mittee and I asked for $25,000,00, 
 payable $5,000.00 annually." 
 
 "But can the state make an ap- 
 propriation Governing five 
 years?" 
 
 "No, but they can for two and 
 the appropriation may be for a 
 monument not to exceed $25,000.- 
 00 expense to the state of West 
 Virginia, $5,00.00 of which is 
 available now and $5,000.00 next 
 year, and the rest may be im- 
 plied, as in the case of the appro- 
 priation made for the West Vir- 
 ginia Hospital at a cost of $80,- 
 000, $10,000.00 of which was 
 available when appropriated." 
 
 Here followed the history of 
 the effort made for the erection 
 of a monument. 
 
 Mrs. Poffenbarger telegragh- 
 ed her paper- 
 
 'Charleston, W. Va., 
 
 February 28, 1905. 
 The State Gazette 
 
 The Senate at 6:30 P. M. pass- 
 ed an amendent to the Appropri-
 
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 ation Bill of $2,500.00 for this year 
 and $2,500.00 for 1906. The hill 
 still has to go back to the Mouse 
 for concurrence and if it tails 
 there, will go to a conference 
 commitee." 
 
 The amendment was offered 
 by Senator E. S. McCown, of the 
 Fourth Senatorial District. His 
 speech was one of his best ef- 
 forts while Senator Darst work- 
 ed heart and soul for the appro- 
 priation. The amendment failed 
 to pass the house, but was saved 
 in the Joint Conference com- 
 mittee where by herculean work 
 the building of a battle monu- 
 ment at Point Pleasant was as- 
 sured. The state had once 
 again assumed the responsibility 
 and every year since the Legis- 
 lature has appropriated money 
 with which to build the monu- 
 ment. Except this appropria- 
 tion for 1906 and 1907, all has 
 been vetoed except that of 
 $1,000.00 made in 1909, because 
 of lack of funds as announced 
 by Governor Dawson. 
 
 Feb, 15, 1906, Hon. James A. 
 Hughes, who was pressing Con- 
 gress for an appropriation for 
 funds with which to build the 
 monument wrote as follows from 
 Washington : 
 
 Mrs. LiviaSimpson-Poffenbarger 
 
 Point Pleasant, W. Va. 
 I am in receipt of a letter from 
 Mr. Austin who states that it is 
 the opinion of the Monument 
 
 Committee of your place that the 
 amount asked for be reduced 
 from $50,000.00 to $10,000.00." 
 
 "The amount carried in the bill 
 does not amount to anything as 
 the committee would only appro- 
 priate such an amount as they 
 saw fit and would be governed by 
 the wishes of the committee. I 
 will introduce another bill carry- 
 ing $10,000.00 instead of $50,000.- 
 00 as in the present bill. I had a 
 talk with Mr. McCleary, and he 
 told me that the committee still 
 had under consideration the ad- 
 visability of whether they would 
 make any appropriations outside 
 of the City of Washington. 
 So far, they have not come to any 
 conclusion. I had a talk with 
 Senator Scott in regard to this 
 appropriation and he doubted 
 very much whether they would 
 make any appropriation outside 
 the City of Washington and he 
 advises that this monument 
 should be erected and that it 
 should be done by private sub- 
 scription and in addition to what 
 the State had alread}' appropri- 
 ated he said he would be glad to 
 head the list with a private sub- 
 scription." 
 
 "Now I want to advise you 
 frankly about this, if the Libra- 
 ry Committee of the House re- 
 fuses to make any appropria- 
 tions for monuments, outside of 
 the City of Washington, I think 
 it will be useless to press the 
 matter further, and I think it
 
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 would be well to consider the 
 suggestion of Senator Scott. 
 
 I will be glad to hear from you 
 in reference to the matter. 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 J. A. Hughes." 
 
 To the above letter, Mrs. Pof- 
 fenbarger replied: 
 
 "We do not ask that the Con- 
 gress of the United States build 
 the Battle Monument at Point 
 Pleasant because the funds can- 
 not be raised by private sub- 
 scription or secured as an ap- 
 propriation from the State of 
 West Virginia, but because we 
 want the Government to official- 
 ly recognize the batttle as it was 
 in truth a battle of the Revolu- 
 tion, indeed, the First Battle of 
 the Revolution, and no matter 
 how insignificant the approation, 
 it the bill correctly states its 
 status we will be content to raise 
 the money necessary as best we 
 can, although we want as large 
 an appropriation as we can get. 
 While we appreciate the generosi- 
 ty of Senator Scott, should he do- 
 nate the entire amount necessary 
 it would fail in our main purpose 
 of having the government official- 
 ly credit the battle the honor it 
 deserves and we will have again 
 to decline his offer and insist 
 that you both press the matter 
 before Congress so vigorously as 
 to ultimately bring- the desired 
 result. Again thanking you and 
 Senator Scott for your past ef- 
 
 forts and expecting renewed 
 zeal, I am 
 
 Very truly 
 Livia Simpson-Poffenbarger." 
 
 That the Congress of the Un- 
 ited States was still importuned 
 is evidenced by the fact that on 
 December 4, 1907, Senator N. B, 
 Scott introduced Senate Bill 160 
 which was favorably reported 
 February 17. 1908, without 
 amendment, as follows: 
 
 "A BILL to aid in the erection 
 of a monument or memorial at 
 Point Pleasant, West Virginia, 
 to commemorate the Battle of 
 tho Revolution fought at that 
 point between the Colonial troops 
 and Indians October tenth, 
 seventeen hundred and seventy- 
 four." 
 
 An identical bill was introduc- 
 ed in the lower House of Con- 
 gress by Hon. James A. Hughes. 
 
 A Telegram, as follows, 
 brought the first intelligence to 
 Point Pleasant that the bill had 
 passed both branches of Con- 
 gress: 
 
 Mrs. LiviaSimpson-Poffenbarger 
 
 Congress appropriated $10,- 
 
 000.00 for a battle monument at 
 
 Point Pleasant Congratulations. 
 
 James A. Hughes. 
 Washington, D. C ' 
 
 The Monument Commission 
 got busy and realizing that the 
 introduction of new methods of 
 monument building, lasting as
 
 132 
 
 the pyramids of Egypt, had 
 been introduced, by which the 
 monument could be built with the 
 money available, a contract was 
 let for the monument at a cost at 
 the factory of $15,000.00, the 
 shipment and erection of which 
 would make a total cost of $16,- 
 000. The monument to be built 
 of Balfour granite, the statue 
 thereon to be of Westerly gran- 
 ite. The shaft is an obelisk 
 with a base twenty-four feet 
 square, the height to be eighty- 
 two feet. The statue is to be 
 that of a colonial soldier of the 
 primitive Virginia style, dressed 
 in hunting shirt, coon skin cap, 
 leather breeches and long rifle. 
 The whole to he completed for 
 the unveiling of the monument 
 on the One Hundred and Thirty- 
 fifth anniversary of the battle of 
 Point Pleasant, October, 10, 
 1909. 
 
 The Monument Commission 
 on June 10, 1909, issued the fol- 
 lowing announcement: 
 
 "ATTENTION CITIZENS. 
 
 A general invitation is extend- 
 ed for a citizen's meeting at the 
 Court House at Point Pleasant 
 on Thursday June 10th at 8 P. 
 M. to make preparations for the 
 celebration of the Battle of Point 
 Pleasant, the unveiling of the 
 monument and Home Coming 
 Week, under the auspices of the 
 Mayor and Civil Authority of the 
 town of Point Pleasant, and in- 
 
 terested citizens of the town, 
 county and state. 
 Signed, 
 
 John P. Austin, 
 President of the Monument 
 Committee.'" 
 
 There was a large and enthus- 
 iastic meeting held in response 
 to the call. Judge John Lamar 
 Whitten, Mayor of the town, who 
 presided, was elected as the 
 permanent chairman of arrange- 
 ments for a West Virginia Home 
 Coming Week, Celebration of the 
 Battle and Unveiling of the Mon- 
 ument, October 7-8-9-10, 1909. 
 The others appointed to further 
 the success of the proper ob- 
 servance of the battle were the 
 following Committees in charge 
 of the Celebration. 
 
 Organization. 
 
 Crairman, Mayor John L. 
 WKitten. 
 
 Secretary, E. Jacob Somerville. 
 
 Asst. Secretary, Warren C. 
 Whaley. 
 
 Grand Marshall, Col. John P. 
 R. B. Smith. 
 
 Assistants, Lewis C. Somer- 
 ville, Peter Higgins Steenbergen, 
 Edward Barto Jones. 
 
 Committee at Large. 
 
 Hon. John P. Austin, Presi- 
 dent Monument Commission; 
 Monument Commissioners, Hon. 
 V. A. Lewis and Mr. C. C. Bow- 
 yer; Mayor, Judge John L. Whit- 
 ten. Col. John P. R. B. Smith and
 
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 Mrs. Livia Nye Simpson-Poffen 
 
 burger. 
 
 Finance Committee. 
 
 Joseph Friedman, Chairman, 
 Peter Higgins Steenbergen, Ed- 
 ward K. Thomas, Peter S. Lewis, 
 Griff T. Smith, Tol Stribling, 
 Hon. J. Samuel Spencer, John G. 
 Stortz, Point Pleasant; R. J. Pat- 
 terson, Maggie; William R. 
 Thompson, Huntington; Charles 
 .Cameron Lewis, Jr., Ex-Gover- 
 nor Wm. A. McCorkle, Hon. Jno. 
 O. Dickenson, Charleston; Ex- 
 Governor A. B. Fleming, Fair- 
 mont. 
 
 Invitation Committee 
 
 Governor Wm. E. Glasscock, 
 Senator Stephen B. Elkins, Sena- 
 tor Nathan B. Scott, Hon. James 
 A. Hughes, Judge Ira E. Robin- 
 son, Judge George Poffenbarger 
 of West Virginia; Col. H. R. 
 Howard, John E. Beller, Robert 
 E. Mitchell, B. H. Blagg, Andrew 
 Lewis Boggess, Charles C. Lew- 
 is, H. Green Nease, Hon. George 
 W. Cossin, James M. H. Beale, 
 Hon. J. Samuel Spencer 
 Judge John W. English, 
 Judge Wm. A. Parsons, Point 
 Pleasant; Hon. E. O. Randall, 
 Columbus, Ohio; Hon. W. Sid- 
 ney Laidley, William Burdette 
 Mathews, Charles C. Lewis, Sr., 
 John Q. Dickenson of Charleston; 
 Gen'l. Charles H. Grosvenor and 
 Hon. Jerry Longfellow Carpen- 
 ter, Athens, Ohio; Hon, Edmond 
 Sehon, Dr. Lewis V. Guthrie 
 
 and Louis Sehon Pomeroy, of 
 Huntington. 
 
 Trades Display 
 
 Robert J. Heslop, Charles K. 
 Blackwood, Charles E. Jones, 
 David S. Snyder, James Walter 
 Winden, Mark Shiflet, Horton 
 Roseberry, Joseph W. Rhoades, 
 Will Filson, John C. Franklin, 
 Ed. Lawhead, H. H. Henry, 
 C. Frederick Hess, Captain 
 C. ' H o m e r V a r i a n, Rob- 
 ert Kiger, James Stephenson, 
 George Miller, John Wells, Geo. 
 W. M. Hooff, Alexander B. Mc- 
 Culloch, James Cavenaugh, 
 James B. Tippett, F. B. Tippett. 
 Lemuel Shiflet, Hugo Juhling, 
 Jr., Bertram L. Burdette, Frank 
 Fadley, Enos B. Thomas, H. W. 
 Ellis, Dr. Ed McElfresh, Jacob 
 P. Hetherington, L. J. Coley, 
 Peter C. McDade, W. A. Wil- 
 liams, Harry M. Langley. 
 
 Decoration and Speakers Stand 
 
 Frank Filson, B. Franklin, Jr., 
 Charles Russell McCulloch, Wm. 
 H. H. Gardner, J. Floyd Burdett, 
 S. Waldo Swisher, Alonzo Walk- 
 er, Enos, C. Winger, John W. C. 
 Heslop, Ed A. Arrington, Ed- 
 ward W. Craig, Geo. P. Gardner, 
 Wm. Tully, John Love, Sam'l 
 Lutton, Fredrick Capes, Charles 
 Dashner, G. E. Mathews, Mes- 
 darnes Harry E. Burnside, Wm. 
 Steenbergen, Robert E. Mitchell, 
 Edward McElfresh, Rush H. 
 Burnside, Edward J Burnside, 
 Lem Shiflet, Samantha J. Baum, 
 Wm. Steinbach, Mrs. M. Fried-
 
 134 
 
 man, Mrs. Kate Williams, Mrs. 
 J. W. English, Mrs. Robert P. 
 Lynch, Mrs. Ella Fenton, Mrs. 
 Horton Roseberry, Mrs, E. H. 
 Woelffel, Mrs. Wm. Kenny, Mrs. 
 
 E. H. Armstrong, Mrs. H. A. 
 Barbee, Mrs. James B. Tippett, 
 Mrs. Wm. C. Stortz, Mrs. J. 
 
 F. Burdett, Mrs. B. Franklin, Jr., 
 Mrs. George Comstock, Mrs. 
 Joseph H. Holloway, Mrs. Asha- 
 bel Hughes, Misses Edith Tip- 
 pett, Maud Kisar, Reba Beale, 
 Hattie Price, Mary Lewis, Venie 
 and Jessie Thomas, Mrs. Homer 
 Smith, Mrs. E. B. Jones, Mrs. 
 Wm. E. Hayman, Mrs. W. C. 
 Whaley, Mrs. Tol Stribling. 
 
 Advertising Committee 
 
 Homer Smith, Dr. W. P. 
 Neale, Marcus Friedman, War- 
 ren C. Whaley, Charles C. Lewis, 
 Edward C. Berridge, Dr. Ed. 
 McElfresh, John F. Lewis and 
 James B. Tippett. 
 
 Entertainment Committee 
 
 Griff T. Smith, Howard L. 
 Robey, Lesley L. Neale, Geo. C. 
 Somerville, Dr. Frank V. Butch- 
 er, Ed Filson, Wm. Steinbach, 
 Howard Long, Geo. W. Long, 
 John L. Hutchinson, E. H. 
 Woelffel, W. W. Riley, R. P. 
 Liter, Lem Shiflet Jr., Point 
 Pleasant; John D. Lewis, Phil 
 Walker, John Baker White, 
 Charleston; Lycergus N. Knight 
 Maggie; M. G. Tyler, H. E. Spil- 
 man, Dr. Richard Stone, Spilman, 
 Dr. Charles Petty, Hartford; 
 Mesdames John Samuel Spencer. 
 
 Charies Clendenin Bowyer, John 
 L. Whitten, Charles C. Lewis, 
 John Daniel McCulloch, H. Green 
 Nease, John W. C. Heslop, 
 L. J. Williamson, Rankin Wiley, 
 John McCulloch, Frank Fil- 
 son, Wm. P. Neale, Peter Hig- 
 gins Steenbergen, Hiram R. 
 Howard, J. H. Wade, Jackson 
 Lee Pannel, Charles Russell Mc- 
 Culloch, James W. Windon, Pat- 
 rick F. Ryan, John P. Austin, 
 Robert P. Liter, Howard^ L. 
 Robey, E. Barto Jones, Joseph 
 Friedman, E. B. Sisler, B. Frank 
 lin, Jr., E. E. Thomas, Mary 
 Margaret Bryan, Homer Smith, 
 Ben Franklin, Sr , S. W. Swish- 
 er, Walter Lincoln; Misses 
 Josephine Howard, Irene Bow- 
 yer, Lillie Lee Hogg, Elizabeth 
 Harding Hogg, Julia Polsley, 
 Ada Gilmore, Cornelia Smith, 
 V e v a Haptonstall, Margaret 
 Lynn Neale, Gertrude Howard, 
 Edith Tippett, Venie and Jessie 
 Thomas, Kate Stribling, Lena 
 L. Roseberry, of Point Pleas- 
 ants; Mrs. Geo. W. Gist and 
 Miss Maggie Hayman, Le- 
 tart; Mrs. W. L. Lawson and 
 Miss May Jackson, New Haven; 
 Mrs. M. M. Brown, Mrs. D. E. 
 Newton, Hartford; Mrs. Joseph 
 H. Windon, Maggie; Mrs. V. A. 
 Lewis, Mrs. W. E. Ruttencutter, 
 Mrs. L. E. Bletner, Misses 
 Maud and Annie Lewis, Mason; 
 Mesdames John McCoach, Ed- 
 mond Sehon, Columbus Sehon, 
 Taylor Vinson, Wm. R. Thomp-
 
 135 
 
 son, Mary Lesage, Margaret 
 Lynn Harvey, C. R. Thompson 
 and James A. Hughes, Hunting- 
 ton; Mrs. Kate Sterrett, Mrs. 
 Wm. H. Vaught, Mrs. John 
 Thornberg, Five Mile; Mrs. M. 
 Ella Hutcbinson, Henderson; 
 Miss Lizzie Smith, McCausland; 
 Miss Francis M. Maupin, Ar- 
 buckle; Mrs. Charles E. Mc- 
 Culloch, Five Mile; Miss Rhoda 
 Long, Mrs. Monroe Poffenbar- 
 ger, South Side; Mrs. C. A. 
 Green, Otia; Mrs. James Hen- 
 derson, Five Mile; Dr. A. G. 
 Martin, F. M. Middleton, Win- 
 field; Dr. C. McGill, Red 
 House; Robert Brown, O. F. 
 Stribling, Apple Grove; John H. 
 S. Spencer, Graham Station; F. 
 C. Hute, John C. Levzey, L. 
 Quickie, Thos. L. Finney, Pliny, 
 Frank Dunn, South Side; George 
 L. Sebrell, E. B. Nease, Ar- 
 buckle; Will Armstrong, Gallipo- 
 lis; Dr. Blake, R. E. Blake, Hen- 
 ry McCoy, J. B. Frazier, Buf- 
 falo; Robt. Somerville, Maggie; 
 W. W. Cornwall, Glen wood; 
 Earl Henry, Clifton; A. G. W. 
 Brinker, A. C. Cross, Thos. Z. 
 Blessing, Letart. 
 
 Speakers Committee 
 
 Col. H. R. Howard, Capt. W. 
 H. Howand, Wm. E. Hayman, 
 Judge George Poffenbarger, 
 Robt. L. Hutchinson, Hon. J. S. 
 Spencer, Benjamin Franklin, Sr., 
 Enos B. Thomas, Dr. E. J. 
 Mossman, Carlisle L. Whaley, 
 Rev. J. H. Gibbons, Rev. Pullin, 
 
 Rev. R. P. Bell, O. A. Roush, 
 Geo. McClintock, Capt. Rush H. 
 Burnside, Benjamin H. Blagg. 
 Music Committee 
 
 E, B. Sisler, J. H. Norton. B. 
 F. Gibbs, A. C. Van Gilder, 
 Charles K. Black wood, Lew Mc- 
 Millen, Rankin Wiley, John G. 
 Aten, Wm. Steenbergen, Dr. 
 John Fadley, Mesdames Mary 
 Margaret Bryan, J. M. H. Beale, 
 Carlisle L. Whaley, Eliza Wag- 
 goner, Charles Filson, Nannie E. 
 Hale, Kossuth T. McKinstry, 
 Misses Josephine Beale, Ger- 
 trude Howard, and Margaret 
 Malone, Mrs. W. C. Whaley. 
 
 Program Committee 
 
 Lewis C. Somerville, Judge, 
 George Poffenbarger, Col. Hiram 
 R. Howard, Howard L. Robey, 
 Robt. L. Hutchinson, Charles 
 Buxton, Judge John W. English. 
 
 Transportation Committee 
 
 Wm. C. Jordan, L. C. Kuhn, 
 Moulton Houk, F. Gerald Mus- 
 grave, B. H Blagg, Wallace A. 
 Barnett, John McCulloch Dr. 
 Hugh A. Barbee, Wm. W.Bryan, 
 Ed. C. Berridge, Capt. E. A. 
 Burnside, Fred Smith, Capt. E, 
 E. Varian, Capt. John Thorn- 
 berg, Gus Fry, Jos. L. Ruth, 
 Elmer Nutter, E. B. Martin, 
 Capt. Gordan C. Greene, J. W 
 Hooper. 
 
 School Children 
 
 Prof. H. E. Cooper of Point 
 Pleasant and the teachers of 
 Mason County. 
 
 Advisory Committee 
 
 Messrs. John W. Steenbergen,
 
 136 
 
 Beale; Wm. J. Keister, Ashton; 
 Clinton Poffenbarger, Mason 
 Long, Beech Hill; James W. 
 Long-, Hon. Jabez Beard, South 
 Side; E. F. Bletner, W. E. Rut- 
 tencutter, Mason; Charles Juhl- 
 ing, Hon. J. M. Hensley, J. M. 
 Chapman, D. E. Newton, Capt. 
 M. M. Brown, Hartford; Judge 
 W. W. Jackson, Geo. N. Capehart, 
 W. L. Lawson, C. T. Bumgarner, 
 New Haven; Geo. W. Gist, Dan 
 Sayre, Wm. Klingensmith, Le- 
 tart; Philip Click, Willow Tree, 
 Judge Byrd Stone, W. P. Smith, 
 Fred Sullivan, Wm. Jividen, 
 Charles F. Thomas Leon; Judge 
 W. H. Vaught, Robert P. Mor- 
 ris, Henry Fry, Henderson; 
 James Henderson, Rankin Hill, 
 Henderson; Hon. Jas. L. Knight, 
 Messrs. Asa Musgrave, James 
 W. Windon, Jos. H. Windon, H. 
 J. Norton, Judge B. J. Redmond, 
 Dr. A. R. Girard, Hon. Geo. 
 Parsons, Pleasant Flats; Capt. 
 L. S. Parsons, John R. Couch, 
 Hearne. W. H. Sayre, Chas. W. 
 Hogsett, Wm. H. Rowsey, C. A. 
 Green, of Hannan District, Shep- 
 herd W. Moore, Elwell; Geo. W. 
 Pullin, C. G. P. Musgrave, Deb- 
 by; Geo. J. Meadough, James W. 
 Kindey, W. H. Clarke, J. W. 
 Bryan, Ash Hughes, W. H. Zum- 
 bro, Point Pleasant; John Mc- 
 Causland, Jr., Jno, R. Couch, B. 
 K Bell, Hearne, R. W. Bateman, 
 S. A. McNiel, Mercers Bottom, 
 Judge J. L. Thome, Wyoma. 
 Col. Jerome T.Bowyer, Winfield; 
 
 B. J. Lerner, Hartford; John 
 J. Dower, Letart; Jas. T. Ed- 
 wards, Clifton; H. C. Tur- 
 ner, Mason; David Caldwell, Gal- 
 lipolis Ferry; Judge A. M. Pugh, 
 Col. John L. Vance, Columbus, 
 Ohio; Gen'l. John McCausland, 
 McCausland; James M. Nye, 
 Marrietta, Ohio; Mrs. Samaria, 
 H. Palmer; Athens Ohio; Miss 
 Margaret Lynn Price, Lewis- 
 burg, Mrs. Miram Donnally, 
 Mrs. E. W. Wilson, Charles- 
 ton; Mrs. Sanders Johnston, 
 Dr. Adeline E. Portman, 
 Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Anna 
 S. Greene, Culpeper, Virginia; 
 Miss Mary C. Nye, Marrietta, 
 Ohio; Mrs. Sophia Dale, Belpre, 
 Ohio; Mrs. M. C. Scott, Pomer.oy, 
 Ohio 
 
 The State Gazette of August 
 15th, gives the following: 
 
 "On Monday August 2nd, 1009, 
 at 11 a. m. the steam whistle on 
 Captain Charles Homer Varian's 
 pumpboat, lying in the mouth of 
 Kanawha river, sounded a gJad 
 cry that was lustily joined in by 
 the many steamboats lying in 
 harbor. Our people came out in 
 great crowds to learn the cause, 
 and the on coming tide of people 
 were directed to Tu-Endie-Wei 
 Park, where had just been set 
 the apex stone that completed 
 the stone work of the splendid 
 Balfour granite monument, com- 
 memorating The First Battle of 
 the Revolution, fought at Point 
 Pleasant, October 10th, 1774.
 
 137 
 
 It was an occasion that for 
 many years has been devoutly 
 wished for, and there were many 
 upon the grounds prior to the 
 blowing- of the whistles, who 
 for years had watched every 
 step of the preparation for 
 the monument building Among 
 them were Mrs. J. D. McCul- 
 loch, who was a member of the 
 Ladies Monument Association, 
 that put by the first contribution, 
 which with its accumulations, 
 represented $2,000 invested in 
 the Monument; Mr. C. C. Bow- 
 yer of the Monument Commis- 
 sion, who have so faithfully la- 
 bored in the cause entrusted to 
 them by the State; and Mrs. 
 Poffenbarger whose interest has 
 never lag-ged, and it was her 
 little son, Perry Simpson-Poffen- 
 barger, who suggested, and in- 
 duced Capt. Varian to start the 
 whistles. 
 
 The monument has been erect- 
 ed so speedily that our people 
 can scarcely believe it is so near- 
 ly completed. This is accounted 
 for by the fact that the stones 
 were cut and numbered and 
 ready for placing-, and needed lit- 
 tle cutting- when they came upon 
 the grounds. The Van-Amringe 
 Granite Company of Boston, are 
 the contractors, with Mr. J. E. 
 Amedon of Merchants Depot, of 
 Vermont, as the superintendent 
 of construction here. Captain 
 Charles Fredrick Hess was the 
 contractor, not only for the 
 
 splendid cement walks and walls, 
 but for the cement work of the 
 Monument, and the great under- 
 footing- was laid prior to June 7th, 
 when the first carload of granite 
 reached here. 
 
 On June 9th, the corner stone 
 was laid. There were no cere- 
 monies attending- it and no depos- 
 its made save that of a small coin 
 of the issue 1909, the year of the 
 Monument construction. 
 However, as is the custom in the 
 erection of such structures, a box 
 was deposited in this monument. 
 It was found that in the cen- 
 ter tube in the top section imme- 
 diately under the great cap stone 
 that binds the building, there was 
 room to admit a box three inches 
 in diameter and twelve inches 
 long. Filson Brothers were call- 
 ed upon to construct a copper box 
 of these dimensions and make it 
 air tight. In it were deposited an 
 Industrial Edition of The State 
 Gazette of the issue, of February 
 2nd, 1905, upon which was written 
 the following inscription: 
 
 "Deposited, Monday, August 
 2d, 1909, the date of the setting- 
 of the cap stone of the Point 
 Pleasant Battle Monument, by 
 Nathan Simpson Poffenbar- 
 ger and Perry Simpson Pof- 
 fenbarger, sons" and Nata- 
 lie Simpson Bryan, niece of 
 Geo. and Livia Nye Simp- 
 son-Poff enbarg-er. ' ' 
 A copy of the diary written by 
 Margaret Lynn Lewis, wife of
 
 138 
 
 John Lewis the emigrant and 
 a founder of the chy of 
 Staunton, Virginia, was placed 
 in the tube upon which was the 
 following' inscription: 
 
 "Deposited, August 2nd, 1909, 
 the date of the setting of the cap- 
 stone of the Point Pleasant Bat- 
 tle Monument, by 
 
 Sallie Lewis McCulloch, 
 (Mrs. J. D. McCulloch) 
 Great, Great Grand daugh- 
 ter of Margaret Lynn Lewis 
 and Great Grand daughter 
 of Col. Charles Lewis. Sallie 
 Lewis McCulloch (Mrs. P. 
 H. Steenbergen), Great, 
 Great Grand daughter of 
 Col. Chas. Lewis. >' 
 An Indian arrow bead taken 
 from the ground when the exca- 
 vation was made, was put in the 
 box and with it a slip of paper 
 bearing the following": 
 
 "This Indian arrow head is 
 deposited by C. F. Hess, con- 
 tractor for the cement work of 
 this monument. It was found 
 when the excavation was made." 
 The most important deposit 
 made however, was a copy of 
 "The Battle of Point Pleasant," 
 bearing the following inscription: 
 "Deposited, Monday, August 
 2d, 1909, the date of the setting 
 of the cap stone of the Point 
 Pleasant Battle Monument. 
 
 "The illustrations and last 
 pages are omitted on account of 
 the inability of the printer to 
 finish the volume bv the date of 
 
 the completion of the monument. 
 Livia Nye Simpson-Poffenbarger 
 The Author." 
 
 This was the most valuable 
 because, though not quite com- 
 pleted, it carried the most com- 
 plete roster of the participants 
 of the battle ever as yet publish- 
 ed, that of 1080 men who partici- 
 pated at Point Pleasant and were 
 entitled to share in the honors of 
 this victory. 
 
 When the last stone bad been 
 set in place, Mr. Amedon pre- 
 sented Mrs. Poffenbarger the 
 two remaining blocks of granite 
 from which will be made sou- 
 venirs of the monument. 
 
 The statue which is to be 
 placed on a base in the front of 
 the monument has not reached 
 here, nor have the eight bronze 
 plates in bas relief, two of 
 which bearing the coat of arms 
 of the United States and of West 
 Virginia, and six of which bear 
 the inscription of the killed and 
 wounded and the officers com- 
 manding the army, but they 
 have been shipped and will be 
 here to be put in place by Mr. 
 Amedou upon his return from 
 St. Louis, less than three weeks 
 hence. Upon his return, the 
 monument will be pointed up, 
 the statue and plates set and 
 the monument veiled ready for 
 the ceremonial attendant upon 
 the unveiling of October 9th, 
 1909.
 
 139 
 INDEX 
 
 APPROPRIATIONS 
 
 By Congress 131 
 
 By Ladies Monument Association 96 
 
 By West Virginia Legislature 110 129 
 
 CELEBRATIONS 
 
 October 10, 1860 96 
 
 October 10, 1774 102 
 
 October 10, 1901 124 
 
 October 10, 1909 132 
 
 DEDICATION OF TU-ENDIE-WEI PARK 
 
 Description of the Battle 26-28-29 
 
 History of the Monument Building- 95 
 
 Killed and Wounded 28 
 
 Roster of Participants 84 
 
 BIOGRAPHIES 
 
 Bailey James , 72 
 
 Bledsoe Anthony 55 
 
 Bowen Wm 68 
 
 Bracken Matthew 78 
 
 Breckenridge Alexander. 66 
 
 Cameron Chas. E ... 57 
 
 Campbell Arthur 48 
 
 Campbell John . . 49 
 
 Campbell Robert 75 
 
 Campbell Wm 47 
 
 Carter John 75 
 
 Christian Wm 54 
 
 Clendenin Archibald 64 
 
 Clendenin George : 65 
 
 Clendenin William 63 
 
 Cocke Wm 55 
 
 Cooper Leonard i 58 
 
 Cornstalk 80 
 
 Crawford John 54 
 
 Crockett Joseph 50 
 
 Curry James 77
 
 140 
 
 Davis Azariah 47 
 
 Dickinson John 55 
 
 Drake Joseph 69 
 
 Draper John 47 
 
 Dunmore Lord 78 
 
 Eastham George 61 
 
 Edmiston Wm 69 
 
 Ewing Wm 71 
 
 Fleming- Col. Wm 44 
 
 Floyd Capt. John 66 
 
 Frogg John .... 73 
 
 Gibbs Luman 60 
 
 Hackett Thomas 76 
 
 Hamilton Wm 78 
 
 Harlon Silas 57 
 
 Harrison Benjamin 52 
 
 Harrod James 53 
 
 Henderson John 60 
 
 Herbert Wm 66 
 
 Hughes Ellis 56 
 
 Hughey Joseph 56 
 
 Ingles Thomas 69 
 
 Ingles Wm 66 
 
 Jones John 46 
 
 Kimberling Elijah 71 
 
 Knox James 71 
 
 Lewis Gen'l Andrew 39 
 
 Lewis Col. Charles 40 
 
 Lewis Benjamin 67 
 
 Lewis Mayor John (son of Wm.) ... 63 
 
 Lewis Capt. John (son of Thos.) 73 
 
 Lewis Capt. John (son of Gen'l Andrew) 76 
 
 Logan 79 
 
 Logan Benjamin 64 
 
 Logan John 65 
 
 Love Philip 56 
 
 Lyle John 73 
 
 Madison John 71 
 
 Matthews George . . 49 
 
 Matthews Sampson SO 
 
 Mayes Joseph 48
 
 141 
 
 Me A ffcc George 70 
 
 M cAtTee James 70 
 
 McAffee Robert 70 
 
 McAffee Samuel 70 
 
 McAffee Wm 70 
 
 McCorkle Wm 73 
 
 McDowell Capt. (Judge) Samuel 52 
 
 McKee Wm. 71 
 
 Moffatt George 72 
 
 Montgomery James. 54 
 
 Moore Gen. Andrew 49 
 
 Moore Wm 73 
 
 Murry John ' 72 
 
 Newman Walter 73 
 
 Posey Thomas 62 
 
 Pauley Henry 70 
 
 Ramsey Joseph 68 
 
 Robertson James 51 
 
 Robertson Wm 73 
 
 Russell Wm 54 
 
 Sawyer John 56 
 
 See Michael 77 
 
 Sevier John 52 
 
 Sevier Valentine - 53 
 
 Shelby Evan 45 
 
 Shelby Isaac 45 
 
 Slaughter Geo 70 
 
 Slaughter Francis : 70 
 
 Slaughter Lawrence 70 
 
 Slaughter Wm ... 54 
 
 Smith John 
 
 Simms Charles 72 
 
 Steele John 56 
 
 Stuart John . . 61 
 
 Todd John 57 
 
 Trigg Stephen .66 
 
 Trimble James 
 
 Trotter Wm 
 
 Van Bibber John 
 
 Van Bibber Isaac 
 
 Van Bibber Jesse 58 
 
 Van Bibber Peter 58 
 
 Warwick Jacob ' 57
 
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