Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-15

almost unirequented region until July Il,
1856. And now an awful scene of blood
began. Thirty armed Indians, with heart-
rending yells, rushed this uuOfFending
family. Mr.. Moore was first slain in the ward,
and his ashes now repose on the very spot
which then smoked with his blood. Three
of his children SON fell; next the house
was broken open, plundered aud burnt
Mrs. Moore and her four surviving children,
(Of whom Mary then in her eighth year was
One,) together with Martha WINS, a domestic.
were in the same day bound fast aud hurried
of by their captives to the Shawnee towns
on the margin of the Sciuto.
Thus in one short hour their peaceful home
is destroyed, the dead bodies of it's inmates
are exposed to burning sun; silence and
desOlation reign where so lately joy and harpi-
ness filed every bosom. The captives must
have cast "a longing, lingering look behind
as they bade adieu to the lifeless bodies of
their murdered reations-to the green fields
where the children had played and sported
in innocent mirth and now they were going
they knew not where, doomed to toll, priva-
tlon and exposure in tIaversing mountains,
wadlng through streams, and crossing deep
rivers, destitute of the necessaries of life,
lying down at night with no hope OF a
mitigation of their sorrows, and rising from
the hard earth with no rcircshment from sleep.
Ga their march two other children OF Mrs.
Moore were killed by their savage captors,
and now on the spot where Chilicothe stands
in council held by the chief, it is determined
that Mrs Moore aud her dau. hter Jane shall
be burned at the stake. Martha Wins aud
little Mary were the only white persons who
witnessed the awful and horrId scene. The
shrieks and cries of the child must have re-
echoed through the surrounding woods, ming
ling with the savage yells of their tOTmeutOrs.
Not so With her mother. She was calm and
serene-conversed with Mary aud the farth-
full Martha, and earnestly prayed in the midst
of the surrounding flames for the moment
when her spirit should take its flight to those
blessed mansions in Heaven, where not
wave of trouble would roll across her peaceful
breast" Her death was more than that OF
John Rogers, at Smithfeld. He was mar
tyr for his religion, aud his last hour was
therefore one of triumph.
The surviving prisoners are still in bond
age. The next intelligence we hear is, that
Mary Is sold to man named Stogwell, reSid-
ing on the Western end of Lake Erie, dis
tant more than FIVE hundred miles from the
late residence of her father. How it was
possible for child of her age to endure the
fatigue OF such journey, l am at loss to
conjecture. So it is however. that her new
master treated her cruelty. Here she re
mained until October. 1889, when she was
restored to liberty by the efforts of her brother
who had been captured two years before her
self, and sent, it would seem, by kind Heaven
in advance to the neighborhood Of Detroit.
whence he travelled in pursuit of his sister.
The first interview of Esau aud Jacob, after
their long separation and estrangement, could
not have been so thrilling as when the two
orphans fell upon each others bosom. They.
together with Martha WINS, returned in the
autumn TO Augusta county. where Mary was,
some years afterwards married to the Rev
Samuel Brown, pastor Of Providence coDgre-
CATION, twelve miles beyond Staunton, aud
there her remains repose. She was the
mother of FIVE ministers Of the Presbyterian
church, who are now leading their people in
the path of righteousness along which she
travelled SO faithfully during her clequercd
life