The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-01-27
TIE cLzADExsSs.
Pioneer Fmniiles or Mason
County Their tncee.oss aud
Descendants.

niyIh1iL a IE9is
II The yeati7S6 Governor VII
llism Gooch granted 70 Benjamin
Burden Eho.Ras thenin Yhglnia
las Tie agento Of Lord Fairfax a pat
ent for $40 900 acres Of land 10 be
located onthe upper walersof the
shenandc5hand James rivers One
of the conditions fthis giant was
tbat Burden should locate one hun
Edred families within It's limits
That be might comply with this
condition, he at etailedI0r Eng.
land, and 10 1887 returned 10 Vii.
ginia bringing with himmore than
one hundred families to settleppon
his land. Atthis time the spirit
Of emigration was particularly rife
among the Presbytetians in lie
northern paris Of Ireland, 10 Scot
landahd the adjacent partsof Eng:
land. Most Of Burdens cOlopists
were irish Presbyterian, who, be.
ing Of scotch extraction were call
led Scotch Irish. Among these
primitive emigrants We meet with
the namssofs ome ,wboshaselsii a
numerous poslsrity now dispersed
tsFsand vide tFun Tie Blue Risgf
to ealilornia-spch g Eph,arn
Mcdowell, Archibald Alexander,
John Patton, Andrew Moore, Hugh
Felford, DC. The titst party
we're soon Joined by others mostly
of their connections aud acqaain-
Iances IN tne mother county,
These again drew others after them;
and no one acquainted with the
race who lmOibed the lndomitable
spirit Of John Knox can full 20 rec,
ognize the relationship. Among
the latter were the Prestons, Pax
tons, Lyles Grigsbys Stewards,
Browns, wallaces, Wilson, Ca
ruthers' Campoells' McCampoels,
Meetings. McCnes, AcAees, Nc.
Gowns CrawfoFds' Cummins and
clendenlns-names formerly spell.
ed Giendenning'
The exact Ssse at which the
eiendenins came 10 virginia ls a
matter OF an ICE Ops 'aal
'ney were residing upon Dutpsas
grant as cary as 100 Is SHOWN soy
sne records Of augusta county
wnore 'ne tamily was iopauso "
Two Ofo'hers, ArcnlOalo anu
CnaFles' a 'nlfa oro'nor came 70
America ouI setllea IN baltlmoret
@nefe J, ne became the ancestor F. o.
u, Inc O'eha leu Of maryland
ihose Ia virginia became qslipg
,tohsleFsmen' ss.issea only WIN . :;
nome on 'ne c0nnnes o. clSllisaIlon
anu an. sn,s ussife 20 pene'ra,e sne
l!ilmlsaole %liqssness leutosnse en-,
.ire extinction oloae orsnqno s,l me ~.
lam!ly' every memoeF Of y ialllas
VICTIMS 70 savage oatUaFisy.
In the year 1850 seyeralfanilies,
among them that OF Archibald
Clendenln, crossed the Alleghapies
and reared cabins along Muddy
Creek and on the Big Levels, both
Of which are now in GFeenbrier
county These were the most west.
ern outposss Of civilization, All
went well Until the spring OF lI6S
when a body Of Shawnee Indians
attacked and entirely destroyed
these settlements; every member
OF the Clendenin family were muir
deted, except the mother and an
infant reserved tor a worse late
that OF captivity, AS the prison.
ers were marching in single file
over keeneys Knob, snow in Sum
,nefs county, Mrs. CleaqenlngaVe
net in'an, 20 anO'nef prisoner 70
carry ana she stepped EeS aside eIe, into
Tue o,usn @ns =. sns g.. feu'ai,leu cons
ceaieu un'll al naa passed soon
Inc Oaoy cfleai an Indian look "
uasnoa It's brains out against y Tree
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