Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-07-09

this, they started with their captive
TO Shawnee towns, situated on the
head waters of Mad river, in Ohio.
This Journey occupied about twenty
days. Soon after reaching the
towns, James was sold by the In
dians who had captured him, to his
sister, for an old horse. BY her he
was sent with a party Of the tribe
on winter hunt, in which he sui
fered great hardships from hunger
and exposure. In the following
spring, at a great dance held at a
town near to the one in which he
lives, he was purchased by a French
trader for fifty dollars, paid in
goods. The Frenchman was induced
to purchase him, from seeing in the
captive lad a striking likeness to
one of his own sons. BY Mr..
AriOme and his wife James was
treated as son. At the time
when he was sold by the Indians,
James got an opportunity to com
munlcate to his father, through a
trader from Kentucky, intelligence
of his release from the Indians, and
that he had gone to the neighbor.
hood of Detroit. This intelligence
gave rise to hopes of seeing him
again-hopes which but two of the
family realised. And when they
met him, it was at place and in
circumstances very different from
what they had anticipated.
In 1875, the valley was again
visited by the Indians. On the
morning of the 18th of July, a
party of between thirty and forty,
led to the place by one of those who
had captured James, attacked and
destroyed Mr.. Moore's family. At
the time when it was broken up,
Capt. Moore's family consisted of
his wife, (who before marriage was
a Miss Poage, of Rockbridge coun-
ty,) seven children, an old English
servant by the name of Simpson,
Martha Evans, who was assisting
Mrs. Moore, and two men hired as
laborers. On that morning these
men had gone out to reap wheat (;
and Mr.. Moore was engaged about
breakfast time in sailing some
horses that had come up from the
range, and was some distance from
the house. The Indians who had
been watching ina grain.field about
two hundred yards from the house,
raised the war whoOp, and rushed
on. Capt. Moore ran towards the
house, but seeing that the door was
closed, and that the Indians
would reach it as soon as he could,
he ran across the small lot in which
the house stood, but when he got
on the fence he stopped, and was
shot with seven balls. lie then
ran about fifty yards and fell. The
Indians told one Of the captives
afterwards, that he might have eS-
capped if he had not halted on the
fence. Mrs. Moore and Martha
| Evans barred the door on the first
alarm. The old Englishman, Smp-
son, was also in the house, and
there were five or six rifles. Mar
tha Evans took three of them up
stairs to Simpson, and called to
him to shoot. lie was in bed (;
and on lifting the clothes, she saw
that he had been shot in the side
Of the head, and was dying. There
were two large fierce dogs that
fought the Indians at the door un.
til they were shot down. The door
was soon cut down with the tOma-
hawk. Three children were killed
before the house was forced two
at the place where Mr.. Moore was
sailing the horses, and one in the
yard near the house. The prison.
ers we're Mrs. Moore, John, Polly,
Jane and an infant, and Martha
Evans. Whilst the Indians were
cutting down the door, Martha and
Polly lifted loose plank in the
floor and got under it, taking the
infant with them. 1t however be-
gan to cry, and Polly unwilling to
set it out alone, went out with it,
Martha remained concealed until
after the house had been plundeled
and set on fire, and whilst the at
tentiOn of the Indians was taken
up in dividing the spoil, she slipped
out at a back way and secreted
herself under a log which lay
across a branch not far from the
house. A short time before they
left the place, a struggling Indian
seated himself on the log and be-
gan to work with the lock of his
gun. She supposing that he saw
her, and was going to shoot her,
came out and gave herself up.
After plundering the house of
everything that they chose to take.
and setting all the buildings on
fire, the Indians started for their
towns, which stood near the place
OH which the town of Chilicothe
now stands. John was sick and
unable to travel, and was killed
with the tOmahawk on the first
day and the infant becoming
fretlul, was killed on the second or
third day.
The men who were IN the harvest
field at the time when the Indians
attacked the house, Immediately