The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-16

ally in order to remove the unpleas-
ant spectacle from their view Mr..
Brown took up the floor and hewed
them away with his broad ak.
In the year 1777 a force of Indians
made their appearance on Dunkard
in the Northwestern part of Monon-
gala county and made an attack
upon the house of Jacob Farmer.
Two men and boy were killed and
others were missing. Among the
missing were two children of Jacob
Jones, Nancy and William, who
were supposed by their friends and
relatives to have been killed, but as
it turned out they were taken cap
tive and were kept by the Indians
five years and then set at liberty.
This William Jones is said to have
returned afterwards and resided
near Grafton where he died at the
good old age of nearly one hundred
years. He related after his return
that when the Indians learned of
David Morgan's fight with and kill
ing two of the Indians near Prickett
fort he heard two of the stoutest
warriors of the tribes wear an oath to
kill Morgan or never return. And
as they went on a trip to find Nor
gan and did not return, the Indians
believed that they were killed by the
Morgans 1t is contended for this
reason that the Morgans had just
cause for their hatred against the In
dams and their barbarous act of
tanning the Indians hides. The
savages not only committed murders
in their neighborhood and made
raids for the express purpose of kill
ing them and their kindred, but
they had actually murdered and
taken captive some of their blood re-
lations 1t is recorded in the chron-
icles of Border Warfare that "In-
dams visited the house of William
Morgan at the Dunkard Bottom of
Cheat River and there killed young
man named Brain, Mrs. Morgan,
the mother of William, and her
nd-daughter and Mrs. Dillon and
her two children. They took Mrs.
Morgan 1.-THE wife, and her child
prisoners. When on their way home
they came near to Prickett's fort.
There they bound Mrs. Morgan to a
bush and went in quest of a horse
for her to ride, leaving her child
with her. She succeeded in untying
with her teeth, the bands which con-
fined her, and wandered the balance
of the day and part of the next, before
she came in sight of the fort, here
she was kindly treated, and in few
days sent home"
The vindictiveness of the Indians
for the whites and their especial
hatred for the Morgan family is ex-
hibited in the fact that some men
going out from Prickett's fort some
short time after Mrs. Morgan's es-
cape found at the spot where she
had been left, fine mare stabbed tC
the heart Exasperated at the es
cape of Mrs. Morgan, the savages
had no doubt, vented their rage OF
the animal which they had destined
to bear her weight.
This murder of David Morgan
relatives was ranking in his mind
when in the succeeding year, his
domicil was invaded, and the life o
his children attempted to be takel
by stealth, and in cold blood ant
naught, but his dauntless bravery
and heroic fighting saved them. Hi
evaporation and the exasperatior
of his friends deserve consideration
in connection with the barbaroui
act of tanning the hides of the saw
ages and making saddle seats, sho
pouches. &C., therefrom as a warning
to this red savage.
ITO be continued