The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-09

states that 'the Indians had placed
themselves ON each side of the road
leading to the fort and from their
covert fred upon the whites before
they were aware of danger. John
Woodfin being on horse back had his
thigh broken by ball, which killed
his horse and enabled them to catch
him easily. Jacob Miller was shot
through the abdomen and soon over
taken, tomahawked and scalped.
The others escaped to the fort.
Woodfin was afterwards found ON a
considerable eminence overlooking
the fort, tomahawked and scalped.
Traditions in the family of Miller
still living in Monongalia county,
say that Miller, or his son Thomas,
was blowing and had set his gun
down in the field, and that an Indian
crept up and shot him with it, and
then ran into the woods but was over
taken and killed. Tradition says
also that Thomas Miller, too, was
killed by Indians. He is said to have
been tomahawked and scalped and
his body propped up by forks against
large beech tree, said to be still
standing with Miller's initials and
the date of his death cut in the bark.
Many of Miller's descendants still
live in the vicinity of this tragedy
and some of them in Morgantown.
Miller and WoOdfin are said to have
been killed On Miller's place about
three miles from Kerns' Fort, now
Morgantown. This same company
of Indians then went to Dunkard
creek and surprised company of
whites returning from their work and
killed, tomahawked and scalped
eighteen of their number.
ATTACK ON FORT MARTIN.
In the spring of the next year,
(1779) when the pioneer farmers on
Crooked run, in the same vicinity in
which resided the SCOTS, were gone
forth to work on their farms, the
fort known as Fort Martin was at
tackled, and James Stuart, James
Smalley and Peter Grouse were kill
led. John Shriver and his wife, two
sons of Stuart, two sons of Smally
and son of Grouse were carried into
captivity.
THE SCOTS.
In August of the same year, as
if bent on avenging the death
of Bald Eagle, the savages ap-
peared again in this neighborhood,
and Fanny Scott and Phoebe Scott,
daughters of Captain David Scott,
who was a relative of Jacob Scott,
were murdered by Indians, who were
watching the path they were travel
ing in taking dinner to the mowers
in meadow, said to be but short
distance below the present site of
Grandville. The spot where they
met their terrible doom is said to be
near the place where James Haw-
thorne's residence now is. 1t is re-
lated in Border Warfare that the
younger of these girls was killed on
the spot, but the other was taken
some distance farther. Every search
for her proved unavailing, and her
father fondly hoped that she had
been carried into captivity, and that
he might find her. For this purpose
he visited Pittsburg, and engaged the
services of friendly Indian to as
certain where she was and endeavor
to prevail on them to ransom her.
Before his return from Fort Pitt
some of his neighbofs, directed to
the spot by buzzards lowering over
it, found her mutilated and half
eaten body.
Captain Felix Scott, son of Col.
David Scott, and brother of the two
girls murdered by the Indians below
Jimtown, it is said located where the
town of Grandville now is and was
the founder of that town. He mar
ried a daughter of Capt. John Dent,
who settled on and gave name to the
stream known as Dents run. Capt.
John Dent was the first Sheriff of
Monongalia county, and his wife was
a daughter of Col. John Evans, who
was clerk of the first court in the
county. Mrs. Felix Scott was,
therefore. the daughter of the first
Sheriff and the granddaughter of the
first court clerk in the county.
Felix Scott studied law, became a
politician, and was Delegate in the
Legislature of Virginia from Monon-
gala county about 1911 or 1872
About 1919 he removed to Missouri,
and subsequently became Lieutenant
Governor of that State. Having
been defeated for Governor of Mis-
souri, he removed to Oregon. 1t is
said that about 1858, when he must
have been far advanced in life, hay-
ing gone to Illinois to visit son,
he started to cross the Rocky Noun
tains with some blooded stock, and,
as he never reached his home in Or
egon, is supposed to have been muir
dered by Indians. And so it would
seem, more than three-fourths of a
century having passed since the
murder of Bald Eagle, and the hands
of the SCOTS and of the red men were
still imbued in each others blood.
1t is probable that the cruel murder
of his sisters was still fresh in the
memory of Capt. Scott, and his ha-
tired for the race may have caused
him to commit some rash act which
provoked for him fate similar to
theirs.
The murder of Mrs. Elizabeth
Pindall and two young surveyors
named Crawfort and Wright by In
dians, and the hair breadth escape
of Mrs. Rachel Pindall, on Crooked
run, and also the murder of Hand
sucker and his wife and child, the
captivity of Clegg and his children,
and the miraculous escape of Mrs.
Clegg on the waters of Dunkard, ARE
related in the chronicles of Border
Warfare; and Prof Wiley relates
that Indians appeared in 1871 at the
mouth of Dolls run, and murdered
John Statler, James Piles and two
others. and carried several into cap
tivity. That VIM. Dawson was ia
ken captive near the site of Cass-
vile in 1885, and that Indians muir
1arad oil of a family uama1 Hitch