Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-06-29

2OO Cherokees camped near them to
spend the summer and kill the elk
which frequented ~ lick near by. This
was the disputed ground between
them aud their old enemies, tho
Shnwnees, who, learning of their ar
rival at the lick, determined to dis
lodge them. A terrible battle tool,
place on the Rich mountain, about
six miles from the present town of
Tazewell All day the hills echoed
with the shrieks and yels of the
wounded and dying, and when night
closed i'll great number lay d,a.l
upon the field. A great pit was open
eel and common grave received
those who had fallen in this the last
battle between tho red men in this
section of the State. Both parties
left for their homes in tho south and
the west, leaving Butler and Carr in
possession of the lick.
In 1769 Carr separated from But
ler and settled on II beautiful spot
near tho hend of branch of the
Clinch, two miles south of the pres
ent seat of justice. In tho spring of
the same year Thomns Witten aud
John Greenups came to the county
and settled on land purchased ut
Crab Orchard from Butler. In It'll
Absalom Loony moved from near
Eattonsburg on Jnmef River and set.
tied i'll the valley(A Valley which
now bears his name. IN the same
year Matthias Hnrman and his two
sons, jacob and Henry, settled at
Carr's place, John Craven in tho
Cove. Joseph Martin, John and James
King and Samuel Moss in Thomp
sor's Valley, and John Bradshaw in
the valley two miles west of the prt 3
ent sight of Tazewell
In l772 the following persons with
their families moved to tho county
and settled at the places montionod:
Capt james Moore aud John Pongc,
from the Augusta settlement,in Ahb's
Valley; William Wynn at Locust Hill
(at the place where Carr settled);
John Taylor on the north fork of the
Clinch, and james Ogleton, Peter
and Jacob Harrison and Samuel Fer
guson on the Bluestone; William But
ler on tho south branch of tho north
fork of the Clinch, three miles cnst
OF the present sent of Justice, and
hear him Elisha Clnty; Rees Bowen
at the Maiden Spring, David Ward
in tho Cove and William Garrison at
the foot of Morris Knob. Thonns,
John and William Poery settled two
miles east of the Courthouse, Thom.
ms InglIs in Burk's Garden. james
and Charles Scaggs, Richard Pom
berton and Johnson, Thomas Martin,
William Pattersoon and John Des-
kins i'll Baptist Valley.
1t is an interesting fact to note
that the wandering. restless disposi
tion of these Scotch Irish people
seems to havo terminated in Tuze
well. They took possession of largo
tracts of land, built comfortable log
houses, lived and died there, and to
this dny the land is in possession of
their descendants, who have scarcely
moved out of sight of the Original
homestead.
For the first few years the little
settlements were very prosperous.
Farms were cleared, stocked and cul.
tivated aud more comfortable houses
were built. The Indians had been
on the most amicable terms of friend
ship and they had little TO fear from
them. Such happy state of pros
perity was TO be of short duration.
Affairs between the colonies and
England were approaching crisis
and Governor Dunmorc was secretly
planning nm outbreak of the Indians
on the frontiers.
1t is snid that the notorious Corn
stalk had son named Wolf who
went to Williamsburg, ostensib.y as
u prisoner, but in reality to enter in
to negotiations with Durmor for
exciting the savages against the
western settlers This Wo'fis, with
little doubt, tho notorious Black
Wolf, who committed the terrible
depredntions about to bo narrated.
In 1882 large body of Indians,
led by Black VOL, entered the Burk's s
Garden settlement, attacked Thomas
Inglis' house and carried off his wife
and three children. Inglis Mt the
time was away from home, but rs
soon rs he learned the sud news, he,
i'll company with n few men in the
neighboring Clinch settlement. pur
sued the red skins and succeeded in
retaking his wife. but tho children
were tomahawked before they could
be rescued
One of the most blood curdling
massacres of the border days took
place in 1856 in the thrifty little set.
Element of Abh's Valley. The same
Black Wolf who had committed the
outrage in Burks Garden led band
of Shawnees against tho house OF
(e) Capt, Moore. murderiDp Cnpt.