West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-08-15
GNWRITTEN HISTORY.
SOME HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED
EVENTS
That viii he Road with Interest by
Many OF Oar Peoplc...Something
About the Early Settlers of
Preston and Monongalia
Counties
rrom rhe Merrantown New nomlhlon.

From The Moreantown New Domlaion.
The incursion of the Indians into
the county of Monongtlia in 1888
and the killing OF the mother Of
William Morgan. her grand daugh-
ter, Mrs. Dillon, a man by the
name OF Brain--and the capture Of
William Morgan's wife and child at
or near the confluence Of Morgan s
run with Cheat river Qn what is
now Preston county, about mile
south of the present site OF King
wood, is related in "Chronicles Of
Border Warfare" In this same IN
cursion | was told when boy by
my grandfather aud others of the
early settlers Of Monongalia (now
Preston), OF which no mention is
made IN the "Border Warfare
Chronicles" the following story,
The same band of Indians who kill
ed VIM. Morgan's mother, Mrs.
Dillon and Brain on Cheat river,
separated, a part OF them went down
Morgan's run and part down a
stream since known as Green's run.
which empties into Cheat river
about five miles by the river north
of the mouth Of Morgan's run. John
Green, after whom the stream on
which he lived was subsequently
named, resided with his wife and
three daughters (the eldest grown
to womanhood, the other two quite
young), on the hill about third Of
a mile from the confluence of the
southern and middle branches Of
Green's run, with its northern or
Buffalo branch, was engaged in pre-
pairing to erect IA grist mill and had
dressed out of sandstone the neither
and upper stones. While engaged
IN his work he heard the report of a
gun in the direction Of aud ran to
his house, entered it, and when in
the act of reaching for his gun
above the cabin door, was shot by
the Indians and lis wife and two
youngest daughters taken captive
10y them. The shot he had heard
when he ran to his home had
wounded his eldest daughter (who
at the time was out in corn patch
near the house) III the heshy part
Of the arm; she fell with the wound.
ed arm uppermOst, and the blood
flowing freely over her body led the
Indians to conclude she was dead,
and they FASTENED to the house in
to which the father bad Just enter.
ed. At night fall the wounded
girl made her way to Cheat river.
about two miles distant, and called
until late into tho night, when she
was heard by persons in Bhtler's
Fort (near AlbrIght's mill) and ia g.
ken over to it. The widow Of John
Green died in captivity. The two
young daughters remained with
their eaptors until 1795, and after
the treaty made by General Wayne
with the Indians the year before,
when they returned home. The
elder married q man by the name
of Moore, the younger, Sallie, mar
fied Andrew johnson.
The following additional infor-
nation and knowledge in connec.
ton with this story and in confirm.
alton Of its substantial truthfulness
| have from my grand parents and
others, and from personal observa-
ton when a boy. James Brown,
my grandfather, migrated from
Londonderry, Ireland, where three
years before, he had married Rachel
Hawthorne, and landed in Phiiadel-
phia in 1889. accompanied by his
wife's two brothers. Alexander and
Robert, and four sisters, Elizabeth,
Jane, Isabella and Margaret, her
eldest brother, John, having come
to America some years before. The
Hawthorne family Except Jonn)
with my grandfather came to Nor
/ gantown some time in the year
1890. While in Philadelphia my
/ grandfather made tie acquaintance
/ Of DR.. Thomas Bond, who was the
agent Of some gentleman In the east
who owned land near where King.
wood now is. DR.. Bond came tO
/ MOuOugaila county ana sold grand
father a tract Of woods land about
a mile north Of the site Of King
wood and adjacent TO John Green 9
tract. Grandfather in the latter
! part Of 1890 having no house OF his
own land, moved temporarily into
the Green cabinj and grandmother.
time and again, in telling me Of the
events of her early life, told me of
their living in the Green cabin un
Oil grandfather could erect hou q
on bis newly purchased land, aud
when they went there stains Of
blood where Green fell when shot
by the Indians in his cabin we're
still upon The puncheons Of tho
floor which she by soap and sand
and hot water bad often tried to
scrub out, and not being able to do
so, got grandfather to take up The
/ punchcons and how the blood stains
OF with his broad axe. learned
also from Samuel Trowbridge, who
lived aud died on the Green farm,
I that Iohn Green vae ftrrfa1 fbc,.,