white settlers. The savages
were overtaken on the North Branch of James River, some fifteen
miles from McDowell's place, and an engagement ensued (Dec. 14,
1742), in which McDowell and seven others lost their lives. The
Indians escaped with small losses. This was the first battle
between whites and Indians, in the Virginia Valley.--R. G. T.

[11] This incident is well authenticated. See the deposition
of Mrs. Mary Greenlee, preserved in the famous Borden land
suit, among the court records of Augusta county, Va. Mrs.
Greenlee was the sister of Capt. John McDowell, and among the
very earliest settlers of that part of Augusta, now Rockbridge
county. Mrs Greenlee's deposition is published in full in
Peyton's _History of Augusta County, Va._ (Staunton, Va.,
1882), pp. 69-74.--L. C. D.

[12] The late Charles A. Stuart, of Greenbrier, son of Col.
John Stuart, after the appearance of Hugh Paul Taylor's
sketches over the signature of "Son of Cornstalk," published in
the _Staunton Spectator_ of August 21, 1829, over the signature
of "Son of Blue Jacket," a brief criticism, in the nature of
some corrections regarding his own family, to this effect: That
Mrs. Jane Paul was no relative of Mrs. Margaret Lewis, wife of
Col. John Lewis; that her first husband, Mr. Paul--not John,
but probably Hugh Paul--was apparently from the north of
Ireland--their son Audley Paul was born before the migration of
the family to Pennsylvania; Mr. Paul, Sr., it is said, became
the pastor of the Presbyterian congregation of Chester, in that
province; but as Chester was a Quaker settlement, it is more
likely that he located in some Presbyterian community in that
region, and there must have died. Mrs. Paul, for her second
husband, married Col. David Stuart, also from Ireland, by whom
she had John Stuart and two daughters. Mrs. Stuart's
grandchild, Charles A. Stuart, resided many years in Augusta,
representing that county in the State senate, subsequently
removed back to Greenbrier county, where he died about 1850, at
the age of about sixty-five years. He was a man of sterling
qualities.--L. C. D.

[13] The following table exhibits a list of the several counties west
of the Blue ridge--the counties from which each