rnor of Nova
Scotia, where he remained until the commencement of the
American revolution. In this contest he adhered to the cause of
liberty, and joined his countrymen in arms under Gen. Gates at
Saratoga. He was afterwards known as a meritorious officer in
the brigade of Baron de Kalb, in the south--he died in 1811,
and was buried in the Falling Spring church yard, in the forks
of James river.

[10] Preston's MS. Register of the persons of Augusta county,
Va., killed, wounded, captured by the Indians, and of those who
escaped, from 1754 to May, 1758, is in the Wisconsin Historical
Society's library. It is to be regretted that Col. Preston,
whose opportunities were so good, did not continue the Register
till the end of the Indian wars. It is a most valuable document
as far as it goes, and supplies many dates and facts hitherto
involved in doubt and obscurity.--L. C. D.

[11] Seybert's Fort was situated on the South Fork, twelve
miles northeast of Franklin, in Pendleton County. At the time
of this invasion, there was a fort located on the South Branch,
garrisoned by Capt. James Dunlap and a company of rangers from
Augusta county. Preston's Register states, that on the 27th of
April, 1758, the fort at which Capt. Dunlap was stationed, was
attacked and captured, the captain and twenty-two others
killed; and, the next day, the same party, no doubt, attacked
Seybert's Fort, killing Capt. Seybert and sixteen others, while
twenty-four others were missing. Washington, at the time,
placed the number as "about sixty persons killed and missing."

A gazette account, published at Williamsburg, May 5th ensuing,
says: "The Indians lately took and burnt two forts, where were
stationed one of our ranging companies, forty of whom were
killed and scalped, and Lieut. Dunlap and nineteen missing."

Kercheval's _History of the Valley_ gives some further
particulars: That Seybert's Fort was taken by surprise; that
ten of the thirty persons occupying it, were bound, taken
outside; the others were placed on a log and tomahawked. James
Dyer, a lad of fourteen, was spared, taken first to Logstown,
and then to Chillicothe, and retained a year and ten months,
when as one of an Indian party he visited