r."--R. G. T.

[5] We have already seen (p. 74, _note_), that Gist settled
at Mount Braddock, Fayette county, in 1753, and that eleven
families joined him in January, 1754. There is a tradition that
settlers were in the district even before Gist. It has been
shown that the Gist settlements, and others in the lower
Monongahela, were burned by the French in July, 1754. The
English borderers fled upon the outbreak of disturbances, and
did not return until about 1760-61, when confidence had been
restored.--R. G. T.

[6] Both Van Meter and Swan afterwards served under Col. G.
R. Clark--at least, on the Kaskaskia campaign; Swan commanded a
company on Clark's Shawnee campaign of 1780, and Van Meter on
that of 1782. The latter moved to Kentucky in 1780; settled in
Hardin county, Ky., Nov. 16th, 1798, in his seventy-sixth
year.--L. C. D.

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_Comment by R. G. T._--This note, written by Dr. Draper a few
days before his death (Aug. 26, 1891), was probably his last
stroke of literary work.

[7] These gentlemen were descendants of a Mr. Zane who
accompanied William Penn, to his province of Pennsylvania, and
from whom, one of the principal streets in Philadelphia,
derived its name. Their father was possessed of a bold and
daring spirit of adventure, which was displayed on many
occasions, in the earlier part of his life. Having rendered
himself obnoxious to the Society of Friends (of which he was a
member,) by marrying without the pale of that society, he moved
to Virginia and settled on the South Branch, where the town of
Moorfield has been since erected. One of his sons (Isaac) was
taken by the Indians, when he was only nine years old, and
carried in captivity, to Mad river, in Ohio. Here he continued
'till habit reconciled him to his situation, when he married a
squaw, became a chief and spent the remainder of his life with
them. He was never known to wage war against the whites; but
was, on several occasions, of infinite service, by apprising
them of meditated attacks of the Indians. His descendants still
reside in Ohio.

The brothers, Ebenezer, Silas and Jonathan, who settled
Wheeling, [95] were also men of enterprise, tempered with
prudence, and direct