-horns, match-coats, deer-skins, "and
other articles," all of which were put up at auction by the
careful commissary, and brought nearly L100 to the army
chest.--R. G. T.

[18] Such were Redhawk, a Delaware chief,--Scoppathus, a
Mingo,--Ellinipsico, a Shawanee, and son to Cornstalk,--Chiyawee, a
Wyandotte, and Logan, a Cayuga.

[19] The first recorded foray of Cornstalk was on October
10, 1759, against the Gilmore family and others, on Carr's
Creek, in what is now Rockbridge county, Va. "The Carr's
Creek massacre" was long remembered on the border as one of
the most daring and cruel on record. He was again heard of
during the Pontiac conspiracy, in 1763, when he led a large
war-party from the Scioto towns against the Virginia
frontier. Both at Muddy Creek, and the Clendenning farm
near Lewisburg, on the Levels of the Greenbrier, the
marauders pretended to be friendly with the settlers, and
in an unguarded moment fell upon and slew them. Other
massacres, in connection with the same foray, were at Carr's
Creek, Keeney's Knob, and Jackson's River. The story of the
captivity of Mrs. Clendenning and her children, who were
taken to the Shawnee towns on the Scioto, is one of the
most heartrendering in Western history. In 1764, Bouquet
raided these towns, and Cornstalk was one of the hostages
sent to Fort Pitt in fulfillment of the terms of the treaty,
but later he effected his escape. Nothing more is heard of
this warrior until 1774, when he became famous as leader of the
Indians at the battle of Point Pleasant. Cornstalk's
intelligence was far above that of the average Shawnee. He
had, before the Dunmore War, strongly counseled his people
to observe the peace, as their only salvation; but when
defeated in council, he with great valor led the tribesmen to
war. After the treaty of Fort Charlotte, he renewed his peace
policy, and was almost alone in refusing to join the
Shawnee uprising in 1777. Late in September, that year, he
visited his white friends at Fort Randolph (Point Pleasant),
and was retained as one of several hostages for the tribe.
Infuriated at some murders in the vicinity, the private
soldiers in the fort turned upon the Indian prisoners and
basely ki