of Stuart, two sons of Smally and a son of Crouse, were carried into
captivity. According to their statement upon their return, there were
thirteen Indians in the party which surprised them, and emboldened by
success, instead of retreating with their prisoners, remained at a
little distance from the fort 'till night, when they put the captives
in a waste house near, under custody of two of the savages, while the
remaining eleven, went to see if they could not succeed in forcing an
entrance at the gate. But the disaster of the morning had taught the
inhabitants the necessity of greater watchfulness. The dogs were shut
out at night, and the approach of the Indians exciting them to bark
freely, gave notice of impending danger, in time for them to avert it.
The attempt to take the fort being thus frustrated, the savages
returned to the house in which the prisoners were confined, and moved
off with them to their towns.

In August, two daughters of Captain David Scott living at the mouth of
Pike run, going to the meadow with dinner for the mowers, were taken
by some Indians who were watching the path. The younger was killed on
the spot; but the latter being taken some distance farther, and every
search for her proving unavailing, her father fondly hoped that she
had been carried into captivity, and that be might redeem her. For
this purpose he visited Pittsburg and engaged the service of a
friendly Indian to ascertain where she was and endeavour to prevail on
them to ransom her. Before his return from Fort Pitt, some of his
neighbors directed to the spot by the buzzards hovering over it, found
her half eaten and mutilated body.

In September, Nathaniel Davisson and his brother, being on a hunting
expedition up Ten Mile, left their camp early on the morning of the
day on which they intended to return home; and naming an hour at which
they would be back, proceeded through the woods in different
directions. At the appointed time, Josiah went to the camp, and after
waiting there in vain for the arrival of his brother, and becoming
uneasy lest [206] some unlucky accident had befallen him, he set out
in search of him. Unable to see or hear anything of him he returned
home, and prevailed on several of his neighbors to aid in endeavouring
to ascertain his fate. Their search was likewise unavailing; but in
the following March, he was found by John Read, while hunting in that
neighborhood. He had been shot and scalped; and notwithstan