t suffering him to
depart under the expectation that he would obtain assistance and
endeavor to regain his wife and child, and that an opportunity of
waylaying any party coming with this view, would be [212] then
afforded them. Prior returned to the settlement, related the above
incidents and died that night. His wife and child were never after
heard of, and it is highly probable they were murdered on their way,
as being unable to travel as expeditiously as the Indians wished.

They next went to a house, occupied by Thomas Drinnon and a Mr. Smith
with their families, where they made prisoners of Mrs. Smith, Mrs.
Drinnon and a child; and going then towards their towns, killed, on
their way, an old gentleman by the name of Monday and his wife. This
was the last outrage committed by the Indians in the Greenbrier
settlements. And although the war was carried on by them against the
frontier settlements, with energy for years after, yet did they not
again attempt an incursion into it. Its earlier days had been days of
tribulation and wo, and those who were foremost in occupying and
forming settlements in it, had to endure all that savage fury could
inflict. Their term of probation, was indeed of comparatively short
duration, but their sufferings for a time, were many and great. The
scenes of murder and blood, exhibited on Muddy creek and the Big
Levels in 1776, will not soon be effaced from the memory; and the
lively interest excited in the bosoms of many, for the fate of those
who there treacherously perished, unabated by time, still gleams in
the countenance, when tradition recounts the tale of their unhappy
lot.

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[1] L. V. McWhorter, of Berlin, W. Va., writes me: "A few
years ago, the descendants of David Morgan erected a monument
on the spot where fell one of the Indians. On the day of the
unveiling of the monument, there was on exhibition at the spot,
a shot-pouch and saddle skirt made from the skins of the
Indians. Greenwood S. Morgan, a great-grandson of the Indian
slayer, informs me that the shot-pouch is now in the possession
of a distant relative, living in Wetzel County, W. Va. The
knife with which the Indian was killed, is owned by Morgan's
descendants in Marion County, W. Va."--R. G. T.

[2] See p. 262, _note_, for account of Capt. Henry Bird's
attack on Fort Laurens.--R. G. T.

[3] Mr. McWhorter says that this fort stood o