of some of
their warriors who had been killed on the Kentucky river. This
dreadful doom was allotted to Mrs. Moore and her daughter Jane,--an
interesting girl about sixteen years of age. They were tied to a post
and tortured to death with burning splinters of pine, in the presence
of the remaining members of the family.

After the death of his mother and sister, James Moore was sent to
the Maumee towns in Michigan, where he remained until December
1785,--his sister Mary and Sally Ivins remaining with the Shawanees.
In December 1786, they were all brought to Augusta county in
conformity with the stipulations of the treaty of Miami, and ransomed
by their friends.[11]

In the fall of 1796, John Ice and James Snodgrass were killed by the
Indians when looking for their horses which they [278] had lost on a
buffalo hunt on Fishing creek. Their remains were afterwards
found--the flesh torn from the bones by the wolves--and buried.

In a few days after Ice and Snodgrass left home in quest of their
horses, a party of Indians came to Buffalo creek in Monongalia, and
meeting with Mrs. Dragoo and her son in a corn field gathering beans,
took them prisoners, and supposing that their detention would induce
others to look for them, they waylaid the path leading [277] from the
house. According to their expectation, uneasy at their continued
absence, Jacob Strait and Nicholas Wood went to ascertain its cause.
As they approached the Indians fired from their covert, and Wood
fell;--Strait taking to flight was soon overtaken. Mrs. Strait and her
daughter, hearing the firing and seeing the savages in pursuit of Mr.
Strait, betook themselves also to flight, but were discovered by some
of the Indians who immediately ran after them. The daughter concealed
herself in a thicket of bushes and escaped observation. Her mother
sought concealment under a large shelving rock, and was not afterwards
discovered by the savages, although those in pursuit of her husband,
passed near and overtook him not far off. Indeed she was at that time
so close, as to hear Mr. Strait say, when overtaken, "don't kill me
and I will go with you;" and the savage replying "will you go with
me," she heard the fatal blow which deprived her husband of life.

Mrs. Dragoo being infirm and unable to travel to their towns, was
murdered on the way. Her son (a lad of seven) remained with the
Indians upwards of twenty years,--he married a squaw, by whom he had
four children,--tw