about a mile from where he
had been tomahawked. The brains were oozing from his head; yet he
survived in extreme suffering for three days. Old Mr. West was found
in the field where he had been tomahawked. Mrs. West was in the house;
she had probably lived but a few minutes after Hughes and her
sisters-in-law had left there.--The little girl (Hacker's daughter)
was in bed at the house of old Mr. West. She related the history of
the transactions at Edmund West's, Jun. and said that she went to
_sleep_ when thrown over the fence and was awaked by the scalping.
After she had been stabbed at the suggestion of Schoolcraft and left,
she tried to re-cross the fence to the house, but as she was climbing
up she again went to sleep and fell back. She then walked into the
woods, sheltered herself as well as she could in the top of a fallen
tree, and remained there until the cocks crew in the morning.

Remembering that there was no person left alive at the house of her
sister, awhile before day she proceeded to old Mr. West's. She found
no person at home, the fire nearly out, but the hearth warm and she
laid down on it. The heat produced a sickly feeling, which caused her
to get up and go to the bed, in which she was found.--She recovered,
grew up, was married, gave birth to ten children, and died, as was
believed, of an affection of the head, occasioned by the wound she
received that night. Hughes' daughter was ransomed by her father the
next year, and is yet living in sight of the theatre of those savage
enormities.

In March 1789, two Indians came to the house of Mr. Glass in the upper
end of Ohio (now Brooke) county. They were discovered by a negro
woman, who immediately exclaimed, "here are Indians." Mrs. Glass rose
up from her spinning wheel, ran to the door, and was met by an Indian
with his gun presented. She laid hold on the muzzle and turning it
aside, begged that he would not kill, [282] but take her prisoner. He
walked into the house and when joined by another Indian with the negro
woman and her boy, about four years old, they opened a chest, took out
a small box and some articles of clothing, and without doing farther
mischief, departed with the prisoners,--Mrs. Glass and her child, two
years of age, the negro woman and boy and her infant child. They had
proceeded but a short distance when a consultation was held, and Mrs.
Glass supposing from their gestures and frequent pointing towards the
children they were the su