nt for the
outrage. The elder of the two girls did not long remain with them;
but escaping to the neighborhood of Detroit with another female
prisoner, continued there until after the treaty of 1795. Her sister
abided with her captors 'till the close of the war; and the boy until
during the war of 1812. He was then seen among some friendly
Indians, and bearing a strong resemblance in features to his
father, was recognized as Waggoner's captive son. He had married a
squaw, by whom he had several children, was attached to his manner
of life, and for a time resisted every importunity, to withdraw
himself from among them. When his father visited him, it was with
difficulty he was enticed to return to the haunts of his childhood,
and the associates of his younger days, even on a temporary visit.
When however he did return to them, the attention and kindly
conduct of his friends, prevailed with him to remain, until he
married and took up his permanent abode amid the habitations of
civilized men. Still with the feelings natural to a father, his
heart yearns towards his children in the forest; and at times he
seems to lament that he ever forsook them.[1]

In the summer of this year, a parcel of horses were taken from the
West Fork, and the Indians who had stolen them, being discovered as
they were retiring, they were pursued by Captain Coburn, who was
stationed at the mouth of Little [304] Kenhawa with a party of men as
scouts. Following them across the Ohio river, he overtook them some
distance in the Indian country, and retaking the horses, returned to
his station. Hitherto property recovered from the savages, had been
invariably restored to those from whom it had been stolen; but on the
present occasion a different course was pursued. Contending that they
received compensation for services rendered by them in Virginia, and
were not bound to treat without its limits in pursuit of the savages
or to retake the property of which they had divested its rightful
owners, they claimed the horses as plunder taken from the Indians,
sold them, and divided the proceeds of sale among themselves--much to
the dissatisfaction of those from whom the savages had taken them.[2]

In the course of the ensuing fall, Henry Neal, William Triplett and
Daniel Rowell, from Neal's station ascended the Little Kenhawa in
canoes to the mouth of the Burning Spring run, from whence they
proceeded on a Buffoloe hunt in the adjoining woods. But they had been