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 mother and brother was going on in the yard, the daughter (Elizabeth, aged twelve or fifteen years) snatched up her baby sister (Anna, about a year and a half old) and ran toward the barn, where she was followed by an Indian. She ran in at a door and secured it, and while the Indian ran back to the house to get fire, Elizabeth crept out at an opening at the rear of the barn, entered a field of tall hemp, and through it ran unobserved to the river, which she crossed, all the time carrying her little sister, till she reached the home of a neighbor, and thus saved her own life and that of her little sister.

After plundering the premises fire was set to all the buildings. The body of Bro. Rhodes being left in the door-way where it had fallen, it became partly consumed in the flames. The Indians then took their flight, taking with them two other sons and two daughters as captives. The younger son being weakly and unable to travel, he was killed. The two daughters refusing to go farther, they were also killed in a barbarous manner and scalped. The remaining son, whose name was Michael, was taken along to the Indian camps west of the Ohio river where he was held as a captive for three years. While there he saw the Indians sell the scalps of his father, mother, and six brothers and sisters to the French authorities for about fifteen dollars. After Gen. Bouquet's treaty in 1767, the Indians were required to release all white prisoners. Michael, along with many others, was permitted to come home to assist in the settling up of his father's estate.

Without question, the massacre was one of the