that this foray took place in
1763. During this year, as features of the Pontiac uprising,
bloody forays were made on the more advanced settlements on
Jackson, Greenbrier, and Calf Pasture rivers, and several
severe contests ensued between whites and Indians. Captains
Moffett and Phillips, with sixty rangers, were ambuscaded with
the loss of fifteen men. Col. Charles Lewis pursued the savages
with 150 volunteers raised in a single night, and on October
3rd surprised them at the head of the South Fork of the
Potomac, killing twenty-one, with no white losses. The spoils
of this victory, beside the "five horses with all their
trappings," sold for L250. This was the most notable of the
several skirmishes which took place on the Virginia frontier,
that year.--R. G. T.

[18] Perhaps this affair is that related by Capt. William
Christian, in a letter dated Roanoke, Oct. 19th, 1763, as
published in the gazettes of that day--there are, at least,
some suggestive similarities: "Being joined by Capt.
Hickenbotham, with twenty-five of the Amherst militia, we
marched on Tuesday last, to Winston's Meadows, where our
scouts informed us, that they had discovered a party of
Indians about three miles off. Night coming on, prevented our
meeting them; and next day, being rainy, made it difficult to
follow their tracks. As they were on their return, Capt.
Hickenbotham marched to join Capt. Ingles down New River. I,
with nineteen men and my ensign, took a different route in
quest of them. We marched next day on their tracks until
two hours before sunset, when we heard some guns, and soon
afterwards discovered three large fires, which appeared to
be on the bank of Turkey Creek, where it empties into New
river. Upon this we immediately advanced, and found they
were on an island. Being within gun-shot, we fired on them,
and loading again, forded the creek. The Indians, after
killing Jacob Kimberlain, a prisoner they had with them, made
but a slight resistence, and ran off. We found one Indian
killed on the spot, and, at a little distance, four blankets
shot through, and very bloody. We took all their bundles,
four guns, eight tomahawks, and two mares. They had several
other horses, whic