murder
every Indian, with whom he should chance to meet, wandering
through the settlements.

Several Indians were likewise killed on the South Branch, while on a
friendly visit to that country, in the interval of peace. This deed is
said to have been done by Henry Judah, Nicholas Harpold and their
associates; and when Judah was arrested for the offence, so great was
the excitement among those who had suffered from savage enmity, that
he was rescued from confinement by upwards of two hundred men,
collected for that especial purpose.

The Bald Eagle was an Indian of notoriety, not only among his own
nation, but also with the inhabitants of the North Western frontier;
with whom he was in the habit of associating and hunting. In one of
his visits among them, he was discovered alone, by Jacob Scott,
William Hacker and Elijah Runner, who, reckless of the consequences,
murdered him, solely to gratify a most wanton thirst for Indian blood.
After the commission of this most outrageous enormity, they seated him
in the stern of a canoe, and with a piece of journey-cake thrust into
his mouth, set him afloat in the Monongahela. In this situation he was
seen descending the river, by several, who supposed him to be as
usual, returning from a friendly hunt with the whites in the upper
settlements, and who expressed some astonishment that he did not stop
to see them. The canoe floating near to the shore, below the mouth of
George's creek, was observed by a Mrs. Province, who had it brought to
the bank, and the friendly, but unfortunate old Indian decently
buried.

Not long after the murder of the Bald Eagle, another outrage of a
similar nature was committed on a peaceable Indian, by William White;
and for which he was apprehended and taken to Winchester for trial.
But the fury of the populace did not suffer him to remain there
awaiting that event.--The prison doors were forced, the irons knocked
off him and he again set at liberty.

But a still more atrocious act is said to have been soon after
perpetrated. Until then the murders committed, were only on such as
were found within the limits of white settlements, and on men &
warriors. In 1772, there is every reason to believe, that women and
children likewise became victims to the exasperated feelings of our
[106] own citizens; and this too, while quietly enjoying the comforts
of their own huts, in their own village.

There was at that time an Indian town on the Little Kenhawa, (