nging the
direction of his march, appears to have been assigned by him; and
others were left to infer his motives, altogether from circumstances.

While at Fort Pitt Lord Dunmore was joined by the notorious Simon
Girty,[23] who accompanied him from thence 'till the close of the
expedition. The subsequent conduct of this man, his attachment to the
side of Great Britain, in her [133] attempts to fasten the yoke of
slavery upon the necks of the American people,--his withdrawal from
the garrison at Fort Pitt while commissioners were there for the
purpose of concluding a treaty with the Indians, as was stipulated in
the agreement made with them by Dunmore,--the exerting of his
influence over them, to prevent the chiefs from attending there, and
to win them to the cause of England,--his ultimate joining the savages
in the war which (very much from his instigation,) they waged against
the border settlements, soon after,--the horrid cruelties, and
fiendish tortures inflicted on unfortunate white captives by his
orders and connivance;--all combined to form an exact counterpart to
the subsequent conduct of Lord Dunmore when exciting the negroes to
join the British standard;--plundering the property of those who were
attached to the cause of liberty,--and applying the brand of
conflagration to the most flourishing town in Virginia.

At Wheeling, as they were descending the river, the army delayed some
days; and while proceeding from thence to form a junction with the
division under general Lewis, was joined, near the mouth of the Little
Kenhawa, by the noted John Connoly, of great fame as a tory.

Of this man, Lord Dunmore thence forward became an intimate associate;
and while encamped at the mouth of Hock Hocking--seemed to make him
his confidential adviser. It was here too, only seventy miles distant
from the head quarters of General Lewis, that it was determined to
leave the boats and canoes and proceed by land to the Chilicothe
towns.[24]

The messengers, despatched by Lord Dunmore to apprize the lower
army of this change of determination, were Indian traders; one of whom
being asked, if he supposed the Indians would venture to give battle
to the superior force of the whites, replied that they certainly
would, and that Lewis' division would soon see his prediction
verified.[25] This was on the day previous to the engagement. On the
return of these men, on the evening of the same day, they must have
seen the Indian army wh