after, and grappling
with the other white man, was quickly thrown on the bed. His
antagonist having no weapon with which to do him any injury called to
Mrs. Bozarth for a knife. Not finding one at hand, she siezed an axe,
and at one blow, let out the brains of the prostrate savage. At that
instant a second Indian entering the door, shot dead the man engaged
with his companion on the bed. Mrs. Bozarth turned on him, and with a
well directed blow, let out his entrails and caused him to bawl out
for help. Upon this, others of his party, who had been engaged with
the children in the yard, came to his relief. The first who thrust his
head in at the door, had it cleft by the axe of Mrs. Bozarth and fell
lifeless on the ground. Another, catching hold of his wounded, bawling
companion, drew him out of the house, when Mrs. Bozarth, with the aid
of the white man who had been first shot and was then somewhat
recovered, succeeded in closing and making fast the door. The children
in the yard were all killed, but the heroism and exertions of Mrs.
Bozarth and the wounded white man, enabled them to resist the
repeated attempts of the Indians, to force open the door, and to
maintain possession of the house, until they were relieved by a party
from the neighboring settlement.--The time occupied in this bloody
affair, from the first alarm by the children to the shutting of the
door, did not exceed three minutes. And in this brief space, Mrs.
Bozarth, with infinite self possession, coolness and intrepidity,
succeeded in killing three Indians.

On the eleventh of the same month, five Indians came to a house on
Snowy creek, (in the, now, county of Preston,) in which lived James
Brain and Richard Powell, and remained in ambush during the night,
close around it. In the morning early, the appearance of some ten or
twelve men, issuing from the house with guns, for the purpose of
amusing themselves in shooting at a mark, deterred the Indians from
making their meditated attack. The men seen by them, were travellers,
who had associated for mutual security, and who, after partaking of a
morning's repast, resumed their journey, unknown to the savages; when
Mr. Brain and the sons of Mr. Powell [203] went to their day's work.
Being engaged in carrying clap-boards for covering a cabin, at some
distance from the house, they were soon heard by the Indians, who,
despairing of succeeding in an attack on the house, changed their
position, & concealed thems