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discovered, and perhaps defeated by the superior force of the white
men, represented to be at Mr. Brain's, they departed in the greatest
hurry, taking with them their two little prisoners, Benjamin and Isaac
Brain.

So stilly had the whole affair been conducted (the report of a gun
being too commonly heard to excite any suspicion of what was doing,)
and so expeditiously had the little boy who escaped, and the men who
accompanied him back, moved in their course, that the first intimation
given Mrs. Brain of the fate of her husband, was given by the men who
came in pursuit.

Soon after the happening of this affair, a party of Indians came into
the Buchannon settlement, and made prisoner Leonard Schoolcraft, a
youth of about sixteen, who had been sent from the fort on some
business.--When arrived at their towns and arrangements being made for
his running the gauntlet, he was told that he might defend himself
against the blows of the young Indians who were to pursue him to the
council house. Being active and athletic, he availed himself of this
privilege, so as to save himself from the beating which he would
otherwise have received, and laying about him with well timed blows,
frequently knocked down those who came near to him--much to the
amusement of the warriors, according to the account given by others,
who were then prisoners and present. This was the last certain
information which was ever had concerning him. He was believed
however, to have been afterwards in his old neighborhood in the
capacity of guide to the Indians, and aiding them, by his knowledge of
the country, in making successful incursions into it.

In the month of June, at Martin's fort on Crooked Run, another
murderous scene was exhibited by the savages. The greater part of the
men having gone forth early to their farms, and those who remained,
being unapprehensive of immediate danger, and consequently supine and
careless, the fort was necessarily, easily accessible, and the
vigilance of the savages who were lying hid around it, discovering its
exposed and [205] weakened situation, seized the favorable moment to
attack those who were without. The women were engaged in milking the
cows outside the gate, and the men who had been left behind were
loitering around. The Indians rushed forward, and killed and made
prisoners of ten of them. James Stuart, James Smally and Peter Crouse,
were the only persons who fell, and John Shiver and his wife, two sons