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The third company was composed of the Rev. Charles Cum- mings, his servant Job. William Creswell, the driver. James Piper and one other : and when they had reached a point called Piper's Hill. they were attacked by a band of Indians, and at the first fire William Creswell, who had taken part in the battle of Long Island Flats, was killed and two of the other men were wounded. James Piper having his finger shot off. but the Rev. Charles Cummings. with the remaining man. and his servant Job. held the Indians at bay until he obtained help from Black's Fort, when he brought off the wounded men in safety. William Creswell was buried near the Presbyterian church, now Sinking Spring Cemetery, where his grave may be seen at this day marked by a rude tombstone. An exact reproduction of the inscription thereon is here given :
WILLIAM CRESWELL entered this place July, 1776.
It has been stated that this is the oldest known grave in this sec- tion, but such is not the fact. Poston's graveyard is situated on a high knob in close proximity to the falls of the north fork of Holston
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river, in this county, and in the graveyard is found a grave marked ยท by a limestone rock upon which is inscribed, "Mary Boyd, died Feby. 17, 1773, aged 3 years. Alexander Boyd's child." Tradition says that this death occurred by the capsizing of Boyd's boat in passing over the falls, Boyd at the time emigrating to the extreme frontiers.
From the period that Mr. Cummings commenced preaching in the Holston settlements up to the time of this attack the men never went to church without being armed and taking their families with them. On Sabbath morning during most of this period it was the custom of Mr. Cummings to dress himself neatly, put on his shot pouch, shoulder his rifle, mount his horse and ride off to church, where he met his gallant and intelligent congregation, each man with his rifle in his hand. The minister would then enter the church, walk gravely through the crowd, ascend the pulpit, deposit his rifle in a corner of it, lay off his shot pouch, and commence the solemn services of the day .*
The Rev. Charles Cummings was what would be termed in our day " a fighting parson." Immediately after the occurrence above stated Mr. Cummings and about one hundred of his parishion- ers, under the command of Evan Shelby, hurried to the relief of the Watauga settlers who were besieged by the Indians in Fort Lee, and he accompanied Col. William Christian on his expedition against the Cherokee Indians in the fall of this year, preaching at different points in East Tennessee to settlers and soldiers whenever the oppor- tunity offered itself, he being the first minister of the gospel to de- liver the message of peace in the boundaries of the present State of Tennessee. In the year 1776 the ground now occupied by Martha Washington College and Stonewall Jackson Institute was a dense chinquapin thicket, and the lands between the thicket and Black's Fort were cultivated in flax. During the summer of the year 1776 two men and three women were pulling flax near the fort with Frederick Mongle stationed as sentinel to give the alarm should the Indians make their appearance. The Indians, who had hidden themselves in the bushes above referred to, quietly ap- proached and wounded and scalped Mr. Mongle, but the other persons reached the fort in safety by dodging from tree to tree. The men from the fort came at once to the rescue, and, attacking
Governor David Campbell's MSS.
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the Indians, drove them off. Mr. Mongle soon died from his wounds, and his relatives claim that his grave, and not William Creswell's, was the first made in Sinking Spring Cemetery. But this contention cannot be correct, for Mongle was not killed until several weeks after the death of William Creswell.
During the summer several murders were committed by the Indians. Two men, who had gone out to bring up their horses, were killed almost in sight of a neighboring fort, and of the two men who went with an express from Fort Black one was killed and the other made his escape.
As a result of the trouble with the Indians Col. Wm. Chris- tian, Capt. Wm. Campbell, and Capt. Wm. Russell returned to their homes from the regular continental army to assist in the defence of their homes from the combined attacks of the British and Indians. The Governor of Virginia at this time directed Col. Wm. Fleming. of Botetourt county, to dispatch a body of the militia of that county to the frontiers of Fincastle county for the protection of the inhabitants, and pursuant to this order Capt. Thomas Rowland was dispatched with his company to the fron- tiers. The following is a complete list of Captain Rowland's com- pany :
Capt. Thomas Rowland,
William Kyles,
Henry Cartmill,
Martin McFattin.
James Esprey,
Martin Baker, John Wood, Thomas Bowyer,
Samuel McFarrin,
George Rutledge,
James Leatherdale,
William Calbert,
John Crawford,
Edward Carbin,
David Wallace,
Samuel M'Roberts,
James Bryant,
Thomas Peage,
William Bryant,
Stephen Holston,
Robert Feely,
William Henry,
Elijah Vinsant, John Moor,
George Givens,
Thomas Eagnew,
Isaac Richardson,
William Wills,
James Nicholas,
James McQuown,
William Crawford,
James Cloyd, Isaac Lawrence,
James Robinson,
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James Alcom,
William Richey,
George Hutchinson
Joseph Kyles,
(Botetourt parish),
Samuel McClure,
Rev. Adam Smyth, pastor,
Patrick Lockhart,
William Astin,
John Mills,
William Leatherdale,
Henry Smith,
Robert Woods,
James Gaunt,
Edward Guilford,
Joseph Carrol,
Joseph Bryant,
John Jones,
William McFarrin,
Henry Walker,
Jacob Kimberland,
John Burks,
Robert Birdswell,
Thomas Arbuckle,
Thomas Howell,
David Lawrence,
Samuel Blair,
Patrick Lawrence,
David Harbinson,
John Frager,
Jonathan Wood,
William Ross.
Joseph Titus,
This expedition accomplished nothing of value. This muster roll is given as a matter of information to the many descendants of these men who are now living in this county.
In the year 1776, at the time of the battle of Long Island Flats, a man by the name of Lewis, with his wife and seven children, lived in the bounds of the present county of Scott. He was informed by Captain John Redd, that the Indians had declared war and were on the warpath, and was advised to move into the settle- ments, but he swore that he was in no danger, the Indians would never find him, but, soon thereafter, the Indians visited his home and killed and scalped Lewis, his wife and seven children. Among the extreme settlers who left their homes and returned to the set- tlements, was a man by the name of Ambrose Fletcher, whose fam- ily consisted of himself, his wife and two children. Fletcher had settled at Martin's Fort in Powell's Valley, and fled from that point to Blackmore's Fort, on Cove creek, now in Scott county, Virginia. He and his family remained in Blackmore's Fort for a few days, when, the fort becoming very much crowded, Fletcher built a small cabin, about thirty or forty yards back of the fort, and moved into it. Shortly afterwards, Fletcher left his home to go to a canebrake to get his horse, and, on returning, he found his wife and two children tomahawked and scalped.
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At this time the following forts were to be found on the waters of the Holston and Clinch, so far as I can ascertain :
Thompson's Fort, located on the farm now owned by Huff Bros. Edmiston's Fort, located on Snodgrass's farm at Lodi, Va.
Bryan's Fort, located at Kendrick's Mill.
Black's Fort, located at Abingdon, Virginia.
Cocke's Fort, located on Clyce Farm on Spring creek.
Bledsoe's Fort, located -.
Shelby's Fort, located Bristol.
Eaton's Fort, located seven miles east of Long Island.
Fort Patrick Henry, located at Long Island.
Fort Lee, located, at Watauga.
Gillespie's Fort, located
Womack's Fort, located, near Bluff City, Tennessee.
Martin's Fort, located in Powell's Valley.
Priest's Fort, located in Powell's Valley.
Mumps' Fort, located in Powell's Valley.
Rye Cove Fort, located
Blackmore's Fort, located Cove creek.
Glade Hollow Fort, located in Russell county.
Hamlin's Fort, located near Castle's Woods.
Elk Garden Fort, located Russell county.
Fort Bowen, located at Maiden Spring.
Wynne's Fort, located Tazewell county, Wynne's branch.
Crab Orchard Fort, located Tazewell county.
At the same time that the Virginia settlements were suffering from the invasion of the Indians, North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia, were experiencing like invasions. These four fron- tier colonies decided to invade the Indian country and bring them to their senses, by destroying their towns and chastising their warriors. The Cherokee Indians occupied that vast country north of the upper settlements in Georgia and west of the settlements in North and South Carolina and Southwest Virginia. Their coun- try was divided into three sections, and the number of the warriors in each was as follows:
Middle Settlements and Valleys 878
In Lower Towns 356
In Over-Hill Towns 757
Total 1.991
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The Georgia militia, under the command of Colonel McBury and Major Jack, invaded the Indian settlements on the Tugalo river, routed the Indians and destroyed all their towns. The militia of South Carolina, being about 1150 men, under the command of General Williamson, in the early days of August, marched into the Indian settlements and met and defeated, at Oconoree, Alex- ander Cameron, who was in command of a large body of Indians and white men. They burned a number of Indian towns and returned to their homes. The militia of the State of North Caro- lina, numbering about 2,000 men, under the command of General Rutherford, marched into the middle settlements and valleys, about the same time. Upon the approach of this army, the Indians fled. Their towns were burned, to the number of thirty or forty, and these troops returned to North Carolina. While the troops of the States of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were invading the middle settlements and lower towns of the Cherokees, the Virginia authorities were making every preparation to invade the over-hill towns.
On the 22d of July, 1776, the Virginia Council received a letter from President Rutledge, of South Carolina, informing them that hostilities had been commenced by the Cherokee Indians, and that Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina had agreed to set on foot an expedition against the lower towns and middle settle- ments at once, and requesting the cooperation of Virginia, asking that she carry war into the upper or over-hill towns. Thereupon, the council directed Colonel Charles Lewis to march immediately, with his battalion of minute men, to the frontiers. Upon the receipt of this order Colonel Lewis immediately marched his bat- talion of troops to the vicinity of New river in Fincastle county, where it was ascertained that a number of his men were unfit for an Indian expedition ; whereupon, he was directed to discharge all such and to recruit others in their stead.
On the first day of August, 1776, the Virginia Council ordered that a commission issue appointing William Christian, Esq., colonel of the first battalion and commander-in-chief of all the forces raised for use in the expedition against the Cherokee Indians. It was decided to send two battalions of troops upon this expedition, which were officered as follows:
Commander-in-chief, William Christian.
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Colonel, first battalion, William Christian.
Major, first battalion, Evan Shelby.
Surgeon, first battalion, Joseph Starke. Colonel, second battalion, Charles Lewis.
Surgeon, second battalion, George Hart.
Captain James Thompson and his company formed the life guard of Colonel Christian, the commander-in-chief, upon this expedition.
The following captains, with their companies, accompanied this expedition against the Cherokee Indians, so far as I can ascertain :
Captain John Campbell, Captain Daniel Smith,
Captain William Russell,
Captain Aaron Lewis,
Captain Robert Boggs,
Captain Jacob Womack,
Captain John Sevier, Captain William Cocke,
Captain James Thompson, Captain Benjamin Gray,
Captain Isaac Bledsoe,
Captain William Preston,
Captain John Montgomery,
Captain Thomas Madison.
Captain Thomas Madison was appointed commissary and pay- master upon this expedition.
But little is known of the participants in this expedition. I have, therefore, gathered the names of the privates who took part in this expedition, as far as I can obtain them. Their names are as follows :
Robert, Campbell,
Michael Ocheltree,
Thomas Hobbs, wounded.
Thomas Berry, wounded.
Christopher Watson,
Robert Finley,
Matthew Allison,
William Wills,
John Finley,
Jacob Gardner,
Andrew Wallace,
Samuel Ewing,
Humphrey Higgins,
George Caldwell,
James Sawyers,
Jacob Early,
William Crawford,
James Buford,
James Berry, Henley Moore,
Joshua Renfro,
Jacob Anderson,
William Hogart, John Adair,
Ephraim Dunlap,
James Robinson,
Benjamin Thomas, John Wood,
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William Hicks,
David Getgood,
Samuel Gay,
Joseph McCormick, James McCockle,
Isaac Riddle,
Joseph Russell,
David Smith, Edward Ross, Gideon Farris,
Jonathan Martin,
Gideon Morris,
Jesse Womack,
William Ingram,
John Furnham,
Robert Stewart,
William Frogg,
James Berry,
William Milum,
Daniel Smith,
Lance Woodward,
William Haynes,
Francis Katherine,
John McClanahan,
Daniel Henderson,
John Phelps, Abraham McClanahan,
David Rounceval,
James Arnold,
Samuel Douglas, wounded ; Duncan, killed ;
Andrew Little,
George Berry, wounded ;
Thomas Berry,
John Reburn,
John Latham,
Abraham Crabtree,
William Ramsay,
David McKenzie,
James Bradley,
Christopher Irwin,
Lambert Lane,
John Cochran,
John Rice,
James Young,
Joab Springer,
William Meade,
Onsbey Carney, John Crane,
Stephen Holston,
Benjamin Drake,
Patrick Murphy,
Benjamin Rice,
Isbon Talbert,
David Irwin,
James Campbell,
George Miller,
Matthew Scott,
Thomas Ramsay,
Thomas Logwood,
Thomas Fowler,
Robert Preston,
Robert Campbell,
Thomas Smith, George Coon,
Jacob Cogor,
William Rice,
Daniel Kidd,
Isaac Rounceval,
John Goff,
James M'Farland,
Cuthbert Jones,
William Ross,
Samuel Campbell, William Markland,
David Wallace,
Hanrist Carlock,
Amos Eaton,
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Philip Love,
William Brown,
David English,
Leonard Helm,
James Tuttle,
James Greer,
Meredy Reins,
Samuel Ewin,
Michael Gleaves,
Richard Thomas,
Christian Shultz,
Robert Stephenson,
Samuel Ingram,
Robert M'Elheney,
James Newell,
Isaac Thomas,
William Bennett,
John Craig,
Littleton Brooks,
Adam Brausteter,
Michael Rowland,
Michael Dougherty,
William Mitchell,
James M'Carthy,
William Rice,
William Henson,
Philip Williams, James Harris,
Charles Rice, Jesse Henson,
Arthur Onsbey,
Jonathan Mulhey,
William Nettles,
Moses Winters,
John Harris, Jr.,
John Harris, Sr.,
William Lane,
James Beets,
David Hunter,
John M'Farland,
Michael Ohair,
Nicholas Edwards,
John Walker,
James Kelley,
Ebenezer Meads,
James Richardson,
Samuel Campbell,
Francis Hamilton,
James Hamilton, George Newland,
James Daugherty,
James Williams,
Frederick Fraily, William Edmiston,
Henry Richardson,
David Carson,
John Muldrough,
James M'Cain,
Michael Francisco, James Mason,
James Steel,
Robert Gambell,
Solomon Kendrick,
Daniel M'Cormack,
William White,
Jonathan Jennings, George Parker,
John Craig, Robert McNutt,
William Peoples,
Valentine Little,
Samuel Fair,
Alexander Butler,
Henry Whitner,
Charles Cocke,
Jacob Stearns, John Simpson, Thomas Price,
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Peter Haff,
George Scott,
Henry Rice,
Joseph Perrin
William Lane,
Nicholas Edwards,
Philip Mulhey, Sr., Lewis Crane,
John Hounshel,
Adam Brausteter,
Isaac Lindsay,
James Doran,
Samuel Martin,
George Caldwell,
James M'Clern,
Jeremiah Rush,
James Smith,
Robert Hardwicke,
Lewis Whitner,
Joseph M'Reynolds,
William Calvert,
Benjamin Logan,
Samuel Eason,
Robert Cowden,
James M'Donald,
Andrew Irwin,
Samuel Montgomery,
John Gordon,
William Carr,
Thomas Goldsby,
John Gibson,
Peter Turney,
James Walker,
Anthony Bledsoe,
Philip Mulhey, Jr.,
John Walker,
Andrew Cowan,
Evan Williams,
John Adair,
Edward Piggett,
James Cameron,
Jacob Vance.
On the 26th day of July, 1776, the Honorable Cornelius Har- nett, president of the Council of Safety of North Carolina, informed the Virginia Council that the Cherokees entertained the design of cutting off the persons employed at the Lead Mines, whereupon, the Council ordered William Preston, the county lieutenant of Fincastle county, to raise, at once, a stockade fort for the defence of said mines and to garrison the same with a force of twenty-five men.
On the first day of August, 1776, the Virginia Council gave the following instructions to William Christian, commander-in-chief, and Colonel Charles Lewis, in command of the second battalion, of the forces in the expedition against the Cherokees.
"When your battalion and the battalion under Colonel Charles Lewis are completed, you are to march with them and the forces under the command of Colonel Russell, and such others as may join you from Carolina, into the Cherokee country, if these forces shall be judged sufficient for the purpose of severely chastising that cruel and perfidious nation, which you are to do in a manner most likely to put a stop to future insults and ravages and that may redound
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most to the honor of American arms. If the Indians should be reduced to the necessity of suing for peace, you must take care to demand of them a sufficient number of their chiefs and warriors as hostages, for the performance of the conditions you may require of them. You must insist on their delivering up all prisoners who may choose to leave them and on their giving up to justice all per- sons amongst them who have been concerned in bringing on the present war, particularly Stuart, Cameron and Gist, and all others who have committed murder or robberies on our frontiers. You may require any other terms which the situation of affairs may point out and you may judge necessary for the safety and honor of the Commonwealth. You must endeavor to communicate with the commanding officer of the Carolina forces and cooperate with him, making the attack as near the time of his as may be.
You are from time to time to write His Excellency the Governor, giving him a full account of your operations, and requiring his further instructions. Instructions to Colonel Charles Lewis of the second battalion of minute men: You are to order the captains under your command to march their companies to their respective counties, then to discharge such of their men as are not properly qualified to serve on an expedition against the Indians, and to raise with all possible dispatch in their stead the best recruits that can be found for the service, and, having so completed their companies, to repair to the Big Island on Holston river in Fincastle county, the place of general rendezvous."
And, on the 6th day of August, 1776, the Virginia Council directed the keeper of the magazine to forward to Colonel William Christian 1,000 pounds of powder, two flints to be used on this expedition.
It required some time to organize and equip the forces intended to proceed against the Cherokee Indians, which work was carried on with the greatest possible expedition, until the first week in Sep- tember.
FINCASTLE COUNTY ORGANIZED UNDER THE STATE CONSTITUTION.
The first county court of Fincastle county, under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia, assembled at the Lead Mines, (now in Wythe county), on September 3, 1776, at which time the
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following members of the county court and officers of Fincastle county qualified by taking the oath prescribed by an ordinance of the Virginia 'Convention, which oath was administered by James McGavock and Arthur Campbell.
MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY COURT:
William Preston,
James McGavock,
Arthur Campbell, John Montgomery,
James McCorkle.
Sheriff, William Preston, appointed by the court.
Deputy Sheriff, William Sayers,
Deputy Clerk, Stephen Trigg,
County-Lieutenant, William Preston.
Attorney-at-Law, Harry Innes.
But little business of importance was transacted at this term of the court, so far as the records that have been preserved show.
Thus began the first organized government under the Constitu- tion of Virginia, in Fincastle county.
In the month of September, 1776, that portion of the troops under the command of Colonel William Russell began their march to the Great Island of the Holston, at which time Anthony Bledsoe entered two wagons in the public service, to convey the baggage and pro- vision of the troops. This circumstance is mentioned, for the rea- son that this was the first time, as far as can be ascertained, that a wagon was taken by the white man, as low down as the Long Island in Holston.
When Colonel Russell reached the Long Island, he thought it necessary to erect a fort in a field on the land of John Latham, on Long Island, which fort was speedily erected and every preparation made for the coming of the troops under command of Colonel Chris- tian. A company of militia was enrolled at Black's Fort (now Abingdon), and taken into the pay of the government, to guard the new fort, called Fort Patrick Henry, at Long Island, and to guard the provision and baggage wagons going to and returning from that fort. By the first day of October, Colonel Christian, with his entire army of 2,000 men, including about 400 men from North Carolina under command of Colonel Joseph Williams, Colonel Love and Major Winston, arrived at Long Island. When the army had proceeded about six miles beyond Long Island, Colonel Christian
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halted his army and offered a reward of one hundred pounds to any person or persons who would proceed to the Cherokee towns and bring him a prisoner, in order to obtain intelligence of the motions of the enemy : whereupon, Samuel Ewing, John Blankenship and James McCall undertook the business, and in a few days entered the town of Toquo, after crossing the Tennessee river, where they met an Indian man on horseback, whom they permitted to escape, lest it might occasion a discovery. They next visited the house of a king's man by the name of Lowry, where they were refused admit- tance. They then proceeded to the house of one Davis, from whom they obtained intelligence of the designs of the enemy, when they returned to the army and gave a true account of the situation of affairs in the Indian country, according to their information, and they were paid by the General Assembly of Virginia the one hun- dred pounds, pursuant to the agreement of Colonel Christian.
Upon the receipt of this information, Colonel Christian and his army proceeded, in a very cautious manner, on their march to the Tennessee, always encamping, at night, behind breastworks, to pre- vent a surprise.
Colonel John Sevier commanded, upon this expedition, a com- pany of horse, the rest of the army being infantry. Sixteen spies were sent in advance of the army to the crossing of the French Broad river, a point where the Indians said the white men should never cross. After being several days out, Alexander Harlin came into camp and told Colonel Christian that 3,000 Indian warriors were awaiting his arrival at the crossing of the French Broad. Col- onel Christian permitted him to go through the camp and to observe the strength of his army, when he was dismissed by Colonel Chris- tian, with direction to inform the Indians of his determination to cross. not only the French Broad. but the Tennessee river. before he returned. The army continued its march through the wilderness. under direction of Isaac Thomas, the noted Indian trader and friend of Nancy Ward, as pilot. When they approached the crossing of the French Broad river, a king's man by the name of Fallin approached the camp with a flag of truce, to which Colonel Christian paid no attention, permitting Fallin to pass through the camp unmo- lested, that he might observe the strength of Christian's army. It is said that the Indians had gathered on the opposite side of this cross- ing determined to defend its passage to the last extremity, when a
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white man by the name of Starr, in the absence of Fallin, persuaded the Indians that it was folly to resist the invasion of the whites. In an earnest harangue, he told them it was folly to contend with the white man. That the Great Spirit intended he should over- run and occupy all the low lands which should be cultivated. To the red man he had given the hills and forests, where he might sub- sist on game without tilling the soil, which was work fit only for women. To struggle with the white man was, therefore, to fight with destiny. The only safety for the Indians lay in a speedy retreat to their mountain fastnesses."*
From some cause the Indians disbanded and dispersed without offering any resistance to the white men. Colonel Christian and his army crossed the river and pressed rapidly forward to the Chero- kee towns along the Little Tennessee and Telico, every one of which: was destroyed, except Chota, the home of Nancy Ward, the beloved woman of the Indian tribe and the friend of the white man; and Colonel Christian destroyed all grain, cattle and other provisions found in the nation. When Colonel Christian had destroyed the towns and property of the Indians and had chastised them as far as it was possible to do so, he sent out a number of men with flags of truce, and requested a talk with the Chiefs. A number of them came in immediately and proposed peace. Colonel Christian told them he was willing to grant them peace, but not until the tribe was fully represented, and, thereupon, Colonel Christian fixed a day for the concluding of peace in the following May, at Long Island in Holston river, and, in the meantime, hostilities were to cease except as to two towns on the Tennessee river, where young Moore, who had been captured at Watauga, had been burned at the stake; which proposition was accepted. Colonel John Sevier, thereupon, visited the towns in question and left the same in ashes.
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