154 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



a settlement some twenty miles above Marietta. In 1795j 

 Sherman Waterman was killed, on little Wt^lf creek. 



The settlement at Marietta, suffered, some in the loss of 

 cattle that were shot by arrows. Sometimes the cattle returned 

 home with Indian arrows sticking in them. Robert Warth, 

 was killed, in open day, in 1792, while cutting wood, in a field, 

 near fort Harmar, and Mathew Kerr wa- killed in a canoe while 

 crossing the mouth ot' Wolf creek. William Rogers, one of the 

 spies, while returning from a scout, in company with another 

 ranger, by the name of Henderson, was shot and killed, whereas 

 Henderson escaped unhurt, with a bullet hole through his 

 blanket, which hung loosely upon him. He escaped by outrunn- 

 ing his pursuers. 



In June 1792, Return J. Meigs, afterwards Governor 

 of the state, and Postmaster General, of the United States, 

 had a very narrow escape, when attacked by two Ind- 

 ians. In company with young Mr. Meigs, were a Mr. Symonds, 

 and a black boy, who had been hoeing in a corn field. The 

 Indians had secreted themselves behind the path, near the 

 Muskingum, on its west bank, where they had the river to 

 cross. At a turn in the road our laborers havino- their backs 

 towards the Indians, were fired upon. Symonds was shot 

 in the shoulder, when Meigs rushed on the largest Indian 

 with his tomahawk raised to throw it. Meigs rushed upon him 

 and attempted to fire his gun at the savage, which missed fire. 

 Mr. Meigs then partly knocked down the Indian, and escaped 

 by plunging into the river and swimming it. The Indian 

 threw his tomahawk at Meigs, •\vhich grazed its object. Sy- 

 monds plunged into the river, and floated down to the 

 fort, though one arm was useless in swimming. He was 

 taken up by the men of fort Harmar, andeventually recover- 

 ed of his wound. The black boy, twelve or fourteen years 

 old, attempted to escape, but was tomahawked, killed and 

 scalped by the Indians. Mr. Meig.= faved his life by his daunt- 

 less attack of the Indian, and when his gun missed fire, by 

 knocking down his antagonist, and then out running the other 

 Indian. 



