Indian Massacres in Grant and Hardy County, West Virginia

     A Shawnee chief named Killbuck, whose home was  probably in Ohio, invaded what is  now 

Grant and Hardy Counties in the spring of 1756, at the head of sixty or seventy savages. He killed 

several settlers and made his escape. He appeared again two years later in Pendleton County, 

where he attacked and captured Fort Seybert,  twelve  miles west of the present town of Franklin,

 and put to death more  than  twenty persons who had taken refuge in the fort. The place no

 doubt could have made a  successful resistance had not the inmates trusted to the promise 

of  safety made by the Indians, who thus were admitted into the fort, and at once massacred the 

settlers. In 1758 the Indians again invaded Hampshire County and killed a settler near Forks of 

Capon. This same year eight Indians came into the country on the South Branch of the Potomac,

 near the town of Petersburg, and attacked the cabin of a man named Bingaman. They had forced

 their way into the house at night, and being at too close 
quarters for shooting, Bingaman clubbed his rifle and beat seven of them to death. The eighth

 made his escape. In 1759 the Indians committed depredations on the Monongahela River near 

Morgantown. 

                       57 gruesome stories of Indian capture and torture