Source: Of Border Warfare-Wither's Chronicles, pg. 96
The party which came to Jackson's river, travelled down Dunlap's creek & crossed James river, above Fort Young, in the night & unnoticed; & going down this river to William CARPENTER's where was a stockade fort under the care of a Mr. BROWN, they met CARPENTER just above his house & killed him. They immediately proceeded to the house, & made prisoners of a son of Mr. CARPENTER, two sons of Mr. BROWN (all small children) & one woman-the others belonging to the house, were in the field at work. The Indians then disoiled the house & taking off some horses, commenced a precipate retreat-fearing discovery & pursuit.
CARPENTER's son (since Doctor CARPENTER of Nicholas Co. WV) came home about 15 years afterwards--BROWN's youngest son, (the late Col. Samuel BROWN of Greenbrier) was brought home in 1769-the elder son never returned. He took an Indian wife, became wealthy & lived at BROWN's town in Michigan. He acted a conspicuous part in the late war & died in 1815.
Comment by L.C.D.---Adam BROWN who was captured as mentioned in the above text & note, was thought by his last surviving son, Adam BROWN Jr., whom I visited in Kansas in 1868, to have been about 6 years old when taken; & he died, he thought, about 1817, at about 75 years of age. But these dates & his probable age, do not agree; he was either older when taken, or not so old at his death. The mother was killed when the sons were captured, & the father & some others of the family escaped. The late William WALKER, an educated Wyandott, & at one time territorial governor of Kansas, state to me, that the Wyandotts never made chiefs of white captives, but that they often attained, by their merits, considerable consequence. It is however certain, that Abraham KUHN, a white prisoner, grew up among the Wyandotts, & according to Heckewelder, became a war chief among them, & signed the treaty at BIg Beaver in 1785; & Adam BROWN himself signed the treaties of 1805 & 1808, & doubless would have signed later ones had he not sided with the British Wyandotts, & retired to Canada, near Malden where he died.
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