Source: Chronicles of Border Warfare by Withers, Alexander Scott pg. 422
When the Indians entered the house, there was a Mrs. WARD sitting in the room. So soon as she observed that the intruders were savages, she passed into another apartment with 2 of her children & going out with them through a window got safely away; Mr. LEWIS (brother to Mrs. CANAAN) likewise escaped from a back room in which he had been asleep at the firing of the gun. Three children were tomahawked & scalped,- Mrs. CANAAN made prisoner & the savages withdrew. The severe wound inflicted on the head of the Indian by Mr. RALSTON (previously), made it necessary that they should delay their return to their towns until his recovery; and they accordingly remained near the head of the middle fork of Buchannon for several weeks. On the close of the war, Mrs. CANAAN was redeemed from captivity by a brother from Brunswick, in New Jersey & restored to her surviving friends.
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