From: - CDAVIS6424@aol.com This is a direct quote from John Day's application for a Revolutionary pension. This event took place in 1765. "The Shawnee Indians had come into Botetout County in the said State of Virginia and killed my brother David Day and taken my mother and two sisters, Sally Day and Martha Day, prisoners, and also took some other property and made for their towns, the first night the Indians camped on a moutain, between Cape Capen River and Cedar Creek and at that camp killed my Mother, Susan Day, ( formerly Susan Wyley daughter of James Wyley as I understood.) And Captain Fry raised twenty men of which I was one. We followed said Indians, and when we came to the Indian camp aforesaid, there lay my mother dead, and striped naked, her head skined: and we lifted her and laid her between some rocks and laid some rocks over her: and we followed on after the Indians, and the second day came in sight of them at their camp, and I raised my gun to shoot one of them, and just as I was about to draw trigger, I saw one of my sisters rise up right before the muzzle of my gun between me and the Indian: and I was so alarmed at seeing my sister rise before my gun that I involuntarily hollowed, which so alarmed the Indians that they broke and run, leaving the prisoners, and what they had at the camp, and run with all their might: and we got the prisoners, and what property the Indians left at the camp, and brought all safe to the fort."