. A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory . is known as the Horse Shoe farm, a short distancebelow the mouth of Sinking Creek. In the early days ofAugust, 1774, there had been made known to the settlers thatIndians were prowling around. John Chapman was away fromhome that day, Saturday, the 6th day of August, that informa-tion was conveyed to his family that Indians were in the neigh-borhood. Mrs. Chapman gathered her children and such ofthe household goods as they could carry, crossed the river andstruck for the fort, and as they passed through the little bot-tom ab
. A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory . is known as the Horse Shoe farm, a short distancebelow the mouth of Sinking Creek. In the early days ofAugust, 1774, there had been made known to the settlers thatIndians were prowling around. John Chapman was away fromhome that day, Saturday, the 6th day of August, that informa-tion was conveyed to his family that Indians were in the neigh-borhood. Mrs. Chapman gathered her children and such ofthe household goods as they could carry, crossed the river andstruck for the fort, and as they passed through the little bot-tom above the mouth of Little Stoney Creek they found thefresh remains of a hog that had just been killed by the Indians;this tended to hasten their pace and they reached the fort insafety. Mr. Lybrook and an Irishman by the name of Mc-Griff were cultivating a small crop of corn at the mouth ofSinking Creek, had erected a couple of cabins in which theirrespective families resided; these men treated the statementthat Indians were in the neighborhood as idle stories. On the. MAJ. SAMUEL E. LYBROOKGreat Grandson of Philip, the Settler. Tub Lybrooks. 429 morning of Sunday, the 7th, some of the young people fromthe fort, among them the Snidowa, went up to Philip Lybrooks,where during the day six Indians attacked the young peoplein and about the river, and also Mr. Lybrook in his little millon the Spring branch. They killed a young woman by the nameof Scott, and five small children of Lybrook and Mrs. Snidow,wounded Mr. Lybrook in the arm, captured three small boys,and ran a foot race after John Lybrook, eleven years old, whoescaped to his fathers house. Mr. Philip Lybrook had a number of children, but it is onlyproposed to follow John and his descendants. Opposite thispage is the photograph of Major Samuel E. Lybrook, a greatgrandson of the elder Philip, the settler, and grandson of John,who outran the Indian. John lived and grew to manhood andold age. When he was about twenty-five years
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