History of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley : embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley ; predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. . han alivewith fear, remained for a time in the loft, but, hear-ing no noise, she at length ventured down-stairs, andat the foot of the ladder found the savage perfectlydead, lying in a pool of blood. She took her childout of the cradle, and started for the mouth of theBald Eagle, but fortuna
History of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley : embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley ; predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. . han alivewith fear, remained for a time in the loft, but, hear-ing no noise, she at length ventured down-stairs, andat the foot of the ladder found the savage perfectlydead, lying in a pool of blood. She took her childout of the cradle, and started for the mouth of theBald Eagle, but fortunately met her husband but a fewrods from the house. All things taken into consideration, and especially thefact that the woman had never pulled the trigger of a gunbefore, this was probably one of the most heroic acts onrecord. The nearest neighbors were summoned, and, on ex-amining into the matter, it was concluded that, after thefirst Indian had been shot, the second one immediatelycocked his rifle, and that while ascending the ladderthe trigger must have been touched by a twig on thehickory rung of the ladder. The bullet had struck himunder the chin, passed through his tongue, and lodgedin his brain. His death was certainly an interpositionof Providence in behalf of the woman and her THE CAVE IN SINKING VALLEY. niSTOUY OF THE JUMATA 2?>1 Sinking Valley piopcr never could have been much of aresort of tlu Indians, liir no (races of the Ixistence olauy\illai:is iu it ha\e ever Ixcn di-co\cied, iirlllier \\:i\v anyrelics e\cr been Ibund or exiunacd iu it, tbat we can iiearof. -with the exception of some few arrow-heads and askull, ibund near the Arch Springs, The attention of Council was called to tlie existence oflead in Sinking Valley in a letter irom Major-GeneralJobn Armstrong to President Wharton, dated Yorktown,2od February, 1778. lie says:— As at present there appears to be a scarcity of the importantarticle of lead, and it is certain a Mr. Ila
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