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Subject: Re: [INDIAN-CAPTIVES] Byrd
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:26:16 EDT

I did not find the original reference at this website but these are some of
the names involved in attack on Fort Carpenter at Jackson River. Could this
be the Byrd family you are looking for?
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kell/carpenter/gene14-0014.htm

>>Those who weren't killed or captured in the initial charge could only hold
their position for a few hours. The stone chimney was pulled down leaving a
huge opening in the wall where the fireplace had been. Nine men were killed,
scalped and their bodies mutilated. Nicholas Carpenter was among them- the
only Carpenter man killed! Stephen Sewell, James Mayse, James Montgomery,
Nicholas Nutt, John Byrd, George Kincaid, a man named Boyle and another named
Fry were the other defenders killed. Everyone else, including Joseph (14)
Carpenter, was taken prisoner. Several children named Byrd, five children
called Carpenter and two Persinger children were among the fifteen abducted
by the Indians.
The captives were linked chain gang fashioned by ropes in four groups and
forced marched the rest of that day toward the Great Kanawah that would take
them west to Ohio country. Joseph (14) Carpenter supposedly escaped the
second .............<<

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