Washington County, Ohio - Chapter 22: Reminiscences by Col. Joseph Barker, 1902 (part 2 of 2)

Se\-eral other persons - ^Captain Davis for instance, father to a large family now scattered o\-er the State. A ]\Ir. Barlow', brother to Joel Barlow, the poet and land agent, who died in France; this man was probably 60; he got a lot - now a part of the William Dana farmi - built a cabin, cleared a field, and raised a crop; he lived by himself, refused tO' gO' into garrison, contending- the Indians wonld never kill hinu while he had his Bible. But the Indians camie in the spring of 1791, early in the morning, and seeing a little hut, which they took tO' be solitary, they began to whoop and halloo; the old man, taking advantage of this warning, after losing faith in his Bible, fled to the river undiscovered, and crept out on a leaning sycamore over the water. As the water was rising fast, it drove him into the top, and as he was out o-f hearing of the garrison, he had to stav until some time next dav before he got relief. A party from- the garrison, knowjing that the Indians were in, went down to see if Mr. Barlow^'s Bible had been a protection; they found the Indians had been at the house, the Bible torn to pieces, his bed emptied and the bed clothes and other clothing taken away, with all other things of value; his pots and kettle broken and strewed about; they heard some one hallooing at the river and found him; on the tree. He imme- 1 diately left for Vermont, where he was alive i a few }-ears ago, aged between 90 and 100.