On this day 250 years ago from Jacobs Creek (now in Pennsylvania but then considered to be in Virginia) Valentine Crawford wrote George Washington to report on the hostilities on the frontier along the Ohio, including the Massacre of Indians at Yellow Creek committed by Daniel Greathouse and his gang and the attacks on Indians by Michael Cresap and his men, as well as the initial murder and robbery of white traders going down the Ohio. Washington had hired Crawford to lead workmen to clear Washington’s property on the Kanawha River for planting. Crawford wrote

I am Sorrey to Enform you the Indens have Stopt all the J[e]ntlemen from going down the River . . .

all this Alarming Surcomstances has put it out of My power to Excute your bisness I therefore Come to a Reselution . . . to Let you Know of this Desogreeable desopiontment we have Met with and allso to Know what I must doe with your Carpenters and Sarvents and goods for this Elarm has Made the people Move from over the Monongahala . . . as fast as Ever you Saw them . . . there wase More then one thousand people Crosed the Monongala in one days

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