When a boy eight years old, living near the springs of the Kanawha, his family was captured by Indians, his brother alone escaping.

His father was killed, and his two little sisters died of fatigue on the road to the Indian villages; his mother was afterwards ransomed.

He lived twelve years with the savages, at first in the Miami towns, and then with the Shawnees.

When twenty years old he went to Fort Pitt, where, by accident, he was made known to some of his relations.

They pressed him to rejoin his people, but he had become so wedded to savage life that he at first refused.