Each story was high, and the windows were placed very high from the ground, to prevent the Indians from shooting through them at the occupants.

The glass was brought from Virginia by pack train.

He feasted royally the hands who put up the house; and to pay for the whiskey they drank he had to sell one of his farms.
In 1785 (the year of the above recited ravages on the upper Ohio in the neighborhood of Wheeling), Colonel Whitley led his rangers, once and again, against marauding Indians.

In January he followed a war party, rescued a captive white man, and took prisoner an Indian who was afterwards killed by one of the militia--"a cowardly fellow," says Whitley.

In October a party of immigrants, led by a man named McClure, who had just come over the Wilderness trace, were set upon at dawn by Indians, not far from Whitley's house; two of the men were killed.