Moore Family

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Black Wolf and a group of Shawnee Indians attacked militia captain James Moore's nearby home on 14 July 1786 during a campaign to deter white settlement of the Ohio Valley region after the American Revolution. They killed Moore, children Alexander, Rebecca, and William, and servant John Simpson. Six others were captured and taken toward Ohio. Children John and Margaret died during the journey. Moore’s wife, Martha, and daughter Jane were killed near Chillicothe, Ohio. Daughter Mary and Martha Evans were sold near Detroit and were later rescued. Sons James, captured by Shawnee two years earlier, and Joseph, absent that day, returned to live in this valley.

Department of Historic Resources, 2014

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Alex. Barnett to Gov. Henry, 12 August 1786, Calendar of Virginia State Papers, 4:163. Anna Margaret Cloninger, “’Taken to Detroit’: Shawnee Resistance and the Ohio Valley Captive Trade, 1750-1796” (M.A. Thesis, College of William and Mary, 2012). James Moore Brown, The Captives of Abb’s Valley: A Legend of Frontier Life (1854). John Alexander Williams, “Indian Wars,” in West Virginia Encyclopedia: http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/838 Montgomery County Order Book 2:165 (8 April 1778). Narrative of James Moore (“the captive”) in Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Virginia (Charleston, SC: William R. Babcock, 1852): 489-495. Sami Lakomäki, Gathering Together: The Shawnee People Through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014) 102-131. Walter Crockett to Gov. Henry, 26 July 1786, Calendar of Virginia State Papers, 4:159-160.