Volume 6 , Issue 6

History of Augusta County, Virginia...

The following little article of Augusta Co., Virginia was written by a writer by the name of Peyton -- It mentions, "five years after Francis Fauquier became governor of Virginia, a peace treaty was signed February 10, 1763, at Fontainbleau, between France and England. it did not bring peace to the frontiers. On the contrary, in 1764 and 1765, war was waged by the united tribes of the Western Indians. The English traders among the Indians were the first victims. The massacres of Big Levels and Muddy creek in Greenbrier, West Virginia, when Cornstock attracted public attention. In 1763 while on a friendly visit, he suddenly fell upon unarmed whites murdering all the men and making prisoners of all the women and children. The next day at Big Levels the Indians enacted the same scene; every white man in the settlement but Conrod Yolkom, and every woman but Mrs. Glendenin were murdered."

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