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PREFACE. 
 
 The following copies of official papers, letters and 
 brief sketches of members of the Raymond family, 
 are printed for private circulation, in order to pre- 
 serve what little is known of their history. There are 
 no doubt many others than those mentioned, who 
 should be recognized in this pamphlet, but the writer 
 has not been able to collect any information in regard 
 to them. The descendants of John Raymond, the 
 pioneer of the family in America, are scattered all 
 over the western countr}^, and a general history or 
 genealogy is not intended to be undertaken by this 
 publication. 
 
 The Raymonds for generatious, have been noted 
 as a well-behaved, honest, law-abiding people, with a 
 disposition to let ot*her persons attend to their own 
 affairs, and possessed of a strong military instinct, as 
 is shown by the fact, that, whenever in the histor}" of 
 our country, the war trumpet has blown for soldiers, 
 they have alwaj^s been among the first to respond to 
 the stirring notes of the "Assembly," and to march 
 promptly to the front. 
 
 Members of the famih^ have taken part in the Co- 
 lonial wars against the French and Indians com- 
 mencing in 1755; the war of the Revolution of 1776; 
 the Indian wars of the Virginia frontier ending in 
 1795; the war of 18 12 with England; the war of the 
 Texan Republic in 1835-6; the war with Mexico in 
 1846-7; the great civil war of 1 861, in which nearly 
 
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 every able bodied member participated on one side or 
 the other; the Indian wars on the plains, following 
 the civil war; the war with Spain in 1898, and the fol- 
 lowing insurrection in the Phillipine Islands. 
 
 In civil life, the}" have been members of Congress, 
 Judges, members of State Constitutional Conven- 
 tions and Legislatures, have held various county 
 offices, officers of banks and other public institutions, 
 and have been faithful to their duties, and to the 
 trusts confided to them. 
 
 Henry Raymond. 
 Clarksburg, West Virginia. 
 March 1903. 
 
 
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PART FIRST: 
 
 John Haymoxd. 
 
 John Haymond emigrated from England to the 
 colony of j\Iar\'land prior to the 3'ear 1734, as he had 
 lands patented to him in that year. It is a family 
 tradition that he came to America for the purpose of 
 building a fine house for a Mar34and planter and 
 that he was selected for that purpose on account of 
 his being an expert house joiner. After completing 
 his contract, he was pleased with the countr}', and 
 concluded to remain permanently. 
 
 He located on a large tract of land, called Con- 
 stant Friendship, in what was then Prince George's 
 County, subsequenth' in Frederick, and now in Mont- 
 gomery, near the present town of Rockville. 
 
 It is noi known whether he married in England, or 
 after he came to Mar3'land. His wife's name was 
 Margaret. 
 
 At the date of his will, September 27, 1750, he had 
 six living children, as he names that number in his 
 will. Their names were Nicholas, Calder, William, 
 Hannah, Ann and Mar3\ 
 
 The names of the three sons are given in the order 
 of their ages. The ages of the daughters are not 
 known. 
 
 Hannah at this time was the wife of Jonn Jones. 
 
 Ann and Mary, the other two daughters, subse- 
 quentl}' married, according to family tradition, one of 
 them to a Kenton, a brother of Simon Kenton, the 
 Indian scout, who moved to Ohio, and the other to a 
 Jarbo, or a Kelly. 
 
Nicholas, the elder son, died in 1767, leaving two 
 children, a son John and a daughter, Kaziah. Noth- 
 ing is known of the subsequent history of these 
 children. 
 
 John Raymond must have been a man of indust- 
 rious habits, and good business judgment, as is shown 
 by his landed estates and by his owning a large num- 
 ber of slaves. 
 
 He was probably engaged in raising tobacco, as 
 that product was the. principal article of export from 
 the Colonies to England, and it was only fourteen 
 miles from his plantation to Georgetown, which at 
 that time was a large shipping port, sea-going vessels 
 loading there direct for foreign ports. 
 
 In his will John Raymond displays a deep religious 
 feeling, and a great affection for his family. Re was 
 most likely a communicant in the Church of England. 
 
 He signs his will in a large bold hand, indicating 
 that he was a man of some education. 
 
 He died between the 27th September, the date of 
 his will, and the 20th, October, 1750, the day it was 
 admitted to probate. 
 
 JOHN HAYMOND's will. 
 
 "In the name of God, Amen. I John Raymond, of 
 Frederick County, Carpenter, being in good health 
 of Body & of sound mind & perfect mind & memory, 
 praise be therefore given to Almighty God, do make 
 and ordain this my last will and testament in manner 
 and form following, that is to say. First. 
 
 ' 'First and principally, I recommend my soul into 
 the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the 
 merits. Death and passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ, 
 to have full pardon & forgiveness of all my sins & in- 
 
herit everlasting life, and my body I commit to the 
 Earth to be decently hurried &C. 
 
 "First Item. I give and bequeath unto my well- 
 beloved wife Margaret Raymond, a tract of land 
 called the Constant Friendship, with the Plantation 
 that I now live on, the tract of land containing one 
 hundred and fifty acres, during her natural life, then 
 the said Plantation & land to be my dear son Wil- 
 liam Haymond, forever. 
 
 "Item. I give and bequeath unto my well-be- 
 loved wife, Margaret Haymond, a negro man named 
 Sam, and also a negro man Cesar, and also a negro 
 woman, named Jenny & also a negro woman named 
 Poll, and also a negro Girl named Nell & and also a 
 negro Girl named Fillas and also a negro Girl named 
 Lucy & also a negro girl named Cate, & also a negro 
 boy named Robin, & also a negro bo}" named Samp- 
 son & also a negro girl named Sail Sz also a negro 
 Girl named Dyner. Ye, said negroes my well-be- 
 loved wife, to enjoy during her natural life, then the 
 said negroes, to be divided between my children, my 
 dear son Nicholas Haymond to have negro Poll & 
 also a negro boy named Robin forever. My dear 
 son Calder Haymond to have a negro man named 
 Sam, and a negro woman named Jenny & a negro girl 
 named Dyner, forever. My dear daughter Hannah, 
 to have a negro man named Cesar and a negro girl 
 named Lucy, & a negro girl named Alice forever. My 
 dear son William Haymond, to have a negro bo}" named 
 Sampson, & a negro girl named Cate & a negro girl 
 named Sail forever. My dear daughter Ann Hay- 
 mond to have a negro girl named Fillis and a negro 
 girl, Nell, forever. 
 
 "Item. I give and bequeath unto my dear son, 
 Nicholas Haymond, all that tract of land called Con- 
 stant Friendship, containing one hundred and fifty 
 acres, being the other part of the tract of land, that 
 I now live on, to be the said Nicholas Haymond and 
 
his heirs forever, as soon as the said tract of land is 
 made over b}' Mr. Thomas Lucas and wife, which 
 land is now in the prosecion of will the said Thomas 
 Lucas' wife is at age, to make the land over, and 
 also I give m}^ dear son Nicholas Haymond a negro 
 man named Will forever. 
 
 ' 'Item. I give and bequeath to my dear daughter 
 Mary Haymond a negro boy named Nacy and one 
 negro girl named Candeth. 
 
 "Item. I give and bequeath a negro girl named 
 Alice to my dear daughter Hannah Jones forever, the 
 said negro is now in the possession of her husband, 
 John Jones. 
 
 "Item. I give and bequeath unto my dear son 
 Calder Ha3nTiond, part of that tract of land, called 
 "Flaymonds Addition," beginning at the end of the 
 first line of Constant Friendship, forever. Calder to 
 have that part that lies next my own Plantation, and 
 to go with the main Road by Lawrence Owens and 
 to the Church Road. 
 
 ' 'And my dear daughter Ann Haymond to have the 
 other part that lies above Mr. Lawrence Owens, next 
 to Mr. Alexander Barricks, running right up to the 
 main road, to join with Mr. Owens line. 
 
 "Item. Igive and bequeath unto my dear and well 
 beloved wife, all my household goods, and all ye stock 
 of everything, Cattle, Sheep, Horses and Hoggs, dur- 
 ing her natural life, and then the stock and house- 
 hold goods to be divided alike between my dear sons, 
 Nicholas, and Calder and William and Ann Hay- 
 mond. 
 
 "Item. I give and bequeath unto my dear and well 
 beloved wife, the House called the Mill House, dur- 
 ing her natural life, and then the said House to be 
 for the use of my dear sons Nicholas Ha3'^mond, 
 Calder Haymond and William Haymond during their 
 
lives and their heirs forever, and each son to have as 
 good a part as the other. 
 
 "John Havmoxd, [seal.]" 
 Semptr. 27, 17^0. 
 
 Test: ^ • 
 
 John Rawlins, 
 Robert Ennis, 
 
 His 
 
 William X O'Neal. 
 
 Mark. 
 
 October 20th, 1750, John RawHns and Wilham 
 O'Neal subscribing witnesses to the within will, being 
 duly sworn on the Hol}^ Evangelist of Almighty God, 
 depose and sa3^ that they saw the Testator John 
 Raymond sign the within will, and heard him publish 
 and declare the same to be his last will and Testa- 
 ment, and at the time of his so doing, he was to the 
 best of their apprehension of sound disposing mind 
 and memory, and they further declare that they saw 
 the within named Robert Ennis, subscribe his name 
 as an evidence to the within will. 
 Sworn before 
 
 John Darnall, 
 Depty. Comy. Fred. Ct3\ 
 
 State of Maryland, Frederick County, to-icit : 
 
 I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of 
 the last will and testament of John Raymond, late of 
 Frederick County; deceased as filled in the office of 
 the Register of Wills for Frederick County and duly 
 recorded in Liber A, No. i. Folio 40, one of the will 
 records in said office as afforesaid. 
 
 In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe m}^ name 
 and affix the seal of the Orphans Court of said County 
 this 3d day of August A. D., 1895. 
 Test: 
 
 James K. Waters, 
 Register of Wills. 
 
PART SECOND. 
 
 CaMer Haymond, son of John, was born in Mary- 
 land about the year 1734; the given name of his first 
 wife was Eleanor. It is supposed that he moved to 
 the valley of the Monongahelia, in the year 1773, 
 then known as the District of West Augusta, Virginia. 
 
 The land records show that he, in that year, entered 
 400 acres on the waters of the Little Kanawha River, 
 afterwards in Monongalia County. He probably did 
 not live on this tract, but ior a very short time if at all. 
 
 The Commissioners for unpatented lands in 1781, 
 issued him a certificate for 400 acres of land in Monon- 
 galia County, as the assignee of Thomas Phillips, who 
 had settled on it in the year 1 773. This land is located 
 on the Monongahela river, about three miles below 
 where Fairmont now stands, and was the home of 
 Calder for many years. He probably moved on to 
 it shortly after Phillips had acquired title to it. 
 Bishop Francis Asbury, of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church speaks of staying one night at his home in 
 July, 1788. About the year 1S12 he joined his son 
 John who had moved to Western Ohio two years 
 before. They subsequently moved to Indiana, where 
 many of his descendants now live. 
 
 Calder Haymond was twice married, and it is 
 known that he had three sons, Thomas, Edward and 
 John. One of his daughters married a man by the 
 name of Hall and another a Holt. He probably had 
 other children, but the writer has no knowledge of 
 them. He died about the year 181 7. 
 
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 The records of the Commissioners for adjusting the 
 claims to unpatented lands on the Western waters for 
 the county of Monongalia, Virginia, show that the 
 following certificates were issued in the year 1781: 
 
 "Calder Raymond, assignee to Thomas Phillips, is 
 entitled to four hundred acres of land in Monongalia 
 County, adjoining Monongahela River and the lands 
 of Jacob Pritchard, to include his settlement made in 
 
 Edward, the son of Calder Raymond, was born in 
 1755, and enlisted from Monongalia county, Virginia, 
 in a Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Lieuten- 
 ant Colonel Bayard, probably the 9th Infantry, 
 August 26th, 1776, for the term of three years. The 
 regiment served most, if not all, its term along the 
 line of the Allegheny River. 
 
 In 1777, a detachment of the Regiment was per- 
 mitted to join General Daniel Morgan's Rifle Corps, 
 Edward being among them. They marched east of 
 the mountains, and took part in the battle of Saratoga, 
 which resulted in the surrender of the British General 
 Burgoyne and his army. 
 
 Edward took part in the battle of INIonmouth and 
 in other battles and campaigns. 
 
 His captain was John Wilson, and he always referred 
 to Edward as one of his best soldiers. In one of 
 the battles in which he took part he used his musket 
 so often that he was compelled to clean it out five 
 times during the course of the engagement. 
 
 Re applied for a pension November 23rd, 1818, 
 and was placed on the pension roll. Some of his 
 descendants still reside in West Virginia. 
 
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 After his discharge from the Pennsylvania Regi- 
 ment he must have re-enhsted in some other organ- 
 ization, as he has said that he served five years dur- 
 ing the war. 
 
 Lewis Ha3^mond who was Hving in Grafton, West 
 Va.; in 1890, saj^s that his grandfather Edward moved 
 to the West prior to 1820, with all his family except 
 one son named John, who remained in Monongalia 
 count}^ now Taj^or, and his descendants reside there 
 still. 
 
 The names of Edward's children are given as 
 Elijah, Thomas, William, Calder, John and Edward. 
 His three daughters married Robinson, Evans and 
 Fletcher, and all went west with their father. Lewis 
 further says that Edward, while en a visit to his old 
 home in Virginia, was taken sick and died in 1824. 
 
 Thomas, son of Calder Raymond, in 1777, served 
 in a compan}^ of Virginia Militia, comimanded by his 
 Uncle, Captain William Raymond, called into active 
 service against the Indians. In 1781 he joined a 
 company commanded by Captain Ferrel, to take 
 part in the expedition of Col. George Rogers Clark 
 against the British posts in the W^est. Thomas 
 afterwards became a Minister in the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church, and died while stationed on the East- 
 ern Shore of Maryland. 
 
 Thomas L. Raymond, a great grandson of Cal- 
 der, and a native- of Rush County, Indiana, at the 
 commencement of the civil war was among the first 
 in his neighborhood to volunteer, and was assigned 
 to Company K, i8th Indiana Infantry. Re was pro- 
 moted for good conduct to First Lieutenant and Ad- 
 
jutant of his regiment and served on the staff of Gen. 
 H. D. Washburn at the seige of Vicksburg and in 
 the operations in that vicinity. 
 
 He served in the battles named below: 
 
 Rich Mountain, W. Va., Black Water, Mo., Su- 
 gar Creek, Ark., Pea Ridge, Ark., Cotton Plant, 
 Ark., Port Gibson, Ark., Champion Hills, Miss., 
 Jackson (ist), Miss., Big Black, Miss., Vicksburg, 
 J\liss., Jackson (2d), Miss., Mustang Island, Texas, 
 Fort Esperanza, Texas, Austin, Texas, Batton 
 Rouge, La., Carion Crew Ba\^ou, La., Atchafala^^a, 
 La., Berry ville, Va., Halltown, Va. , Opequon, Va., 
 Winchester, Va. , Fisher's Hill, Va. , New Market, 
 \'a. , and Cedar Creek, \"a. 
 
 In civil life he has been a teacher, and for many 
 3'ears served in the Postal and U. S. Internal Reven- 
 ue Service. He lives at Waldron, Indiana. 
 
 J. W. Haymond, a brother of William C. above 
 mentioned, was first in a cavalr}^ company, and after- 
 wards a First Lieutenant in the -i-Sth Indiana Infan- 
 try, and served through the war in the Army of the 
 Cumberland. 
 
 In civil life he has been an editor and lawyer. 
 
 William W. Haymond, brother of the last two 
 above named, and served in the civil war as a mem- 
 ber of the 3d Indiana Cavalr3^ His colonel, in a 
 letter to his family, written after his death, highly 
 commends him as a faithful and gallant soldier, and 
 one well fitted to command. 
 
 George L. Ha^Mnond, a brother of the three last 
 above named, was on dut}^ with the 27th Indiana 
 Infantry, and took part in the long chase after Gen. 
 
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 John Morgan, when he made his celebrared raid 
 through Indiana and. Ohio in 1863. 
 
 Alfred H. Raymond was for many years a promi- 
 nent man in Indiana, and for a long time was post- 
 master in Waldron. He was a grandson of Calder. 
 
 William Calder Raymond, son of William and 
 grandson of Edward, enlisted in Compan}^ K 127th 
 Illinois infantry on August 14th, 1862, and was 
 attached to the ist Brigade 2d Division, 15th Arm}^ 
 Corps, and took part in the following named cam- 
 paigns and battles: 
 
 Chickasaw Bayou, Miss., 1862; Arksansas Post, 
 Ark., 1862; Deer Creek, Miss.; Black Bayou Ex- 
 pedition, Siege of Vicksburg; Jackson, Miss.; Col- 
 liersville, Tenn., Lookout Mountain, Missionary 
 Ridge, Meridian, Miss., 1864; Resaca, Ga. , Dallas, 
 Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, 
 Sherman's March to the Sea, Columbia, South Car- 
 olina, 1865; Fa3^etville, North Carolina; Bentonville, 
 Raleigh, General Joseph Johnston's surrender; took 
 part in the Grand Review in Washington May 24, 
 1865; Was honorably discharged at Washington in 
 May, 1865. Was captured at Atlanta July 22, 1864, 
 and confined in Andersonville prison for fifty-nine 
 da3^s and was then exchanged. Re lives at Francis- 
 ville, Indiana. 
 
 John W. Raymond, a brother of William C, 
 served during the civil war, in Company D, 91st 
 Illinois Inlantr3^ He lives at Ashville, North Caro- 
 lina. 
 
PART THIRD. 
 
 William Haymond, son of John, was born on the 4th 
 day of Januar}' O. S., 1740, and passed his early life 
 on his father's planation, called Constant Friendship, 
 now in Montgomery county, Maryland, having pre- 
 viousl}^ been in Prince George's and Fredcirick counties. 
 
 According to family tradition, he accompanied the 
 army of General Edward Braddock on its march to 
 capture Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburg) from the 
 French, and which met with a disastrous defeat on 
 the Monongahela River on the 9th of July, 1755. 
 
 At this time he was only fifteen years of age, and 
 it is not known in what capacity he was employed, 
 but likely in the quartermaster's department. 
 
 In the year 1758, he was a soldier in the expedi- 
 tion, commanded by General Forbes, against the 
 same position, which was successful, and the name 
 was changed to Fort Pitt after the English prime 
 minister. 
 
 In Februar3% 1759. he enlisted in the Virginia regi- 
 ment, commanded b}' Col. George Washington, which 
 had been detailed to garrison the country captured 
 from the French. He served along the Monongahela 
 and Alleghen}^ rivers and as far north as "Presque 
 Isles," now Erie, on the lake of that name. When 
 the regiment was withdrawn from the west, it was 
 marched up the Shenandqah Valley, and on to the 
 Holstein river to suppress an outbreak among the 
 Cherokee Indians. 
 
 When the Cherokees were quieted, the regiment 
 returned to the valley and was discharged. William's 
 
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 discharge is dated at Fort Lewis (near Staunton, Va.) 
 Feb. 24th, 1762, and states that "he has duly served 
 three years, and behaved as a good soldier and faith- 
 ful subject." 
 
 After he returned home from the wars, he, in the 
 following year, April 19th, 1763, was married to Cas- 
 sandra Clelland, and settled down to the life of a 
 planter. 
 
 In May, 1773, he sold his farm to James Sutter for 
 the sum of two hundred and twelve pounds and ten 
 shillings current money of the province, and moved 
 with his family, consisting of his wife, four children 
 and a number of negroes, to the District of West 
 Augusta, Virginia, and located on the Monongahela 
 river near where Morgantown now stands. 
 
 The country was a howling wilderness, but thinly 
 settled, and the few inhabitants for twenty years 
 were destined to endure not onl}' the privations inci- 
 dent to a frontier life, but the horrors of a savage war- 
 fare. 
 
 It is not known that the new emigrant to the coun- 
 try west of the mountains, held any official position 
 for several years after his arrival; he engaged in farm- 
 ing to some extent, and at one time raised a crop of 
 corn where Morgantown now stands. 
 
 His negroes took some disease and died one by one. 
 It is said they were conjured. The privations and 
 terrors of the wilderness, with its savage beasts and 
 still more savage men, were prob^^bly too much for 
 them, and the}' longed for the tobacco fields of Mary- 
 land, lost heart and easil}' succumbed to any disease 
 of a serious nature. 
 
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 upon the formation of Monongalia count3% in 1 776, 
 he served in various important positions, such as Jus- 
 tice of the Peace, Deputy Surveyor, Coroner and 
 Sheriff. 
 
 At the commencement of the Revolution, he at 
 once warmly advocated the cause of the colonies and 
 was appointed a captain of milita, and was frequently 
 in active service against the hostile Indians. In 1777 
 he was in command of Prickett's Fort with a detach- 
 ment at Scott's Mills. In 1781 he was promoted to 
 Major, and performed the duties of an officer of 
 militia during the whole of the Revolutionar\^ war. 
 
 He was making preparations to go east of the 
 mountains and join the arm}" there, when news of 
 peace was received. 
 
 He was one of the officials selected to administer 
 the oath of allegiance in the Commonwealth of Vir- 
 ginia, to all male inhabitants over the age of sixteen 
 years, and requiring them to renounce and refuse all 
 allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain. 
 
 He was one of the commissioners appointed for 
 adjusting the claims to unpatented lands in the coun- 
 ties of Monongalia, Yohogania and Ohio. 
 
 Upon the creation of Harrison count}^ in 1784, 
 Major Haymond was appointed the principal surveyor 
 of the new county. He traveled on horseback across 
 the mountains to Williamsburg in order to be examined 
 b}^ the professors of William and Mary's College, as 
 to his qualifications for the position. He passed a 
 successful examination and was duly commissioned 
 Surveyor by the Governor of Virginia. 
 
This appointment required another change of resi- 
 dence to Clarksburg, about forty miles west ot Mor- 
 gantown. So in the fall of that year he moved to 
 that place, purchased a few acres of land near town, 
 built an office, and entered upon the discharge of his 
 duties. At that time Harrison county extended from 
 the Allegheny mountains to the Ohio, and the duties 
 of the office were of a most important character, 
 affecting the titles to the homes of the settlers who 
 came pouring in rapidly, after the close of the war of 
 the Revolution. 
 
 He was a member of the commission to build two 
 courthouses in Harrison county in 1787 and 181 2, and 
 as a surveyor assisted in marking out a State road 
 from the Valley river to the Ohio, near Marietta, and 
 was always prominent in public affairs. 
 
 In 1 79 1 he purchased a tract of land containing 
 194^ acres on Elk creek, six miles from Clarksburg, 
 and moved on it in the fall of that year. The house 
 in which he lived is still standing, and is still used as 
 a residence. The farm is now (1903) owned by 
 Sidney Haymond, the grandson of William, and has 
 descended from father to son by will, no deed having 
 been made for it since its purchase as above stated. 
 
 He was a man of few words and not disposed to 
 talk of his services as a soldier, and his children 
 seemed not to have asked him many questions about 
 his life and adventures. One anecdote he told On 
 himself is, that when on the march to Fort Duquesne 
 having found a piece of old iron weighing several 
 pounds, he slipped it into the knapsack of a comrade. 
 He heard nothing moie of it, until the day the army 
 
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 reached the fort, when on unslinging his knapsack^ 
 he found the same iron in it. It had been passed 
 from one soldier to another until it got back to where 
 it started from. 
 
 He was a skilled mechanic, a mathematician of rare 
 ability, a thoroughly competent surveyor and was 
 widely respected for his sterling integrit3\ 
 
 He was a man of great natural ability, was modest 
 and unassuming, was not ambitious to advance his 
 interests either in public affairs or in the accumulation 
 of wealth. In the conduct of his office, from his 
 knowledge of the country, he had the opportunit}^ to 
 acquire a large landed estate, but he did not avail 
 himself of it, but was content with his lot. 
 
 It can be said of him that he was a faithful soldier 
 for his king, an ardent patriot during the Revolution, 
 an honest public official, a good citizen and in the 
 private w^.lks of life and the esteem of the community 
 in which he lived, he was without reproach. 
 
 Major Haymond held the position of principal 
 surveyor for thirty-seven 3^ears, and died at his home 
 on November 12th, 1821, and was buried in the Hay- 
 mond graveyard, in sight of his former residence. 
 
 William Haymond, son of John and Margaret, was 
 born near Rockville, Maryland, then Prince George's 
 County, January 4th, O. S. 1740. 
 
 Cassandra Clelland was born October 25, 1741. 
 
 William Haymond and Cassandra Clelland were 
 married April 19, 1763, 
 
 Cassandra died at Clarksburg, Virginia, December 
 
 23, 1788- 
 
 William married, as his second wife, Mary Powers, 
 widow, nee Pettyjohn, December, 29, 1789. 
 
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 William died at his home on Zack's run, Harrison 
 county, Virginia, November 12, 1821. 
 
 Mary died at the home of her late husband, March 
 20, 1830, in the seventy-third year of her age. 
 
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND CASSANDRA RAYMOND. 
 
 William, born'jMa}^ 14, 1764, Monday morning at 
 7 o'clock, died of the flux, September 17, 1769. 
 
 John, born December 7, 1765, Saturday morning 
 at 2 o'clock.' Married Mary Wilson, July 3, 1787. 
 
 Ann, born August 3, 1767, Monday morning at 
 2 o'clock. Married Thomas Douglass, May 10, 1787, 
 and after his death married Dr. Isaac Miller Johnson. 
 
 Margaret, born September 6, 1769, Wednesday 
 night at 1 1 o'clock. Married Jacob Polsle^^ Ma}^ 
 31. 1791. 
 
 ' William, born June 11, 1771, Tuesda}^ morning at 
 o'clock. Married Cynthia Carroll, March 12, 1793.. 
 
 Elizabeth, born on Easter Sunday, April 11, 1773, 
 at 10 o'clock at night. Died June 30, 1773- 
 
 Walter, born May 30, 1774, Monday morning at 
 
 4 o'clock. Died November 16, 1774. 
 
 Thomas, born Januar}' 11, 1776, Thursday morn- 
 ing at 2 o'clock, in the Monongahela Glades, now 
 Monongalia CounL3% West Virginia. Married Re- 
 becca Bond, January 6, 1803. 
 
 Sarah, born January 24, 1778, Saturday evening at 
 
 5 o'clock. Married Allison Clark, Januar}' 3, 1796, 
 and Thomas Bond, November 21, 181 3. 
 
 Susannah, born June — , 1780, Tuesday afternoon 
 at I o'clock. Married Robert Bartlett, Januar}^ 12, 
 1797, and moved to Missouri, near New Madrid. 
 
 A son born Februar}^ 22, 1783, Saturday morning 
 at 2 o'clock. Died 29th of same month. 
 
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 Rowena, born June 17, 1784, Thursday evening at 
 1 1 o'clock. Married Daniel Davisson, March 30, 
 1802. Died Feb. 26; 1810. 
 
 Daniel, born April 28, 1787, Saturday morning at 
 5 o'clock. Married Mary Ann Bond, and three 
 others. 
 
 CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND MARY RAYMOND. 
 
 Cyrus, born September 8, 1790, at 43 minutes 
 after 5 o'clock in the morning. Married Jane Som- 
 merville, April 18, 1822, and Polly Carpenter,/^. / 7 /^' 
 
 Ruth, born November 20, 1792. Married Joshua 
 Nixon, September 24, 181 1. Moved to Illinois. 
 
 Maxa, born March 14, 1795, at 8 o'clock in the 
 morning. Married Robert Robinson, August 8th, 
 1 8 16. Moved to Illinois. 
 
 Julia, born July 28th, 1799, Sunday morning at 7 
 o'clock. Died of flux June 30th, 1801. 
 
 A daughter born July 30th, 1804, and died the 
 same day 
 
 Thomas Ha3^mond, son of William, was born in 
 the Monongahela glades. West Augusta, now Mon- 
 ongalia County, January nth, 1776, and died in 
 Harrison County August 31, 1853. 
 
 Rebecca Bond, daughter of Richard, was born in 
 Cecil County, Maryland, February i6th, 1780, and 
 died in Harrison County, W. Va., April 2, 1869. 
 
 Thomas Haymond^and Rebecca Bond were mar- 
 ried in Harrison County, W. Va., January 6, 1803. 
 
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 CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND REBECCA. 
 
 Rufus born June 5, 1805, Died 1886. 
 
 Rowenna born September i, 1807, Died Septem- 
 ber 10, 1856. 
 
 Luther born February 23, 1809. 
 
 Rudolph born July 27, I811, Died August 27, 182 1. 
 
 Lewis born November 27, 1813. Died June 26, 
 1847. 
 
 Cassandra born August 21, 18 16. Died August 
 
 v5' 
 
 I82I, 
 
 John Raymond, the son of William, was born in 
 Maryland, and was eight years old when he came to 
 Northwestern Virginia with his father. 
 
 He was clerk of the Board of Trustees of the Ran- 
 dolph Academy, deputy surveyor, sheriff and mem- 
 ber of the Legislature of Harrison county, member of 
 the State Senate, an officer of the militia and took 
 part in the Indian wars, and was in many expeditions 
 against them. After the Indian troubles were over, 
 he removed to ^fK--j:iver in what is now Braxton 
 county, where he engaged in the manufacture of salt. 
 He was a man of great natural ability, was active and 
 energetic in his undertakings, and was from a very 
 young man prominent in public affairs. At one time 
 in a skirmish with the Indians a bullet passed through 
 a handkerchief which he had tied around his head. 
 
 William Haymond, Jr., the son of William, served 
 as a scout in the Indian wars, and took part in the 
 skirmish with a party of Indian raiders on Middle 
 Island Creek, now in Doddridge county. He was a 
 deputy surveyor of Harrison county. 
 
 ^1^ ^^^z^^ y^y J^ If Xi /t:!-, ^ ^ . 'jt . 
 
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 In 1794 he moved to a tract of land on which is 
 now situated the town of Palatine, now in Marion 
 county, where he lived until his death. He wrote the 
 letters published in this pamphlet. 
 
 Thomas Raymond, the son of William, was a 
 scout during the latter part of the Indian troubles, 
 when less than twenty years of age. He was deputy 
 surve^^or of Harrison county for many years and was 
 principal surve3'or for thirt3^-two years, was commis- 
 sioner of delinquent and forfeited lands, a competent 
 surveyor and in the discharge of his many public and 
 official duties his integrity was above approach, and 
 no one stood higher, or had the confidence of the 
 people more than he. 
 
 Daniel Haymond, the son of William, engaged for 
 many years in stock raising, took an active part on 
 the side of the Union at the commencement of the 
 civil war, was a member of the Senate of West Vir- 
 ginia, and was a- candidate for Congress and was 
 nearly successful. 
 
 Cyrus Haj^mond, the son of William, was born and 
 lived all his life on the home place, engaged in farm- 
 ing. He was a soldier in the war against England in 
 18 1 2, serving on the lakes. He was deputy surveyor 
 of Harrison count3% and principal surveyor for seven- 
 teen years. 
 
 Thomas S. Haymond, grandson of William, was a 
 soldier in the war of 1812 against England, a mem- 
 ber of the Legislature and a member of Congress 
 from Virginia. 
 
 Augustus Ha3^mond, a grandson of Wi'li^m, was a 
 merchant in Morgantown, and held the positions of 
 
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 justice of the peace, presiding justice of the count}^ 
 court, and clerk of the circuit court of MonongaHa 
 county. 
 
 Luther Haymond, a son of Thomas and grandson 
 of WilHam, was born in Harrison county Februar}^ 
 23, 1809, 3-nd resides in Clarksburg. He has held 
 the following official positions: Deputy surveyor, 
 member of the Legislature of Virginia, civil engineer 
 of the Board of Public Works of Virginia and was 
 employed in surveying turnpikes and other public 
 improvements in Western Virginia. Commissioner 
 of the Circuit Court, treasurer of the county, cashier 
 of the Merchants' National Bank at Clarksburg from 
 i860 until his retirement in 1896. He was engaged 
 in surveying for man\^ \'ears and has been a large 
 dealer in real estate. His long and useful life, now 
 prolonged be3^ond four score 3^ears and ten, has been 
 one of loyalty to his duties, and of unselfish devotion 
 to his family and friends, and in its morality, purity 
 of character and integrity, stands without reproach. 
 No one amid the green hills or by the babbling brooks 
 of West A'irginia, has ever held a higher place than 
 he in the confidence and affections of his fellow men. 
 
 Jonathan Haj^mond, a grandson of William, was a 
 merchant in Fairmont, Va. , and activeh" engaged in 
 many business enterprises, was a quartermaster in 
 the Confederate arm}^ removed to Texas after the 
 war, and was employed in shipping lumber to Central 
 America; was endowed with an unusual amount of 
 energy. 
 
 Benjaimin W. Ha3^mond. a son of Jonathan, served 
 in the Confederate arm3^ and died in Nicarauga, where 
 he was engaged in the fruit business. 
 
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 John Alderson, a great grandson of William, is a 
 resident of Nicholas county, W. Va. , is a practicing 
 attorney and has been a member of the Legislature 
 and prominent in public affairs; was a member of 
 Congress for several years from West Virginia, and 
 has the confidence of his people. 
 
 Edgar Raymond, a native of Braxton count3^ W. 
 Va. , a great grandson of William, was a soldier in 
 the Mexican war and died shortly after his return 
 home from a disease contracted in the service. 
 
 Alfred Raymond, a brother of the last named Edgar, 
 was also a soldier in the Mexican war and died in the 
 service while serving in that country. 
 
 W.S.Raymond, a grandson of Wm.,son of Cyrus, 
 was a physician, practiced in White count3^ Indiana, 
 was a professor in a medical college in Indianapolis, and 
 a member of Congress from Indiana, and served as a 
 surgeon in an Indiana regiment during the civil war. 
 
 Alpheus F. Raymond, a great grandson of William, 
 was an attorney-at-law, and held the ofhce of prose- 
 cuting attorney" for Marion county, a member of the 
 Virginia Convention in 1861, and an officer of the 
 Confederate army, member of the Legislature of 
 West Virginia, Judge of the Circuit Court, and Judge 
 of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. 
 Re was a man of great ability, a public speaker of 
 renown, a profound lawyer and one whose decisions 
 handed down from the bench are referred to by the 
 bar as precedence worthy of confidence. 
 
 Daniel Polsley, a grandson of William, was a mem- 
 ber of the Wheeling convention of June iith, 1861, 
 which reorganized the government of Virginia, and 
 
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 was elected lieutenant governor of said State by the 
 convention. He was afterwards Judge of the Circuit 
 Court and a member of Congress from West Virginia. 
 
 Hiram Ha3'mond, a grandson of William, was long 
 a merchant in Fairmont, took an active part in the 
 formation of the State of West Virginia, and was a 
 member of the convention that framed its first con- 
 stitution. 
 
 Dr. Rufus Haymond, son of Thomas and grandson 
 of William, was born in Harrison count3^ Virginia, in 
 1805, studied medicine under Dr. Williams, of Clarks- 
 burg, and located in Brookville, Indiana, in the year 
 1832 and for fifty 3^ears practiced his profession in the 
 White Water valley. He was a close student of 
 natural history, and took an intelligent interest in 
 scientific matters, and had a large correspondence 
 with learned men on kindred subjects. He was ap- 
 pointed by the State of Indiana to make a geological 
 survey of Franklin count}\ His report was published 
 in pamphlet form and shows a thorough knowledge 
 of the subject. Dr. Ha3^mond served as a member 
 of the Legislature of Indiana, and held other positions 
 of trust, and always had the esteem and respect of 
 his people, among whom he had a wide and exten- 
 sive acquaintance. He died in 1886. 
 
 Hadle3^ Douglass Johnson was the son of Ann Hay- 
 mond and grandson of William, and was born at 
 Brookville, Indiana, Sept. i, 181 2. When quite 
 young his father, Dr. Isaac Miller Johnson, removed 
 to near St. Charles, Missouri but his mother dying 
 soon, young Hadle3^ was returned to Brookville to 
 live with his half sister, Mrs. Gallion, nee Douglass. 
 
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 In 1834 he was married to Miss Eliza H. Wood- 
 worth. In 1 85 1 he moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, 
 and was engaged in the practice of law, and was 
 elected to the Iowa State Senate. In 1854 he moved 
 to Nebraska and was elected by a squatter conven- 
 tion to proceed to Washington to appear before Con- 
 gress and urge the formation of the Territor}^ of 
 Nebraska. Upon the formation of the territory he 
 was a candidate for delegate to Congress, but owing 
 to local differences was defeated by fifty votes. In 
 1856 he was elected public printer. 
 
 In 1859 or '60 Mr. Johnson went to Pike's Peak 
 and engaged in the lumber business, and afterwards 
 went to Boise, Idaho. 
 
 In 1865 he returned to Omaha, and after remain- 
 ing several years located at Salt Lake City and 
 engaged in newspaper work. 
 
 In 1896 he was a Presidential elector and was 
 deputized by the Electoral College to carr}" the vote 
 of Utah to Washington. 
 
 Mr. Johnson, all of his life, took an active part in 
 politics, and as a Democrat was prominent in organ- 
 izing that party and advocating its principles in his 
 several places of residence. He was a man of strong 
 mind and determined will, and always had the respect 
 and confidence of his communit}^ He died in Salt 
 Lake City, July 12, 1898. 
 
 William Haymond, a son of Daniel and grandson 
 of Major William, was for many years a farmer in 
 Ritchie county, W. Ya. He was a soldier in the 
 army of the Texan Republic and took part in the 
 campaign against Mexico, which resulted in establish- 
 ing the independence of Texas. 
 
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 William S. Haymond, of Fairmont, son of Alpheus, 
 is an attorney, is also engaged in business enterprises 
 and has held the position of judge of the intermediate 
 court of Marion count}', W. Va. He is a descendant 
 of the first William. As a boy he served as an orderly 
 to commanding officers in the Confederate Army. 
 
 Lee Haymond, a son of Luther and great grandson 
 of William, was employed for thirty-five years in the 
 Merchants' National Bank at Clarksburg, W. Va. , 
 and at the time of his death in 1 899 was its cashier; was 
 a member of the Board of Education and of the town 
 council; served in the civil war as lieutenant and com- 
 missar}^ of the 3d West Virginia Cavalry, and captain 
 in the Commissary Department U. S. ; was brevetted 
 Major for good conduct by the President. 
 
 Henry Haymond, son of Luther and great grand- 
 son of William, served as captain in the i8th U. S. 
 Infantry during and for several years after the civil 
 war. Took part in the campaigns of the army of the 
 Cumberland, participating in the battles of Perry- 
 ville, Ky. , siege of Corinth, Stone River, Hoover's 
 Gap, Chickamauga, siege of Chattanooga, Missionary 
 Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Ga., and other skirmishes 
 and expeditions. Served in the west against the 
 Sioux Indians in 1866 and 1868; was wounded at 
 Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862. 
 
 The President conferred on him the brevet rank of 
 Major and Lieutenant Colonel for meritorious services 
 during the war. 
 
 In civil life he has been recorder of the town of 
 Clarksburg. 
 
 In 1884 he was appointed by the President a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Visitors to the West Point Milit- 
 
ary Academy; President of the Board of Education, 
 deputy collector of Internal Revenue, member of the 
 Legislature, clerk of the Circuit Court of Harrison 
 county, and Republican presidential elector in 1896, 
 and was chairman of the Electoral College; resides 
 in Clarksburg, W. Va. 
 
 John Haymond.'a native of Braxton county, served 
 through the civil war in the 3d West Virginia Infan- 
 try and 6th West Virginia Cavalry; was wounded 
 severely. His regiment served in the V/est in the 
 Indian country, and was mustered out in 1866. He 
 resides in Braxton county, and was a great grandson 
 of William. 
 
 Luther D. Ha3^mond, a brother of John last above 
 named, was an attorney, served in the Confederate 
 army as captain of infantry and was badly wounded. 
 At the time of his death he lived at Liberty, Vir- 
 ginia. 
 
 Edgar R. Haymond, son of Dr. Rufus, of Brook- 
 ville, Indiana, was engaged in mining in California 
 for some years, studied law and located in Warsaw, 
 Indiana; for some years was Judge of the Circuit 
 Court of the Kosiusco circuit; resides at Warsaw. 
 
 Leigh Hunt Haymond, a brother of Edgar R., 
 served in the civil war in an Indiana regiment, and 
 was an attorney at law; resided at Warsaw at the 
 time of his death. 
 
 Rufus Haymond, a great grandson of William, 
 enlisted in 1862 in Company E 12th Regiment West 
 Virginia Volunter Infantry, participated in the battles 
 of Winchester, New Market, Piedmont, Snicker's 
 
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 Ferry and L3mchburg, served in the Gett3'sburg 
 campaign, but was not engaged in the battle. He 
 was captured at Winchester July 28, 1864, and was 
 confined in the Danville and Richmond prisons for 
 seven months; promoted to first sergeant in 1864; 
 lives in Harrison county, West Virgiuia; is a farmer; 
 has held several county and district offices, and for 
 six years was a member of the Board of Directors of 
 the West Virginia Reform School. 
 
 Sidney Haj'mond, a grandson of William, son of 
 Cyrus, is a farmer, extensively engaged in the cattle 
 business, and resides in Harrison count}', W. Va. ; has 
 held the following official positions: Recorder of Har- 
 rison count}^ county surveyor of the county, presid- 
 ing officer of the County Court, member of the Leg- 
 islature and member of the State Board of managers 
 of the State's display at the World's Fair at Chicago 
 in 1893. He was the last one of the name to hold 
 the office of county surveyor, which was held by mem- 
 bers of the family for ninety years. 
 
 Creed Haymond, a great grandson of William, was 
 a native of Fairmont, W. Va. , and when quite a 
 youth, went to California and engaged in mining, 
 studied law and became an attorney of national 
 reputation, was a member of the California Senate, 
 and a member of the committee to codify the laws of 
 California. He died in San Francisco in 189- 
 
 Edwin Maxwell, a great grandson of William, an 
 attorney at law; was State's attorney of Doddridge 
 count}^ W. Va,, a member of the State Senate and 
 of the House of Delegates, and for many years was a 
 member of the Supreme Court of Appeals; was a 
 
candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket in 
 1884. He resided in Clarksburg at the time of his 
 death (February, 1903). 
 
 Edwin Maxwell, a son of the last above mentioned, 
 a native of Clarksburg i nd now a resident of Seattle 
 on the Pacific coast. 
 
 Raymond Maxwell, a brother of Edwin, Jr., is a 
 practicing attorney in Clarksburg. 
 
 James Otis Watson, a descendant of William, a 
 resident of Fairmont, was for many jxars prominent 
 in business affairs and was the pioneer in the mining 
 and shipping of coal from West Virginia. Mr. Wat- 
 son was a member of the convention that met in 
 Wheeling June iith, 1861, which established what is 
 known as the Reorganized Government of Virginia, 
 which finally resulted in the formation of the State 
 of West Virginia. He was a man of marked ability, 
 good judgment and had the respect and confidence 
 of all who knew him. He died in Fairmont in 1902. 
 
 Benjamin W. Byrne, a descendant of William, an 
 attorney, served in the Virginia Legislature and was 
 a delegate to the convention from Braxton county, 
 which passed the Ordinance of Secession, and held 
 the position of superintendent of public schools for 
 the State of West Virginia. He resides in Charles- 
 ton, W. Va. 
 
 William E. Haymond, an attorney of Braxton 
 county, has been prosecuting attorney of his county, 
 and was a candidate for Congress in 1900. He is a 
 descendant from William, and resides at Sutton. 
 
John H. Holt, descended from William, resides at 
 Huntington, W. Va, , is prominent as an attorney, 
 and was a candidate for Governor in 1900 on the 
 Democratic ticket. 
 
 Lewis Ha3^mond, grandson of William and son of 
 Thomas, was a deputy surveyor of Harrison county, 
 and a large owner of lands. He died at the home 
 place in 1847. 
 
 Hu Maxwell, a descendant of William and nephew 
 of Judge Edwin Maxwell, has travelled extensively 
 and has been engaged as a newspaper correspondent, 
 and is the author of several county histories, aud is 
 well and favorably known in the scientific and liter- 
 ary world. He resides at Morgantown. 
 
 Lewis Haymond, the younger, a great grandson of 
 William and son of Luther, was an attorney in Dodd- 
 ridge county, and died in 1880. 
 
 Thomas, a brother of the above, is by occupation 
 a bank clerk and resides in Clarksburg. 
 
 Bruce Haymond, a brother of the above, is an 
 artist of ability, and resides in Clarksburg. 
 
 Thomas Wilson Haymond, a son of Rufus, the 
 younger, is a student at the State University in Mor- 
 gantown. He resides near Bristol in Harrison county. 
 
 William Hay Lewis, a grandson of Luther, has 
 been Town Clerk, a member of the Town Council, 
 and is now Assistant Cashier of the Merchants Na- 
 tional Bank of Clarksburg. 
 
 Wirt Lewis, a brother of the above, is engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits and resides in Clarksburg. 
 
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 Dr. Looker Clark, a grandson of William, was for 
 many years a practicing physician in Lafayette, 
 Indiana, and served in the Senate of that State. He 
 also held other positions of trust and responsibility. 
 
 Dr. Raymond Clark, a brother of Looker, was a 
 practicing physician in Noblesville, Indiana. 
 
 Daniel Floyd Raymond, a great-grandson of Wil- 
 liam, was Sheriff of Ritchie County, W. Va. , and 
 was prominent in public affairs. 
 
 Thomas Ra3^mond, a great-grandson of William, 
 and son of Luther, is by occupation a bank clerk, and 
 resides in Clarksburg. 
 
 Bruce Raymond, brother of Thomas, above named, 
 resides in Clarksburg; is an artist, 
 
 Thomas Wilson Raymond resides with his father, 
 Rufus Haymond, near Bristol, Rarrison County, 
 W. Va. , and is a student at the West Virginia Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 W^illiam R. Lewis, a grandson of Luther, resides 
 in Clarksburg. Ras been City Recorder, member of 
 the City Councils, and is teller in the Merchants 
 National Bank. 
 
 Wirt Lewis, a brother of William R., last above 
 mentioned, resides in Clarksburg, and is engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits. 
 
 Luther Raymond, Junior, a son of Lee Raymond, 
 was a hospital Steward in the Second West Virginia 
 Volunteer Infantr}^ during the Spanish War. Is a 
 medical student and resides in Clarksburg. 
 
 George Raymond Moore, a grandson of Doctor 
 Rufus Raymond, of Brookville, Indiana, resides in 
 Clarksburg, and is a stenographer and law student. 
 
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 Charles W. Moore, brother of George, is a practic- 
 ing attorney in Clarksburg. 
 
 Edgar R. Moore, a brother of the last named, is a 
 resident of Clarksburg, and is engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business. 
 
PART FOURTH. 
 
 DOCUMENTS, ETC. 
 
 By Colonel Adam Stephen, 
 
 Commander of the Virginia Regiment. 
 
 These are to certify, that William Raymond, Ser- 
 geant in Colonel's Byrd's Company, is hereby Dis- 
 charged According to an Act of Assembly made for 
 that Purpose, He has duly served Three 3^ears and 
 Behaved as a good Soldier and Faithful subject. 
 
 Given under my hand at Fort Lewis, this 24 day 
 of February, 1762. 
 
 Adam Stephen, 
 Colon: V. R. 
 
 At the request of James Suter, the following Deed 
 was recorded the 9th May, 1773, To wit: 
 
 This Indenture, made the third day of April, Anno 
 Domini One Thousand seven hundred and Seventy 
 three. Between Wm: Haymond of Fredk, County in 
 the provence of Maryd, Joiner, of the one part and 
 James Suter of the County, and provence aforesaid, 
 Taylor, of the other part: Witnesseth: That the said 
 Wm. Haymond for and in consideration of the sum 
 of two hundred and twelve pounds, ten shillings, cur- 
 rent money of the provence, assd. to him, in hand 
 paid, before the ensealing and Delivery of these pres- 
 ents, the receipt whereof the said Wm Haymond, 
 doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and every part 
 thereof, doth discharge and acquit the said James 
 Suter, his heirs Exrs. and Adm. and every of them. 
 Hath given, granted, bargained, sold and confirmed, 
 and by these presents doth Give, Grant, Bargain, 
 sell and Confirm unto the said James Suter, his heirs 
 and assigns, part of a tract or parcel of land, called 
 
37 
 
 Constant Friendship, formerl}' in Prince George's 
 county, but now in Fredk county aforesaid. Begin- 
 ning at the end of the Two hundred and tenth perch 
 of the first hne of the said tract or parcel of land, run- 
 ning thence North fifty ps. : North seventy Degs. 
 East forty-eight ps; North thirty-five degs. East one 
 hundred ps. ; South eighty degs, East seventy pers. ; 
 South forty Ds. ; East eighty ps. ; South thirty-three 
 Ds. ; West sixty ps. ; South fifty-six Ds. , West one 
 hundred and four ps. , thence with a straight line to 
 the beginning. Containing, and now laid out for one 
 hundred and fifty acres of land more or less, with all 
 and singular the appurtenances & advantages there- 
 unto belonging, To have and to hold the said parcel 
 of land, and premises with the appurtenances unto 
 the said James Suter, his heirs and assigns forever, 
 and to his and their proper use and behoof. And 
 the said Wm. Raymond for himself his heirs Exs. 
 and Adms: Doth by these presents Covenant, prom- 
 ise. Grant and agree to and with the said Jas: Suter 
 his heirs and assigns in manner and form following, 
 that is to say, that he the said James Suter, his heirs 
 and assigns forever hereafter shall and may jointly 
 and peaceably, have hold, possess and enjoy the 
 aforesaid parcel of land and premises with the appur- 
 tenances free clear and freely and Clearly Acquitted 
 and Discharged from all incumbrances whatsoever, 
 except the rents, which shall hereafter grow due to 
 the land Lord prop u y; and further that the afore- 
 said parcel of Land was aforesaid described to lye 
 within the bounds and lines above mentioned, and 
 hereby Bargd, and sold or hereby intended to be 
 hereby bargained and sold, does contain, one hun- 
 dred and fifty acres of land, and that he the said 
 Wm. Raymond his heirs Exrs; and Adms. the afore- 
 said one hundred and fifty acres of Land and prem- 
 ises, with the appurtenances, unto him the said James 
 Suter his heirs and assigns forever, shall and will by 
 
38 
 
 these presents forever warrant and defend, against 
 all persons and claims whatsoever. Lastly that the 
 said Wm. Raymond, his heirs and assigns shall and 
 will at any time hereafter make and execute, and 
 acknowledge any other Deed or writing, for the more 
 sure making over, and confirming the assr; one hun- 
 dred and fifty acres of land and premises, with the 
 appurtenances unto the said James Suter, his heirs 
 and assignes such as by him, or by the person, for 
 the time being, claiming under him, shall be required. 
 In witness whereof the said Wm. Raymond, hath 
 set his hand and seal the day and year above written. 
 
 Wm. Raymond, [seal. ] 
 
 Signed sealed & Deld. 
 In the presents of us. 
 David Lynn. 
 
 Sprigg Wooten. 
 
 On the back of which deed was the following 
 Indorsement: 
 
 On the 3d. day of April 1773, Received of the 
 within named James-^uter, Two hundred and twelve 
 pounds & Ten Shillings, Current money within 
 mentd. Witness my hand. 
 
 Wm. Raymond. 
 Teste 
 
 David Lynn. 
 
 J. Sprigg Wooten. 
 
 On the 3d day of April, 1773, came before us the 
 subscribers. Two of his Lordships Justices of the 
 peace, for Fredk County, the within named Wm. 
 Raymond, and acknowledged the within mentd. 
 Land and premises to be the right and estate of the 
 within named James Suter his heirs and assigns 
 forever, and Casandra Raymond, wife of the said 
 Wm. Raymond, being privately exd. out of the 
 hearing of her said husband, released her right of 
 
39 
 
 dower on the same, and declared that she did the 
 same voluntarily and freely, without being compelled 
 thereto by any threats of her said husband, or fear of 
 his displeasure, according to the form of the Act of 
 Assembly, in such case made and provided. 
 
 David Lynn. 
 
 Sprigg Watton. 
 Reed; Oct. 15, 1773, of James Suter six shillings 
 sterling for an alienation fine on the ment'd, Land, 
 by order of his Lordships agent. 
 
 Wm. M. Bell. 
 
 State of Maryland 
 
 Frederick County To wit: 
 
 I hereby certify that the aforegoing is a true copy 
 of the original Deed, as the same is recorded in Liber 
 T, folio 136, one of the land records of Frederick 
 County. 
 
 In testimony whereof I herewith hereunto subscribe 
 my name and affix the seal of the Circuit Court, for 
 Frederick County this 25th day of November A. D. 
 
 1895. 
 
 John L. Jordan, Clerk. 
 
 His Excellency Patrick Henry Jr. Esq. Governour 
 of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 
 
 To William Haymond Esqr. 
 
 By virtue of the power and authority to me 
 delegated by the General Convention of the Repre- 
 sentatives of the People of this Commonwealth, I, 
 reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your 
 Patriotism, Fidelity, Courage and good Conduct, do 
 by and with the Advice of the Privy Council, by 
 these Presents, constitute and appoint 3^ou to be 
 Captain of Militia in the County of Monongalia. 
 
40 
 
 You are carefull}'^ and diligently to discharge the 
 Duty of Captain, of the Militia, by doing and 
 performing all Manner of things thereunto belonging; 
 and 3^ou are to pay a ready Obedience to all Orders 
 and Instructions which from Time to Time you may 
 receive from the Convention, Privy Council, or any 
 of your Superior Officers, agreeable to the Rules and 
 Regulations, of the Convention or General Assem- 
 bly, and do require all Officers and Soldiers under 
 your Command, to be Obedient, and to aid you in 
 the Execution of this Commission according to the 
 intent and purport thereof. 
 
 Given under my Hand and Seal, at Williamsburg, 
 this 13th day of March 1776. 
 
 P. Henry. Jr. 
 No. 14. 
 
41 
 
 Capt. Charles Martin, Commissary, Cr. 
 
 1777 
 
 June 15. 
 By Col. Zackee: Morgan, 28 Rations... 
 
 By Do Do 1 quart of Salt. 
 
 By Do — Do lOG lb. Bacon... 
 
 By 200 lb. Bacon Delivered by Thos. Day 
 
 By 12X Bushels Meal Delivered by Willm. 
 
 Smith 
 
 By one gallon Salt 
 
 By 61 lb. Pork Delivered by your son Jesse. ... 
 
 By Capt. Scott 137 lb Pork 
 
 By James Scott. 303 lb. Pork 
 
 By David Watkins 60 lb. Pork 
 
 Capt. Martin, Dr. 
 To Pork Damaged 44 lb. 
 To Bacon Damaged 15 lb. 
 To Thos. Day 20 '.4 lb. Pork, 
 To Thos. Day, 4>^ lb. Bacon. 
 
 •t) o 
 
 0) 
 
 61 
 137 
 303 
 
 60 
 
 561 
 
 M% 
 
 496K 
 
 W O 
 
 106 
 200 
 
 306 
 
 19>^ 
 
 286;!^ 
 
 ID O 
 
 12X 
 
 12X 
 
 12X 
 
 KD 
 
 Received the within mentioned Provisions for use of the Militia, in 
 actual service, under my command from the 15th Day of April, 1777, to 
 the 15th Day of June. 
 
 Willm. H.wmond, 
 
 Capt. 
 
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 Pay Roll of Captain William Haymond's Com- 
 pany of Monongalia county Militia. 
 
 1777 From the loth of April until the r2th of June following. 
 
 MEN'S NAMES. 
 
 William Raymond, 
 
 Capt. 
 Morgan Morgan, Lt- 
 James Johnston. Ens- 
 Zarah Ozban, Sergt- 
 
 Amos Ashcraft, 
 
 John Doherty, 
 
 Edmond Chanej^, 
 
 Jereh. Chaney, 
 
 David Morgan, 
 
 Thos. Raymond, 
 
 Willm. Pettyjohn, ... 
 
 Ahios Pettyjohn, 
 
 Robt. Cambell, 
 
 John Ice, 
 
 Fredk. Ice, 
 
 Renry Rank, 
 
 Peter Popeno, 
 
 Levy Carter, 
 
 John Carter, 
 
 Fredk. Huklebery ... 
 
 Jarvis Brumagen, 
 
 Jeremiah Simson 
 
 Valentine Kennett,... 
 
 Evan Morgan, 
 
 Ruben Boner, 
 
 James Morgan, Sr 
 
 John Lemasters, 
 
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 8 Paid yourself. 
 
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 8 Paid your father. 
 
 8 Payd j'our father. 
 
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 8, Pay d to M. Hardin 
 8 Paid to And Lee. 
 
 8Pd Maj. Martin. 
 
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 4 Paid Capt. Roard. 
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 £ S D Virginia Currency. 
 
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 1777. Mr. John Corbly, Comsy., Crd. 
 
 By John Vandroof, 335 lb. Pork 
 
 By Morgan Morgan, 102 Bacon 
 
 By Do 7 Pints of Salt. 
 
 By David Morgan, 219 of meal 
 
 By Fredertck Ice. Sen., 148 Do 
 
 By Calder Haymoud, 31 Do 
 
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 Received above mentioned provisions for use of the 
 Militia stationed at Prickett's Fort, under my com- 
 mand, from the 12th of June until the 15th of July 
 following, 1777. 
 
 WiLLM. Haymond, 
 
 Capt. 
 
 Sir: Please let Capt. Owen Davey have ten 
 pounds of lead from your friend, &c. 
 
 John Evans, 
 
 To Capt. Wm. Ha3'mond. 15th Augt. 1777. 
 
 Received of Capt. Jacob Prickett 433 lbs. of Pork, 
 432 lb of Indian Meal and 1 1 Pints of Salt for use of 
 the Militia stationed at Prickett's Fort, under my 
 command. 
 
 WiLLM. Haymond, 
 
 Capt. 15th July, 1777. 
 
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 The Commonwealth of Virginia, 
 
 To WilHam Ha3^mond Gent: Greeting. 
 
 Know you that from the Special Trust and Con- 
 fidence which is reposed in 3'our fidelity, courage, 
 activit}'^ and good conduct, our Governor with the 
 advice of the Council of State, and on the recom- 
 mendation of the Worshipful Court of the County of 
 Monongalia, doth appoint you, the said William 
 Raymond, Major, in the Militia of the said County 
 of Monongalia. 
 
 In testimony whereof these our letters are made 
 patent. 
 
 Witness Benjamin Harrison, Esquire, our said 
 Governor at Richmond, this 12th day of Novem- 
 ber, 1 78 1. Registered in the War Office. 
 
 Benj. Harrison. 
 
 The Commonwealth of Virginia, 
 
 To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: 
 Know ye that the Court for the County of Monon- 
 galia having nominated William Haymond, Coroner 
 for the said County, our Governor with the advice of 
 the Council of State, doth approve of the said 
 nomination, and hereb}^ constitute and appoint him 
 the said William Haymond, Gentleman, Coroner for 
 the said County. 
 
 In testimony whereof, these our letters are sealed 
 with the seal of the Commonwealth, and made patent. 
 Witness Benjamin Harrison, Esquire, our said gov- 
 ernor, at Richmond, on the i6th day of Novr. , in the 
 year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
 eighty-two, and Seventh of the Commonwealth. 
 
 Benj. Harrison. 
 
 Seal. 
 
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 The Commonwealth of Virginia, to all whom these 
 
 presents shall come, Greeting: 
 
 Know ye that the Court for the Count}^ of Monon- 
 galia, having nominated William Raymond, Gentle- 
 man, to be Sheriff for the said Count}', our Governor, 
 with the advice of the Council of State, doth approve, 
 of the said nomination, and hereby constitute and 
 appoint him, the said William Raymond, Gentle- 
 man, Sheriff for the said County. 
 
 In testimony whereof our letters are made patent. 
 
 Witness Benjamin Rarrison, Esq., our said Gov- 
 ernor at Richmond, on the 4th day of December, in 
 the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred 
 and eighty-three. 
 
 Benj. Rarrison. 
 State Seal.' 
 
 Virginia, Rarrison County: 
 
 Be it remembered that at the house of George 
 Jackson on Buckhannon River, the 20th day of Jul3% 
 1784, a commission of the peace and a commission of 
 Oyer and Terminor, for the said County, directed to 
 John P. Duval, Benj. Wilson, Wm. Lowther, James 
 Anderson, Renry Delay, Nichs. Carpenter, Wm. 
 Robinson, John Powers, Thomas Cheney, Jacob 
 Westfall, Salathiel Goff and Pairick Ramilton was 
 presented and read and thereupon the Oath of 
 Allegiance to the Commonwealth, was administered 
 by Benj. Wilson Gent, to the said John P. Duval, 
 and by him, to the above-named Trustees, and also 
 the oath of office as directed by law. 
 
 Ordered that William Raj^mond be Recommended 
 as a proper person to fill the office of Principal Sur- 
 veyor for said County, and certifyd. 
 
 At a Court held for Rarrison county on the third 
 Tuesday in September, 1784, andix ye-^.r of the Com- 
 
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 monvvealth, Present, John Perry Duval, James Ander- 
 son, Henry Delay, Jacob Westfall, Gent, Justices. 
 
 William Raymond, Gent., Produced a Commission 
 from his Excellency, the Governor, of Principal Sur- 
 veyor of this County, bearing date the 26th day of 
 August, 1784, and entered into Bond with John Perry 
 Duvall and Henry Delay of ^2,000, pa3'able to his 
 Excellency, &c. , for the faithful performance of his 
 office, 9and said bond is ordered to be filed in the 
 Clerk's Office. 
 
 WE the President and Professors of William and 
 Mary College, do hereby certify, his Excellency, the 
 Governour, that we have examined William 
 Haymond, Gentleman, and find him able to execute 
 the office, and fulfill the duties of a Surveyor: and 
 we nominate him to be Surve3'or for the Count}^ of 
 Harrison. 
 
 In Witness whereof, we have hereunto set our 
 hands and caused the seal of the said College to 
 be affixed, this twent}^ third day of August, in the 
 year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
 eighty four. 
 
 G. Wythe. 
 J. McClurg. 
 Charles Bellini. 
 Seal of the 
 
 College. 
 
 The Commonwealth of Virginia, to William 
 Haymond, Gentleman, Greeting: 
 
 Know you that our Governour, being duly certi- 
 fied of your ability and good character, hath consti- 
 tuted you the said William Haymond, Surveyor for 
 the Count}^ of Harrison, with authority to execute 
 the said office, within the said County, and to take 
 for so doing, the fees allowed by law. Saving and 
 
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 reserving to the President and professors of the Col- 
 lege of William and Mar}^ one sixth part of the legal 
 fees which shall be received by 3"ou. 
 
 In testimony whereof these our letters are made 
 patent. 
 
 Witness Benjamin Harrison Esquire, our Govern- 
 our, at the City of Richmond, the 26, day of August, 
 in the year of Our Lord, One thousand seven hun- 
 dred and Eight}^ four. 
 
 Benj. Harrison. 
 
 [state seal] 
 
 Endorsement. 
 
 The within named William Haymond, is hereby 
 required to give bond before the Court of said County, 
 with two sufficient sureties, in the sum oi two thousand 
 pounds, payable to the Governour and his successors 
 for the faithful execution of his office. 
 
 With advice of Council. 
 
 Benj. Harrison. 
 
 deed for home place. 
 
 This indenture made the Nineteenth day of 
 September, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand 
 seven hundred and ninet}" one between Isaac Shinn 
 and Samuel Shinn, of the County of Harrison, and 
 State of Virginia, of the one part, and William 
 Haymond of the same County; of the other part; 
 Witnesseth: That the said Isaac Shinn & Samuel 
 Shinn in compliance with the last will and testament 
 of Benjamin Shinn; deceased, and in consideration of 
 the sum of one hundred pounds, current money, to 
 them in hand paid, have bargained and sold unto the 
 said William Ha3^mond, and his heirs and assigns 
 one certain tract or parcel of land, lying in the said 
 County of Harrison, containing one hundred and 
 ninety four acres and a half, including part of a tract 
 
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 of four hundred acres of land, granted to Joseph 
 Gregory by patent, and also part of another tract of 
 four hundred acres of land granted to Sotha Hickman 
 by patent, situate on Daviss' run, or (other wise 
 Zacks run) a drain of Elk Creek, and bounded as 
 follows, to wit: 
 
 (Here follows description.) 
 
 In witness whereof the said Isaac Shinn, and 
 Samuel Shinn, have hereunto subscribed their names 
 and affixed their seals the day and year above 
 written. 
 
 Isaac Shinn. 
 Samuel Shinn 
 Acknowledged in open Court. 
 Teste. 
 
 Benj. Wilson, Clerk. 
 
 Harrison County, September Court, 1791. 
 
 Then Isaac and Samuel Shinn's, came into Court, 
 and by virtue of Benjamin Shinn, deceased, last will 
 and testament, they acknowledged the within Deed 
 of conveyance of 194 and ^ acres of land to William 
 Haymond, and the said Deed was ordered to be 
 recorded. 
 
 Teste. Benj. Wilson, C. H. C. 
 
 (Deed Book No. 1-page 198.) 
 
 SEAL. 
 SEAL. 
 
 The following is an account of a meteor that passed 
 over the North West portion of Virginia, about the 
 year 1800, and by its brilliant light accompanied by 
 tremendous explosions, created consternation and 
 alarm among the inhabitants: 
 
 Agreeable to my own observations and taking into 
 view the observations of several others, who saw the 
 light rise up previous to its spreading, the origin of 
 the phenomenon must have been between the West 
 
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 and North West from me, at the distance of about 
 five or six and twenty miles, at or near the Buckeye 
 bottom. 
 
 The first reportwas rumbling, and by information 
 was heard upwards of two hundred miles. The 
 subsequent reports were distinct not involved one 
 with another, and regularly timed to about two thirds 
 of a second, much louder than cannon or other 
 reports that I ever heard. They passed from West 
 to East, about three miles and three quarters above 
 the Earth, at the rate of about thirty eight miles in a 
 minute. 
 
 Their distance from me when nearest, was about 
 six miles and two thirds. The distance from me to 
 the last I heard, was about twenty miles and one 
 third. 
 
 I am Dr. Sir yr. obt. Servt. 
 
 Wm. Raymond. 
 Mb. Robert Newman. 
 
 Centreville. 
 
 William Raymond prepared a pamphlet containing 
 1 02 pages in manuscript, setting forth explanations 
 of geometrical problems, which shows deep study 
 and an accurate knowledge of the science of math- 
 ematics. 
 
 The little book is not dated and is said to have 
 been prepared for the celebrated lawyer, Phillip 
 Doddridge. 
 
 The following preface on the title page in the 
 author's handwriting explains its object: 
 
 "Sir: You request from me an explanation of the 
 principles of circles, squares, globes, cubes and tri- 
 
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 angles in all cases wherein I have a knowledge of 
 such principles, which have not been explained in 
 any books, also suitable propositions. 
 
 It is impossible for me to know what principles 
 have been explained in books, but I will make 
 explanations, which I have not discovered in an}'- 
 books, and state propositions suitable thereto, but 
 in some cases, I shall necessarily employ propositions 
 and proportions stated in books, and as I have never 
 discovered an explanation of the principles on which 
 the rules for obtaining the area of circles is founded, 
 I will commence with that explanation." 
 
 WILLIAM HAYMOND S WILL. 
 
 I, William Raymond of Harrison County, and 
 State of Virginia, do make my last will and testa- 
 ment, as follows. To wit: 
 
 2d. I give to my wife Mary Raymond, my negro 
 Dick, and one third of my land as long as she lives 
 & one third of my personal property. 
 
 3d. I give to my son Cyrus Raymond, and his 
 heirs and assigns all my land. 
 
 4th. I wish the balance of my personal estate, 
 including debts due to me, to be divided between all 
 my children equally, 
 
 5th. I appoint Thomas Raymond and C3TUS Ray- 
 moad, my Executors. 
 
 Witness my hand & seal, the loth day of Novem- 
 ber, 182 1. Wm. Raymond [seal] 
 
 Test. 
 
 Wm. Bell 
 Thomas Rickman 
 RuFus Raymond. 
 
 (Will Book No. 2. page 399.) 
 
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 DIED. 
 
 (Written by John G. Jackson). 
 
 At his residence near Clarksburg, Harrison county, 
 Virginia, on the 12th, November, 182 1, Major 
 William Raymond, who was born on the 4th of 
 January O. S. , 1740. 
 
 This excellent man was the surveyor of his county, 
 and a justice of the peace therein, from its first forma- 
 tion until his decease, and such was the purity of his 
 life, notwithstanding the tendency of his official duties 
 to excite the ill will of the disappointed speculator, 
 and suitor, that he lived and died without an enemy; 
 and his virtues became so proverbiable that when 
 excellence was ascribed to a great and good man, it 
 was said of him, "He was almost as perfect as Major 
 Haymond." 
 
 Major Haymond was a sergeant in one of the com- 
 panies commanded by Colonel George Washington, 
 before tne Revolutionary war, and was honored on 
 man}^ occasions with the confidence of that great man. 
 His mind was well stored with interesting anecdotes 
 of that interesting period, which he communicated to 
 his friends with his characteristic simplicit}^ and so 
 rigid was his veracity, that no inducement could 
 prompt him to magnify the incidents, b}^ the vivid 
 coloring so usual in the narrative of events long past by. 
 
 The writer of this humble tribute to his worth, for 
 twent}^ 3^ears, found at the elections, where he was 
 often a candidate for the popular suffrage, in this 
 venerable man, a constant opponent. But his opposi- 
 tion had nothing in it of the characteristics of part}^ 
 strife. It was founded onjthe convictions of his judg- 
 ment, and he never strove to unite a single voter with 
 
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 him, much less did he presume to censure those who 
 entertained different opinions upon political subjects. 
 On thecontrar3% he declined expressing his intentions 
 how to vote, lest it might tend to influence others. 
 
 In that period of great excitement, he frequently 
 visited the writer, and after spending the night at his 
 house, attended the election and voted for his com- 
 petitor. 
 
 Yet his society was sought for and cherished, 
 because he was personally a sincere friend, and in the 
 exercise of his high privileges as an American citizen 
 at the polls, he acted with the same spirit that gov- 
 erned him on the bench of justice, without favor and 
 without malice. 
 
 How enviable would our condition be if the exam- 
 ple of our departed friend was universally imitated. 
 Then instead of the widespread mischiefs of political 
 convulsion, which we constantly witness at the period 
 of elections, and the ultimate effects of which every 
 true patriot contemplates with pain and sorrow, we 
 should realize all the good that belongs to the right of 
 self-government, without alloy 
 
 It was not in the enumerated walks of life alone 
 that Major Raymond shone conspicuous. He was 
 frugal and temperate, and in a state of mere medio- 
 city of fortune, was happy and contented. 
 
 He died in the presence of his wife and eight of his 
 children. 
 
 He had 19 children, of whom 11 survived him, 81 
 grandchildren, of whom 62 were living; 38 great 
 grandchildren, of whom 31 were living; 9 sons-in-law, 
 of whom 6 were living, and 4 daughters-in-law, all 
 living. J. 
 
 National Intelligencer^ December /j, 182 1. 
 
old letters. 
 
 Ritchie County, W. Va. , 
 
 September, 8, 1871. 
 Col. Luther Haymond, 
 
 Clarksburg, W. Va. 
 
 Dear Sir: — Your letter of the ist inst. was received 
 some days ago. In answer to 3'our two first inquiries 
 I will state that my father had a brother whose name 
 was Calder Haymond, and that the Raymonds of 
 Taylor County are descendants of his. As far back 
 as I can recollect Uncle Calder Haymond lived on 
 the east side of the Monongahela River, about three 
 miles below where Fairmont now is. He was six 
 years older than my father, and considerably larger 
 person. I was once at his house which was in his 
 second wife's time. They had one daughter (the 
 only child) about ten 3'ears old. He had three sons 
 by his first wife, that I knew, and some daughters. 
 One of his daughters married Raynier Hall. I have 
 seen her. Another married one of the Holts. His 
 three sons' names were Edward, Thomas and John. 
 The latter was much the youngest of the three 
 brothers. Edward and Thomas were the oldest of 
 all of them. 
 
 I have no certain knowledge of the time when 
 Uncle Calder moved to Monongalia County, but I 
 presume it was before the commencement of the 
 Revolutionary war, as his son Thomas' name is on 
 the pay roll as a soldier in a company commanded by 
 my father, and stationed in Morgantown in the year 
 1777. Thomas Raymond's name is also on the pa}' 
 roll of a company of volunteers, raised in 1781 at 
 
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 Morgantown by Capt. Ferrel, to be under command 
 of Genl. Clark, in the West. 
 
 Thomas afterwards got to be a Methodist preacher. 
 When I was a small boy he used to preach near my 
 father's. I suppose he was sent to preach on some 
 circuit on the Eastern shore of Maryland, where he 
 died, which must have been before the year 1800. 
 
 The Raymonds of Taylor County are descendants 
 of Edward Raymond. I think he was Uncle Calder's 
 oldest son. He too had been a Revolutionary soldier. 
 In old times I often heard him spoken of as a first 
 rate soldier. I recollect hearing that the Captain he 
 had served under said that if he had the whole world 
 to choose soldiers from, that Edward Raymoud & 
 another soldier, whose name I have forgotten, would 
 be his first choice. 
 
 Re lived on the old State road six miles east of 
 where Fetterman now is. In the month of April 
 1808, I stayed two nights with him. Re was a man 
 of few words, but I got him to tell of some of his 
 fighting in the army, but don't recollect the particu- 
 lars clear enough to write. I remember that he told 
 me that he served live years in the army. 
 
 Uncle Calder and his son John removed to Indiana 
 about the year 181 2 or 1813. I don't recollect 
 whether Edward went with them, or whether he 
 died, but Edward's son John remained on the farm. 
 
 In 1844 I was at his house. Re was then a wid- 
 ower, but married again afterwards. I don't know 
 whether he had any brothers there or not; it is prob- 
 able that he had; if so the present Raymonds of 
 Taylor County are their descendants. 
 
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 As to the Haymins of the West, which you 
 inquire about, I have no idea that they are relations 
 of GUI family. Their name is spelled differently. 
 They first settled on the Ohio River some 6 or seven 
 miles above the Letart falls, on the Ohio side. I 
 was once aquainted with some of them. They did 
 not resemble our famil}^ The\^ were of good standing 
 in the neighborhood, as I was told. 
 
 In the winter of the year 1834-5, ^ stayed five or 
 six weeks at Cincinnati, where I got acquainted with 
 two or three of them who lived at Newport a town 
 on the Kentucky side of the river opposite to Cincin- 
 nati. I stayed one night with one of them. He 
 seemed very anxious to find out something that would 
 show our two families were related. He asked me 
 many questions respecting my ancestors, and proba- 
 bly I asked him similar questions, respecting his 
 ancestors, but all to no purpose. Finally he told me 
 that in the time of the American Revolution, his 
 ancestors had taken sides with the British; that when 
 the Jefferson Republican party was organized, that 
 they had taken sides and acted with it so long as it 
 lasted; and that the then present generation were 
 members of the Whig party. In reply to this I told 
 him that my ancestors and nearly all of them who 
 were able to bear arms in that Revolution, had done 
 so on side of American independence; that the}^ were 
 or had been members of the Federal party; and that 
 I could only claim kin with him so far as Whig prin- 
 ciples were concerned. This ended the conversation 
 on that subject. If you want the two pay rolls, men- 
 tioned in this letter, you can have them, they are 
 both in my father's handwriting. 
 
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 I once had the muster roll of the company com 
 manded by my father, in the year 1777, but many 
 years ago I let Thomas S. Raymond or his son Wil- 
 liam have it. As William talked about publishing 
 or writing a history of the family, it is probable it is 
 now in possession of Alpheus Raymond, among the 
 papers of his father or brother William. 
 Very Respectfully Yours, 
 
 Daniel Raymond. 
 
 W. Va. Sept. 26, 1871. 
 
 Col. Luther Raymond 
 
 Dear Sir. Yours of the i6th, inst. came to 
 hand a few daj's ago. 
 
 I think that Uncle Calder Raymond and his son 
 John and his family, settled somewhere within 10 or 
 15 miles of Brookeville, Indiana. Your uncle Lewis 
 Bond, I think, had some acquaintance with them. 
 They went there a short time before he died. The 
 place he settled on was some five or six miles north 
 or north east of Brookville. 
 
 If my father had any other brothers than Calder, I 
 have no recellection of ever hearing of any of them. 
 I have heard of two of his sisters, one of which 
 married a man whose name was Kelly, and the other 
 married William Kenton, a brother to Simon Kenton 
 whose name you may have seen in the history of the 
 Indian wars. 
 
 Wm. Kenton came to my father's house, I think 
 in the year 1802, & stayed there a week or two. Re 
 was a man of good appearance. At that time he 
 
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 lived on Mad River, Ohio, in Champaign County, I 
 
 think. 
 
 Yours &c. 
 
 Danl. Haymond. 
 
 New York, 26th, Dec. 1845. 
 Sir. Yours of the 19th, inst. received. I met 
 your grandfather four times in the years 1 784-1 786, 
 once at my house in Fayette Co. Pennsylvania, three 
 times at Clarksburg, every time on business. All I 
 can say of him is, that he was very intelligent, under- 
 stood thoroughly every branch of his business, and 
 was an excellent officer. He was moreover disinter- 
 ested and a man of the strictest probity and integrity. 
 No one in that part of the country enjoyed a higher 
 consideration, and was more universally respected. 
 But owing to my short personal intercourse with him, 
 and to the distance of our placesof residence, I know 
 absolutely nothing of his place of birth, services or 
 history. 
 
 Your Obdt. Servant. 
 
 Albert Gallatin. 
 Mr. Luther Raymond. 
 Clarksburg, Va. 
 
 The following accounts of Major William Haymond 
 were kept on the back of a militia pay roll. 
 
 1779. 
 
 March 17: Mr. Henry Stephen Dr. 
 
 To 2 Bushels of corn at 8 Dollars Pr. Bushel ^4-16-0 
 
 April 12. Capt. David Scott Dr. 
 
 To 2 Bushels of Corn at 10 Dollars pr. Bushel ;^6-oo 
 
April Col. Zackll. Morgan Dr. 
 
 To 2 Bushels of corn at lo Dollars or lent. 
 
 May I. Colo. John Evans. Dr. 
 To 2^ Bushels of corn-lent. 
 
 May I. Jacob Jacobs Dr. 
 To iVi Bushels of corn-lent. 
 
PART FIFTH 
 
 LETTERS WRITTEN BY WILLIAM HAYMOxNTD, JR., TO 
 LUTHER RAYMOND. 
 
 Palatine Hill, Va., i8th Feby 1842. 
 Mr. Luther Haymond, 
 
 Sir: Your letter was duly received some time past 
 asking or requesting something in relation to the edu- 
 cation, residence, trade, &c. , of my father. I should 
 have answered before onl}' I have been unwell. It is 
 but little I can say in relation to his life, nothing 
 scarcely ot an}^ consequence, some few anecdotes, 
 &c. It is, I think, likely he was raised on the East- 
 ern Shore of Maryland, but I do not know. Let that 
 be as it ma}" he lived before moving to this country 
 near Montgomery Court House, at or near Rockville. 
 He, I suppose, was educated someplace there. He 
 was one of the best arithmeticians, understood sur- 
 vej^irg &c. I believe he had learned the trade of 
 wagon- making, however he could make almost any- 
 thing out of wood and iron. ^ 
 
 I have understood he commanded a company at 
 the taking possession of Fort Duquesne, now Pitts- 
 burgh. I have heard it said when living in Maryland, 
 he being from home, his dwelling house was burnt, 
 on his return my mother was bewailing their loss, he 
 in reply said they had a kitchen, and appeared to be 
 contented. 
 
 At the above mentioned place, near said Court 
 House, I suppose I was born in the year 1771. 
 
 In the year 1773 my father moved to this country. 
 It is strongl}" impressed on my mind, that we stopped 
 in the forks of Cheat River, at or near Rogers Fort. 
 We ma}^ have sta\xd here a year or two. I think 
 one of my brothers, a child, died. This can be known 
 
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 by reference to his family record. The next I recol 
 lect, our family were living in the Monongahela 
 Glades near Decker's Creek. It seems very strange 
 that any person should have settled there at that 
 date, when the whole country was almost vacant, I 
 have no recollection now long we lived there, but I 
 presume not long. As soon as war broke out we had 
 to leave there and the whole family went to Kearn's 
 Fort, opposite where Morgantown now stands. My 
 father then had eight negroes. We planted and 
 tended in corn the ground where Morgantown now 
 stands. This was a stockaded fort. At one time I 
 think there was a company of soldiers there. While 
 living ihere Coburn's Fort, about two miles this side 
 of Kearns' Fort, was burnt by the Indians. I was at 
 it when on fire. 
 
 How it happened that I was suffered to go I can- 
 not tell. Miller and Woodfin were killed on Miller's 
 place, three miles from Kearn's Fort while we were 
 there. Thej^ were brought into the fort on poles, 
 having their feet and hands tied and the pole running 
 between them. I remember this perfectly. When 
 we left the Glades we had two horses, Slider and 
 Prince, the former a brown, the latter a black horse. 
 They often ran away and went to the Glades; brother 
 John and myself would go after them. These two 
 horses I may hereafter mention. While living in 
 Kearn's Fort we had the small pox in the natural 
 wa3^ all the family except my father, who had had 
 it. Two children I think were all that died there 
 with that disease; however my father lost six or seven 
 of his negroes there. It was said they were poisoned. 
 
 While living in said fort we boys would go on what 
 was called the Hog-Back near the fort to hunt ramps. 
 We used the bow and arrow and were very good at 
 shooting them. Once while in the yard some one 
 shot up an arrow straight; it fell and struck through 
 the wrist of either Col. John Evans or one of the 
 
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 Wilsons, it was hard to draw out. This was all the 
 accidents I recollect happening while we lived in 
 the fort. 
 
 We moved from the fort what time I cannot say, 
 went about two or three miles below town on the land 
 of John Johnson, sometimes on the land of William 
 Joseph. While living on these farms, we were often 
 called up in the night and moved off a mile or two 
 to some house for safety. Once I recollect we went 
 to our house, while there some person came riding 
 by as fast as he could and said he saw an Indian just 
 back. The men ran out with their guns but no 
 Indians. On examining it was found that he had 
 seen a dogwood which some person had cut, and a 
 red substance had oozed out of it. We often had 
 such alarms, and often the Indians killed or took 
 prisoners in three or four miles or less of us. During 
 what was called the hard winter, the snow was very 
 deep. We lived in a large old house on Johnson's 
 land; it had two doors. I remember we would draw 
 large logs in the house with Prince and roll them on 
 the fire. My father would go on Wickwire's creek, 
 about sixteen miles from this place, and hunt in the 
 fall. This hard winter he had a number of deer 
 skins hung around the house to keep the wind off. 
 
 In those days we wore short breeches and leggins; 
 what else I do not recollect. How we lived I have 
 an indistinct recollection. I remember brother John 
 and myself with Slider and Prince went to Ruble's 
 Mill, in Pennsylvania, eleven miles, stayed all night, 
 next morning when on our horses to start for home. 
 Ruble or some other person brought each of us a 
 piece of light bread spread with butter. This I 
 thought such a great feast that I have it in my mind 
 to this day: 
 
 While we were living, I think on Joseph's land, the 
 Indians, I presume, killed Madison, the surveyor of 
 all this country. Hanway was appointed. I have 
 
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 understood, or heard at the time, that my father 
 might have gotten the appointment, but I suppose 
 he thought Hanway wanted it and he would not 
 interfere. 
 
 While living here Albert Gallatin and — Savory 
 were at my father's to see something about land. 
 
 The surve3^or's office was kept at a Mr. Pierpoint's 
 about two miles from where we lived. I was once 
 there with my father. There were several gentlemen 
 there from Philadelphia, getting or locating land. As 
 my father had been in the countr}^ above this place, 
 they applied to him to locate for them, how much I 
 cannot say, lo, 20 or 100,000 acres more or less. 
 My father directed how their entries should be made. 
 They wished to pay but he would have nothing. He 
 or they said they might or would give me something; 
 finally they gave me a dollar. I remember, I think, 
 hearing my father say he expected they would give 
 eight or ten dollars. Next day we started for home 
 on Silder and Prince, with the dollar in my pocket, 
 if I had a pocket, but before we got home my father 
 borrowed the dollar and sent me to Kearn's Mill to 
 buy corn with it. I believe I got i ^ bushels. I 
 have often thought of this circumstance. He here 
 had an opportunit}^ to get a considerable sum if he 
 would have made a charge, and although his family 
 were perhaps on the brink of suffering, he preferred 
 leaving it to their honor rather than charge them. It 
 seems as if no situation of circumstances would 
 change his course. While living here at William 
 Joseph's or Johnson's, the last negro (a man) died. 
 While we were living on Joseph's land David Morgan 
 killed the two Indians. They sent my father a piece 
 of tanned Indian skin for a strop. 
 
 I went occasionally to school, I suppose a year or 
 two. Two bo3's and myself were one day in the woods 
 near Owen Davis' orchard. They concluded to go and 
 get some apples and I stayed back. On their return 
 
I helped eat them. This comes the nearest t 
 steaHng of anything I have any recollection of in my 
 life, my partaking of a part. How 1 happen to 
 remember it so long I cannot say. In those days I 
 used the bow and arrow, killed squirrels in the corn 
 field, birds, &c. 
 
 I was with m}^ father at the rope works making 
 cords to make a hoppose. He was preparing to go 
 in the Revolutionary Army and had got ready, when 
 news came that peace was made. They had a great 
 rejoicing meeting on the occasion at Morgantown. 
 The Indians were less troublesome than they had 
 been. People began to stir about. 
 
 Harrison County was formed out of Monongalia in 
 in 1783 or 4. My father was appointed surveyor, we 
 still living on Joseph's farm. Thomas Laidley had 
 brought a store to Morgantown and Mr. Neely. My 
 father bought a bear skin coat, as he had to go to 
 Williamsburg to be examined. The morning before 
 he started Laidley and Mense his storekeeper came 
 to our house with I believe twenty half joes, in all two 
 hundred dollars in gold, to send to Richmond to buy 
 land warrants. I remember hearing my father say 
 he was ashamed to wear said coat for fear people 
 would say he was proud. 
 
 Of the old settlers I have norecollection. Whether 
 my father was in the Revolutionary war or not I do 
 not know. If he was it was while we lived in the 
 fort. How it happened that he was called Major I 
 cannot say. He, I suppose, was in the army when 
 Daniel Morgan was a waggoner there of which I 
 suppose you have heard. It has always been my 
 impression that he was in the Revolutionary Army. 
 How it happened that he got the appointment of 
 surveyor in Harrison I cannot tell, but 1 think he did 
 not electioneer for it. I have omitted to say that 
 some time before this he was appointed one of the 
 Commissioners to settle the claims to unpatented 
 
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 lands in the country. During this time he obtained 
 a certificate for his land in the Glades. He also got 
 two other certificates for land in Harrison County, 
 I may hereafter refer to them. In the spring or 
 summer of 1784 brother John with others started 
 from the mouth of Decker's Creek in canoes down 
 the river and went to the mouth of Kanawha to 
 survey for Vanderen. 
 
 On the return of my father from Richmond he went 
 to Clarksburg on his duty of office. In October 
 following brother John, having returned from 
 Kanawha, and myself, with those two celebrated 
 horses, Silder and Prince, took two loads of plunder. 
 I was then thirteen years old. Brother John went up 
 to Jonathan, and got two or three more horses to 
 help us move. I knew no person in Clarksburg, and 
 was quite lost. There I met David Pruntyand went 
 back of that hill with him to hunt chestnuts. 
 Clarksburg was built by two rows of cabins extending 
 from near where the Court House now is to Jackson's 
 house on the east side of Elk Creek. It had been 
 built to answer for a fort. Next day we started for 
 home which day the Indians attacked I believe Mr. 
 West where Weston now stands. When we arrived 
 at home we got a Mr. Tibbs to help us with a horse. 
 We started and on the first day stayed or lodged on 
 Tom's Run two miles below Smithton. Next day 
 got to Prickett's settlement. Third day to the Valley 
 River, F'ourth day just above where William Martin's 
 brick house now stands, and the fifth day we arrived 
 in Clarksburg in the afternoon, having been five 
 days on the road, nearly. 
 
 If I feel like writing I will continue the narrative 
 although a great part so far is in relation to myself. 
 When I think of those times above mentioned, it 
 seems strange to me how the people survived, many 
 times without anything to eat and little to wear. I 
 think I ought to have stated that when we were on 
 
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 Joseph's farm my father gave $1000 for a peck of 
 salt. He had a considerable quantity of Continental 
 money. It is likely he sold his possessions in 
 Maryland and took continental money for the same. 
 
 Wm. Raymond. 
 
 LETTER NO. 2. 
 
 Palatine Hill, Marion County, W. Va., 
 
 March i8th, 1842. 
 Luther Haymond. 
 
 Sir: In my first letter I informed you that I had 
 a brother who died at Roger's Fort. On examining 
 an extract from the record of our famih^ I find my 
 recollection was right, although I suppose I had not 
 noticed it for fifty years. Walter, a brother, was 
 born in May 1774 and died in November of the same 
 year. I am not able to say where your father was 
 born. He was born in January, 1776, I suppose in 
 the Glades or in Kearn's Fort, perhaps he can tell. 
 Your Aunt Sarah Bond was born in 1778, and sucked 
 when her mother had the small pox. We then lived 
 in the Fort. 
 
 I omitted to tell you that in 1782 m}" father bought 
 330 acres of the land I live on, for which he paid one 
 hundred pounds. He intended to settle on it, and I 
 suppose would have done so, had he not got the 
 surveyor's office in Harrison Count}^ 
 
 I will now commence my narrative. At Clarks- 
 burg where we arrived in the fall of 1784 we stopped 
 at a house nearly opposite James P. Bartlett's tavern. 
 I have no recollection how long we stayed there; 
 perhaps, but a few days, as my father bought 60 
 acres of land for sixt}?^ pounds, about three quarters 
 of a mile above town where we moved with Slider 
 and Prince and built a house for an office. 
 
 You have heard, I suppose, that my father always 
 
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 kept an open house, we had considerable of company, 
 strangers &c. coming to the office. While here my 
 father purchased Dick, I suppose you remember him, 
 and also a negro girl named Patience. On this place 
 we farmed some with Silder and Prince, but it was 
 but little. Here I laid my bow and arrows aside and 
 used the rifle. We often had company. Col. 
 Lowther, J. Custard and others shot matches. I 
 was not able to shoot off hand. I took a rest, the 
 others shot off hand. I nearly always shot cutting 
 shots — about 25 or 30 yards was the distance. 
 
 Sometime about the year 1787 there was a law 
 passed to make a road from the mouth of the Little 
 Kanawha to some point on Cheat or further east. 
 My father was one of the Commissioners. The first 
 part of the road was I believe made from Clarksburg 
 eastward. I was once with the Commissioners as far 
 as Minear's on the Valley River viewing and marking 
 the road. The Commissioners then commenced 
 viewing from Clarksburg to the Ohio River, but would 
 get lost in coming back. They then started with the 
 compass at Clarksburg, and ran a due west course 
 and struck the Ohio River six or eight miles below 
 Marietta. They then marked the road back to Clarks- 
 burg keeping the west line for a guide. The road was 
 then cut out. On my father's return from one of these 
 trips he found my mother sick in November or Decem- 
 ber, 1788. He also came home sick. A few days 
 after my mother died. I can say but little about her, 
 as I scarcely had sense to know I had a mother before 
 she was gone. Old Mr. Morgan Morgan has told me 
 that she understood the scriptures better than any other 
 person he ever knew. She, I believe, held to the 
 Church of England. She was buried at the west end 
 of Clarksburg. Two years past when I was at Clarks- 
 burg, I went to see if I could find any sign of the 
 grave. I hired a man to pale it in, which had been 
 done about 53 years before. She, I believe, was a 
 
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 woman of strong mind and high temper. I had by 
 this time become familiar with a gun and the woods. 
 Killed turkeys and some deer. For some years the 
 Indians had not been very bad or done much mis- 
 chief. Once in Clarksburg I was at a draft to furnish 
 men to be stationed on the frontier. My father stood 
 draft but got clear. Some little I went to school, but 
 spent much of my time in Clarksburg playing ball. &c. 
 But I never could find agreeable company with those 
 high frolicking people, for I never attempted to dance 
 more than two or three times in my life. I believe 
 that in the fall of 1789 my father married again, 
 brother John and myself were at that time on Ten- 
 mile hunting. We had surmised its taking place 
 before we left home. Of course I suppose we were 
 opposed to it, for it seems to be an instinct in 1 child 
 not to love a step-mother. So it was with me. She 
 always used me as well as she could, and the rest of 
 the children, but if I did not love her I never to my 
 recollection gave her a disrespectful word during the 
 time I was at home. 
 
 I believe in the year 1790 I went with the commis- 
 sioners to the Ohio River to view the road made. 
 While at Isaac Williams', opposite to the mouth of 
 the Muskingum and Marietta, I laid out a town for 
 Mr. Williams, for which he gave me a lot. By the 
 by I neglected to get a deed for it and lost it, though 
 after I moved to the place where I now live, I sent 
 him a plan of the town with my name on the lot with 
 the request that he would make me a deed, but he 
 failed. This shows what a person may lose by 
 neglecting at times to do a little writing. 
 
 On our way home we camped on the flat just this 
 side of the lower crossing of Middle Island Creek, 
 built fires to keep off the gnats. I had laid down and 
 fallen asleep when one of the company came to me 
 and said the Indians were around or near the fire. 
 We moved off a small distance and stayed until near 
 
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 day, when we started. I supposed they had heard 
 some animal walking. This was the greatest alarm 
 I ever had before or after, being awakened out of sleep 
 was the reason I suppose. Yours, &c. , 
 
 Wm. Haymond. 
 
 LETTER NO. 3. 
 
 Palatine Hill, March 25th, 1842. 
 Luther Haymond : 
 
 Sir: — In m}?^ last I informed you of our alarm on the 
 road just this side of the lower crossing of Middle 
 Island. We proceeded home without being molested. 
 About this time or the year before there was a great 
 scarcit}^ of grain in Harrison county. A great many 
 people went to Pennsylvania after it, among the rest 
 brother John and myself. We went to John Hall's, 
 where Mr. Reeder now lives, and bought a canoe of 
 said Hall, went down the river to the mouth of 
 White ly to Thomas Douglass. He had married my 
 sister Ann. There we bought, I believe, five or seven 
 barrels of flour. Started up the river, hired a hand 
 three miles above Morgantown. We continued and 
 arrived with our flour at the mouth of Elk creek after 
 a week's hard labor. 
 
 About or in the year 1790 the Indians killed John- 
 son's family on Ten Mile Creek (you know the place). 
 Johnson had gone on Saturda}' to watch a lick. On his 
 return home he found his house in a dreadful situa- 
 tion. The bed tick had been ripped open, the feathers 
 scattered, a cow killed, and I believe, a hog in the 
 yard. He judged the cause and immediately started 
 for Clarksburg, but took the contrary course. He 
 went the same or nearly the same course the Indians 
 did for a short distance, however, he got to Clarks- 
 burg about 2 o'clock. About twenty of us started, 
 some on horseback and some on foot, ran nearly the 
 
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 whole distance and got to the house of Johnson about 
 one hour before sundown, took the Indians' trail, in 
 about two or three hundred yards we passed a deer 
 that Johnson had killed and there brought off his 
 horse. We went about one mile on the trail to the 
 top of the ridge, some of the men stopped to parle}^ 
 some of us proceeded a little further and found John- 
 son's wife and three children lying dead. The}^ had 
 been tomhawked and scalped and were laid with their 
 feet pointing east, west, north and south. As near as 
 I could guess thus : +. This was an awful sight to 
 me and the rest of the men, but nothing in compari- 
 son to that of Mr, Johnson. The bereaved husband 
 and father seemed to be unable to bear the shock. If 
 it was hard to bear in those days of hardships how do 
 you think it would be borne in these days. We laid 
 the dead together and covered them with a bedcover, 
 and returned back to the house, went into the woods 
 and staid till the next morning, when we dug a grave 
 and buried the four together. As we were about 
 finishing. Col. Lowther with about fifteen men came 
 to us. We then took the trail. They kept along the 
 ridge, up Tenmile creek, crossed the creek, raised the 
 hill on the west side and fell on the head of a small 
 stream of Rush Run near the mouth of the latter, 
 crossed Rush run, and took the hill, just leaving 
 Owen Davis', now Marsh's place, to the left. Here 
 we held a consultation and it was decided that the 
 Indians had too long the start, and if overtaken would 
 kill the prisoners and the chase was given up and we 
 returned home. This Indian tale may perhaps be out 
 of place, but thinking of those days I could not for- 
 bear giving you an account of this sorrowful event. 
 
 I must tell you a little anecdote. A Mr. Amaziah 
 Davisson who formerly lived about three miles east of 
 Clarksburg, had traveled the road from Marietta to 
 Clarksburg. I saw him some time after this, and he 
 told me that he had been ver}" uneas3' for some time 
 
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 past, as he had heard that my father had called him 
 a liar. He had said there was one hill on said road 
 that it would take i,ooo horses to pull an empty 
 wagon up. When my father heard it he said it was 
 a lie, for 500 could do it. After his hearing how he 
 happened to be called a liar he was pleased at the joke. 
 
 I informed you that my father had taken two cer- 
 tificates for land in Harrison (I supposed assigned to 
 him), one on the West Fork for a valuable tract, some 
 person claimed it and he gave it up. The other was 
 for 400 acres on Rooting Creek where Simon Arnold 
 now lives, I remember hearing it said that he got 
 this tract surveyed and some person who lived on the 
 Branch claimed the land and he assigned him the 
 plat. Adjoining this he had a preemption warrant of 
 1000 acres which he got surveyed. 1 helped to carry 
 the chain. Previous to our going to survey, George 
 Arnold, who made the 1000 survey, asked my 
 father if he intended to take the land between the 
 400 acre survey and Grigsby's survey. My father 
 said not and Arnold located it. I believe that this 
 was the best land in the bounds of the 1000 acre sur- 
 vey. My father it seems had made his calculations 
 to make his surve}^ above the resident right, and would 
 not change even for better land. I do not make this 
 statement with any reflection on him. I am perfectly 
 satisfied, but to show how little he cared for anything 
 in this world. The land he sold for little but I 
 expect it in part is now valuable. 
 
 Poor old Slider and Prince died I believe while we 
 lived at that place. They had lived in the times that 
 tried men's souls, but this they knew but little about. 
 I shall have but little to say hereafter to you in this 
 narrative except you wish to hear some other of my 
 adventures with the Indians, &c. I think Nicholas 
 
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 Carpenter, who lives in your place (Clarksburg, Va. ) 
 was with us at Johnson's at the time his family was 
 killed. Ask him. Yours &c. 
 
 Wm. Raymond. 
 
 No. 4. 
 
 Palatine Hill, Va., 6th Apl. 1842. 
 
 Luther Haymond, 
 
 Sir: In my last letter I had brought my narrative 
 up to the year 1 790. We were still living on the hill 
 above Clarksburg. The Indians were getting to be 
 very troublesome, still we would venture in the woods. 
 It seems strange to me at this time, that my father 
 would indulge us in our excursions at that time. As 
 those times are so forcibly impressed on my mind I 
 will give you an account of one or two circumstances 
 which to me now would seem very perilous. In the 
 fall of 1 790 I went with old Mr. Thomas Nutter and 
 Isaac Richards on a hunting excursion to see if we 
 could find any buffaloes. We steered our course 
 through the hills towards Marietta, generally leaving 
 the road to our right hand until we reached the 
 Hughes River, five miles below where the road 
 crossed said river, we fell on the trail of a buffalo bull, 
 followed him about a mile when we saw him jump up 
 and start to run. Richards and myself fired at the 
 same instant; one of us shot him in some part of 
 the head which brought him to his knees; the other 
 hit him behind the shoulder which was the killing 
 shot. He ran about 150 yards and fell. He was a 
 fine animal. We butchered him and set out for 
 home. We came into the State road near where Mr. 
 Martin now lives, we arrived safe at home with our 
 meat. One other trip I will mention. In the last 
 of February, 1791, Jonathan Coburn and mj^self 
 started on a trapping voyage; we hired Daniel Mc- 
 Cann to go with us to the mouth of Fink's Fork of 
 
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 Leading Creek to help carry our traps out and bring 
 in our horses. Just below the mouth of said Fork 
 Coburn and myself camped, built a canoe, and stayed 
 there about a week. While there we caught four 
 beavers. We then descended the creek in our canoe 
 to its mouth, which we thought was about twenty-five 
 miles. At the junction of the creek with the river we 
 set a trap and then went up the river about one hun- 
 dred yards; it was then near dark. Coburn went on 
 the land to find a place to camp; he came back and 
 said he had found a fine chance for a fire, a small 
 house, he said, which had been built by hunters to put 
 meat in. We struck lire, put in a quantity, and it 
 blazed up finely while the bark lasted, and then it 
 took the balance of the night to keep it alive. It was 
 a very cold night and too dark to hunt wood. As 
 soon as day came we made a fine fire to thaw our- 
 selves. Coburn said he had dreamed he had a 
 scuffle with a man who had but one arm and said he, 
 "I expect I shall findabeaver in the trap with one foot 
 off." He went to the trap and brought back a beaver 
 which had lost one of its fore legs. I suppose he had 
 been caught in a trap and gnawed his leg off. This was 
 one of the truest dreams I ever knew. We then de- 
 scended the river slowly saying to each other that when 
 we got to the usual crossing places of the Indians we 
 would be very careful, but we always forgot to be so 
 in crossing those places. There had been a great 
 beech mast the preceding year. There was plent}^ of 
 mast in March. The woods were full of bear, deer 
 and some buffalo, and a large quantity of turkey's. 
 We lived chiefly on turke3's. They were very fat. 
 About ten miles above the mouth of the West Fork 
 of the Kanawha we killed a buffalo, and about six 
 miles above the same place we saw a bear swimming 
 the river. We landed and had a hard fight. We shot 
 about six times before we killed him. I think he 
 would have weighed about 400 pounds We took him 
 
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 on board our canoe. Just above said West Fork I 
 saw some deer, landed and proceeded after them. 
 Coburn shot a buffalo on the bank. The dogs 
 jumped out of the canoe and ran the buffalo down 
 the river and stopped opposite to me, but I still kept 
 down the river, and left Coburn to kill him, which he 
 did. He was a very large bull. We landed at the 
 mouth of the West fork where we barbecued bear 
 meat &c. and then proceeded down said river. 
 About a mile below the mouth of Spring creek we saw 
 a deer standing near the river. Coburn landed to 
 shoot it, when about half up the bank, we heard a 
 gun up Spring creek. Says Coburn, "Shall I shoot?" 
 at that time the deer ran. We heard dogs bark and 
 then thought it a white man, tho' wiih some doubts. 
 We started and got near where we thought the gun 
 was fired and hallooed, and the man answered and 
 we went to him. He had killed a fine bear. He 
 thought when he heard us (or I suppose he would have 
 broke ground) that it was his two companions who 
 had left him 26 days past for Neals station. He had 
 been camped about three miles below Spring Creek, 
 had killed and jerked some buffaloes. We took his 
 bear and carried it or a part of it to our canoe and 
 started again. Before we got to his camp we found 
 a fine canoe lodged on the side of the bank, which 
 w^e launched and took with us, 
 
 While there launching the canoe Coburn shot a 
 large otter the skin of which we afterwards sold for 
 four or five dollars. We stayed at his camp that night 
 consulting whether to go up the river again to the 
 mouth of the West fork to hunt. But Coburn having 
 a family was opposed to returning and having so 
 many dreams, I suppose having once dreamed true 
 thought he had done so again. So we gave it up. 
 I am not aware that these hunting trips will be 
 
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 interesting to you. I write them merely to show how 
 venturesome people were in those days. 
 
 Yours &c. 
 
 Wm. Haymond. 
 
 NO. 5. 
 
 Palatine Hill, Va., Apl. 10, 1842. 
 Luther Haymond, 
 
 Sir: In my last letter I think I stated that our 
 trip on Kanawha was in 1791. I am not certain 
 whether it was in that year or 1792, not important. 
 In my last letter we were as far as Shepherd's Camp. 
 Shepherd was the name of the man we found in the 
 woods — the next morning after we got to his camp 
 we loaded his meat in our canoe, that is the one we 
 found. We left our first made canoe and descended 
 the the river, had not gone far before we met two 
 men going up the river to hunt, each in a separate 
 canoe. Shepherd went back with them and Coburn 
 and myself proceeded down the river having first 
 exchanged our big canoe with one of them for a less 
 one. We landed at Neal's station safe with our load. 
 Stayed there a day or two and then proceeded up the 
 Ohio to Marietta. The river was very high and we 
 had a hard days work to get up, not being in the habit 
 of working. At Marietta we sold our skins. Bear 
 meat &c. After staying seveial days at Mr. Williams 
 we started home. When about six miles we met 
 Isaac Richards with about 15 or 20 men going to 
 be stationed at Williams and Neals stations. 
 
 Coburn would turn back with them to Williams. 
 This I was opposed to but yielded, back we went, 
 stayed three or four da3^s and then started again. 
 By this time our company had increased to 10 or 12 
 among whom was a Frenchman who could not under- 
 stand English. He was not able to keep up and 
 
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 Richards hired him his horse to ride to Clarksburg 
 where we arrived safe, sometime about the first of 
 April having been gone 40 days or upwards, during 
 which time we had never changed our clothes. We 
 might have made considerable if we had been indus- 
 trious. We, I believe, sold our Beaver skins for two 
 dollars a pound and the bear meat for six pence a 
 pound. What would you think now, to see two such 
 persons as we were? 
 
 In May following the Indians stole some horses on 
 the West Fork of the Monongahela River and took 
 two or three prisoners. They were followed to near 
 the Kanawha River. Our men discovered them at 
 night went back and laid until near da3^ when they 
 crept up to the fire but the Indians were gone. They 
 pursued them until the}^ got to the river, a part of the 
 Indians had crossed, the others h^d taken down the 
 river, or otherwise the Indians that had crossed the 
 river left the horses over on the west side of said river, 
 being too closely pursued and took the prisoners off. 
 Our men then went up the river to a ford crossed over 
 and got the horses. On their return up to the ford to 
 recross they saw that same Shepherd and his 
 companion Daniel Rowell descending the river with 
 our canoe before mentioned and a hollow Sycamore 
 made so that it would carry a load. They thought 
 at first sight that it was the Indians crossing the river 
 and Shepherd and Rowell thought the others were 
 Indians. However they soon found out the mistake. 
 Shepherd and Rowell proceeded down the river and 
 had not gone far when the}' saw the raft of the 
 Indians floating from the shore, they having just 
 crossed. 
 
 The same year or about that time the said Rowell 
 and two other young men one of whom was a Neal, 
 were up said river near the mouth of the West Fork. 
 Rowell was setting in the canoe ferr\nng the others 
 over the river, the two young men were standing up 
 
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 when the Indians fired on them and killed the two 
 young men who fell out of the canoe. Rowell swam 
 ashore, ran to the camp and got his gun without a 
 lock, he had taken it off to grease. He then made 
 for Neals station. On his wa}'^ he hid his gun and 
 never was able to find it again. The men stationed 
 at Neals ascended the River (Kanawha), found the 
 men and brried them. The Indians had not found 
 them as they were not scalped. 
 
 About this time the spies at Neals station saw the 
 trail of Indians who had been on the West Fork of 
 Monongahela and stole perhaps 8 or lo horses. They 
 had crossed the Kanawha some 25 or 30 miles above 
 its mouth. The men at the station got in canoes, 
 went down the Ohio until they struck the trail where 
 they had crossed. The}' followed and overtook the 
 Indians retook the horses and brought them back to 
 the station, made a sale and divided the proceeds. 
 This is the first and last case that I have any 
 knowledge of that the men of this country kept the 
 property taken from the Indians that had been stolen 
 by them. (See the Border Warfare.) 
 
 In the year 1791 the Indians killed James or John 
 Mclntire and wife a mile or two above the mouth of 
 Bingamon Creek. Five or six of us when we heard 
 the news started and went to Benj. Robinson's. 
 Robinson had appointed before we got to his house 
 to meet some men on Buffalo Creek. We started 
 eleven of us in all, went up Tenmile Creek to the 
 mouth of Jones Run and in going up said run we 
 found the trail of the Indians, but as Robinson had 
 promised to meet those men we went on to Buffalo 
 creek, but found no persons. We took up Buffalo to 
 the head of Fishing Creek went down a considerable 
 distance, took up a right hand branch on which we 
 camped. Next morning crossed over the dividing 
 ridge, fell on the waters of Middle Island, went down 
 the same, to the creek about a mile below the 
 
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 three forks. The Indians had just come down the 
 creek. Here was a fresh trail. Col. George Jackson 
 proposed that six men should be chosen who should 
 strip as light as they could and go ahead of the 
 horses. He also asked the privilege of choosing them 
 and going ahead which was granted. I then thought, 
 chosen or not, I would be one of them. George 
 Jackson, Benj. Robinson, Christopher Carpenter, 
 John Haymond, John Harbert, and myself the 6th one, 
 were the number. We stripped ourselves as light as 
 we could, tied handkerchiefs around our heads and 
 proceeded as fast as we could. The Indians 
 appeared to travel ver}' carelessl3^ broke bushes &c. 
 It was in May. The weeds were 3'oung and tender. 
 We could follow a man ver}^ easily. We went about 
 7 or 8 miles, passed where the Indians had stopped to 
 eat. Arriving on a high bank, Jackson turned 
 around and said ' 'where do 3^ou think they have gone, " 
 with that he jumped down the bank and we proceeded 
 down on the beach a short distance, when one of the 
 Indians fired. I think we were about 40 yards from 
 them, we on the beach, they on the bank on the same 
 side of the creek. We started on a run and had run 
 10 or 15 yards when the other three fired, then we 
 were in about 30 yards of them. At the first gun 
 Jackson wheeled around and said "where did that 
 gun come from?" John Harbert and brother John 
 discovered them first running up the hill, they fired. 
 Benj. Robinson and m.yself ran and jumped on the 
 bank where the Indians left their knapsacks. I fired 
 the third shot, the Indians were 60 yards off. They 
 had run up a very steep hill. Robinson shot at the 
 same Indian that I did. I heard him or one of them 
 talk after I shot. Jackson and Carpenter shot last. 
 We then ran a little to the right from where the 
 Indians had ran up the hill. I was the first on top 
 with the compan}^ I was with (The other men had 
 
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 joined us and two or three went round the hill in 
 another place.) 
 
 We then turned down to where the Indians had 
 got on the top of the hill, there we found a blanket, 
 belt, knife scabbard, and blood. The Indian had 
 bled considerable, he went about a quarter of a mile 
 and cut a stick which we supposed was to stop the 
 blood. We followed him about a mile when we then 
 thought it dangerous to follow thinking hejiad his gun 
 with him, and would hide and kill one of us. To my 
 mortification we returned. We could have trailed 
 him anywhere. On our return we found his shot 
 pouch. Had we found it at first I think we would 
 have overtaken him. About ten years afterwards his 
 gun was found. After we fired I wanted to run down 
 the creek as I could see that a run came in just below 
 but the rest would not. If we had I have no doubt 
 but we would have met them again as the wounded 
 Indian crossed the point and run not very far from its 
 mouth. The other Indians we did not follow, but I 
 think they crossed below where the wounded one did. 
 We returned to the Indian's place of attack where we 
 found all their knapsacks, one shot pouch (having 
 previously found one) four hatchets and all their 
 plunder including the woman's scalp. Here on 
 examination we found that brother John had been 
 shot through the handkerchief just above his ear, and 
 Jackson through the shirt sleeve near his wrist. Had 
 we looked we would have found the Indian's gun. 
 We ought to have expected that the Indian would 
 throw away his gun before his shot pouch. I have 
 since heard that one of tne Cunninghams who was a 
 prisoner with the Indians at that time, on his return 
 said that an Indian came home and said that he had 
 been with three others on Muddy River (West Fork), 
 killed a man and woman, and they were followed, and 
 they fired on the whitemen and killed two, and that 
 the whiteman fired on them and wounded three, one 
 
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 of whom died after crossing the second ridge at a run 
 (we were on the second ridge and near the second run). 
 The other two died between that and the Ohio River. 
 If this account is true and the Indians we followed 
 were the same, we must have shot well. We thought 
 at the time we had wounded two. We sold our 
 Indian plunder for about twenty dollars among which 
 were some curious affairs. Yours &c. 
 
 Wm. Raymond. 
 
 No. 6. 
 
 Palatine Hill, Va. 13th. April 1842. 
 Luther Haymond, 
 
 Sir: I think in the year 1791 my father bought 
 the land where brother Cyrus now lives in all about 
 200 acres for about 100 pounds. 
 
 In the fall, I think in October, we moved to it. On 
 the road I cannot say how many gangs of turkeys we 
 passed. I killed several on the way. Shortly I believe 
 after we moved the Indians burnt Mr. Thompson's 
 house on Lost Creek and killed his cow. The night 
 following I was with several others at said house while 
 it was burning. We stayed all night at the fire. The 
 next morning we crossed the creek and took the ridge 
 at Hackers Creek, We could not find the trail as it 
 was too much in the settlement. We went to Hughes 
 Run and Hackers Creek, where we were at one or 
 two houses burning, that had been fired by the Indi- 
 ans. We then returned home by way of Rooting 
 Creek. On the night after our return Sims house 
 was burned. Next day I was at it. We took a cir- 
 cle round, but not far enough or we would have found 
 the trail, as they were afterwards followed to near 
 Buckhannon by another party. The Indians had stolen 
 some horses, I believe at Sims cabin, and some at 
 Buckhannon, from which place they steered their course 
 to the Little Kanawha. Some of our men waylaid 
 
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 them on the Little Kanawha, a day or two but got 
 out of patience and went in search of them. I have 
 understood they were gone but a little while, when 
 the Indians passed the place where our men had laid 
 in ambush for them. It seems to me that our men 
 were on one side of the river and the Indians on the 
 other. However be that as it may, the Indians effected 
 their escape down the river. 
 
 As we were on a new farm we turned our attention 
 to work that fall and spring (except hunting time when 
 I followed the woods) 
 
 Next spring we planted a good crop. I worked on 
 until June 1792 when the Indians being very trouble- 
 some Watson Clark and myself were appointed to go 
 and be stationed at Williams Station, opposite Mari- 
 etta. On the 22nd. day of said month we left Clarks- 
 burg with a horse to take for some person at the 
 mouth of the little Kanawha. The first night we 
 staid at Salem. There were I think 8 or 10 men 
 stationed there. Next day we proceeded on 
 and arrived safe on Sunday. We were directed by 
 Col. Lowther who had command of the spies and 
 military to go up the river to the mouth of Middle 
 Island Creek, four days out and two in. 
 
 While we were there Mr. Moses Hunt who lived at 
 Neals Station, a mile up Kanawha from its mouth, 
 went out to hunt his horse. He met with three Indians, 
 who I understood laid down their guns, and caught 
 him by running. He said on their way to the Indian 
 towns, that they would almost starve, and when they 
 killed a deer they would eat like dogs. On their 
 way they found a bee tree. One of them stripped 
 climbed the tree, cut a hole, and took out the honey. 
 Having traveled by one or more of their towns they 
 got out of provisions, stretched Hunt on the ground, 
 tied a pole across him, and all three turned out to 
 hunt. Hunt got loose and returned home. I saw 
 
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 him on his way. He was eleven days living on birds, 
 roots &c. 
 
 Watson Clark and myself continued spying until 
 the middle of August when he returned home, and 
 Allison Clark took his place. We had to go up the 
 river and back, anyway we thought proper. Dur- 
 ing the summer the weeds were so thick that we 
 killed but few deer, and by the by it was rather 
 dangerous to be shooting, but when we saw a deer we 
 could not resist the temptation to shoot it. In the 
 fall we killed a considerable number of them, one day 
 six. They were plenty out in the hills. 
 
 One morning we heard two guns fired a mile or two 
 from us, we concluded it was Indians, and steered for 
 the place, when we got to or near, where we thought 
 they had fired we placed ourselves by trees and 
 howled like a wolf. We were answered by a man in 
 the same manner. I continued howling, and so did 
 he, he still coming nearer. In this situation I had 
 to turn around and look in every direction, as I 
 thought if his companions heard us, they would know 
 that the third person or persons must be near. When 
 he was about 120 yards from us he hallooed and 
 called his companion by name, and I knew his 
 voice. They had been up the river perhaps to 
 Wheeling, and had landed their canoe there over 
 night, and in the morning turned out hunting. If 
 you will consider yourself behind a tree and hear- 
 ing an Indian howl, and expect to see one or more 
 every minute, you may judge of my feelings at that 
 time. I will only say it was the most trying time of 
 my life. We were fifteen miles up the river from 
 our station. 
 
 One other time, I heard a gun near us, and in the 
 fall the woods I saw burning appeared just to have 
 been set on fire near where we had passed. By 
 whom the gun was shot or the woods fired, I never 
 could learn. If any Indians crossed the river during 
 
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 our stay we had no knowledge of it, except in the two 
 cases mentioned and they may have proceeded from 
 white men stroUing in the woods, but I was induced 
 to beheve that the woods were fired by the Indians. 
 We returned home safe in December. 
 
 Yours &c. 
 
 Wm. Haymond. 
 
 No. 7. 
 
 Palatine Hill, Va., 4th May 1842. 
 
 Luther Haymond, 
 
 Dear Sir: — I will give you an account of the Indians 
 killing N. Carpenter as well as I recollect it (I think 
 in a former letter I stated to you that Nicholas 
 Carpenter was with us the time we overtook the 
 Indians on Middle Island, if so it was a mistake for 
 it was his brother Christopher, who was with us, we 
 used to call him Stuffle Carpenter). This was in the 
 year 1790 or 1791, Marietta being newly settled. 
 Carpenter had collected a lot of cattle to drive there. 
 I saw him in Clarksburg, the day or the day before 
 he started, and I was on the eve of going with him, 
 but did not. He went on with his son about twelve 
 years of age, Jesse Hughes and two or three other 
 men. A company of Indians came near Neal's 
 Station on the Little Kanawha, caught a negro boy, 
 brought him with them to where they struck the road 
 leading from Clarksburg to Marietta, I presume some 
 place on Hughes river, or its waters. Carpenter and 
 his company had passed the same day. The Indians 
 danced and cut many fine capers when they saw the 
 trail, and started on after Carpenter. He had 
 camped about six miles this side of Marietta when 
 the Indians got in hearing of the bells. They took the 
 negro boy in the woods and tied him and proceeded 
 to the attack. It was between daybreak and sunrise. 
 One man was up sitting by the fire. They fired, a 
 
part at least ran towards the fire, the men raised and 
 ran. Hughes took up two guns. The Indians fol- 
 lowed him shot two holes through his hunting shirt. 
 He was compelled to throw down one gun, and would 
 tree and present his gun, then the Indians would 
 tree, he at last got on top of the hill where he 
 hallooed and cleared himself. He said he heard the 
 Tomahawk struck into Carpenter's son's head. 
 Carpenter got into a hole of water but was dis- 
 covered taken and tomahawked. One man was 
 taken prisoner, and one made his escape after being 
 shot through the hand, making two with Jesse 
 Hughes who escaped. I believe Carpenter, his son 
 and one other man were killed. During the conflict 
 the negro boy got loose and escaped to the settle- 
 ment. The Indians took the horses and went up the 
 Ohio some place not far from the mouth of Bull 
 Creek. I believe the horses were retaken from them 
 by a Company of men going up the river. The 
 horses were restored to Carpenter's heirs. I saw 
 Jesse Hughes on his return to Clarksburg and the 
 holes in his hunting shirt. The negro boy gave the 
 account of their following on the trail of Carpenter. 
 
 In 1793 I was again appointed spy under Levi 
 Morgan. We stayed at Salem most of the winter 
 without the company of our Lieutenant Morgan. 
 The last of February we concluded to take a scout. 
 John Cain, Samuel Jackson and myself started with 
 an intention of going on the south Fork of Hughes 
 River. We went on Middle Island Creek or rather 
 a branch of it, where the first night we lodged in a 
 camp. Here we were detained two or three days by 
 the rain, when it cleared up we proceeded. On a 
 branch of said creek we found four horses, which had 
 been in the woods all winter. We caught them and 
 sent Jackson to the settlement with them. Cain and 
 myself then changed our course and fell on the head 
 of Finks Fork of leading Creek. The hills bound 
 
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 so close to the Creek that we were often compelled to 
 wade it, and in doing so had sometimes to hold up 
 our shot pouches. Finally we camped. The next 
 morning crossed the ridge and fell on Leading Creek 
 and returned home. Jackson proceeded on and the 
 first house he got to was Henry or William Runyan's, 
 where he sta3^ed that night. A company of Indians 
 came I presume to where we left Jackson, perhaps 
 the same da}^ or a day or two after, followed him to 
 Runyan's and stole from him six horses. A company 
 of men followed them. The Indians had considera- 
 ble start. Our men took the road to Marietta, got in 
 canoes and went down the river, until they came to 
 where the Indians had crossed, took the trail followed 
 30 or 40 miles, came up to them, where they had 
 camped. There were but two Indians. The whites 
 fired, killed one Indian and wounded the other and 
 retook four horses. It was thought that two Indians 
 had the previous night went on with the other horses 
 perhaps to a hunting camp. Brother John Raymond 
 was with this company. I was sorry that I was out 
 of the way and had not an opportunity to be with 
 them. Respectfully, 
 
 Wm. Raymond. 
 
 NO. 8. 
 
 Palatine Hill, Va. loth June 1842. 
 Mr. Luther Raymond. 
 
 Sir: I wrote a letter sometime ago to Levi Morgan 
 enquiring whether he knew anything of my father 
 during the Revolutionary War. I have not received 
 any answer from him yet. If he writes I will send 
 it to you. 
 
 I see by the enclosed paper that said Morgan was 
 married by my father. This had entirely escaped 
 my memory until I saw the within. In those days 
 there were but few preachers and the Justices of the 
 
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 Peace married. My father among the rest, he being 
 a Justice. 
 
 My last letter to you brought up the sketch of the 
 early times to 1793. My father had taken up 1000 
 acres before mentioned adjoining the tract of 400 
 acres before mentioned. A part of said land he sold 
 to Alex. McClelland. I presume you have heard of 
 a wild goose chase my brother John took. He was a 
 Senator from the Harrison District. While there or 
 on his wa3^ he bought about 2000 dollars worth of 
 goods, started a store, stayed about 20 months from 
 home. He went to Washington City where he met 
 said McClelland, who furnished him with a horse and 
 money to bring him home. This cost was paid by 
 my father out of the proceeds of this land, and your 
 uncle John came home with little but the BuUtown 
 land, where he shortly went. About this time my 
 father bought the land where Palatine now is about 
 137 acres. He also about the same time sold the 
 tract in the Monongahela Glades where he first settled 
 about 20 years previous. As I have heretofore told 
 you that tract contained 400 acres, he sold it for one 
 dollar per acre. I was by said land 20 years ago, I 
 believe no person lived on it then and I do not know 
 that any person lives on it yet. I suppose it would 
 not bring more now. A part of that money paid for 
 a part of the Palatine tract, which was bought for 
 140 dollars and is now worth 50 dollars per acre. 
 
 In the year 1793 Jacob Polsley who married your 
 Aunt Margaret, moved on the Palatine tract. In 
 1794 I moved where I now live. I have gone so far. 
 I do not think of anything further worth wiiting. 
 My father died in 1821. Edward Jackson was then 
 in Congress and John G. Jackson wrote a piece on 
 his death, and sent it to his brother at Washington. 
 It was published in the Intelligencer. I would like 
 to send it to you if I could find the paper, but I have 
 not preserved it. My father if I know anything of 
 
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 his temper, think it was good, tho' when raised, not. 
 He was a very indulgent parent and I think he was 
 as much of a RepubHcan as I ever knew. He cared 
 but Httle for riches, but always tried I think to do 
 what was right between man and man. 
 
 While we were living below Morgantown, as I do 
 not see it in the Border Warfare, I will give you an 
 account of Col. Scott who lived on the west side of 
 the river two miles from us, he had two of his daugh- 
 ters killed. This is recorded in the Border Warfare. 
 Not long after this his son James, who now lives near 
 Morgantown, was riding alone near his father's, the 
 Indians shot at him and shot through his hat, and cut 
 the skin on the back of his head. He rode off and 
 cleared himself. Brother John and a man by the 
 name of Lough with some others followed the Indians, 
 probably on Indian Creek above Morgantown, lost 
 the trail. The}^ returned home except Lough or Low, 
 who went further in search of a horse he had lost. 
 Sometime after; while on his horse he saw an Indian 
 on horseback riding toward him. He raised his gun 
 and presented it, another Indian shot at him and 
 passed a ball through his arm, between the wrist and 
 elbow, and through the arm between the elbow and 
 shoulder and into the side. The bullet lodged in the 
 skin back of the side making five holes. Lough 
 dropped his gun wheeled his horse and got safe home 
 with the loss of a considers ble quantity of blood. 
 
 He recovered. One of the Indians followed him 
 perhaps, two or three miles as was afterward discov- 
 ered. Very respectfully, 
 
 Wm. Haymond. 
 
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