[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Stone's Life and Times of Sir Wm. sented seven Indian scalps, and stated Johnson. The attack, however, appears their having taken them in the following to have been wholly without justification, manner : That a number of Indians hav-The following is the account given in ing encamped at the mouth of Yellow Colonial History, vm, 464 : " Received creek, they with one Grithouse had col-information from Captain Crawford and lee ted themselves at the house of one one Mr. Nevill, from Virginia, that on Baker opposite to the said Indian camp, their way to this place they met a number and decoyed the Indian men, and two of inhabitants settled below this, moving women over to their side of the river to off, among whom was a party who pre-drink with them, who, upon finding 256 THE INDIAN TRIBES warned by a friendly squaw to escape, invited the aid of Great-house, who organized a band of thirty-two men and crossed the river for the purpose of falling upon the Indians; but finding that they were too strong for him, retreated, and, with a show of friendship, invited them to an entertainment. Without sus picion of treachery, part of the Indians accepted the invitation, and while engaged in drinking — some of them in a state of intoxication — were set upon and butchered in cold blood. The Indians who had remained at their encampment, hearing the noise of the treacherous attack, ran to their canoes to rescue their friends.