John Denton

John Denton

E-mail correspondence from James Sellars:

Bob,

Here's another brief account of the capture of Ruddell's Station.

James

Draper MSS 29J:18 - Draper's interview with Rhoda Ground

Bird's expedition - Ruddell's and Martin's Forts. From Mrs. Rhoda (Long) Ground, Warren Co., Ky., Oct. 1844.

Ruddell's Station taken, June 1780 - The Indians first came and attacked with the (British?) - An old man named Goodknight was killed - Simon Girty and Micapah Calloway were with the enemy. Capt. Ruddell's family - John Long's family consisting of himself, wife and five children - one of the latter, a small boy, was scalped; John Denton, wife and one daughter, recollected and perhaps their children; also a family of Sellars.

Some of the prisoners were shortly after released; and others were kept in captivity till Wayne's Treaty of 1795.

Mrs. Ground (one of the children of Mr. Long) was a small girl when taken and can give no further information.