Person:Hugh McKeever (1)

Notes

From Revolutionary War Service Declaration of Timothy Day, born 30 June 1742 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania:

I think I was in my ninth year of my age when he came home which I consider to be in the forepart of the year 1777. When my father, John Day, Senior, returned and during the remainder of the British War, the Indians were frequently very troublesome about Ellis's Fort, Day's fort, Donley's fort in Botetout County, Virginia, and all the country round there. And said John Day, Senior, frequently went out as a spy under Captain Cook who was Captain at Ellis's Fort and he said John Day, Senior, served as a spy during the British War from the time he came home to the Point. And I have no doubt but his whole service as a spy would amount to one year and six months or more. During the time he was out as a spy Donley's fort was attacked by the Shawnee Indians (as I understood) at that fort two men was killed and one wounded, and killed the stock that was near the fort, I understood there was 350 Indians; and they rushed up to the fort - I understand there was nineteen Indians killed near the fort; and by 100 men coming to the assistanceof the fort that night the Indians were driven off. Hugh McKeever was killed near Day's fort and his family taken prisoners, which they carried off, and it was about two years before any of the prisoners got back.

From Ancestry Message Board:

The Indians attacked the Drennon home in 1784 near Day's Fort. Another report states that the Day's Fort was part of the Levi Moore/Robert Gay Farms. The Bridger brothers went to the relief of the Drennon Family and were both killed under a Buckeye tree (from which Buckeye, W.Virginia got its name). Also killed were Hugh McKeever, Henry Baker and Mrs. Thomas Drennon. A widow Elizabeth Bridger married Abraham McNeel 27 Sep 1798.