Person:Isabella Kincaid (5)

1764, 14 Apr: Eleanor KINKEAD, when she was captured by the Indians in Augusta Co., VA, had a daughter, seven years old, the second a son four years old, the youngest, "your Aunt HAMILTON," two years old... The mother had to carry the child two years old. After traveling several days, she fell and was not able to get up. They took the child from her, set her on a log, and sat one each side of it, and appeared to be holding council, whether to kill it or not. After talking together some time, they asked if the child would have black eyes. She told them it would. One of them remarked her hair was very black. They immediately decided. One of them that had the saddle fixed it on "your grandmother's" back, so that it gave her the use of her arms, which was a great relief to her. He set the child on top of his pack, which she said was a heavy one, and carried it to the towns. In two days they got home. He gave the child to one of his sisters who had lost a little one, and she saw it no more until it was given up about six months after. When it was taken from her it spoke English remarkably well for one of its years, and when she next saw it, it could not speak a word of English, but spoke Indian well.

1764, fall: The fall after her capture, an army was sent against the Indians, commanded by General BOQUETTE. The Indians were alarmed and agreed to make peace and bring in all the persons they held as captives, when upwards of 200 persons were given up, and among them "your grandmother," her infant three months old and the one two years old, the oldest having taken sick and died during the summer. "Your grandfather" was with the army when the little girl was given up. "Your grandmother" knew her immediately, but he could not recognize her, and was in great uneasiness, until her mother asked him if he did not recollect having bled her in the foot. He said he did, and stripped of her moccasin. There was the mark. The Great Spirit was kind to her, and delivered her out of their hands in just six months from the time she was taken captive. They returned to Augusta County.

(6) Was not restored at the same time as her mother, but later. She was found by Capt. Charles LEWIS in a village on the Muskingum. She was dressed in skins, spoke only the Indian language, and clung to the skirt of a squaw. David GWIN, who was with LEWIS, was certain that he recognized the girl, and at his suggestion the interpreter told the squaw to take off the child's moccasin. A little toe was found missing, which had accidentally been cut off by her brother. (7a,b) She was not recovered by her parents until some time after her mother's release. When brought to the rendezvous she was dressed in skins and clung to the skirt of a squaw. She was so changed in appearance that even her mother failed to recognize her at first, but finally identified her by a scar on her fott, where she had been bled.

1791, Apr: Isabella HAMILTON was examined in Woodford Co., KY court before George BLACKBURN and John FINNEY relative to her waiver of her dower rights in Augusta Co., VA lands. (4) 1794: Moved from VA to Woodford Co., KY.