... My father, John Ash, was one of the earliest settlers in Kentucky, settling in Bardstown in Nelson county. In the month of March 1780 when I was about 10 years old, we were attacked by the Shawnee Indians, part of the family was killed, the rest were taken prisoners. We were separated from each other, and excepting a younger sister, who was taken by the same party that had me in possession, I saw none of my family for seventeen (17) years. My sister was small and they carried her two or three days but she cried and gave them trouble, so they tomahawked and scalped her and left her laying on the ground. ...
