Transcript:Haymond, Henry. History of Harrison County, West Virginia/p367

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Haymond, Henry. History of Harrison County, West Virginia: from earliest days of northwestern Virginia to the present. (Morgantown, West Virginia: Acme Publishing, 1910).

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William Haymond, Jr. was the son of Major William Haymond. He submitted a series of letters about the life and times of his father and family to his nephew, Luther Haymond. Eight of these letters were included in the source above. This transcript is part of a series of transcripts that provide the text for those letters. The text is presented as accurately as possible and hyperlinks to werelate pages for individuals are provided. This is a work in progress.

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Transcript - Letter No. 8.

Letter No. 8.

Palatine Hill, Va., 10th. June 1842. Mr. Luther Haymond,

Sir: — I wrote a letter some time ago to Levi Morgan enquiring whether he knew anything of my father during the Revolutionary War I have not received any answer from him yet. If he writes I will send it to you.

I see by the enclosed paper that said Morgan was married by my father. This had entirely escaped my memory until I saw the within. In those days there were but few preachers and the Justices of the Peace married, my father among the rest he being a Justice.

My last letter to you brought up the sketch of the early times to 1793. My father had taken up 1000 acres before mentioned adjoining the tract of 400 acres before mentioned. A part of which land he sold to Alex. McClelland. I presume you have heard of a wild goose chase my brother John took. He was a Senator from the Harrison District. While there, or on his way, he bought about 2000 dollars worth of goods, started a store, stayed about twenty months from home. Then he went to Wash- ington city where he met said McClelland, who furnished him with a horse, and money to bring him home. This cost was paid by my father out of the proceeds of this land, and your Uncle John came home with but little but the Bulltown land where he soon went. About this time my father bought the land where Palatine now is, about 137 acres. He also, about the same time, sold the tract in the Monongahela Glades where he first settled about twenty years previous. As I have heretofore told you that tract contained about 400 acres, he sold it for one dollar per acre. I was by said land twenty years ago, I believe no person lived on it then and I do not know that any person lives on it yet. I suppose it would not bring more now. A part of that money paid for a part of the Palatine tract, which was bought for 140 dollars and is now worth 50 dollars per acre.

In the year 1793 Jacob Polesley who married your Aunt Margaret, moved on the Palatine tract. In 1794 I moved to where I now live. I have gone so far I do not think of anything further worth writing. My father died in 1821. Edward Jackson was then in Congress and John G. Jackson wrote a piece on his death and sent it to his brother at Washing- ton. It was published in the Intelligencer. I would like to send it to you if I could find the paper, but I have not preserved it. My father, if I know anything of his temper, think it was good, though when raised, not. He was a very indulgent parent and I think he was as much of a Republican as I ever knew. He cared but little for riches but always tried I think, to do what was right between man and man.

While we were living below Morgantown, as I do not see it in the Border Warfare, I will give you an account of Col. Scott who lived on the west side of the river two miles from us, he had two of his daughters killed. This is recorded in the Border Warfare. Not long after this, his son James, who now lives near Morgantown, was riding alone near his father's, the Indians shot at him and shot through his hat and cut the skin on the back of his head. He rode off and cleared himself. Brother John and a man by the name of Lough with some others, followed the In- dians probably on Indian Creek above Morgantown, lost the trail. They returned home except Lough or Loav, who went further in seach of a horse he had lost. Some time after, while on his horse, he saw an Indian on horseback riding toward him. He raised his gun and presented it, an- other Indian shot at him and passed a ball through his arm, between the wrist and elbow, and through the arm between the elbow and shoulder and into the side. The bullet lodged in the skin back of the side, making five holes. Lough dropped his gun, wheeled his horse and got safe home with the loss of a considerable quantity of blood.

He recovered. One of the Indians followed him, perhaps two or three miles, as was afterwards discovered.

Very Respectfully,

Wm. Haymond.