Near the close of the Revolutionary War, probably in the year 1782, the people were driven in fort at Hagerstown, Maryland. A small reconnoitering party was sent on the south side of the adjacent mountain; the Indians saw them coming, and ambushed them; when in striking distance, with deliberate aim they fired. The soldiers were all killed, but three, and they were wounded; the wounded men returned the fire, and each brought down his "Ingin" no time was given to re-lorad, but, hand-to-hand, with clubbed guns and tomahawks, the battle raged furiously. The weakened men soon succumbed, and the scalping knife was applied before life was extinct. All this occurred within sight and hearing distance of the fort. The Indians were in a great hurry to get away, leaving their dead on the field. The next morning a reconnaissance was made in force, and the situation was found as stated above, except that Henry Ford was not dead when he was scalped, but had crawled on his hand and knees some thirty rods from the place where he had first fallen; and judging from the way the leaves had been torn up, and from the amount of blood spilled, his enemy had been badly wounded or roughly handled; both their guns, broken and bent, were left on the field. Thus Henry Ford and his brother-in-law, Harlin, gave up their lives as the price of British gold, to save the country we now enjoy. This is the history of this transaction, as given me by my Grandmother Ford.
