... We can assume that the Mellett family ... came west from Fauquier County with the father-in-law John Glasscock who first settled on Pharoah's Run south of Morgantown (named for Pharoah Ryley, a trader who stayed there a few weeks recovering from a rattlesnake bit in 1747). Soon after his arrival in Monongalia County, John Glasscock located on Indian Creek. ...