Person:John Haymond (1)

John Haymond in Ashcraft Family Legend - Indian Attack on the McIntires

John Haymond is a featured participant in an Ashcraft Family Legend which is often described in the stories of these famlies. ^{1, 2}.

In the story, John Haymond and George Jackson led a company of men from Clarksburg, who rushed to the aid of the Ashcraft and McIntire families who were under Indian attack.

Below the three forks of Middle Island creek, now in Doddridge county, before they were aware of proximity to the savages, they were fired upon by the latter, and two of the party narrowly escaped injury or death. A ball passed through a handkerchief on Haymond’s head, and another through one of Jackson’s shirt sleeves. Promptly returning the fire, the white men rushed forward, but the Indians had retreated abandoning some of their plunder, among which was the scalp of Mrs. McIntire. Her body was later found a short distance from the spot where her husband had been slain. ²

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} John Haymond, in Haymond, Henry. History of Harrison County, West Virginia: from earliest days of northwestern Virginia to the present. (Morgantown, West Virginia: Acme Publishing, 1910)
   380.

   John Haymond.
   John Haymond the son of Major William Haymond, was born near
   Rockville now in Montgomery Co., Maryland, December 7, 1765, and came
   with his father to near Morgantown in 1773. He married Mary, the daugh-
   ter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, July 3, 1787, who then lived in Tygart's
   Valley near Beverly. The wedding party from Clarksburg on their way
   to the bride's home camped out all night under a cliff of rocks a short
   distance from Philippi on the Valley River. It was said that the bride
   and groom were the handsomest couple on the frontier.
   John Haymond was clerk of the Board of Trustees of the Randolph
   Academy, Deputy Surveyor, Sheriff, Member of the Legislature from Har-
   rison County, Member of the State Senate, an officer of Militia, took a
   prominent part in the Indian wars and was in many expeditions against
   them. In a skirmish with the Indians on Middle Island Creek, now in
   Doddridge County, a ball passed through a handkerchief which he had tied
   around his head.
   He was a member of the Virginia Senate at the time of the passage
   of the celebrated Resolutions of 1798, and in all phases of the parlimen-
   tary contest in that memorable struggle his name is found as voting against
   them.
   About the year 1800 he moved onto a large tract of land on the
   Little Kanawha River, in what is now Braxton County near Bulltown,
   built a mill and established a salt works.
   He built canoes and floated down the river to the Ohio and thence up
   to Pittsburgh, purchased kettles in which to boil salt water and returned
   with them by the same route, a long tedious and laborious journey.
   He conducted the manufacture of salt for many years and died Sep-
   tember 5, 1838.
   His descendants still live in Braxton County.

2. ↑ Prowling Indian, in Www.wvgenweb.org - Ashcraft Family Represents Forbears of Various Lines Now Residents of Harrison, Wetzel, Taylor and Other Counties.

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