Mar 30
4 min read
Massacre of Sybert’s Fort — OccupantsTomahawked by the Indians on April 28, 1758 — Part VI
During the early part of 1758 sixty persons were murdered by Indians in the far west (Augusta County, Virginia). The inhabitants of the surrounding county had taken shelter from the Indians. No Indians having yet appeared, a youth named John Dyer and his sister went outside one day only to be astonished wbya full view of forty or fifty…
