Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-West

Young Kinzie’s life had been a continual romance, but it was no

less so than that of his first love. During one of the numerous forays

over the Virginia border, made by the Shawanese during Lord

Dunmore’s War (1774), a band of these barbarians swooped down

upon the rude cabin of Isaac McKenzie, who had established himself

at the junction of Wolf’s Creek with the Kanawha River. McKenzie’s

wife was killed, but their two young and beautiful children, Margaret

and Elizabeth, were borne away to the great Shawanee town of

Chillicothe, in what is now Ohio. Here, in accordance with Indian

custom, the girls were adopted into the family of a chief, one of

whose squaws was assigned to their tender rearing.

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