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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mgf2j/natives.html
Indeed there was danger. In September [1764], at Trimble’s on Middle River, beyond the home of Reverend Brown’s mother and sister, a mile east of Buffalo Branch, and seven west of Staunton, a renegade white man or “half-blood” named Captain Dickson “with a party of 12 or 13 warriors” captured fifteen-year-old James Trimble and “a colored boy named Adam.” The boys were trying to catch a horse to plow, and perhaps the Indians decoyed them with a horse bell. Old John Trimble, worried because the horses suddenly ran toward the house, took his gun into the woods to have a look. The sound of the shots that killed him sent his wife Mary scurrying for the woods where she watched as Indians hauled out her pregnant daughter Kitty Estill and hoisted her and the household plunder on horses before heading west.
Captain George Moffett—who ducked into a creek in 1763 to hide when Indians defeated his patrol on Jackson’s River—allowed the raiders “some days the start” to be “certain of taking them at surprize.” The pursuers caught up with Dickson west of the Alleghenies, and waited while most of the Indians “turned out to hunt” before shooting down the guards in camp. They retook captives and plunder. But Captain Moffett and his uncle William Christian weren’t after plunder. Mary Trimble, who married John Trimble when her first husband disappeared, was Christian’s only sister and Moffett’s mother. The captives, Kitty Estill and James Trimble, were Moffett’s sister and half-brother.
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