Capt. William Hubbell’s Ohio Flatboat Stand (1791)

At dawn near the Kanawha country, three Indian canoes closed in. Hubbell’s nine armed men held a running fight; he kept firing after a ball wrecked his gun lock, used a firebrand to touch off another shot, then drove boarders back with pistols and firewood even after a bullet tore his right arm.

Two of his men died in the boat, another later at Limestone; the women and children survived. The party reached Limestone that night. A companion boat under Capt. Greathouse, which had not prepared to fight, was taken ashore with grim results.