Captain Phillips Rangers Memorial
By David
Miller (Lead Investigator)
Truth Or Myth You Decide
History
In the summer
of 1780 Captain William Phillips, a captain appointed by colonel John Piper, was
given the honor of being accompanied by 10 men to search Morrison’s Cove and the
Woodcock Valley.
Captain
Phillips and the 10 men he got together set out July 15,1780,and marched from
the Cove up over the mountains, into the valley. All of the homes and the farms
were deserted. At the time there was no sign of any Indian life, but they
would be soon surprised. As the night crept up on them they found a
deserted home that belonged to Frederick Hester. Captain Phillips and his
ten rangers stayed the night and waited to the next day.
Sunday July 16, 1780, nearly breakfast time the men awoke to find
the entire home surrounded by Indians. With having 60 Indians surrounding the
home, and all of them armed the men silenced them to wait for any hostel
movement.
For reasons I
don’t know, one of the Indians open fired on the men. As it was self-defense,
the men open fired on the Indians Killing two, and injuring two others. All of
the rangers were not harmed in the fight. At the end, there was to many Indians,
and Captain Phillips surrendered. A few Indians took Captain Phillips and his
son, and the men hand their hands tied up and taken into the woods where after a
while they stopped and tied all of the rangers to trees. There bodies where
found with arrows sticking out of them, and scalped. They were all cut down and
buried at that site…
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