On August 24, 1781, Col. Archibald Lochry and members of the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Militia were defeated near here by Chief Joseph Brant and a coalition of Ohio Indians. Those killed were Col. Archibald Lochry, Ensign Alexander Maxwell, Captain William Campbell, Ensign Daniel Cahill, Ensign Ephraim Ralph, Hugh Gallagher, Josias Brooks, Jonathan McKinley, Isaac Patton, Samuel Evans, John Forsyth, Robert Dougan, Zenas Hardin, William Cain, John Gibson, Adam Irwin, John Smith, John Corn, Peter Mechlin, John Stratton, John Milligan, Archibald Erskine, David Dellinger, John Pheasant, James Black, George Butcher, John Young, John Stewart, John Row, John Bailey, Joseph Crawford, Peter Barrickman, John Burns, William Hudson, Jonas Peters, William Allison, Ebenezer Burris, and James McRight. Those taken prisoner were Major Charles Cracraft, Lieutenant Isaac Anderson, Captain Thomas Stokely, Lieutenant Joseph Robinson, Adjutant John Guthrie, Lieutenant Samuel Craig, Quartermaster Richard Wallace, Lieutenant James Scott, Captain Samuel Shannon, Lieutenant Melchior Baker, Captain Robert Orr, Ensign Patrick Hunter, John Trimble, George Hice, James Dunseth, William Marrs, John Porter, William Worthington, John Sence, John Smith, Cary Quigley, Michael Miller, John Catt, Ezekiel Lewis, Robert Watson, Valentine Lawrence, Adam Owry, John Allenton, Jacob Lawrence, Samuel Lefever, Richard Fleming, Christian Fast, John Hunter, James Kean, Charles McGin, Joseph Erwin, Patrick Murphy, William Roark, Mannasseh Coyle, Abraham Anderson, Henry Franks, Hugh Steers, Thomas James, Abraham Hiley, Hugh Moore, Thomas Atkinson, George Mason, Norman McCloud, John Stakehouse, William Hurst, James McPherson, William Clarke, Robert Wilson, William Marshall, Elihu Risley, Dennis McCarty, Alexander Burns, Peter Connely, Solomon Aikins, John Ferrell, John Lever, William Thompson, Mathias Fisher, and Michael Haire.
