PREBLE COUNTY OHIO - FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS AT "FORTY-FOOT PITCH"
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc. 1925
Volume I, page 251
In Chapter IV of Volume I WAYNE'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDIANS
Under: FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS AT "FORTY-FOOT PITCH"

        The first issue of the Centinel of the Northwestern Territory,
bearing date of November 9, 1793, carries as its most important item of
local news an account of an engagement between a detachment of troops under
Lieut. John Lowry and Indians about seven miles north of Fort St. Clair on
October 17, 1793. This news item, which is a paraphrase of the official
report of General Wayne, reads in part as follows:
        "Many reports having been circulated with respect to the attack
made by the savages upon a convoy of provisions, some little time ago,
between Fort St. Clair and Fort Jefferson, the following is an authentic
account of the affair.
        "Lieutenant Lowry, of the Second, and Ensign Boyd, of the First
Sub-Legions, with a command consisting of about ninety non-commissioned
officers and privates, having under their convoy twenty wagons loaded with
grain and commissary stores, were attacked between daylight and sunrise,
seven miles advanced of Fort St. Clair, on the morning of the 17th ult.
These two gallant young gentlemen, with thirteen non-commissioned officers
and privates, bravely fell in action. * *  *The Indians killed or carried
off about seventy horses. * * *
        In addition to the two officers, Lieut. John Lowry and Ensign
Samuel Boyd, the following non-commissioned officers and privates were lost
in action: Sergeant William Murray, Sergeant Ezekiel Morrill, Corporal
Silas Burret; Privates Nicholas Brooks, Elisha Barrows, Calvin Brown, John
Connor, Henry Derris, Enos Hall, Lewis may, John Phillips, Joshua Risley,
Thaxter York.
        Murray, Derris, May, Phillips and York are designated as "missing."
The place at which this engagement was fought is near what is called
"Forty-Foot Pitch." There is some question as to its exact location. The
remains of the men who fell in action were buried near Fort St. Clair, but
afterward removed to the cemetery at Eaton, where a monument has been
erected to their memory.


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