Monongalia County WV Archives Biographies.....Decker, Thomas 
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Author: Virgil A. Lewis

The Deckers were the first white men who visited the site of Morgantown.
Withers, in his "Border Warfare," records that in the fall of 1758 Thomas Decker
and some others commenced a settlement on the Monongahela at the mouth of what
is now Decker's creek. In the ensuing spring it was entirely broken up by a
party of Delawares and Mingoes, and most of the settlers murdered. The same
authority records that one of those who escaped fled to Redstone Fort — now
Brownstown, Pennsylvania — to report the dreadful fate of the settlement. The
garrison was too weak to attempt a pursuit, but the commander immediately
dispatched a messenger to Fort Pitt. Captain John Gibson at once left that place
with thirty men, but the savages had made good their escape. The first permanent
settlers at Morgantown, who were also the first within the present limits of the
county, came in 1768. Among the number were David and Zackquell Morgan.


Additional Comments:
"History of West Virginia" by Virgil A. Lewis 1889


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