HICKORYHILL
Frontier Log House
Pindall Massacre 1780
Horse pole, Big wheel, Uping Step Stone around the front gate fence.
Frontier Log House in Greene County, PA.
Mr. Sam Angott greeting to Mrs. Jane Brewer and Mrs. Marylian Einchenlaub
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Historical Facts Concerning The Hickory Hill Log House
This restored log strcture was dismantled and moved to it's present site from it's original location on Little Indian Creek near Route 19 South, between Morgantown and Fairmont in Monongalia County, W.Va.
The structure combines the log home of Captain Phillip Pindall and the log barn of his brother Jacob Pindall. The buildings were built by the Pindall brothers in the latter 1780's.
The three Pindall brothers, Phillip, Jacob and John were among the very first setlers to cross the mountains from maryland and settle in Monongalis County, W.Va. In the year 1773 they claimed homestead rights to 400 acres each (1200 acres total) in the area bounded by Little Indian Creek, Big Indian Creek, Flaggy Meadow Run and the Monongahela River. Each of the brothers erected a crude settler's cabin on their claims within "settlement distance" from each other (a gun shot sound apart).
In the year 1776, Phillip Pindall returned to Maryland and joined the Revolutionary army, serving in Maryland or Pennsylvania in 1781 when Indians attacked the Pindall settlement on Flaggy Meadow Run. During the course of the attack John Pindall's wife Elizabeth was murdered along with two surveyors named Crawford and Wright.
Phillip's wife Rachel, together with John Pindall and a third surveyor, managed to escape the Indians and made it to safety in Stewart's Blockhouse some three miles from the scene. Detailed accounts of the "Pindall Massscre" can be found in Wiley's "History of Mongalia Country" and Wither's "Border Warfare". When the threat of indian attacks was no longer major concern to this pioneer family, the Pindalls set about building the permanent log houses and barns in which you are now standing.
The last Indiain attack in the area took place in 1789 at Fort Statler some ten miles from the Pindall settlement.
Captain Phillip Pindall died in this house in 1804 and is buried in the Wiseman graveyard near the town of Lowesville, W.Va. jacob pindall died in 1828 and is buried in the same graveyard. The grave stones are still standing.
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Facts Concerning The Construction of The Original Log Buildings
All logs used in the construction of the house and barn are of white oak. All boards used in trim, gable ends and second story floors are of poplar. The poplar trim boards (around windows and doors) and the sill and cap logs ere secured with oak pegs. The roof pole rafters are poplar and secured with oak pegs. A mud mixture was used to chink between the logs and in setting the cut stone fire places and chimmeys.
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PINDALL, James, a Representative from Virginia; born
in Monongalia County, Va. (now West Virginia), about 1783;
attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1803 and practiced in Morgantown; moved
to Clarksburg and continued the practice of his profession;
held various local offices; served in the State senate 1808-
1812; was colonel of militia; elected as a Federalist to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses and served from March
4, 1817, until his resignation on July 26, 1820; died in
Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now West Virginia), November
22, 1825; interment in what was known as the Daniel
Davisson burial ground in Clarksburg, W.Va.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/26jan20061725/www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/p.pdf***************************
Washington County Rangers on the Frontiers — 1778-1783
Source: PA Archives, Third Series, Vol. XXIII, Pages 198-220
Jacob Pindall
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/military/rangers.html
