{The State of Ohio Morgan County} Personally appeared before the subscriber an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Morgan County that Charles D. Wells of Harrison County was enjoined, cautioned and duly sworn ___ and says that he is personally acquainted with Christopher Mummey of Morgan County aforesaid, that deponent and said Mummey both _____ in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine entered as volunteers into the Service of the United States for six months in the Virginia Line. Shortly after their enlistment they both with the body of troops to which they were attached consisting of about nine hundred men to wit three hundred regulars, two companies of volunteers and the balance of militia all under the command of Colonel Broadhead and Lieutenant Colonel Gibson rendezvoused at Fort Pitt. Shortly after they marched with the above named troops under the command of the officer just mentioned to the Munsey Towns on the Allegheny River about two hundred miles above Fort Pitt. They there destroyed the towns after routing the Indians. They also destroyed nearly three hundred acres of corn, killed several Indians & took a large quantity of plunder of various kinds. They were gone on this tour abut six weeks when they returned to Fort Pitt where they remained about ten days & were marched back to the place from which they started and went into stockade forts in which they continued for the purpose of guarding the frontier settlements during the residue of the six months. They performed various scouts (in which they were employed the principal part of the time) in ____ of the Indians west of the Ohio River. These scouts generally extended along Indian Wheeling Creek thence to the Tuscarawas River near the Moravian Towns & from thence to the Sandy and the mouth of the Big Beaver and thence generally crossing the Ohio at the Mingo Bottom _____ again that deponent and said Mummey were members of the same company _______________________ commanded the Company to which he belonged during said enlistment was Samuel Teter and the Lieutenant George McConnell. That said Mummey lived within six or eight years in Harrison county in the neighborhood of the deponent & that he removed to this county. That he know of the said Mummey's having performed six months service in the company and troop aforesaid and further deponent saith not.

signed Charles D. Wells

Sworn to and subscribed before me this twentieth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

signed John B. Stone, Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio Morgan County} Samuel A. Barker, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that John B. Stone Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition appears to have been taken on the twentieth instant, one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his acts as such: In testimony whence I have hereunto set my hand and affixed by official seal at McConnelsville the 27th day of November the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.

signed S. A. Barker, Clk C.C.P.

{The State of Ohio Morgan County}I John B. Stone a Justice of the Peace in and for said County before whom the foregoing deposition of Charles D. Wells was taken on the twentieth day of November A. D. 1832 do hereby certify that I am satisfied that the said Charles D. Wells is a person whose statements are entitled to credit. Given under my hand & seal this 18th day of May 1833

signed John B. Stone, Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio I Samuel A. Barker, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid

Morgan County do hereby certify that John B. Stone Esq. ______ the foregoing deposition of Charles D. Wells appears to have been taken the 20th day of November last and who has this day certified the credibility of the said Charles D. Wells was at the time and is now one of the acting Justices of the Peace _______ for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is due and ought of right be given to his acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my

hand and affixed by official seal at McConnelsville

the twenty eight day of May A. D. 1833

signed S A Barker Clerk CCP