Note 12 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 3)

It was then that Westfall’s and Casinoe’s forts were erected in Tygart’s valley,––Pricket’s, on Pricket’s creek,––Jackson’s on Ten Mile, and Shepherd’s on Wheeling creek, a few miles above its mouth. There were also others established in various parts of the country and on the Monongahela and Ohio rivers. Nutter’s fort, near to Clarksburg, afforded protection to the inhabitants on the West Fork, from its source, to its confluence with the Valley river; and to those who lived on Buchannon and on Hacker’s creek, as well as to the residents of its immediate vicinity.