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Submitted: 8/14/18 • Approved: 8/22/18 • Last Updated: 8/22/18 • R1714-G0
On May 23, 1792, Michael See was supervising the cultivation of the crops for
the settlers at Fort Randolph. A squad of ten soldiers had been sent from the
Fort to guard the men while they worked. The day was warm and the soldiers
retired to the shade of a tree and engaged in a game of cards to while away the
time. A band of Wyandottes slipped up and under their very noses, killed Michael
See and Robert St. Clair and took Thomas Northup and a negro boy, Jonathon
Pointer, who belonged to Michael, prisoners.
That night at the Fort, Elizabeth See gave birth to a son William, from whom are
descended the Sees of Mason County, West Virginia. Michael See was buried near
the Fort. Story tells that in after years the Mason County Courthouse was built
with one corner over his grave and another over the grave of Cornstalk, the
Shawnee chief killed after the battle of Point Pleasant
Contributed on 8/14/18
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Record #: 1714