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Phillip Hammon, the “Savior of Greenbrier”
In the Spring of 1778, a party of Native American warriors moved up the Kanawha River toward settlements in the Greenbrier Valley. Two scouts, Phillip Hammon and John Pryor, from Fort Randolph, located near present-day Point Pleasant, West Virginia, volunteered to warn the settlers of the impending attack. The scouts were disguised to appear like Native Americans by Nonhelema, the sister of Chief Cornstalk of the Shawnee. Hammon and Pryor outran the Native Americans and reached the settlers in time to warn them to gather at Fort Donnally, located about ten miles from present-day Lewisburg. On May 29, Hammon and Pryor, with the assistance of Dick Pointer, an enslaved African-American, were able to secure the Fort until assistance arrived from Capt. (later Col.) John Stuart and his militia. In 1784, John Stuart, the first County Clerk of Greenbrier County, wrote in support of Phillip Hammon and John Pryor’s land-grant petition to the Virginia General Assembly, stating, “they were by their courage highly instrumental in repulsing [the Native Americans], by which services they not only merit thanks but those of the State.” Phillip Hammon is David Hammond’s 4th great-grandfather.
“Without their Information we had been surprised and this County… been ruined.”
Certificate of Greenbrier County’s militia officers, 1784