Deposition of John Conway:

"I followed hunting in early times.

In the month of April or May 1776, I entered the service as an enlisted soldier in the company commanded by Captain James Newell and was marched to Cheyels? lead mines in Montgomery County, Virginia to guard said mines against the Tories and Indians and served out the full term of 6 months, the period for which I enlisted and was honorably discharged at said mines in Montgomery County, Va.

And that I again entered the service for the term of 18 months in the month of May 1777 as an enlisted soldier under Captain William Buchannon, Col. John Bowman, and was marched to Boonesboro in the State of Kentucky where I served out the above term of 18 months, guarding the fort, during which term the British and Indians besieged the said fort for nine days and nights; when they abandoned the siege Capt. Boone was there as one of the commanders.

In the year 1779 I traveled with about 25 men the road from Boonesborough to the Lower Blue Licks. At the time I went from Boonesborough to Lower Blue Lick I recollect we crossed Hingston fork and went into big buffalo road that led from Grant's station to the lower Blue Lick at the place known by the name of Ready Money Jack's. I recollect at this time that Colonel Richard Calloway, Colonel Daniel Boone, Cyrus Boone, Joseph Drake, Ephriam Drake, William Buckhammer, Flanders Calloway, Samuel Henderson, James Bell, George Linch, Wiliam Hancock, Jeremiah Price, Thomas Foote, James Mankins were with me on trip to Lower Blue Lick.

After my discharge at Boonesboro, I still remained in Kentucky and in April 1779 went with Captain Isaac Ruddle and settled Ruddle's Station on the south fork of Licking River and continued then acting as a guard and Indian spy for Ruddle's Station until the 24th of June 1780, when after a severe battle with the British and Indians we were compelled to surrender, the British being about 300 and the Indians about 700 strong and armed with artillery; that I was marched by the British and Indians, with the other prisoners they had taken at Ruddle's and Martin's Stations [including parents, brothers and sisters] to Detroit, and was kept there as a prisoner until the fall of 1784. When we were liberated, I returned to Kentucky.

In the fall of 1787 I volunteered in the company of Captain William _____, Benjamin Logan's Campaign against the Piqua town of Indians on the head of Mad River in the State of Ohio, that we fought the Indians, defeated them, and took some prisoners, and this campaign I served the period of 50 or 60 days."