Qualla: Fort Seybert https://qualla.com/fort-seybert en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Fort Seybert https://qualla.com/fort-seybert Fort Seybert: Introduction https://qualla.com/fort-seybert/ On the foggy morning of April 28, 1758, a Shawnee and Lenape war party arrived at Fort Seybert, a small stockade on the South Fork of the South Branch Potomac River in what is now Pendleton County, West Virginia. Most of the fort's men were away across Shenandoah Mountain on business. Only three adult males remained inside - including Captain Jacob Seybert - to defend the position. Ammunition was low. Seeing the situation as hopeless, Seybert surrendered on the war chief Bemino's promise that the captives' lives would be spared. The promise was not kept. Between 17 and 19 of the settlers were killed. Eleven were taken captive, including Seybert's teenage son, who survived to return to the region years later and provide an account of what happened.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/s/fort-seybert-wp/dnzs-fort-seybert-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fort Seybert: Forts on the Frontier https://qualla.com/fort-seybert/ Fort Seybert was one of dozens of small frontier forts thrown up by colonists and the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War. After General Edward Braddock's defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, 1755, the western Virginia frontier was largely unprotected...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/s/fort-seybert-wp/dnzs-fort-seybert-forts-on-the-frontier.mp3 0:06 2 full Fort Seybert: What the Fort Looked Like https://qualla.com/fort-seybert/ The De Hass image - an 1851 wood engraving widely reproduced - shows Fort Seybert as a large square stockade enclosing nearly a dozen log buildings. Local residents in the 1930s, interviewed by historian Mary Lee Keister Talbot, considered the De Hass picture impossible. Their ow...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/s/fort-seybert-wp/dnzs-fort-seybert-what-the-fort-looked-like.mp3 0:06 3 full Fort Seybert: Bemino's Raid https://qualla.com/fort-seybert/ The party that attacked Fort Seybert and the nearby Fort Upper Tract was almost certainly part of a force of more than 100 Shawnee and Lenape warriors that Lieutenant Christopher Gist's scouts had spotted approaching the frontier in early April 1758. Gist himself had been incapac...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/s/fort-seybert-wp/dnzs-fort-seybert-beminos-raid.mp3 0:06 4 full Fort Seybert: Washington's Letter https://qualla.com/fort-seybert/ On May 4, six days after the raid, George Washington wrote to John Blair, then acting Governor of Virginia, from Fort Loudoun in present-day Winchester. 'The enclosed letter from Capt. Waggener will inform your Honor of a very unfortunate affair,' Washington wrote. 'From the best...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/s/fort-seybert-wp/dnzs-fort-seybert-washingtons-letter.mp3 0:06 5 full Fort Seybert: What the Land Remembers https://qualla.com/fort-seybert/ Nothing of the original fort survives above ground. The community in the area is still called Fort Seybert. The depression in the soil where the palisade once stood has gradually filled in over the centuries. The deeper history - of the Shawnee and Lenape who used these mountains...

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