Captives of Abb's Valley

In September 1784, James Moore sent his 14-year-old son, James Jr., to fetch a horse a couple miles from their home in Abb's Valley, in southwest Virginia. While on the errand, young James was kidnapped by a Native American chief named Black Wolf, of the Shawnee tribe. He was taken north to what is now Ohio, then sold to a French trader who lived in Canada.