About Benjamin WEST, the husband of Jean TRAIL, it was reported in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal of 14 May 1933, on the occasion of dedicating a marker to him and Joseph WOFFORD, that he - a soldier in the Revolutionary War - was ambushed on 12 May 1780 by a band of Tory raiders. Benjamin WEST was shot, scalped, and hanged. In this same issue of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal: "According to tradition, Benjamin WEST and JosephWOFFORD came to what was then Ninety-Six District from Maryland and bought a large tract of land from Brownlee and Bailey. WEST settled on that part nearer the WEST springs section while WOFFORD built his cabin northwest of WEST's toward Glenn Springs although not far away.WEST's cabin was built of logs and stood on a wedge of ground at the intersection of a branch with McElwain Creek on the same side of the present highway and not five hundred yards from the old Winnsmithhouse."
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