Conrad Yoakum

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Records of the First Reformed Church in Lancaster, PA, which began in 1736, show the baptism of Matthew Young's son Conrad, born 20 June 1736. This corresponds with what is reported in Virginia records for Matthias Yoakum's son Conrad.

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The most contemporary account of the 1763 Greenbrier attack was written by John Stuart in 1798. He states that a party of some 60 Shawnee stopped first at the Muddy Creek settlements and killed Felty Yoakum and Frederick See and took their families hostage. Then the Indians proceeded to Archibald Clendinen's on the Big Levels where they repeated killing or capturing all ... "not any one escapeing [sic] except Conrod Yolkcom, who doubting the design of the Indians when they came to Clendinen's took his horse out under the pretence of hobbleing him at some distance from the house, soon after some guns were fired at the house and a loud cry raised by the people, whereupon Yolkcom taking the alarm mounted his Horse and rode off as far as where the Court House now stands and there beginning to ruminate whither he might not be mistaken in his apprehention, concluded to return and know the truth, but just as he came to the corner of Clendinens fence some indians [sic] placed there presented their guns and attempted to shoot him, but their gunns all missing fire (he thinks at least ten) he immediately fled to Jacksons river alarming the people as he went, but few were willing to believe him, the Indians pursued after him and all that fell in their way were slain..." (Original written in Stuart's own hand on the first page of the Greenbrier County Deed Book 1. It was reprinted in the Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society in 1971, Vol 2- #2 p. 5)

Later accounts, probably based on this one, get more expansive but without evidence. Henry Handley, writing some 200 years after the event in 1970, claims Conrad was a teenager working for the Clendenins and that he rode to Fort Young, now Covington, VA, "where he reported that a hundred Indians had ambushed the Clendenins and all were killed, and only he had escaped." How Handley knew Conrad's age, exactly where he rode, or what he reported, he doesn't say.