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Pigeon Roost Chase, September 4, 1812 Pursuant to their instructions from the British, a scalping-party fell upon the Pigeon Roost Settlement September 3rd, on a tributary of the White River, within the limits of the present Scott County, in Southern Indiana. They first killed two bee-hunters of the settlement and between sunset and dark casualties included one man, five women, and sixteen children. Only two men and five children escaped. These made their way, under the cover of the night, to the house of a settler six miles distant. One hundred and fifty mounted riflemen, under Major John McCoy, gave chase to the Native Americans that attacked Pigeon Roost. They followed them twenty miles, but they escaped during the night.
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