Joseph Doddridge was born in 1769 in Bedford County, PA. In 1773 his father removed with his family to what is now Washington County, not far from the present West Virginia line. Doddridge was thus a boy eight years old at the time of this siege, and living in the immediate neighborhood. For several years he was a Methodist preacher, itinerating throughout the entire region. Later he joined the Episcopal church and studied and practiced medicine, dying in 1826 at his home in Wellsburg. Two years before his death he published (at the last named place) Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania in which he embodied much of his knowledge of pioneer days. There is not however, in this book any account of the siege of Wheeling. such is manuscript account found among his papers, and secured by Dr Draper from his daughter. Unfortunately the manuscript is incomplete, breaking off abruptly. We have supplemented this account therefore, with recollections of other pioneers.