Bemino is said to have led the attack in an ambush (the "Battle of the Trough") of white settlers near Fort Pleasant, in what is now Hardy County, West Virginia, in March or April 1756.
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Fort Seybert (about 12 miles northeast of the present town of Franklin) was then occupied by about 30 people, apparently only three of which were adult males.
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A number of years after this incident, Bemino described how he and a band of Indians (probably composed of both Delawares and Shawnee) killed two men near Fort Edwards, not far from the Cacapon River in what is now Hampshire County, West Virginia.
It was captured by Native Americans in 1758, who spared only eleven lives (see Bemino).
Bemino (fl. 1710s–1780s), known as John Killbuck, Sr
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Gelelemend (1737–1811), Bemino's son, known as John Killbuck, Jr