Death
Benge often conducted operations as far as the westernmost counties of Virginia, raiding Gate City, Virginia in 1791, Moccasin Gap and Kane's Gap on Powell Mountain in 1793.
He was killed 6 April 1794 in an ambush in Washington County, Virginia during an extended raid of his deep into enemy-held territory, while escorting prisoners captured from a settlement earlier in the day back to the Lower Towns. The militia took his scalp and sent it to the Governor of Virginia, Henry Lee III, who in turn sent it to President George Washington. Credit for killing Benge went to militia leader Vincent Hobbs jr, son of one of the original white settlers of current Lee County, Virginia.
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