The Gores were involved in an Indian raid in Logan County in 1780. This claim is based on a statement by Geroge T. Swain on pages 7 and 8 of The Genealogy of the Gore Family:

Returning to earlier records of the Gore clan, we may say, without fear of contradiction, there surely was a Gore in the body of troops that pursued an Indian raid on the frontier settlement which had been made on the Bluestone River in the western part of Virginia in 1780, which led to a pursuit of the savages and culminated in a battle with the Indians on a site which lay within the present bounds of the city of Logan, and in which Princess Aracoma, the daughter of the doughty Indian chief, Cornstalk, received fatal wounds, and before her death, delivered to General William Madison the leader of the pursuing white troops, the following warning: (text of Aracoma's speech)

The first Gores to appear in what is now West Virginia were the five children of Henry Gore and Ann Catherine Keller who were brought to the Island Creek area of present day Summers County by their widowed mother in 1792. This was twelve years after the killing of the Indian chief Cornstalk.

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