Rogers would later be killed by Indians, and was/is buried in Marietta's Mound Cemetery. Mound Cemetery contains more Rev War officers than any other cemetery anywhere.

The Indians at the Ballard cabin, quickly found Asa's and Eleazar'as tracks in the snow, and knew Whites had escaped. The question was, could they be overtaken and captured or killed before they had a chance to warn other settlers? A council was held, and it was decided that the 25 warrior or so main body of Delaware, Wyandotte, and maybe a few Shawnee would remain at Big Bottom, while a smaller party would be sent on to the original target of Wolf Creek and Waterford to intercept the misisng Whites and/or spy out the settlements for the possibility of still being attacked.

The party of Indians split off from the main party to attack the Wolf Creek mills settlement returned back up the Muskingum, frustrated that the settlers had been warned. They rendezvoused with the main party and shared the bad news.
It was decided to abandon the raid, and to go back with what they had. A war club was left on a stump, and the Indains recrossed the frozen Muskingum, climbed the ridge, and went back north up the trail.

It soon became clear that the large Indian who had had part of his face cut off by Mrs. Meek's axe, was not doing so well.

(I have viewed a number of Viking skulls in the Irish museum in Dublin that had been damaged by axe and sword. One, had had the side of his face sliced off through the facial skull bone and jaw.)

It was uncertain to the indians whether he would live or die, and it was decided to scarifice one of the five prisoners as an offering to his spirit so that he would survive by fulfilling their laws of revenge. The Indians "cast lots" to decide whom it was to be. The "lot" fell on Isaac Chote (aka Choat).   Choate was stripped of his clothing, and the Indian undressed. The warrior's blood soaked clothing was put on Choat, while Choat's was put on the wounded Indian. Two warriors were delegted to stay with the wounded Indian while the rest moved on, and watch over his recovery or death, apart from the main body. Somehow, the woudned warrior was revived enough to travel, and Choat's life was spared.

The main body of Indians followed the war trail northwest to the British fort, Fort Miami, located at the rapids of the Maumee River about 12 miles from its mouth. There, Colonel Alexander McKee, the "renegade" turned British Indian agent, redeemed Francis Choate, his doing so said to have been after Choate identified himself to fellow Free Mason McKee. McKee arranged for Choate to travel by boat to Fort Detroit, where passage was booked on a sloop going to Fort Niagara. From Naiagara, Coate went overland through New York, and back to his original home in Leicester, Mass.

Meanwhile, part of the war party continued onto Fort Detroit by land. It is not clear exactly how, but likely due to the interest and involvement of a Detroit citizen who was in the Indian trade, Isaac Choate was redeemed or ransomed from the Indians, the trader having paid the amount demanded by the Indians.   Isaac having no money, but not being keen on remaining an Indian prisoner, indentured himself to the trader to work off the ransom amount by working for him as a cooper (brarel maker). In a few months, he had repaid the debt, purchased passage on a Fort Niagara bound boat, and followed Isaac back to their home in Leicester.

Thomas Shaw, was held by the remaining Indians in their village at Fort Miami for several months. Joseph Brandt had gone to Fort Miami, and learned of Shaw.  (In the summer of 1783, Brant had been key in the formation of the "Western Confederacy." The Confederacy was made up of Iroquois and 29 other Indian nations who agreed to defend the Fort Stanwix Treaty line of 1768, and by denying any nation the ability to cede or sell any land without common consent. In November of 1785, Joseph Brant went to London to ask King George III for assistance in defending the Indian confederacy from attack by the Americans. The government granted Brant a generous pension and agreed to fully compensate the Mohawk for their losses, but they did not promise to support the confederacy.

In 1790, after Americans attacked the Western Confederacy in the Northwest Indian War, member tribes asked Brant and the Six Nations to enter the war on their side. Brant refused; he instead asked Lord Dorchester, the new governor of Quebec, for British assistance. Dorchester also refused, but later in 1794, he did provide the Indians with arms and provisions. (Brandt was at Fort Miami, on "Confederacy" business)

Without promise of repayment, or other arrangements, Brandt ransomed Shaw. Pennyless, Shaw made his way to Fort Detroit, hoping to work and earn money to purchase boat passage across Lake Erie to Fort Niagara.

(Note a common theme here, unlike some of the Kentucky captives who went by land back to KY, many redeeemd captives, espcially in Ohio, did not want to have to go by foot south through hostile Wyandotte, Shawnee, and Delaware country.)

Shaw found employment working as a farmhand for a French farmer at Detroit. Joseph Brandt, who was in Fort Detroit at that time, heard of Shaw being there, and sought him out to check on is status or welfare. In their talking, Brandt learned that Shaw as an "expert axeman," and persuaded him to go work for Brandt's brother-in law who worked as a physician at Fort Niagra and who lived a few miles outside of the fort.

Meanwhile back at the Maumee River rapids and the Indian village at Fort Miami, Phillip (Philemon) Stacey, who had hid under the bedding in the Big Bottom blockhouse and had saved his life by pleading for it, died of an unknown illness.

Also at the same village, James Patten, was adopted as a Wyandotte, and lived there until 1795 when at the end of the Indian War, captives were to have been given up and returned.