Early in 1774, Harrod began the building of cabins and a fort, and planted corn on the site of Harrodsburg.

Thus to him and not to Boone fell the honor of founding the first permanent white settlement in Kentucky.
* See Alvord, "The Mississippi Valley in British Politics," vol.
II, pp.

191-94.
When summer came, its thick verdure proffering ambuscade, the air hung tense along the border.

Traders had sent in word that Shawanoes, Delawares, Mingos, Wyandots, and Cherokees were refusing all other exchange than rifles, ammunition, knives, and hatchets.

White men were shot down in their fields from ambush.