Among the whites themselves transfers of land were made in very simple forms, and conveyed not the fee simple but merely the grantor's claim.
35.

Haywood says they were named Crabtree; Putnam hints that they had lost a brother when Boon's party was attacked and his son killed; but the attack on Boon did not take place till over a year after this time.
36.

Even La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (8, 95), who loathed the backwoodsmen--few polished Europeans being able to see any but the repulsive side of frontier character, a side certainly very often prominent,--also speaks of the tendency of the worst Indians to go to the frontier to rob and murder.
37.

Salem Church was founded (Allison, 8) in 1777, by Samuel Doak, a Princeton graduate, and a man of sound learning, who also at the same time started Washington College, the first real institution of learning south of the Alleghanies.
38.

"Annals of Augusta," 21.
39.