[Footnote: Calendar of Va.

State Papers, III., p.

213.] The borderers were left to work out their own salvation.
Further Indian Troubles.
By the beginning of 1782 settlements were being made south of the French Broad.

This alarmed and irritated the Indians, and they sent repeated remonstrances to Major Martin, who was Indian agent, and also to the governor of North Carolina.

The latter wrote Sevier, directing him to drive off the intruding settlers, and pull down their cabins.