The troubled peace was continually threatened by the actions either of ungovernable frontiersmen or of bloodthirsty and vindictive Indians.

[Footnote: _Do_., p.

560.] Small parties of scouts were incessantly employed in patrolling the southern border.
Growth of the Settlements.
Nevertheless, all pressing danger from the Indians was over.

The Holston settlements throve lustily.

Wagon roads were made, leading into both Virginia and North Carolina.