Some of the settlers began to live out on their clearings.

Rude little corn-mills and "hominy pounders" were built beside some of the streams.

The piles of furs and hides that had accumulated in the stockades were sent back to the coast country on pack-horses.

After this year there was never any danger that the settlements would be abandoned.
During the two years of petty but disastrous Indian warfare that followed the attack on Freelands, the harassed and diminishing settlers had been so absorbed in the contest with the outside foe that they had done little towards keeping up their own internal government.

When 1783 opened new settlers began to flock in, the Indian hostilities abated, and commissioners arrived from North Carolina under a strong guard, with the purpose of settling the claim of the various settlers [Footnote: Haywood.