[Footnote: Haywood says they burned "immense quantities of corn"; as Putnam points out, the settlers could have had very little corn to burn.

Haywood is the best authority for the Indian fighting in the Cumberland district during '80, '81, and '82.

Putnam supplies some details learned from Mrs.
Robertson in her old age.

The accounts are derived mainly from the statements of old settlers; but the Robertsons seem always to have kept papers, which served to check off the oral statements.

For all the important facts there is good authority.