The people were confined closely to their stockaded forts, from which small bands of riflemen sallied to patrol the country.

From time to time these encountered marauding parties, and in the fights that followed sometimes the whites, sometimes the reds, were victorious.
One of these conflicts attracted wide attention on the border because of the obstinacy with which it was waged and the bloodshed that accompanied it.

In March a party of twenty-five Wyandots came into the settlements, passed Boonsborough, and killed and scalped a girl within sight of Estill's Station.

The men from the latter, also to the number of twenty-five, hastily gathered under Captain Estill, and after two days' hot pursuit overtook the Wyandots.

A fair stand-up fight followed, the better marksmanship of the whites being offset, as so often before, by the superiority their foes showed in sheltering themselves.