In Morehead's "address" is a letter from Nathaniel Hart.

He was himself as a boy, witness of what he describes.

His father, who had been Henderson's partner and bore the same name as himself, was from North Carolina.

He founded in Kentucky a station known as White Oak Springs; and was slain by the savages during this year.

The letter runs: "It is impossible at this day to make a just impression of the sufferings of the pioneers about the period spoken of.
The White Oak Springs fort in 1782, with perhaps one hundred souls in it was reduced in August to three fighting white men--and I can say with truth that for two or three weeks my mother's family never unclothed themselves to sleep, nor were all of them within that time at their meals together, nor was any household business attempted.