Food was prepared and placed where those who chose could eat.

It was the period when Bryant's station was beseiged, and for many days before and after that gloomy event we were in constant expectation of being made prisoners.

We made application to Col.

Logan for a guard and obtained one, but not until the danger was measureably over.

It then consisted of two men only.Col.Logan did every thing in his power, as County Lieutenant, to sustain the different forts--but it was not a very easy matter to order a married man from a fort where his family was to defend some other when his own was in imminent danger.
"I went with my mother in January, 1783, to Logan's station to prove my father's will.