1,079, August 12, 1783.] Nevertheless in the spring one man of note fell victim to the savages, for John Floyd was waylaid and slain as he was riding out with his brother.

Thus within the space of eight months, two of the three county lieutenants had been killed, in battle or ambush.
The inrush of new settlers was enormous, [Footnote: McAfee MSS.] and Kentucky fairly entered on its second stage of growth.

The days of the first game hunters and Indian fighters were over.

By this year the herds of the buffalo, of which the flesh and hides had been so important to the earlier pioneers, were nearly exterminated; though bands still lingered in the remote recesses of the mountains, and they were plentiful in Illinois.

The land claims began to clash, and interminable litigation followed.