[Footnote: Campbell MSS.

Notes, by Gov.
David Campbell.] He was a true type of the Roundheads of the frontier, the earnest, eager men who pushed the border ever farther westward across the continent.

He followed Indians and tories with relentless and undying hatred; for the long list of backwoods virtues did not include pity for either public or private foes.

The tories threatened his life and the lives of his friends and families; they were hand in glove with the outlaws who infested the borders, the murderers, horse-thieves, and passers of counterfeit money.

He hunted them down with a furious zest, and did his work with merciless thoroughness, firm in the belief that he thus best served the Lord and the nation.