Sevier raised a hundred and fifty men and marched to take them back, carrying a light fieldpiece.
Tipton's friends gathered, thirty or forty strong, and a siege began.
Sevier hesitated to push matters to extremity by charging home.

For a couple of days there was some skirmishing and two or three men were killed or wounded.

Then the county-lieutenant of Sullivan, with a hundred and eighty militia, came to Tipton's rescue.

They surprised Sevier's camp at dawn on the last day of February, [Footnote: State Dept.MSS., No.

150, vol.iii.Armstrong to Wyllys, April 28, 1788.] while the snow was falling heavily; and the Franklin men fled in mad panic, only one or two being slain.