Two of Sevier's sons were taken prisoners, and Tipton was with difficulty dissuaded from hanging them.
This scrambling fight marked the ignoble end of the state of Franklin.
Sevier fled to the uttermost part of the frontier, where no writs ran, and the rough settlers were devoted to him.

Here he speedily became engaged in the Indian war.
Indian Ravages.
Early in the spring of 1788, the Indians renewed their ravages.
[Footnote: Va.

State Papers, IV., 396, 432.] The Chickamaugas were the leaders, but there were among them a few Creeks, and they were also joined by some of the Cherokees proper, goaded to anger by the encroachments of the whites on their lands.

Many of the settlers were killed, and the people on the frontier began to gather into their stockades and blockhouses.

The alarm was great.