Also depositions of McCurdy, Lawler, Caldwell, and others, and proceedings of court-martial.

The depositions conflict.] Fury of the Indian Ravages.
By 1787 the Indian war had begun with all its old fury.

The thickly settled districts were not much troubled, and the towns which, like Marietta in the following year, grew up under the shadow of a Federal fort, were comparatively safe.

But the frontier of Kentucky, and of Virginia proper along the Ohio, suffered severely.

There was great scarcity of powder and lead, and even of guns, and there was difficulty in procuring provisions for those militia who consented to leave their work and turn out when summoned.