Exactly as the Franklin people had taken peltries as the basis for their currency, so those of the Cumberland, in arranging for payment in kind, chose the necessaries of life as the best medium of exchange.

They enacted that the tax should be paid one quarter in corn, one half in beef, pork, bear meat, and venison, one eighth in salt, and one eighth in money.
[Footnote: Ramsey, p.

504.] It was still as easy to shoot bear and deer as to raise hogs and oxen.
McGillivray's Letter to Robertson.
Robertson wrote several times to McGillivray, alone or in conjunction with another veteran frontier leader, Col.

Anthony Bledsoe.

Various other men of note on the border, both from Virginia and North Carolina, wrote likewise.