Among the Cherokee chiefs who led the raid were two signers of the treaty of Holston.

[Footnote: Robertson MSS., Blount to Robertson, Oct.

17, 1792; _Knoxville Gazette_, Oct.

10, and Oct.

20, 1792; Brown's Narrative, in _Southwestern Monthly_.] Monotony of the Indian Outrages.
After this the war was open, so far as the Indians of the Lower Cherokee Towns and of many of the Creek Towns were concerned; but the whites were still restrained by strict orders from the United States authorities, who refused to allow them to retaliate.