For two years after the signing of the treaty of Holston the war parties thus passed and repassed through his country, and received aid and comfort from his people, and yet the whites refrained from taking vengeance; but the vengeance was certain to come in the end.
His Village Attacked.
In March, 1793, Scolacutta's nearest neighbor, an Indian living next door to him in his own town, and other Indians of the nearest towns, joined one of the war parties which attacked the settlements and killed two unarmed lads.

[Footnote: American State Papers, Blount's letter, March 20, 1793.

Scolacutta was usually known to the whites as Hanging Maw.] The Indians did nothing to the murderers, and the whites forbore to attack them; but their patience was nearly exhausted.

In June following a captain, John Beard, with fifty mounted riflemen, fell in with a small party of Indians who had killed several settlers.

He followed their trail to Scolacutta's town, where he slew eight or nine Indians, most of whom were friendly.