In the Current of the Revolution 147 



who were also justices of the counties, 53 were, in 

 their order, John Floyd whom Clark described as 

 "a soldier, a gentleman, and a scholar," 54 Benja- 

 min Logan, and John Todd. Clark, whose station 

 was at the Falls of the Ohio, was brigadier-general 

 and commander over all. Boone was lieutenant- 

 colonel under Todd; and their county of Fayette 

 had for its surveyor Thomas Marshall, 55 the father 

 of the great chief -justice, whose services to the 

 United States stand on a plane with those of Alex- 

 ander Hamilton. 56 



The winter passed quietly away, but as soon as 

 the snow was off the ground in 1781, the Indians 

 renewed their ravages. Early in the winter Clark 

 went to Virginia to try to get an army for an expe- 

 dition against Detroit. He likewise applied to 

 Washington for assistance. Washington fully en- 

 tered into his plans, and saw their importance. He 

 would gladly have rendered him every aid. But he 

 could do nothing, because of the impotence to which 

 the central authority, the Continental Congress, had 

 been reduced by the selfishness and supine indiffer- 

 ence of the various States Virginia among the 

 number. He wrote Clark : "It is out of my power 

 to send any reinforcements to the westward. If the 



63 Calendar of Virginia State Papers, Vol. II, p. 47. 



54 Do., Vol. I, p. 452. 



55 Collins, I, 20. 



66 Roughly, Fayette embraced the territory north and 

 northeast of the Kentucky River, Jefferson that between 

 Green River and the lower Kentucky, and Lincoln the rest 

 of the present State. 



