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living many years. One of these instances is worth 

 giving in the quaint language of the old Tennessee 

 historian, Haywood : 



"In the spring of the year 1782 a party of Indians 

 fired upon three persons at French Lick, and broke 

 the arms of John Tucker and Joseph Hendricks, and 

 shot down David Hood, whom they scalped and 

 stamped, as he said, and followed the others toward 

 the fort ; the people of the fort came out and repulsed 

 them and saved the wounded men. Supposing the 

 Indians gone, Hood got up softly, wounded and 

 scalped as he was, and began to walk toward the 

 fort on the bluff, when, to his mortification, he saw, 

 standing upon the bank of the creek, a number of 

 Indians, the same who had wounded him before, 

 making sport of his misfortune and mistake. They 

 then fell upon him again, and having given him, in 

 several places, new wounds that were apparently 

 mortal, then left him. He fell into a brush heap in 

 the mow, and next morning was tracked and found 

 by his blood, and was placed as a dead man in one 

 of the outhouses, and was left alone; after some 

 time'he recovered, and lived many years." 



Many of the settlers were killed, many others left 

 for Kentucky, Illinois, or Natchez, or returned to 

 their old homes among the Alleghanies; and in 1782 

 the inhabitants, who had steadily dwindled in num 

 bers, became so discouraged that they again mooted 

 the question of abandoning the Cumberland district 



