son, English Indian superintendent in New York.
After a sharp struggle, Bull and a number of his adherents were
captured and conveyed in irons to New York City, where they
were imprisoned for a time, but finally discharged. The
Delaware towns on the Unadilla having been burned, Bull and
five families of his relatives settled what the whites called
Bulltown, on the Little Kanawha. This was at a salt spring
about a mile and a quarter below the present Bulltown P. O.,
Braxton county, Va. Capt. Bull and his people were inoffensive,
and very friendly to their white neighbors, as our author
says.--R. G. T.

[3] Adam Stroud lived on Elk River, a few miles south of
Indian Bulltown. The massacre of his family--his wife and seven
children--occurred in June, 1772. Shawnees were the murderers,
and not Bull's people.--R. G. T.

[4] Mr. McWhorter writes me that two others were Jesse
Hughes and John Cutright (corruption of Cartwright?), both of
them settlers on Hacker's Creek. Hughes was a noted border
scout, but a man of fierce, unbridled passions, and so
confirmed an Indian hater that no tribesman, however peaceful
his record, was safe in his presence. Some of the most cruel
acts on the frontier are by tradition attributed to this man.
The massacre of the Bulltown Indians was accompanied by
atrocities as repulsive as any reported by captives in Indian
camps; of these there had long been traditions, but details
were not fully known until revealed by Cutright upon his
death-bed in 1852, when he had reached the age of 105 years.
Want of space alone prevents me from giving Mr. McWhorter's
narrative of Hughes's long and bloody career. "Hughes died," he
says, "in Jackson county, W. Va., at a date unknown to me, but
in very old age. While he was a great scout and Indian trader,
he never headed an expedition of note. This no doubt was
because of his fierce temperament, and bad reputation among his
own countrymen." In studying the annals of the border, we must
not fail to note that here and there were many savage-hearted
men among the white settlers, whose deeds were quite as
atrocious as any attributed to the red-skins. Current histories
of Indian warfare seldom recognize this fact.--R. G. T.