in the
text--at Shawnee Springs, four miles north-east of Harrodsburg.
The whites--James Ray, William Ray, Thomas Shores, and William
Coomes--were sugar-making, when attacked by about seventy
Shawnees, under Black Fish. William Ray was killed, and Shores
taken prisoner. James Ray outran his pursuers and gave the
alarm. The unsuccessful attack on the incomplete fort of
Harrodsburg occurred early the following morning, the 7th.
Other brief attacks on Harrodsburg, were on March 18 and
28.--R. G. T.

[10] A small detachment from Black Fish's party made a dash
on workers in the Boonesborough fields, the day after the
Harrodsburg fight--killing a negro, and wounding several
whites.--R. G. T.

[11] This assault on Boonesborough occurred the morning of
Thursday, April 24. The Indians numbered about one hundred.
Boone was wounded, and very nearly lost his life, in a sortie.
The story of the fight abounds with instances of heroism on the
part of both women and men.--R. G. T.

[12] It occurred throughout Friday, May 30. The Indians are
reported to have numbered fifty-seven.--R. G. T.

[13] Those who went out early in the morning to milk the
cows, were Mrs. Ann Logan, Mrs. Whitley, and a negro woman.
They were guarded only by William Hudson, Burr Harrison, John
Kennedy, and James Craig. The women and Craig escaped into the
fort unharmed; Kennedy, with four balls in his body, contrived
also to escape; Hudson was killed outright, and Harrison fell
wounded. He was supposed by friend and foe to have been killed.
The story of his final rescue by Logan, is related by Withers
below. As told to Dr. Draper, by Capt. Benjamin Biggs, and as
recorded in Whitley's MS. Narrative, in possession of the
Wisconsin Historical Society, the story in Withers is
substantially correct. It is said that Logan rolled a bag of
wool before him, and thus approached Harrison under cover; then
making a rush towards the latter, he picked him up in his arms
and dashed successfully into the fort. These accounts make no
mention of Martin's intervention. Harrison died of his wounds,
June 13.--R. G. T.

[14] Benjamin Logan was by birth a Virginian; and at the age
of fourteen was left by the death of his father, to pro