reater.--R. G. T.

[4] See p. 176, _note_, for notice of Grenadier Squaw's
Town, near Chillicothe.--R. G. T.

[5] See p. 137, _note_, for notice of Jesse Hughes; also,
Peyton's _History of Augusta County_, p. 353.--R. G. T.

[6] These war parties largely emanated from the Detroit
region. Lieutenant-Governor Hamilton, the British commander at
Detroit, writing to his superior, General Haldimand, September
16, 1778, mentions incidentally that he sent out small parties
of Miamis and Chippewas, August 5, and September 5 and 9; these
were but three of dozens of such forays which he incited
against the Virginia and Pennsylvania borders, during that
year.--R. G. T.

[7] This reference is to Lieut.-Governor Hamilton, whom
George Rogers Clark called "the hair-buying general."--R. G. T.

[8] Gen. George Rogers Clark was born November 19, 1752,
near Monticello, Albemarle County, Va. At the age of twenty he
was practicing his profession as a surveyor on the upper Ohio,
and took up a claim at the mouth of Fish Creek. In 1774, he
participated as a captain in Dunmore's campaign against the
Shawnees and Mingoes. Early in 1775, Clark went as a surveyor
to Kentucky, where he acquired marked popularity, and in 1776
was elected as "a delegate to the Virginia convention, to urge
upon the state authorities the claims of the colony for
government and defense." He secured the formation of the new
county of Kentucky, and a supply of ammunition for the defense
of the border. In 1777, Clark, now a major of militia, repelled
the Indian attacks on Harrodsburg, and proceeded on foot to
Virginia to lay before the state authorities his plan for
capturing the Illinois country and repressing the Indian forays
from that quarter. His scheme being approved, he was made a
lieutenant-colonel, and at once set out to raise for the
expedition a small force of hardy frontiersmen. He rendezvoused
and drilled his little army of a hundred and fifty on Corn
Island in the Ohio river, at the head of the Falls (or rapids),
opposite the present city of Louisville. June 24, 1778, he
started in boats down the Ohio, and landed near the deserted
Fort Massac, which was on the north bank, ten miles below the
mouth of the Tennesse