rs.

[5] There seems to be abundant evidence that Bird, a
competent officer, was humanely inclined; but he was quite in
the power of his savage allies, who would brook little control
of their passions. The number of prisoners taken at Isaac
Ruddell's was nearly 300; about fifty more were taken at
Martin's.--R. G. T.

[6] The Indians had, contrary to Bird's expostulations,
wantonly slaughtered all the cattle at Ruddell's Station, and
this it was that caused the famine. With an abundance of food
to sustain both prisoners and warriors, Bird might readily have
carried out his purpose of uprooting nearly every settlement in
Kentucky. There is nothing in his official report of the
expedition, to warrant the statement that high water had any
thing to do with the matter.--R. G. T.

[7] Col. Daniel Brodhead was in command of the Eighth
Pennsylvania Regiment. He succeeded McIntosh at Fort Pitt, in
April, 1779.--R. G. T.

[8] Brodhead set out from Fort Pitt, April 7, 1781, with 150
regulars; at Wheeling he picked up David Shepherd, lieutenant
of Ohio County, Va., with 134 militia, including officers;
besides these were five friendly Indians, eager for Delaware
scalps.--R. G. T.

[9] Salem, established by Heckewelder for his Indian
converts, was on the west bank of the Tuscarawas, a mile and a
half south-west of the present Port Washington.--R. G. T.

[10] John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder was born at Bedford,
England, March 12, 1743. Coming to Pennsylvania in 1754, he was
at first a cooper, but later became an assistant to Charles
Frederick Post, the Moravian missionary. In 1771, he first
became an evangelist to the Indians, on his own account, and
spent fifteen years in Ohio, where he assisted in the work of
David Zeisberger. He was a man of learning, and made important
contributions to the study of American archaeology and,
ethnology. The last thirteen years of his life were spent in
literary work. He died at Bethlehem, Pa., January 21,
1823.--R. G. T.

[11] Called in some of the contemporary chronicles,
Goschocking.--R. G. T.

[12] Withers here reverts to the Bird invasion in the summer
of 1780, and the escape of Hinkstone from his British captors,
related _ante_, pp.