way to North Carolina
through Cumberland Gap. Not long after this, Stuart was
killed by Indians, while alone in the woods, and Neely,
discouraged by his fate, returned home. The story, often
copied from Withers, that Neely was killed by a wolf, is
erroneous. As for Findlay, he appears to have again become an
Indian trader in Western Pennsylvania; for late in 1771 he is
reported to have been robbed of $500 worth of goods, by a
Seneca war party raiding the Youghiogheny district. There is a
tradition that not long after this he "was lost in the wilds
of the West." Holden and Cooley spent the rest of their
days on the Upper Yadkin. Mooney was killed at the battle of
Point Pleasant (1774).--R. G. T.

[7] The Boones and five other families set out from their
homes on the Yadkin, Sept. 25, 1773. In Powell's Valley they
were joined by forty people under Boone's brother-in-law,
William Bryan. While the main party were slowly advancing
through the valley, a small squad, under Boone's oldest son,
James, went on a side expedition for flour, cattle, and other
supplies. With these they had nearly caught up to the advance,
when, not knowing they were so near, they camped on the evening
of October 9 a few miles in the rear. Early in the morning of
the 10th, a small band of Shawnees and Cherokees, who were
nominally at peace with the whites, fell upon and, after cruel
tortures, slaughtered them. In Dunmore's speech at Fort Pitt,
this tragedy in Powell's Valley was alluded to as one of the
chief causes of the Indian war of 1774. At the Camp Charlotte
treaty (October, 1774), some of the plunder from this massacre
was delivered up by the savages. After the tragedy, the greater
part of the Kentucky caravan returned to their homes, but the
Boones spent the winter of 1773-74 at a settlement some forty
miles distant, on Clinch River. During the Dunmore War, Boone
was active as an Indian fighter.--R. G. T.

[8] The leader of this party was Capt. Thomas Bullitt. He
was born in Fauquier county, Va., in 1730; was one of
Washington's captains at the Great Meadows (1754), and fought
gallantly with Braddock (1755) and Forbes (1758); in 1763, was
made adjutant-general of Virginia; during the early part