Upon examination he appears to have made a wonderful escape for his boat is pierced in numberless places with bullets.

It is to be remarked that Mrs.Peyton, who was the night before delivered of an infant, which was unfortunately killed upon the hurry and confusion consequent upon such a disaster, assisted them, being frequently exposed to wet and cold....

Their clothes were very much cut with bullets, especially Mrs.Jennings's." Of the three men who deserted, while the women stood by under fire, the negro was drowned and Jennings's son and the other young man were captured by the Chickamaugans.

The latter was burned at the stake.

Young Jennings was to have shared the same fate; but a trader in the village, learning that the boy was known to John Sevier, ransomed him by a large payment of goods, as a return for an act of kindness Sevier had once done to him.
"Sunday 12th....