Here he found, about ten miles above the present site of Greenville, a fertile and beautiful region.

Upon the banks of a little brook, which furnished him with an abundant supply of pure water, he reared another shanty, and took possession of another four hundred acres of forest land.

Some of his boys were now old enough to furnish efficient help in the field and in the chase.
How long John Crockett remained here we know not.

Neither do we know what induced him to make another move.

But we soon find him pushing still farther back into the wilderness, with his hapless family of sons and daughters, dooming them, in all their ignorance, to the society only of bears and wolves.