This claim I would be at liberty to buy, at government price, if I should continue to live on it until it should come into market.

My nearest neighbor was Caleb May, a Disciple, and a squatter, from the other side of the river.Bro.May was in his way as much a character as Bob Kelly.

He gloried, like John Randolph, of Roanoke, in being descended from.

Pocahontas, and that he therefore had Indian blood in his veins.

Born and reared on the frontier, tall, muscular, and raw-boned, an utter stranger to fear, a dead shot with pistol or rifle, cool and self-possessed in danger, he had become known far and near as a desperate and dangerous man when meddled with.