They did no damage to the town beyond the burning of a farm belonging to Major Kirkpatrick of the garrison.

The taverns were all closed, but the citizens brought whiskey to their doors.

Judge Brackenridge reports that his sacrifice to peace on this occasion cost him four barrels of his best old rye.
This moderation was no augury of permanent quiet.

Brackenridge, who was a keen observer of men, says of the temper of the western population at this period: "I had seen the spirit which prevailed at the Stamp Act, and at the commencement of the revolution from the government of Great Britain, but it was by no means so general and so vigorous amongst the common people as the spirit which now existed in the country." Nor did the armed bands all return peaceably to their homes.

The house of the collector for Fayette and Washington counties was burned, and warnings were given to those who were disposed to submit to the law.