be well reconciled to the terms, and desirous to take upon them, except some few, whom I have been obliged to tamper with, and a small party about Harrodsburgh, who, it seems, have been entering into a confederacy not to hold lands on any other terms than those of the first year. As this party is composed of people, in general, of small consequence, and I have taken some steps to remove some of their principal objections, I make no doubt but to do all that away and for that purpose have formed a design of removing myself, with the office, to Harrodsburgh, some time in February next, unless I should find, from a trip I purpose immediately taken there, that I cannot do it with safety. The principal man, I am told, at the head of this confederacy, is one Hite; and him I make no doubt but to convince he is in an error. Among other things, one of the great complaints was, that the Proprietors, and a few gentlemen, had engrossed all the land at and near the Falls of the Ohio, which circumstance I found roused the attention of a number of people of note; I, therefore, found myself under, the necessity of putting a stop to all clamours of that kind, by declaring that I would grant no large bodies of land to any person whatever, which lay contiguous to the Falls; which I have done in a solemn manner. This I am far from thinking will be injurious to the Proprietors, but quite the reverse; and a circumstance which will render more general satisfaction, and be of as much utility to the Colony, as any step heretofore taken. You will observe that I am going on to justify the measure, before I inform you what if is. But to be brief, it is this: the Falls, it is certain, is a place which, from its situation, must be the most considerable mart in this part of the world; the lands around are generally rich and fertile, and most agreeably situated; which had occasioned many people to fix their affections on that place. Many applications have been made for large grants, at and about that place, and refused. Since which, twenty thousand acres, and upwards, have been entered, there for the Company; forty thousand or fifty thousand more, in large tracts, by a few other gentlemen; a partiality was complained of; a general murmuring ensued. Upon considering the matter, I thought it unjust; I thought it a disadvantage to the partners in general; and that some step ought to be taken to pacify the minds of the people. I, therefore, entered into a resolution that I would grant to no one man living, within a certain distance of the Falls, more than, one thousand acres of land, and that to be settled and improved in a certain space of time, under the penalty of forfeiture; that every person who had more entered than one thousand acres, might retain his one thousand out of which spot he pleased; that the several officers, who have claims there, may each, on application, and complying with our terms, be entitled to a one thousand within his survey. That a town be immediately laid out, and a lot reserved to each proprietor, and then the first settlers to take the lots they may choose, enter, and improve; which improvement must be done in a certain limited time, or the lot forfeited, and again to be sold, &c. These proposals seem to have given general satisfaction, and every one who had entered large quantities, within these limits, gives it up with the greatest alacrity; and I am in hopes it will meet the general approbation of the Company; if so, I shall be happy; if not, I shall be very sorry, though the necessity must justify the measure. The Falls of Ohio is a place, of all others, within the Colony, will admit of a town, which, from its particular situation, will immediately become populous and flourishing; the land contiguous thereto rich and fertile, and where a great number of gentlemen will most certainly settle, and be the support and protection of a town at that place; a place which should meet with every encouragement, to settle and strengthen, inasmuch as it will, most certainly, he the terrour of our savage enemies, the Kickeboos Indians, who border more nearly on that place than any other pit of the Colony; and as I think it absolutely necessary that the aforesaid proposed town, at the Falls, to be laid off the eusuing Spring, if I find it practicable, to raise a party about the 1st of March, and go down and lay out the town and stake it off; though this will, in a great measure, depend upon the future tranquillity of our situation, between this and then, for I assure you the little attack made upon us by the Indians the 23d of last month, has made many people, who are ashamed to confess themselves afraid, find out that their affairs on your side the mountains will not dispense with their staying here any longer at present; and I am well convinced, once they get there, that every alarm, instead of precipitating, will procrastinate their return. When I mention the little attack made on the 23d of last month, in this cursory manner, it is because I have, heretofore, sent you a particular account of that massacre, in a letter of the 27th ult. Though as that letter may fail, and not get to hand, I will now endeavour to briefly relate the circumstances.

On Saturday, about noon, being the 23d, Colonel. Campbell, with a couple of lads, (Sanders and Me Quinney,) went across the river. On the opposite bank they parted. Campbell went up the river, about two hundred yards, and took up a bottom. The two lads, without a gun, went straight up the hill. About ten minutes after they parted, a gun and a cry of distress was heard, and the alarm given that the Indians had shot Colonel Campbell. We made to, his assistance. He came running to the landing, with one shoe off, and said he was fired on by a couple of Indians. A party of men was immediately despatched, under the command of Colonel Boone, who went out, but could make no other discovery than two moccasin tracks, whether Indian's or not, could not be determined. We had at that time, over the river, hunting, &c., ten or a dozen men, in different parties—part, or all of whom, we expected to be killed, if what Colonel Campbell said was true; but that, by many, was doubted. Night came on; several of the hunters returned, but had neither seen nor heard of Indians, nor yet of the two lads. We continued in this state of suspense till Wednesday, when a party of men sent but to make search for them, found McQuinney, killed and scalped, in a cornfield, at about three miles distance from town, on the north side of the river. Sanders could pot be found, nor has he yet been heard of. On Thursday, a ranging party of fifteen, men, under the command of Jesse Benton, was despatched to scour the woods, twenty or thirty miles round, and see if any further discovery could be made. To those men we gave two shillings per day, and five pounds for every scalp they should produce. After they went out, our hunters returned, one at a time, till they all came in safe, Sanders excepted, who no doubt has shared McQuinney's fate.

On Sunday, the 31st day of the month, our rangers returned, without doing any thing more than convincing themselves that the Indians, had, immediately on doing the murder, ran off for northward, as they discovered their tracks thirty or forty miles towards the Ohio making that way.

On the above massacre being committed, we began to, doubt that there was a body of Indians about, who intended committing outrage on our inhabitants. However, we are perfectly satisfied since, that their number was only six or seven men, who set off from the Shawanee town before the treaty at Fort-Pitt, with an intent, as they termed it, to take a look at the white people on Kentucky; and King Cornstalk, at the treaty, informed the Commissioners on this, and said, for the conduct of these men, before they returned, he could not be responsible, for that he did not know but that they might do some mischief, and that if any of them should get killed by the whites, he should take no notice at all of it. For this, we have undoubted authority, and do not, at present, think ourselves, in any greater danger here than if the above massacre, had not have been committed.

Another circumstance is, that our ammunition grows scant. I do not think there is enough to supply this place itll the last of March, supposing we should we have no occasion of any to repulse an enemy. If we should, God only knows how long it will last. If any powder can possibly be procured, it would certainly be advisable to do it; if not, some person who can manufacture the materials we have on the way, for the purpose of making powder. Most part of those are at the block house, or at least within two or three miles of that—the rest in Powells Valley. Those (if we had any person who knew how properly to manufacture them into gunpowder) it would be necessary to have at this place. We have no such person; and of course they would be of but little service here. Notwithstanding, I should have sent for them before now; but people here expect the most exorbitant wages for trivial services. Not less than a dollar a day will do for any