Though among the whites, the men who took prominent parts in the struggle never afterwards made any mark, yet it is worth noting that all the aftertime leaders of the west were engaged in some way in Lord Dunmore’s war.  Their fates were various.  Boon led the vanguard of the white advance across the mountains, wandered his life long through the wilderness, and ended his days, in extreme old age, beyond the Mississippi, a backwoods hunter to the last.  Shelby won laurels at King’s Mountain, became the first governor of Kentucky, and when an old man revived the memories of his youth by again leading the western men in battle against the British and Indians.  Sevier and Robertson were for a generation the honored chiefs of the southwestern people.  Clark, the ablest of all, led a short but brilliant career, during which he made the whole nation his debtor.  Then, like Logan, he sank under the curse of drunkenness,—­often hardly less dangerous to the white borderer than to his red enemy,—­and passed the remainder of his days in ignoble and slothful retirement.

1.  Stewart’s Narrative.

2.  “Am.  Archiv.”  Col.  Wm. Preston’s letter, Sept. 28, 1774.

3. Do., p. 872.

4.  Doddridge, 235.

5.  See Mag. of Am.  Hist., XV., 256.

6.  De Haas, p. 161.  He is a very fair and trustworthy writer; in particular, as regards Logan’s speech and Cresap’s conduct.  It is to be regretted that Brantz Mayer, in dealing with these latter subjects, could not have approached them with the same desire to be absolutely impartial, instead of appearing to act solely as an advocate.

7.  His eight captains were George Matthews, Alexander McClannahan, John Dickinson, John Lewis (son of William), Benjamin Harrison, William Paul, Joseph Haynes, and Samuel Wilson.  Hale, “Trans-Alleghany Pioneers,” p. 181.

8.  His seven captains were Matthew Arbuckle, John Murray, John Lewis (son of Andrew), James Robertson, Robert McClannahan, James Ward, and John Stewart (author of the Narrative).

9.  As the Kanawha was sometimes called.

10.  Whose five captains were Evan Shelby, Russell, Herbert, Draper, and Buford.

11.  Born December 11, 1750, near Hagerstown, Md.

12.  Letter of Col.  Wm. Preston, September 28, 1774.  “Am.  Archives.”

13.  Letter of one of Lord Dunmore’s officers, November 21, 1774.  “Am.  Archives,” IV., Vol.  I., p. 1017.  Hale gives a minute account of the route followed; Stewart says they started on the 11th.

With the journal of Floyd’s expedition, mentioned on a previous page, I received MS. copies of two letters to Col.  William Preston, both dated at Camp Union, at the Great Levels; one, of September 8th from Col.  Andrew Lewis, and one of September 7th (9th?) from Col.  William Christian.