Looking over some old genealogy material I found this paragraph re: John Pates killed & scalped. Did he belong to anyone? Nita Retyped and reformatted by Ray and Kathy Leigh The Troubles of the Tennesseeans Created June 19, 2001 Copyright 2002 Web design and graphics by Kathy Leigh CHAPTER XIX. THE TROUBLES OF THE TENNESSEEANS. "In 1792 and 1793 the Indian outrages came thick and fast. Every settler passing along the road, every planter at work in his cotton-field, every ferryman pushing his boat with heavy oar through the sluggish current of the river, was liable to fall a victim to some shaft of destruction from and unseen hand. If we take the annals of the time for a single fortnight, and itemize the outrages committed by Indians, it would read something like this: January 22, 1793. John Pates killed and scalped by Indians on Crooked Creel. (Creek?) January 24th. The Cherokees stole three of William Davidson's horses. January 27th. A party of Indians assaulted the house of Mr. Nelson, near Knoxville. Two of his sons, James and Thomas, were killed. February 1st. Fourteen horses stolen from Flat Creek. February 3d. Two young men named Clements killed. February 5th. William Massey and Adam Green ambuscaded and killed at the gap of Powell's Mountain. February 7th. A party of Indians burned the house of Gallaher. February 9th. Great alarm on the frontier. Two hundred white men, women, and children crowded together in great discomfort at Craig's Stockade. And so we might go on with the red record, week after week, and month after month."