... Their clothes were very much cut with bullets,
especially Mrs. Jennings's."
Of the three men who deserted, while the women stood by under
fire, the negro was drowned and Jennings's son and the other
young man were captured by the Chickamaugans. The latter was
burned at the stake. Young Jennings was to have shared the same
fate; but a trader in the village, learning that the boy was
known to John Sevier, ransomed him by a large payment of goods,
as a return for an act of kindness Sevier had once done to him.
"Sunday 12th.... After running until about 10 o'clock came in
sight of the Muscle Shoals. Halted on the northern shore at the
appearance of the shoals, in order to search for the signs
Captain James Robertson was to make for us at that place...that
it was practicable for us to go across by land...we can
find none--from which we conclude that it would not be prudent to
make the attempt and are determined, knowing ourselves in such
imminent danger, to pursue our journey down the river....
When we approached them [the Shoals] they had a dreadful
appearance.... The water being high made a terrible roaring,
which could be heard at some distance, among the driftwood heaped
frightfully upon the points of the islands, the current running
in every.
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