N:o 6. District of Kentuckey Woodford-county.

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Aug.t 22.d 1789. Rob.t Johnson County Liëu.t to the Governor of Virginia.

‘The hostile acts of the in- dians is so frequent in our country that it becomes troublesome to write you on every occasion. On the 10:h of this instant a party fired on a young man in this coun -ty near the settlement, killed the horse and took the saddle & bridle and stole some horses, the night following; we were in motion, early next morning and soon found their trail and came up with them and retook the horses, and killed two of them, one of which was a white man, the 15.th following a party took five negroes within a mile of my house ~ 109 house, killed two, wounded two with their toma- -hawks and left them for dead, and the other two made their escape while they were mur -dering the rest. The second night after they stole some horses. About forty men followed them to the Ohio, and twenty six crossed the river and followed them over the Ohio, about twelve miles, where we came up with a party at a large camp making salt at a salt spring, we divided the party and attacked them on [carrot to insert next word] each side, they soon gave back; we took some of their horses and returned to the Ohio where we crossed; the Cost three men killed and two wounded."