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The Collings Richie book quotes one of the settlers as stating that Little Buck, a Shawnee, was getting into a warlike mood ~ that settler is, himself, most likely a member of the Oneida tribe ~ and one of the Collins sisters is married to another identifiable Oneida, and another Collins sister married a well known Virginia-Kentucky woodsman named Simon Kenton. He, in turn ran with a group made up of Daniel Boone, Simon Girty, Spencer Records, Thomas S. Hinde, Dr. Thomas Hinde, and Isaac Shelby. All together they were known as THE LONG KNIVES OF THE SKIN HOUSE.

The Boone family split over the idea of settling Indiana, so the local Boones in this area are not Daniel Boone descendants, but most of them also have an ancestor among a competing settlement company operated by James Harrod.

These folks were on the rawest of the raw frontiers in America during wartime and found themselves fighting the British ~ along the Ohio and its tributaries. As part of the treaty ending the Revolution the Brits had been allowed to maintain forts in the Indiana territory for the purpose of protecting their interests in the fur trade. Here they were using the forts to provision the Indians to attack women, children and other civilians as part of a war.

You go anywhere in that area and you can easily dig up a modicum of sheer hatred for the British and disgust for their ways. Really stands out too.