frontier, II;
  Preston, Wm., account of the battle of the Great Kanawha, I;
  Quebec, Province of, a French state to-day, I;
  de Quindre, Captain Daignian, a noted Detroit partisan, II;
    outwitted by Boon;
  Race, accountability of each, for individual misdeeds, I;
  Raven, signs the treaty of the Sycamore Shoals, I;
  Redhawk, murdered at Point Pleasant, I;
  Revolution, the, I;
    Westerners in the;
    civil war on the border;
    Whigs and Tories;
    ferocity of the partisans;
    the British rouse the Indian tribes to begin hostilities;
    twofold character of, II;
  Rewards offered by the South Carolina Legislature, I;
  Reynolds, Aaron, “a very profane, swearing man,” II;
    rebuked by Patterson;
    taunts Girty;
    saves Patterson at the battle of the Blue Licks;
    capture of, by the Indians and escape;
  Rifle, the, the national weapon of the backwoodsman, I;
  Robertson, James, comes to the Watauga in 1770, I;
    a mighty hunter;
    returns to North Carolina;
    leads a band of settlers to Tennessee;
    his energy and ability;
    a member of the civil government of the Watauga Commonwealth;
    treats with the Cherokees;
    his mission of peace;
    trusted by the Cherokees;
    success of mission;
    a sergeant in Lord Dunmore’s war;
    discovers Cornstalk’s army;
    attacks the Indians;
    made superintendent of Indian affairs;
    sends warning to the Holston settlements;
    value of Gilmore’s Life of;
    founds the Cumberland settlement, II;
    travels to the Cumberland;
    visits George Rogers Clark;
    guides settlers to the Cumberland;
    builds Nashborough;
    warns the settlers;
    draws up a compact of government;
    his son killed by the Indians;
    his character
  Rocheblave commands at Kaskaskia, II;
    attached to the British interest;
    treated harshly by Clark;
    sent a prisoner to Virginia
  Rogers, Lieut., defeated by Girty and Elliott, II;
  Russell, Capt., joins Lewis before the battle of the Great Kanawha, I;
  Rutherford, Gen. Griffith, relieves the besieged stations, I;
    takes the field against the Cherokees;
    his route;
    destroys the middle towns;
    proceeds against the valley towns;
    escapes falling-into an ambush;
    returns to Canucca;
    meets Williamson;
    reaches home in safety;
    result of his expedition;
  St. Asaphs.  See Logan’s Station, I;
  St. Augustine, her prosperity and decay, I;
  Sacs and Foxes, the, their location, I;
  Salem, a settlement of Moravian Indians, I;
  Salem Church, the first in Tennessee, II;
  Sandusky, the fight at, II;
  Saunders, John, his contract with Clark, II;
  Scioto River, the, remains of mound builders at mouth of, I;
  Scotch-Irish, the,