No people could be in a more allarming situation

"to enumerate all the little actions that happened it is Impossible they ware continual and frequently sevear whin compared to our small forces the Forts ware often attacted (policy seem to have Required that the whole should be imbodied in one place but depending on Hunting for the greatest part of our provisions forbid it) no people could be in a more allarming situation detached at least two Hundred miles from the nearest settlement of the States surrounded by numerous Nations of Indians each on far superior in number to ourselves and under the Influance of the British government and pointedly directed to distroy us as appeared by many Instruments of writing left on the brest of people Kiled by them I was frequently affraid that the people would think of Making their peace with DeTroit and suffer themselves and their families to be carried of (Clark, 216)...

Clark, George R. Clark's Memoir, from English's Conquest of the Country. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1966. Print.